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16th Annual Wine Tasting this evening
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The 16th Annual Benefit Food & Wine Tasting will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce. The Web site address is www.mssu.edu/kxms/winetaste.htm .The admission price is $20 per person.
Today, Friday, March 27, marks the 16th Annual Benefit Food & Wine Tasting fundraiser for 88.7KXMS, sponsored by the Klassix Society/Friends of KXMS. The event has grown since the first one held at Joplin’s once-renowned Travetti’s Italian Restaurant. The brain-child of Joplin restaurateur David Blum, the benefit Food & Wine Tasting has “mushroomed” into an evening of food and drink by a dozen area establishments, including regional wines from Stone Hill Winery, White Rose Winery, and the new Macadoodles in Joplin.
Other vendors for 2009 include Arde's Bistro, Cafe on the Route, The Candy House, Chatters, Club 1201, Crabby's, Hackett Hot Wings, J.B. Elephant's, Josie's Ristorante & Lounge, Pizza By Stout, Red Lobster of Joplin, and new to the event, The Vinery Wine Shop.
Held at the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce building just a few blocks east of The Red Onion Café on Fourth Street in Joplin, patrons of the radio station are treated to a large buffet of food and wine, classical music, and the opportunity to commune with others who cherish the fine arts radio service, an institutional gift/resource to the community from MSSU.
“We have kept the price very reasonable for sixteen years,” says KXMS general manager, Jeff Skibbe. “This allows virtually everyone to attend in support of something valued across economic lines.” “If someone has more means to give in support, the Klassix Society is happy to accept an additional check."
Like many other state university radio stations across the country, 88.7KXMS is operating with a reduced budget, dedicated to maintaining the quality of an exceptional service. At the same time, KXMS must look toward a digital radio future and the need to establish an endowment to stabilize and grow financial support.
Walk in this evening with cash or check in hand along with a healthy appetite for some of the best food in the Joplin area.
Former English Department Head passes
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Lambert, Ph.D., 71, died Friday, March 20, following a brief illness. Joe was the youngest of five sons from Monticello, Miss. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers; and a nephew.
Joe attended Monticello schools and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English at Mississippi College. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Auburn University in 1970. He taught several years at Gulf Coast Junior College before joining the English faculty at Missouri Southern State University in 1970, retiring in 1999. He was department head from 1971-79, director of the Southern Writing Program for seven years and a member of the Faculty Senate for three years, including a term as president.
He was co-founder of The Wingéd Lion, a joint publication of the English and Art departments at Southern, and served as its faculty sponsor for many years. The magazine won numerous awards under his leadership. He taught poetry, literature, creative writing and literary criticism classes at Southern.
Joe was a member of the American Association of University Professors, Midwest Philological Association, National Council of Teachers of English and Association of Departments of English. His poetry and short stories have appeared in literary reviews.
He and his family moved to rural Seneca in 1985. He married Sharon Kendall on Nov. 1, 1974. She survives. Additional survivors include a son, daughter-in-law and grandson, Scott, Denise and Garret Lambert, of Joplin; and daughter, Melissa Lambert and her fiancé, Dana Carlson, of Denver, Colo.
No funeral service is planned. There will be a memorial for family and friends at a later time. Memorial contributions may be made to the Joplin Humane Society Capital Campaign, 211 South Main, Suite 314 in Joplin or to the charity of one's choice.
Today's Brown Bag
Today's Brown Bag Presentation is titled "How to Grow Corn the Ecological way: Slash & Burn." The lecture series is free and open to all faculty and staff.
Gerald T. Schlink, Biology will discuss the cultural and environmental differences observed in the Mayans of Belize during a group trip in May 2007. The cultivation, storage, and cooking of corn will be highlighted.
The event will be noon in room 202 of the Art Department (Enter through the main door, room is immediately to the left, opposite the Spiva Gallery). Bring your own brown bag lunch and enjoy an opportunity to witness some of the research and creative works being accomplished at Missouri Southern.
For additional information contact Frank A. Pishkur, Art, at ext. 9735.
Spring Job Expo
The Spring Job Expo will be held from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1 at Leggett & Platt Athletic Center.
The purpose of this event is to give all students the opportunity to attend this event. It is the perfect opportunity for freshman and sophomores to begin net-working with employers to learn about opportunities in their major area of study. Juniors and seniors should re-visit employers they've met at previous job fairs to learn about possible internships or to actively begin their job search.
Handouts on how to prepare for a job fair will be on tables in entry ways of Webster Hall, Hearnes Hall, Reynolds Hall, Billingsly Student Center, Anderson Justice Center, Robert Plaster Enterprise Center, and Spiva Library.
"It's never too early for students to begin networking with employers," says Lora Burch, Career Services.
