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Anna Ruth Crampton wins Annie Baxter Award
Anna
Ruth Crampton, Jasper County Commissioner, is the winner of the 2004
Annie Baxter Award. The award was presented in a ceremony Wednesday,
Oct. 13 at Missouri Southern. The Helen Boylan Foundation and the Social
Science Department sponsor the award.
Anna Ruth Crampton has a distinguished career in public service.
She was elected as a Jasper County Commissioner in 1992 and was
reelected in 1996 and 2000. She has served as the president of all
County Commissioners in Missouri in 2004, representing 342 commissioners
in 114 counties.
She spearheaded the Superfund cleanup in Jasper County, working
closely with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The National Association of Counties recognized her work in
2004. She received the prestigious "Caucus Award" for small
counties: Only one county in the nation receives this award. Jasper
County received $5,000 for her efforts. She requested the money be used
for scholarships for graduating seniors of Jasper county employees.
Also, the Girl Scouts, through her efforts, instituted a special merit
badge for lead awareness education.
Anna Ruth Crampton has won a wide variety of honors. In 1980,
the American Business Women's Association, Ozark Gateway Chapter, named
her "Woman of the Year". In 1982, she was the subject of a
feature article in Woman's Circle Magazine. She is a past
president of the American Business Women's Association. She is the 2004
President of the County Commissioners Association of Missouri and has
served on the Board of Directors of the organization for the last four
years. Also in 2004, she received the Rural Action Caucus Courthouse
Award from the National Association of Counties.
She is a past or present member of the Japer County Housing
Board, Economic Security Corporation of Southwest Missouri, Joplin Area
Transportation Planning Organization, Jasper County EPA Superfund
Citizens' Task Force, Vision Joplin and the American Business Woman's
Association. She also serves or has served on the Administrative Board
of the First United Methodist Church of Joplin, the Board of Directors
of the Ozark Area Girl Scout Council, the Local Emergency Planning
Council, the Victorian Carthage Board, the St. John's Women's Advisory
Council, and the Southwest Missouri Cultural Committee and as a Family
Self Sufficiency Advisor.
She is also a wife, mother and grandmother. Anna Ruth Crampton
is married to Paul Mosbaugh. She is the mother of three children and has
ten grandchildren.
"Anna Ruth Crampton richly deserves the Annie Baxter Award,
due to a life committed to public service," commented Tom
Simpson, Social Science. "Her life is a shining example of
dedication to making a difference in the community."
In 1890, Annie Baxter was elected Jasper County Clerk and became
the first woman elected to a countywide public office in Missouri. The
award was developed in 1990 by theMSSU social science Department and is
made possible by the Helen S. Boylan Foundation.
Janet Kavandi speaks next Thursday
NASA
astronaut and Missouri Southern graduate Dr. Janet Kavandi will speak
at 10 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 21 in Webster Hall Auditorium.
Dr. Kavandi graduated from Carthage Senior High School, received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Missouri Southern, a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Missouri and a Doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Washington-Seattle.
Most recently, she served aboard STS-104/ISS Assembly Flight 7A on the 10th mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle crew installed the joint airlock “Quest” and conducted joint operations with the Expedition-2 crew. A three flight veteran, Dr. Kavandi has logged over 33 days in space, traveling over 13.1 million miles in 535 Earth orbits.
She will speak on her recent space travels (including one to the Mir International Space Station, which concluded the joint US/Russian Phase I program) and the value of being a MSSU graduate. This event is open to everyone at no charge.
Questions should be directed to Julie Blackford, at ext. 9320 or Melanie Epperson, Student Activities, at ext. 9346.
Today's Brown Bag
Today's
Brown Bag lunch/presentation for faculty and staff features Conrad
Gubera of the Missouri Southern Social Science department. Conrad will
present "King Tut and the Cairo Museum."
The Brown Bag will be held from 12:10-12:50 today in Room 310 of the Billingsly Student Center. Free lunch is a courtesy of Academic Affairs and Sodexho Food Management Services.
Osokina to speak Tuesday, October 19
Elena Osokina, writer, scholar, and Assistant Professor of History at Southwest Missouri State University, will make two presentations on the MSSU campus Tuesday, Oct. 19.
She will present "Women in a Totalitarian Society: Soviet Union, Late 1920s-Early 1940s" at 11 a.m. in Webster Hall Auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Osokina will explore the changes that "Stalin's revolution from above" brought into women's life. She will look at the central political decisions and actions that changed women's positions in the society and then will focus on women's everyday duties to provide food and goods for their families under the conditions of permanent shortages and famine caused by Stalin's destruction of the peasant markets. She will also describe women's resistance to the regime and the impact that Stalin's Great Terror had on them.
Osokina will address Ree Wells' International Semester Perspectives class at 9:30 a.m. in Room 207 of Webster Hall. Her address is titled "Stalin's Gold, Industrialization and Soviet Everyday Life." Permission of instructor required. For information on attendance, call Ree at ext. 9762.
