MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CONNECTION
JULY 2007
MCC
FACULTY
& STAFF
NEWSLETTER
WHAT’S
INSIDE
AROUND CAMPUS
OPEN HOUSE FOR
HEALTH SCIENCES
LABORATORY A
HUGE SUCCESS
COPC ONE DAYONE BLOCK
CLEANUP
FOUNDATION FOR
MCC EVENTS
Q UOTE OF
THE M ONTH
“Courage is the ladder on which all
the other virtues mount.”
Clare Boothe Luce
Lenore Croudy Receives Prestigious
Governor's Service Award
MCC Board of
Trustees Chair Lenore
Croudy is the winner of
the State of Michigan's
most prestigious award for
community service. In an
elaborate ceremony at the
Fox Theater in downtown
Detroit, Governor Jennifer
M. Granholm presented
Croudy with the 2007
Governor George Romney
Lifetime Achievement
Award for Volunteerism,
the most prestigious of the
Governor's Service
Awards. Governor
Governor Jennifer Granholm congratulates MCC Board of Trustees Chair
Granholm lauded Croudy
Lenore Croudy on winning the Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award
as one of "Michigan's
at the 2007 Governor’s Service Award program, The Miracle of
great volunteers who help
Volunteering. Joining her is son, Sean, and (at far right) Jim Comer,
to make miracles happen
commissioner with the Michigan Community Service Commission, the
across the state every day."
organization presenting the awards and managing the event.
Croudy was among
the individuals and organizations Gov. Granholm presented with Governor's Service Awards for
exemplary volunteer service at the 2007 Governor's Service Awards event, The Miracle of
Volunteering on Wednesday, June 20, 2007.
"Our volunteers are out there day after day, year after year, working to make Michigan a great
place to live," stated Granholm. "The Governor's Service Awards are just one way we can say thank
you for their efforts."
Goodbye
Gonzales
Outgoing MCC
Trustee Ehren Gonzales
(second from left) receives
well wishes and an honorary degree from Dr.
Shaink and the Board of
Trustees at their June 18
meeting. Gonzales will be
replaced by former Flint
Township Supervisor Sally
Shaheen Joseph this
month.
his cover is about to be blown. But then he faces a much bigger
problem: he's being hunted by a vampire killer." Published by Dutton
Juvenile, Heather's book will be released on Aug. 16.
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Ca m pus
Fine Arts Dean Jessie
Sirna shares news from her
area. Art professor John
Dempsey currently has an
exhibition of his paintings at
the Birmingham-Bloomfield
Art Association. The Jim
Lee Fine Arts Camp will
take place July 9-20 on main
campus for middle and high
school art and music students.
Art professor Cate Smith took
her combined spring class, Artist's
Anatomy & Clay Figure Sculpture, to view the exhibition "The
Body" at the Detroit Science Center. Music professor Chuck
Iwanusa took his jazz band to Montrose High School to perform for
their jazz students. Chuck and jazz combo also performed at
"Growing Up Artfully," a fund raiser for the Flint Cultural Center on
Thursday, June 7.
Printing Lead Operator Matt Curtis tells us that his daughter,
Mallory, graduated with honors from the CMU graphic design program. Congratulations, Matt.
Mott Library Administrative Assistant Kathleen Goodrow
wants us to mark our calendars for an upcoming author visit and
book signing featuring Heather Brewer, a former MCC student and
sister of Student Life coordinator Dawn Vanniman. Heather has
penned The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites, a novel
written for ages 9-12. The event is scheduled for Friday, August 17 at
noon in the Library, 2nd floor. The book is about vampires and the
description listed on Amazon.com reads: "Junior high really sucks
for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal
is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and
Vlad has a secret: his mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily
with his blood cravings and his enlarged fangs. When a substitute
teacher begins to question him a little too closely, Vlad worries that
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Marianne Blair conducts a training session for advisors.
Dean of Counseling and Student Development Jim Leonard
provided a report on a recent training session for Academic Advisors.
On Friday, May 31 a training and refresher/update session for advising in the Health Sciences areas was offered to Academic Advisors
using CM 1132 lab. Marianne Blair, Health Sciences Advisor, did
an excellent job of presenting on this topic. She has established
Degree Planning Worksheets on the web to assist other Advisors in
working with Health Sciences students and to assist students in monitoring their own progress within a program. The session was
designed to provide some of the program and course basics of Health
Sciences advising to new Health Sciences Advisors and also served
as a refresher and update session for experienced advisors. Using
computers, advisors followed along, on the internet-based presentation as Marianne led them through the various Health Sciences programs and considerations relevant to the advising function. The training session proved very beneficial to all in attendance.