She says the Education Job Fair is April 8 from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. in Young Gymnasium.
Cardinals schedules available
St. Louis Cardinals pocket schedules for the 2009 season are available from KGCS-TV. The schedules list all games for the season, including those to be televised by KGCS-TV this year.
Persons wishing to have a schedule may pick it up at KGCS, or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to KGCS-TV, 3950 E. Newman Rd., Joplin, MO 64801. People on the Missouri Southern campus may request to have schedules sent via campus mail.
KGCS-TV will air 20 regular season St. Louis Cardinals games this year. Programming may be seen on digital UHF channel 22, Cable One Channel 7 and Mediacom Channel 77.
2009 National Issues Forum
Early in our democracy, citizens gathered to talk and learn together about their common problems before deciding how to solve them. We can still gather and deliberate to create a reasoned public voice. Since 1981, National Issues Forums (NIF) has supported a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally-sponsored public forums for that purpose. Area residents, community organizations, and Missouri Southern students, faculty, and staff are invited to gather in small groups and deliberate on one of this year’s NIF topics:
The Energy Problem: Choices for an Uncertain Future
Wednesday, April 1 - 11 a.m.- 12:50 p.m., Spiva Library Fireplace
Breaking the Habit of Deficit Spending
Thursday, April 2 - 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Spiva Library Fireplace
OR Thursday, April 9 - 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Spiva Library Fireplace
Read a brief brochure on background facts (prepared by the non-partisan Kettering Foundation), and then meet to talk informally about various approaches to the problem. There is no fee to participate, but you must reserve a seat.
For reservations or to arrange a forum for your group, contact Ann Wyman, Social Science, at 625-9697 or e-mail wyman-a@mssu.edu.
31st Annual Business Contest next Wednesday
Area high schools students will get a preview of college life and a chance to win scholarships and an Apple iPod when The Robert W. Plaster School of Business Administration (SOBA) at Missouri Southern State University hosts its 31st Annual Business Contest on Wednesday, April 1.
Testing begins at 9:00 a.m. and is followed by lunch and an award ceremony. Over 900 students have registered for this year’s event representing 35 high schools in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
“This experience allows high school students to compete academically while enjoying a simulated college experience,” said Beverly Block, SOBA.
Students compete in categories including Accounting, Business Communication, Business Law, Business Math, Computer Concepts, Economics, Free Enterprise, General Business, Keyboarding, Management, Marketing, International Business, Multimedia, Web Site Development, and Entrepreneurship.
The students will have the opportunity to meet Business faculty and learn more about the programs available in the School of Business. Career Services and Admissions staff will be on hand to answer questions. First place winners in each event will receive a $300 scholarship, and all students are eligible to enter into a drawing for an iPod. The awards ceremony, which will be held at 1:00 p.m. in Taylor Auditorium, is open to the public.
More information on rules and registration can be found at www.mssu.edu/business.
MSSU Science Fair March 31 - April 2
MSSU will host the 20th annual Missouri Southern Regional Science Fair on March 31 - April 2. Both high school and junior high school students from area schools have entered projects in the fair.
Topics at the fair range from biology and chemistry to math, computer science, and engineering. A myriad of awards will be given along with grand prizewinners in both the senior and junior divisions.
The main judging is closed to the public. It will take place during the evening on Tuesday, March 31.
The projects will then be open to the public for viewing on Wednesday, April 1 at Leggett and Platt Athletic Center.
An awards ceremony will take place at Anderson Criminal Justice Center at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2. The ceremony is open to the public. For information, contact Lynell Gilbert-Saunders, Physical Science, at 659-5433.
MSSU Dance Marathon 2009
Faculty/staff as well as students are encouraged to enter Missouri Southern's Dance Marathon 2009.
The marathon will be held Friday April 3 beginning at 8 p.m. and last until Saturday April 4 at 8 a.m. in Young Gymnasium.
Those interested should register ASAP by visiting http://danceforkids.kintera.org/mssu.
For more information, contact Hillary Fogerty, English, by calling 625-3050 or contact student Ruth Eichinger at eichingerr001@mymail.mssu.edu.
Money raised will go to fund AIDS research.
Annual Glenn Dolence Award nominations sought
Doug Carnahan, Dean of Students, say Student Services and ODK would like to invite the entire campus community to submit the names of graduating senior students who have demonstrated significant leadership and/or service to Missouri Southern State University.
The awards are named in honor of Glenn D. Dolence, retired Vice President for Student Services. Please mark your calendar to attend the awards ceremony at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 23 in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall.
Representatives from the above sponsoring groups will select the honorees from the nominations. Award winners will be presented a certificate of achievement and gift certificate plus have their names placed on a permanent plaque which will be displayed in the Billingsly Student Center.
