What book lover can resist this sale? Tables and tables of fabulous books – you’ll never know what you’ll find. Proceeds from the sale are used for local college scholarships. Stop in Rhodes Hall between Tuesday, May 12 and Friday, May 15 to find your next great read.
May’s Movies at the Putnam Theatre
If you think that a night at the movies should offer something a bit more thought-provoking and artistic than the usual Hollywood fare, check out the KSC Film Society’s picks for May:
Wendy and Lucy
May 1–7
2008, USA, directed by Kelly Reichardt, rated R, 80 minutes, 35mm print.
Dillinger is Dead
May 8–14
1969, Italy, directed by Marco Ferreri, not rated, 90 minutes, 35mm print
Timecrimes
May 15–21
2008, Spain, directed by Nacho Vigalondo, rated R, 92 minutes, 35mm print.
I Love You, Man
May 22–28
2009, USA, directed by John Hamburg, 110 minutes, rated R, 35mm print.
Che, Part I
May 29–June 42009, USA/Spain/France, directed by Steven Soderbergh, rated R, 126 minutes, 35mm print. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
The Putnam Arts Lecture Hall is in the east wing of Brickyard Pond and is equipped for films up to 70-mm format and for Dolby Digital Sound. Show times are Friday through Thursday at 7 & 9 p.m. with matinees on Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m.
Ticket prices are $4 for adults; $3 for students, KSC staff, and alumni; $3.50 for matinees; $3 for children 12 and under; and $2 for KSC students with valid ID. Visit the Putnam Schedule page for descriptions of each film and a more complete schedule. Or call 603-358-2160 for information about showings.
Alums Planning a Major Comeback to KSC
The Alumni & Parent Relations office is busy, busy busy these days with registrations for the June 5-7 Grand Reunion coming in by the hour!
We’re all hands on deck to be sure you and your guests have a great time:
- Kay MacLean, the Event and Program Coordinator, has been organizing most of the 15 events for the weekend, including catering and entertainment details.
- Andrew Cunningham, Web Communications Coordinator, developed the online registration software.
- Pauline Dionne, College Ceremony Coordinator, has been cataloging online registration responses with painstaking detail to ensure you all get the right accommodation assignments and event tickets at the check in tables.
- And Alumni volunteers have been hard at work for months preparing the event schedule and making visual displays spanning our hundred-year history.
Want more information about who’s going and what’s planned? We thought you’d never ask. A listing of Alums who have consented to share their attendance in advance of the big celebration and a full schedule of events with online registration can be found at the KSC alumni webpage.
Silas Bennett Memorial Service to be held May 16, 2009
Friends and family of a former Keene State College journalism student will hold a brief dedication ceremony at the Media Arts Center on Saturday, May 16 at 1 p.m. Silas River Bennett (Sy) died May 27, 2008 after a difficult and courageous battle against lung cancer. He was 29 years old and a junior at Keene State, a good friend, son, brother and a talented journalist. A hand-made wooden park bench will be placed in the Media Arts Center in his memory. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Scholarship and Art Remembers the Holocaust
Three Keene State College students, an eighth grader from Monadnock Regional High School, and a storyteller from Shelburne Falls, Mass., received awards at the 12th Annual Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Awards Program on Monday, April 20.
Hannah Bush, eighth grader at Monadnock Regional Middle School, received the $300 Community School Award for her original song, “Be a Witness.”
David Arfa, from Shelburne Falls, Mass., received the $300 Community Member Award for his storytelling entry, “The Jar of Tears,” based on the life of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Meagan Blais, a KSC Junior enrolled in Keene State’s new Holocaust and Genocide Studies major, received a $500 award for her personal essay, “Inheriting the Holocaust.”
KSC students Jessica Howard and Becky Midler shared a $500 award for “Unearthed Sense,” an original dance that they choreographed and performed.
Centennial-Year Graduation
Well over 900 students will graduate from KSC this centennial year. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. on Fiske Quad, Saturday, May 9, so come on over and cheer these new graduates on in the next phase of their adventure. On Friday, May 8, Spring Honors Convocation will be held from 4-6 p.m., in the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond to recognize those students who have excelled in scholarship and leadership. Good energy and good wishes to them all!
Grayson Lecturer Explores Link between Human History and Natural History
Have you attended Grayson Lectures in the past? This year, Dr. Lauret Savoy, professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College, will present “Alien Land Ethic: The Distance Between,” on Monday, April 27, at 6 p.m. in the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery Conference Room. Dr. Savoy is one of eight women scientists nationwide featured on the National Science Foundation’s award-winning CD-ROM, Telling Our Stories: Women in Science. She will discuss how the intertwinings of human history and geologic-natural history contribute to stories we tell of land’s origin and history, and to stories we tell of ourselves in the land and of relational identity.
Come back to campus on the 27th and let us know what you thought of the lecture. If you’ve attended others in the Grayson series, tell us about your favorite. We’d love to hear.
The Aftermath: Our Centennial Relay and Celebration
Were you on campus, or near campus, or even on Rt. 9 between Keene and Concord on Weds., April 15th? If so, you probably saw something of the big splash we made as just part of our Centennial celebration. Early that morning in Concord, NH, Gov. Lynch signed a special KSC Centennial proclamation and handed it off to the first in a long line of relay runners and walkers who hand carried the document all the way back to campus for a big birthday celebration that included fireworks and a giant (and I mean giant) cake!
