Current Issue: Volume 21 - Number 13 - April 14, 2006
Children’s Play Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? April 22-23
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Southern Theatre will present the play Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf at 2:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23 at Taylor Performing Arts Center at Missouri Southern State University.
Pam Claussen directs Tom McCabe’s adaptation of several classic fairy tales.
This delightful play cleverly combines the tales of the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood with a very hungry wolf stuck between them. Pack up the whole family and enjoy this fun-filled trip to the theatre.
Ticket costs for the play are $1 for adults and .50 cents for children age 12 and under. No free passes can be accepted. For reservations call (417) 625-3190.
For theatre production information about the play call (417) 625-9393.
This week's Brown Bag
The Brown Bag Lunch for today, Friday, April 14, features Beverly Block, Business, Betsy Griffin, Academic Affairs, Delores Honey, Institutional Research & Assessment, Wendy McGrane, Library, Jack Oakes, CIS, and Kelly Wilson, Student Support Center. The presenters will be speaking on "Best Practices for First-Year Students." The Brown Bag, open to faculty/staff, will be held from 12:10 to 12:50 in room 310 of the Billingsly Student Center. Complimentary lunch will be provided courtesy of Academic Affairs and Sodexho.
National Issues Forum adds April 25 session
The National Issues Forum: It is going on in townhalls and university campuses across America. Due to outstanding response, an additional session has been scheduled.
The session is slated for 6-8 p.m., Tuesday April 25 in the University Java Coffee House. The topic is: “Making Ends Meet: Is there a Way to Help Working Americans?" A group of 10-12 citizens (students, faculty, staff, & guests) will meet to discuss the current trouble many working Americans have staying economically afloat. Different approaches to the problem will be addressed.
Participants will be asked to read a brief brochure on background facts (prepared by the non-partisan Kettering Foundation), and then meet to discuss the subject for 1 1/2 - 2 hours. There is no fee to participate. To sign up, contact Dr. Ann Wyman at wyman-a@mssu.edu or call ext. 9697.
Jazz Septet Embarks on Canadian Tour
The Southern Jazz Septet, under the direction of Phillip C. Wise, Music, will experience the musical culture of British Columbia and Alberta as they embark on a performance tour in late May.
The seven day tour will include performances at the Grand Forks Gallery in Grand Forks, British Columbia; the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook, British Columbia; and the Rafter Six Resort in Exshaw, Alberta. The Rafter Six Resort performance is a jazz festival fundraising event for the students of St. Johns Catholic High School of Gulfport, Mississippi. The high school was devastated during Hurricane Katrina and lost nearly everything.
“When we were invited to be a part of this event, I altered our travel schedule so we could participate” Phil states. Numerous jazz ensembles will perform throughout the day with the Southern Jazz Septet serving as the featured and concluding act of the evening.
Cultural experiences will include visits to Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper National Park, Fort Steel Heritage Town, Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, and the Music and Technology program at Selkirk College. “Our goal is to learn more about the musical culture in this part of the world while sharing our own talents." Phil adds.. “My correspondence with the various arts agencies and music teachers in this part of Canada tells me jazz is an important part of the cultural happenings."
Student musicians include Joel Thomas, piano; Robert Terry, bass; Damon Graue, drums; Luke Oschenbein, guitar; Tom Smith, trumpet; and Kyle Babbitt, tenor saxophone. Dr. Wise will join the group on trombone.
Russian pianist Antonova to perform MSIPC opening concert
Russian pianist Natalya Antonova will give the opening concert of the 2006 Missouri Southern International Piano Competition in Joplin. She will perform on Monday, April 24 at 8 p.m. in Webster Hall Auditorium on the campus of Missouri Southern State University.
Tickets are $15, with students and seniors over 60 admitted free of charge. Tickets are available at the MSSU ticket office in Billingsly Student Center room 112 and at the door.
An international concert artist, Ms. Antonova made her debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic at the age of 16. She has performed in concert in countries throughout Eastern and Western Europe such as Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Germany, France, Hungary, as well as in South Korea. In her Joplin concert, she will perform works of Schumann, Scriabin and Chopin.
For more information visit http://www.mssu.edu/news/antonova_msipc06.htm.
Earth Day activities Wednesday on Southern campus
The Missouri Southern State University will celebrate Earth Day next week on the MSSU campus. Activities will begin on Monday from 12 noon - 2 p.m. in Webster Auditorium featuring speakers representing the Audubon Society and the Institute of Ecolonomics.
The highlight of the week will take place 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wednesday April 19 on the campus Oval. The celebration is sponsored by the International Student Ecolonomics Association (ISEA) at Missouri Southern.
The Wednesday event is centered around a variety of booths, from experts, local businesses, schools, etc, who give presentations on the sustainable practices that they are involved in and how the students and the community can get involved. There will be contest, giveaways, presentations and many fun activities to promote sustainability.
Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilizations and human activity so that society, its members and its economies can meet their needs and express their greatest potential while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems and planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals indefinitely.
Earth Day will bring together pioneers, activists, intellectuals and people involved in promoting sustainable practices and products, earth friendly project and development, and people seeking to network with other experts in these fields.
For more information contact: Jacqueline Jimenez and Emeli Jimenez, ISEA President and Vice-President, at (417) 592-7167; Dr. Tom Simpson, faculty advisor, (417) 625-3112; or Rob Wood, Executive Director of the Institute of Ecolonomics, at (417) 625-9838.
Software System training sessions to begin soon
Monday, April 24 will mark the beginning of a series of staff training sessions for the new Administrative Software System. This training will be faculty/staff's introduction to the Banner System. Information will be provided about menus and forms, how to move throughout the system, execute data entry and queries and obtain online help. Basic training is required before further Lionet training on specific systems and functions.
After completion of Basic Training, users will be qualified to enroll in one of the function specific sessions that will follow. Training for specific areas will take place on an ongoing basis as each system is implemented. There will be a number of sessions to choose from with more information regarding dates and times available via e-mail.
Those with interaction with any Finance forms (purchase orders, p-card, requisitions or general financial transactions) will need to complete Basic training and specific functional training before July 1. Classes will be held on Monday, April 24 with a choice of the following four times:
Training will take place in Matthews Hall in the Lionet Computer Lab, Room 320. Training materials will be provided at the start of each training session. Other sessions will be added to the training schedule within the next few weeks, so if you cannot schedule into this one, you will have other opportunities.
To register for one of the April 24 sessions, call Nancy Parrish, Human Resources, at ext. 9527.
The Chart brings home awards
The Chart, the student newspaper for Missouri Southern State University, brought home a total of 20 awards in a recent competition judged by the Missouri Press Association (MPA). For details from adviser JR Ledford, Communication, on awards won and reporters honored visit http://www.mssu.edu/news/chartawards06.htm.
National History Day Missouri Competition results announced.
National History Day competition in Missouri took place at the University of Missouri - Columbia on April 8. The top two entries in each of 14 categories will serve as Missouri delegates to the National History Day contest, to be held June 12-16 at the University of Maryland.
Entries that placed third are designated as alternates, who will be asked to attend the National contest if either of the delegates is unable to compete. Results of the competition are available at www.mssu.edu/news/missourihistoryday06.htm.
This year's History Day theme is "Taking a Stand in History: People, Ideas, Events." Entries on any topic pertaining to this theme - in a global, national, or local context - could be submitted in the form of a research paper, an exhibit, a performance, or an audio-visual documentary.
National History Day in Missouri is sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Columbia. Diane Ayotte of Western Historical Manuscripts serves as the State History Day Coordinator.
For more information, contact Paul Teverow, Social Science. the National History Day Coordinator for Missouri Region 6, at at ext.3114 or e-mail teverow-p@mssu.edu..
KGCS honors retired senior volunteers
Members of the Visions Unlimited retired senior volunteer program at KGCS-TV gathered on Thursday, April 13 for the volunteer recognition luncheon and presentation of the annual Wayne Kester Volunteer Award. KGCS recognizes the community volunteers each year for their contributions to television productions at the station.
This year’s recipient of the Wayne Kester Volunteer Award is Dick Keezer from Neosho. He was nominated by his peers for the award, and selected by faculty and staff of KGCS-TV. Nomination letters pointed to Keezer’s valuable role in shooting, producing and editing television programs.
The Wayne Kester Volunteer Award is presented in memory of Wayne Kester, who was unfailing in his commitment to KGCS-TV, working more than eleven years as a volunteer master control operator at the station.
Visions Unlimited is made up of senior citizen volunteers from the community, participating as part of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program through the Area Agency on Aging. The group has produced television programs for KGCS-TV since 1988. The group pursues a wide range of topics on the programs, featuring interesting people and places from the area.
Persons interested in joining the Visions Unlimited group’s television production efforts may contact Judy at ext. 9777.
Parmet to speak on "popcorn workers' lung" April 19
Dr. A.L. Parmet will present There's An Epidemic in Jasper County: Popcorn Workers' Lung: the History, Biology and Occupational Heath Issues, at 4 p.m., Wednesday April 19, in Room 106 of Webster Hall.
In the spring of 2000, eight former workers at a microwave popcorn manufacturing facility in Jasper became the source of an investigation into a new and lethal lung disease. An investigation by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health led to the discovery that a common food additive could cause the disease in animals and humans. Further investigations led to the discovery of the same illness at dozens of microwave popcorn factories as well as other factories manufacturing butter-flavored candy, oil and pastries.
Subsequently, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed and millions of dollars paid to injured workers. The talk will discuss the science behind this epidemic and how biology, chemistry, mathematics and engineering came together.