The criteria for nominations are a graduating student (May or July), completion of 90 hours at Missouri Southern and significant leadership/service contributions to MSSU.
The main purpose of this award is to formally recognize senior students who have made a difference in campus organizations, student employment, student services or athletics.
Please return nominations with a brief statement supporting the nominations to the Student Services Office by 12 noon on Monday, March 30. You may e-mail your nominations to Christy Phillips, Student Services, at phillips-c@mssu.edu.
Grad Expo
Grad Expo for this spring is on Wednesday, April 8 in the lobby of Taylor Performing Arts Center.
The event will last from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Greg Needham, Bookstore, says those planning to graduate can pick up their caps and gown and order announcements, rings and diploma frames.
Exit interviews
All graduates with student loans are required to complete exit counseling/interviews prior to May 16, 2009.
Sheila Saba, Financial Aid, says the interviews can be completed in person or they can be completed online. Those not completing the interviews will not be able to obtain records, which are vital as students enter the next phase of their education or careers.
Information can be obtained by contacting Financial Aid at (417) 625-9325
Contemporary Foreign Film Series offering tonight
The next feature film for the spring 2009 season of the Contemporary Foreign Film Series will be shown at approximately 7 p.m. tonight, Friday, March 27, in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall.
The film is I Served the King of England (Czech Republic, 2006; 120 minutes) directed by Jiri Menzel.
The film begins as Jan Dítě (Oldřich Kaiser) is released from prison having served fourteen years and nine months of a fifteen year sentence. The time, though never specified in the film, appears to be the early 1960’s; Dítě is sent to an abandoned Czech village, where the German residents were expelled after World War II. He eventually comes across two neighbors: a professor searching the forest for trees of a musical quality to make instruments, and his assistant Marcela, who flirts with Dítě and reminds him of times gone by. Flashbacks make up the bulk of the film as Dítě recalls his life.
The period detail has been termed "stunning."
This film will be shown as part of a Missouri Southern Continuing Education Class. The cost of the class is $10 per person per semester and those interested may register before the film tonight. For further information about this film series, please contact Bill Kumbier, English, at kumbier-w@mssu.edu or Nick Kyle at kyle-n@mssu.edu.
Upward Reflections April 13 -18 in Bud Walton Theatre
What happens when you ask a class full of beginning directors to write a play? What happens when you ask those novice playwrights to direct their own work?
The answer - three evenings of brand new, exciting, student-directed, student-written one act plays.
Southern Theatre will present Upward Reflections: A Festival of Student-Directed One Act Plays April 13 - 18 in the Bud Walton Theatre on the campus of Missouri Southern State University.
This eclectic assortment of original dramas will be performed according to the following schedule:
* Four plays performed on April 13 will repeat on April 16.
* Four plays performed on April 14 will repeat on April 17.
* Four plays performed on April 15 will repeat on April 18.
Each evening, the first two plays will be presented at 6 p.m. The next two plays will begin at 8 p.m., following a 30-minute break.
The casts consist of actors from MSSU faculty/ staff and students, as well as several members of the Joplin community.
The plays are rated “M” for mature audiences only. There may be explicit language and adult situations.
Admission is free. Reservations are required for the Festival due to the limited seating capacity. The Theatre Box Office will open Monday, April 6. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For reservations, call the Box Office at (417) 625-3190. For theatre production information, contact Terri Spencer at (417) 625-9393.
Roll to present Jeans Lecture
MSSU alumnus Jarod Roll will deliver the 15th annual Jeans Lecture at 7 p.m. on April 7 in Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall on the MSSU campus. The title of his lecture is: “"Prophetic Religion and Agrarian Rebellion in the Missouri Bootheel."
A 2000 graduate of Missouri Southern with a B.A. in History, Roll earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2006. His family lives in Mt. Vernon.
His dissertation won two prestigious prizes: Best Dissertation in Labor and Working-Class History, awarded in 2006 by Labor History, the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship on labor and The Herbert Gutman Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working Class History, awarded in 2008 by the Labor and Working Class History Association. He was also a finalist for the C. Vann Woodward Prize for Best Dissertation in Southern History, an award of the Southern Historical Association, in 2006.
His first book, Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South, scheduled for publication by the University of Illinois Press in 2010, explores how African American and white farmers created a grassroots radicalism to defend agrarian traditions against the rise of capital-intensive agriculture in the lowlands of southeast Missouri.
He is co-author (with Erik S. Gellman, Roosevelt University, Chicago) of the forthcoming volume, The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's New Deal Prophets.
He is also under contract with the Johns Hopkins University Press for Between Race and Nation: Black Politics in the Age of Jim Crow with Steven Hahn of the University of Pennsylvania and Patricia Sullivan of the University of South Carolina.