Elena Osokina received her Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1998. She has been a visiting scholar at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, a senior research associate in the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a post-doctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, and a visiting lecturer at Donaueschingen Academy in Germany. Her book, Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941, was published in 2001.
Career diplomat to visit Missouri Southern
Career
diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Theodore L. (Ted)
Eliot Jr., will speak at Missouri Southern Thursday, Oct. 21.
Eliot was a career US Foreign Service Officer for 30 years,
including tours in Sri Lanka, Germany, the Soviet Union, Iran and, from
1973 to 1978, Afghanistan as US Ambassador. Eliot was the last American
ambassador to serve in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion.
His Washington assignments included Executive Secretary
(1969-73) and Inspector General of the Department of State (1978). From
1978 to 1985, Ambassador Eliot was Dean of the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
He is a founder and member of the American Academy of Diplomacy
and has served on a number of corporate and non-profit boards. He is a
member of Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change (www.diplomatsforchange.com).
Ambassador Eliot will speak to three classes during his visit to
MSSU. They include:
- 9:30 -10:45 a.m., International Terrorism, Justice Center Auditorium
- 11 a.m. -12:15 p.m., Political Parties and Elections, Webster Hall, Room 208
- 1-1:45 p.m., Comparative Politics in Developed Countries, Webster Hall, Room 208
Two more nights for Chekhov one-acts
"An Evening of Chekhov," which began last week, will continue tonight and tomorrow night (Oct. 15-16) at 7:30 p.m., in the Bud Walton Theatre on the MSSU campus. The three one-act farces include The Celebration, A Marriage Proposal and The Brute, written by Russian master playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1901). James Lile, Theatre, directs The Celebration. The celebration of the play's title is in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of a bank. However, a hilarious concatenation of events leads to the celebration turning awry, to the consternation of the bank's president. Jay Fields, Theatre, directs A Marriage Proposal and The Brute, staging them simultaneously on a single stage. For reservations to "An Evening of Chekhov," call (417) 625-3190. Requests for accommodations related to a disability must be made to Terri Spencer, Theatre, at (417) 625-9399 at least 72 hours before the program. "An Evening of Chekhov" is rated "G" for general audiences.Cannes Award winner featured Tuesday night
The Cranes are Flying (Russia, 1957) is the next presentation in the Russian Film Festival. The film will be shown at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 19 at Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall at MSSU. The presentation is free and open to the public. This romantic story reaches a tender intensity when a girl (Tatiana Samoilova) loses her fiancé during wartime. Directed by Mikhail Kalatzov, the film was the winner of the Grand Prize, Best Director and Best Actress honors at the Cannes Film Festival."The Last Love Song" next Wednesday
Joplin author/journalist Charles Brough will present "The Last Love Song," the story of the dramatic love affair between Rachmaninoff and Diva Nina Koshetz at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20 at Webster Hall Auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Charles Brough describes the dramatic moment when Rachmaninoff first took Koshetz in his arms, the difficulties and separation that ultimately ensued, and her harrowing escape from Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution early in the 20th century. She hid all her jewels in her baby daughter's diapers, and eventually reached exile in the U.S. Once here, she went on to build a new singing career in opera, performing at Carnegie Hall eight times, at the White House for President Harding, and in several Hollywood movies. Brough also paints a riveting word picture of Rachmaninoff and Koshetz's final meeting, called "the encounter on the bridge."
Her daughter, Marina, also became an opera singer, appearing at the Hollywood Bowl with Stowkowski and in numerous Hollywood MGM musicals with Mario Lanza. The presentation includes photographs, short musical clips, and movie and video segments. Charles Brough took on the task of editing Nina Koshetz's Memoirs for Marina. The task appealed to him not only because it involved a love story but also because it wove around so many of the great Russian artists. The job involved assembling and editing 1,000 pages of translated diary notes that were undated and in no consecutive order.
Following his book, The Cycle of Civilization, he is now working with his literary agent on his culminating work explaining why civilizations rise and fall. A one-time member and public speaker of the UCLA Plato Society, Brough is married to Joanne Walker Brough, a prominent CBS and Lorimar television executive and producer of "Falcon Crest." Joanne Brough is an adjunct Professor of Communication at Missouri Southern.
Who you gonna call? Ghost hunter
John Zaffis, the ghost hunter, will lecture on campus during the Halloween season. Zaffis will speak at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 21 in Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall. There is no charge to attend. Zaffis has been ghost hunting for over 25 years. He is working on a pilot for the Discovery Channel and has investigated hauntings for many shows including A Haunting in Connecticut which is going to be run again on Discovery Channel on Oct 30. He trained under his aunt and uncle who were the investigators of the Amityville House. For details on the ghost hunter, visit Zaffis' website at www.johnzaffis.com.Flu vaccination clinic coming
This year's flu vaccination clinic will be held on Monday, Oct. 25 and Tuesday, Oct. 26 from 7 a.m. - 12:30 pm. The cost of the vaccine is $15 for employees and $5 for students. Retirees and family members can receive the vaccine after the clinic dates on availability. Also, anyone with special considerations must make an appointment for the week after the clinic by calling the Health Center at 625-9323.