If you were driving from Keene to Concord during the day, you might have seen the relay runners along Rt. 9. Maybe you even showed up on campus that evening and got a piece of the delicious cake and thrilled to the fireworks and all the enthusiasm. Even if you were just somewhere near campus, you probably saw the fireworks and heard the cheers.
Our intrepid Lucy Webb, who spent the entire day manning Centennial Command Central, kept a rolling blog going that tracked the doings each step of the way. Visit it to see the day’s events and some of the great photos and video coverage (including the fireworks!), and let us know what you think.
Chris Feiker’s Legacy: Beauty That Renews Itself
Members of the Keene and campus communities gathered in front of Parker Hall on April 22 to honor Frederick “Chris” Feiker with the dedication of the garden in front of Parker Hall. Chris was Keene State’s gardener from 1976–2004, and created many wonderful gardens on campus. Friends and colleagues shared memories and paid tribute his legacy, beauty that renews itself each year.
Do you remember Chris? Use the “Comments” link below to share your special memories of this gentle man.
KSC Chamber Orchestra Celebrates American Composers
The Keene State College Chamber Orchestra, conducted by KSC artist-in-residence Don Baldini, will perform A Celebration of American Composers on Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Redfern Arts Center.
You’ll hear Aaron Copeland’s film score for Our Town, and his “Fanfare for the Common Man,” plus John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes,” Leroy Anderson’s “The Syncopated Clock,” Richard Rogers’ “Victory at Sea,” Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” from the opera A Little Night Music.
KSC Jazz Ensemble Performs Conductor’s Favorites
Conductor Don Baldini will lead the Keene State College Jazz Ensemble in some of his favorite tunes on Wednesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Redfern Arts Center.
Among those favorites will be the Gershwins’ “Strike Up the Band,” Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” Jimmy Webb’s “MacArthur Park,” and “La Fiesta” by Chick Corea. You’ll also hear tunes from such greats as Fats Waller, Gus Kahn, Chuck Mangione, and Neil Hefti.
KSC Chemistry Student Wins EPSCoR Award
Chemistry student Elizabeth A. Neuhardt has won a New Hampshire EPSCoR Student Travel Award of $500 to present the results of some of her recent research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting (August 16–20, 2009). These awards are given to support undergraduate student research in the physical sciences, mathematics, computing science, and engineering and to encourage these students to present at a national meeting or conference.
Sousa Comes to Campus
You gotta love the stirring marches of John Philip Sousa. And did you know that the March King brought his band to Keene on six occasions? Well, he’ll be back in the (re-enacted) flesh at the Redfern’s Main Theatre on Tuesday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Keith Brion, who portrays the band leader and is considered the greatest living authority on Sousa, will conduct the KSC Concert Band in an historically accurate recreation of a Sousa Band concert, just as you would have heard it 100 years ago, in honor of KSC’s Centennial Celebration.
Brion will be at the College for a week, speaking to classes on music history, conducting, and the theatre craft involved in depicting the on-stage persona.
Centennial Relay and Bash Takes the State by Storm
Be a part of history on April 15 as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Keene Normal School. Everyone is invited! Please join current students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and the community.
Keene State College Campus
Wed., April 15
We’ll supply the food, fun, festivities, and fireworks!
Free and Open to the Public
The schedule for the evening is as follows:
7:30 p.m. Centennial proclamation reaches Central Square in Keene. The proclamation, issued that morning by Gov. Lynch, will be relayed by runners and walkers all the way from Concord to Keene.
7:45 p.m. Centennial proclamation enters campus at the Appian Gateway on Main Street. Please help us hand it along Appian Way to the stage outside the Student Center.
8 p.m. Music, cheering, dancing, special remarks, and the biggest birthday cake you’ve ever seen!
8:15 p.m. Fireworks, viewed from the Oya Hill plaza outside the Zorn Dining Commons.
You can also visit our Centennial Relay Page on KSC100 to share your good wishes and monitor the progress of the centennial proclamation as it’s hand-carried from Concord to Keene on April 15.
KSC Alums Build Social Capital in NYC
KSC Grads Megan FitzGerald ’98 and Kara Grenier ’04 know a thing or two about getting, keeping and changing jobs in New York City and they want to get together with other KSC alumni in NYC to talk about job experiences and network, network, network!
Please join them on Tuesday, April 28th at 6 p.m. at the World Bar in Trump Tower. A $5 cover includes hors d’oeuvres and a raffle ticket for KSC prizes. Specially priced beer, wine and cocktails will also be available. RSVP to Kara or Megan at the KSC in NYC group e-mail.
Those interested in future KSC in NYC career programs should e-mail their interest in future correspondence.
This event is sponsored by the Keene State College Alumni Association and co-hosted by Patty Farmer, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations (603) 358-2370.
Alumni Association Announces Grant Awards
The 2009 Alumni Grants Program will be awarding a total of $7,635 to five campus programs.
The recipients include:
- a joint program of the Office of Admissions and the Office of Diversity and Multiculturalism which will bring high school students from underrepresented groups to campus, linking the students with a KSC student mentor who will help them explore the benefits of a college education
- an English Department effort to provide a professional development seminar for middle and high school teachers and the public exploring the richness and diversity of the Middle Ages;
- the Cheshire Academy for Lifelong Learning’s expansion of their continuing education program to Saturdays
- the 2009 Biannual Symposium “From Local to Global: 100 Years of Education at Keene State College”
- a recycling awareness campaign planned by the Recycling and Sustainability Office.