Roll is also Director of the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cunliffe/.
UPWARD BOUND SCHOLARSHIP
For Purchase: Please Contact Megan (ext. 9886) or Kevin (ext. 9890) in the Mansion Annex or call ext. 9880. |
Join Upward Bound at Sonic (1030 East 7th Street) Saturday, April 4
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SNA Fundraiser
Sheila Hart, Nursing, and several students will be serving pizza at an upcoming Student Nuring Association Fundraiser.
The group will be at the Pizza Inn on Rangeline from 4:30 - 8 p.m. this coming Monday night.
Funds raised will assist the group in a planned trip to Europe.
Come help support these Nursing students.
Judy Elimelech, Disability Services, praises Sigma Phi for raising money to purchase Kurzweill 3000 (scanner software that was developed originally for individuals with learning differences) for her office. Combining the software with a scanner and computer, a student in the Learning Center now can have any document read to them."President Kennedy asked Americans to develop a spirit of self-sacrifice," Judy says. "These students have exemplified that spirit."
In early March, Bob McDermid, Psychology, was one of three presenters from around the state at UMKC's Future Faculty Fellows (FFF) program on faculty roles and expectations. The FFF program is an interdisciplinary program for doctoral students who plan careers in post-secondary education.
Charles Nodler, Archivist, attended the Missouri Digitization Conference in Independence, Mo. on March 10 - 11. He also attended the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board Strategic Planning Meeting on March 18 in Springfield.
Frank A. Pishkur, Art Department Head, and Brent Skinner, Lifelong Learning Ceramics Instructor, took six Missouri Southern art students to attend a workshop with ceramic artist Clayton Bailey March 13 at MSU in Springfield. Bailey's long artistic career has spanned both clay and mixed media constructions but has always worked with humor. His work is closely aligned with the California Funk Movement of Ceramic Art. Bailey demonstrated some of his techniques to transform the ceramic firing process of Raku into spectacular performances featuring the use of the kinetic energy generated by the use of the creation of steam. He also addressed both humorous and unique marketing strategies as well as serious practices that all artists should strive to emulate. More information about Clayton Bailey and the span of his artistic endeavors can be found at: http://www.claytonbailey.com/ .
Frank A. Pishkur, Art, and Scott Murray, Sculpture Adjunct, and one MSSU studio art major traveled to Fayetteville Wednesday, March 25 to attend the first Sculpture Symposium at the University of Arkansas. The symposium was held in conjunction with the group sculpture exhibition titled "Physical Reminders". The exhibition examined the idea of the physical in relation to our new media world using sculpture as a point of departure. Artists from around the nation gave visual lectures.The panel discussion: "What is the Physical in Relation to Our New Media World?" which was moderated by Christopher Cook, Curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.
Frank Pishkur, Art, will have a closing reception for an exhibition of his pottery at the Post Memorial Art Reference Library (located in the Joplin Public Library on Main Street), from 2 - 4 p.m. this Sunday, March 29.
CLASSIFIED
For Sale: Inversion table. This allows a person with back pain to safely hang upside down to get some relief. Owner has used it for a year, and my back problems have been resolved. Original cost $299 new. Will sell for $100. Call (417) 625-3138.
For Sale: House near campus at 1302 N. Duquesne. Three rooms, one and 3/4 baths. 1380 square feet on .3 acres. View online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWkmR0NDf or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6jtOpQzOcQ , Contact Tran Van Thuong at 625-9610 or e-mail thuong-t@mssu.edu.
For Sale: T1860G Kubota lawn tractor, 18 HP liquid cooled gas engine, 60" mower deck, power steering, hydrostat transmission, 343 hours, $2,350. Call (417) 540-3424 or (417) 659-5425.
Free: Niagra reclining chair that needs a new home. The chair needs to be recovered and there is a broken part in the back (leans to one side), but someone could probably fix it. The Niagra massaging unit still works. If interested, call ext. 4442 or (417) 529-8296.
Situation Wanted: Missouri Southern student, willing to house-sit this summer for faculty/staff member or other community member. Contact Martha at e-mail mynatt-m001@mymail.mssu.edu.
For Sale: Twin size Flexamatic adjustable bed, motorized, good condition. $75 for more info call 483-4346.
For Sale: '07 Zero-turn DIXON lawn mower, 20HP 44" cut, used very little; a Yard machine mower, 18.5HP, 42" cut. For more info call Jan at ext. 9558.
For Sale: Baldwin console piano paid $7,500 (not a scratch; even on the bench!) This category of console is merely one step under the baby grand line. Local tech approved 9 year warranty. Will take $5,000 - firm. E-mail peterson-e@mssu.edu.