SNA sponsors 5K run
The second annual Run for Your Life 5K Run sponsored by MSSU Students Nurses Association will be held Oct. 23 at the MSSU Cross Country Course. Early registration $12 and registration on the day of race will be $15. Late registration will begin at 6:45 a.m. in the football stadium parking lot.
Each runner will receive a t-shirt and race packet. Trophies will be given to 1st, 2nd & 3rd places overall, with medals for the top three in each age division. This race will help fund community service projects as well as the NSNA trip for our student nurses.
For entry forms or additional information contact Chrys Corcoran 625-3150 or the Department of Nursing.
Missouri Constitution Test
All students who wish to take the Missouri Constitution Test this semester must sign up for the test by Tuesday, Nov. 23. Patricia Martin, School of Arts & Sciences, says on campus students and those taking on campus classes should report in person to Hearnes Hall Room 318 to register for the test and pick up study materials. Office hours are 8 a.m.-12 noon and 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Students enrolled in only Internet or other distance learning classes may register by calling (417) 625-9385 or sending an e-mail to martin-p@mssu.edu. Arrangements can be made for distance learning students out of the immediate area to take the Missouri Constitution Test with supervision by an approved procter. The review session is now presented through Blackboard.
The exam itself will be given on three afternoons from 12:20-1:00 p.m. from the end of November through the first two weeks of December. Students will be notified of the date for their exam when they sign up. A $5 fee for taking this test that must be paid to the Business Office in Hearnes Hall Room 210 prior to taking the test. The student then presents his or her receipt for admission to the testing room.
Faculty Recital features outstanding talent
The MSSU Music Department will present a special Faculty Recital. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 26 in Webster Hall Auditorium. The event is free. There is no admission and no tickets are required.
The recital will feature Jeffrey Macomber, Music, on the euphonium and Cynthia Hukill, Music, on the piano. Jeffrey and Cynthia will perform works by Henry Cowell, Victor Ewald, Alec Wilder, Arthur Pryor and others. Everyone is invited to attend.
Last Comic Standing Finalist to Perform
Tammy
Pescatelli, comedienne/actress who made the finals of the Last
Comic Standing program on NBC for the last two seasons, will perform
at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 26 at Taylor Performing Arts Center at Missouri
Southern State University in Joplin.
The appearance, sponsored by the MSSU Campus Activities Board
(CAB) is free and open to the public without tickets or reservations.
However, donations to the United Way will be accepted. A box for
contributions will be located near the main entrance.
Tammy (pictured at right with actor J. Eddie Peck, a former MSSU
student)appeared on the second and third season of NBC's Last Comic
Standing, the #1 show this summer for the 18-49 age group. She
finished fourth in the second season out of thousands that auditioned
from all over the country. She recently was eliminated from the
finalists of the third season of the NBC program, which pitted past
winners against a new group of performers.
Some of the subject matter discussed during Pescatelli's
performance at Missouri Southern may include mature themes. Attendance
by children 17 and under is not recommended. For more information,
contact Julie Blackford at (417) 625-9320 or Melanie
Epperson, Student Activities, at (417) 625-9346.
KGCS to air Gubernatorial debate
The first Missouri Gubernatorial Debate between Republican Matt Blunt and Democrat Claire McCaskill will air on KGCS-TV at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18. The debate will take place in Kansas City, Mo. The debate will be conducted in a standard question and answer format, with timed responses. In addition, each candidate will have the opportunity to ask two questions of the opposing opponent. The debate will end with two minute closing statements from each candidate.
The debate on KGCS may be seen on UHF channel 57 in Joplin. It will also be shown on cable channel 7 on the Cable One system, cable channel 77 on the Mediacom system, and on area cable systems carrying SITV programming from Missouri Southern.
For more information, contact Judy Stiles, KGCS, at (417) 625-9777.
The Lion Pride Marching Band hosted the first annual Small School Band Day on Oct. 9. Rusty Raymond, Director of Bands, led 200 high school students through clinics and rehearsals before having them join the Lion Pride Marching Band for a combined pre-game performance. Rusty was assisted by music education students Erika DeMoss, Paul Equihua, Josh Zimmer, Mark Gregory, Anna Johnson, Jeremy Ball, Lara Stamper, and Britney Parker. Special thanks goes to Philip Wise, Music Department Head and Derek Skaggs, Director of Enrollment Services, for helping make the event a success.
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Looking For: A good working used gas cooking stove and used electrical clothes dryer for putting in rental house. Call (417) 625-1061 after 5:30 p.m. or, weekdays, ext. 9368.
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Free: Child's swing set. Call Betty at ext. 9866.
Those planning to attend any performance or other group activity requiring accommodations for a disability should contact the sponsoring party at least 72 hours in advance. If sponsoring parties' names/numbers mentioned in "Accents!" are not clearly stated, contact ext. 9399 or ext. 9506 for clarification.