Dr. Parmet is a consultant in occupational medicine and aerospace medicine, practicing in Kansas City. He is a retired Air Force colonel and the last medical director of TransWorld Airlines. He has authored 14 medical textbook chapters and dozens of scientific articles and is the clinical editor for the medical journal Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.
Alumni Association asks for assistance
The Alumni Association is in need of your help in producing a new historical documentary of Missouri Southern. The documentary will be available for use by various departments on campus.
Information from the book Missouri Southern State College 1937-1992 by Dr. G.K. Renner has been used for a large part of the research. However, the Alumni Association remains in need of significant, historical happenings on campus since 1991 to the present.
Please e-mail information from your area or department by Friday, April 28, 2006 to pound-l@mssu.edu.
Southern Symphony’s “Pops on a Sunday Afternoon”
The Department of Music at Missouri Southern State University will present “Pops on a Sunday Afternoon” by Southern Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, May 7 at Taylor Performing Arts Center on the MSSU campus.
The concert will start at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Admission is free. The orchestra consists of 60-plus university faculty members, students, selected high school students, and community musicians.
Led by director Kexi Liu, Music, the orchestra will perform the popular music of Leroy Anderson, Bizet, Strauss, Rossini, Sousa and others. The concert will also feature original stories incorporating the music to produce interesting storytelling.
For further information, contact Kexi Liu at (417) 625-9681 or liu-k@mssu.edu.
Missouri Southern Live!
Jeff Skibbe, General Manager of 88.7KXMS Radio will host another Missouri Southern Live! program at 5 p.m. today. The topic telephone industry's attempt to penetrate the cable TV market/. Missouri Senate Bill 816, known as the "Fair Competition in Video Act," would give AT&T a statewide franchise to provide video service or Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV in selected portions of Missouri. Skibbe will talk with Larry Irving, a lobbyist proponent, and Missouri State Senator Gary Nodler who opposes the bill. Charlotte McClure, general manager of Joplin's Cable One cable-TV service also will give her insights into the potential effects of the telephone companies entering into the cable TV arena.
On a separate note: Gwen Hunt will discuss the upcoming Missouri Southern International Piano Competition to be held later this month and provide some background on the history of the MSIPC. Gwen, who retired several years ago as Public Information Director at MSSU, currently works in the promotional department of the MSIPC.
Child Abuse Coalition comes through for kids
On Monday the Child Abuse Coalition delivered 30 Easter baskets to a head start program in Joplin. JJ Spurlin, Criminal Justice, says the basket were paid for and put together by the Coalition. This is part of the club's continuous outreach into the local community with any organization involving the betterment of children. The baskets were delivered and placed in the children's individual lockers while on their lunch break so they would return to a little early Easter surprise.
FACULTY/STAFF
Lyndall Burrow, Sam Claussen, Brenda Jackson and Anne Jaros all of the Theatre Department were accompanied by students Cassie Hardy, Jade Leggot, Rachel Roberts Andrew Thompson, and Dani White to the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference and Stage Expo in Louisville, Ky., March 28-April 1.
Carolyn Hale, Communication, took her Communications in the Japanese Culture class to the Japanese Stroll Garden in Nathaniel Greene Park in Springfield for a field trip Sunday April 9.
Charles Nodler, Archivist, spoke to the Neosho Genealogical Society about "Archival Records and Preservation" on April 10, in Neosho.
Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Foreign Languages, just co-edited a book entitled Estudios Ecuatorianos: Un aporte a la discusión (Ecuadorian Studies: A contribution to the Debate) which includes her latest article on the collective memory of the most important populist president of Ecuador: José María Velasco Ibarra (1930s-1970s) and the legacy he left on the political culture. The book was published in Ecuador by FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences) and sponsored by the U.S. based Ecuadorian Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Doris Walters, English, and five students traveled to Portland, Oregon for the Sigma Tau Delta (National English Honor Society) Convention. The five students--Stephanie Bergen, Jill Halbach, Steven Rucker, Edwin Moore, and Lydia Wiles--were all chosen to present their work. Some presented critical essays, some creative nonfiction, some fiction, and some poetry. They also had the opportunity to hear famous writers including Ted Koozer, the current poet laureate of the United States. Holly Chism, Adjunct Professor and a Sigma Tau Delta alumna member, also presented at the Convention. Her essay on Kate Chopin's The Awakening
won second place in the critical essay division.
Learning? Tennis lessons available. Call ext. 9662 or 358-0600.
For Sale: Formal dining room table and chairs. Set includes table with two leaves, four side chairs, two arm chairs, and table mats. Good condition. Asking $295. Please call 623-5590 or 438-7793. We are selling the set because we have no room in a small dining area.
For Sale: Prom time! Lilac formal gown for sale. Purchased at Nordstrom's, worn only once. Fully lined, sleeveless satin bodice, satin and taffeta full floor-length skirt with floor-length sash. Good for sizes 8-12. Asking $85. Call 396-0588 to try on or for a photo.