Open House for Health Sciences Laboratory a Huge Success
More than 100 visitors, including a host of local hospital administrators, physicians, health care professionals, MCC administrators, faculty, staff
and members of the community attended the Open House celebrating MCC's newly enhanced Health Sciences Laboratory Complex, on June 21. The
visitors had an opportunity to tour the state-of-the-art facility, to view patient simulator demonstrations and observe cutting-edge technology in the
labs. The Open House also provided an opportunity for the community to join MCC in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the college's nursing program. In 1956, MCC (then Flint Junior College) admitted its first class of nursing students with the inaugural class of aspiring nurses graduating in
1958. The event garnered extensive media coverage, with an article in The Flint Journal, live news and taped segments on abc12.
Foundation for MCC Events
COPC One Day-One Block
Please mark your calendars for these upcoming activities and call
Cleanup/Beautification Project the Foundation
for Mott Community College at (810) 762-0425 for
About 100 people pitched in to clean up the Dewey Park area in
north Flint during MCC's One Day-One Block Cleanup/Beautification
project, sponsored by the MCC Community Outreach Partnership Center
(COPC) on June 15. The cleanup marked the third year of the project.
MCC President Richard Shaink and MCC Trustee Andrew "Andy"
Everman joined the dedicated band of volunteers which included MCC
students, staff, and members from the community in various activities
which included cleaning up Dewey Park, sprucing up the surrounding
neighborhood and planting native plants in the area. A crew from the City
of Flint was on hand to cut down a dead tree in the park, and officers with
the Flint Police Department and Genesee County Sheriff's Department
painted neighborhood houses. The event received wide coverage from
local media as well, including stories on abc12 and TV25 and a front page
article in the June 16 edition of The Flint Journal. Political Science
Professor Paul Rozycki and Psychology Prof. Lillie McCain serve as codirectors of COPC and organizers of One Day-One Block Project.
more information:
Sept. 6
September Soiree to benefit MCC at Lake Fenton home of Ghassan
and Manal Saab, 6-8 pm. Tickets: $250 and can be purchased by calling the Foundation at 762-0425.
Sept. 7
MCC Lapeer Learner Scholarship Golf Outing at Devil's Ridge Golf
Course in Oxford. Shotgun start at 8:30 am. Proceeds fund scholarships for students at MCC Lapeer. Cost per play is $100. Sponsorship
opportunities are available.
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motown,
mott
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annual #
&more
celebrity lip sync
Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007
Show starts at 6 pm
Mott Memorial Auditorium
Sold
Last Out
Year
!
Tickets go on sale August 1!
Sept. 16
Dr. Shaink collects leaf bags as Mia Johnson rakes.
Motown, Mott & More featuring Flint's favorites & MCC “stars” lip
syncing at 6 pm in the Recital Hall of Mott Memorial Building.
Sponsorship opportunities are available. Additional acts are welcome.
Call the Foundation for details and ticket prices.
October offers a month-long art exhibit featuring the works of Pauline
Angle and Indy Bacon at MCC. Please call the Foundation for details
about the kick-off reception and exhibit hours.
Oct. 4
The Ballenger Lecture Series offers a free lecture by Morris Dees,
Chief Legal Counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center at 7 pm,
Recital Hall, Mott Memorial Building. A VIP Reception is scheduled
with Dees before the lecture, along with an afterglow for Friends of
the Ballenger at a ticket price of $500. Proceeds benefit the Ballenger
Lecture Series.
Oct. 8
Peace & Dignity Ceremony celebrating the four colors will be held on
the lawn in the front of the Curtice-Mott Building at 10 am.
Oct. 17
MCC Distinguished Alumni Awards, 6 pm, Applewood Café. Tickets
will be available in September. Call the Foundation at 762-0425 for
details.
MCC Trustee Andrew “Andy” Everman empties trash.
JULY 2007
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
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Bright Ideas Acting Class
5:30 p.m.-7:30 a.m.
MMB
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
Creative Expressions
Camp • 8 am-Noon
CM
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
Creative Expressions
Camp • 8 am-Noon
CM
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
No Excuses Summer
Basketball Camp
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ballenger
No Excuses Summer
Basketball Camp
9 a.m.-3 p.m.-Ballenger
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
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Board of Trustees
Meeting • 7:30-10 p.m.
Mott Library
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Saturday
Sunday
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Independence Day
Campus Closed
Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
Creative Expressions
Camp • 8 am-Noon
CM
Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
Friday
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No Excuses
Summer Basketball Camp
9 a.m.-3 p.m.-Ballenger
Ophelia Bonner
Scholarship Run
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Horrigan Dr.
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
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Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
Fine Arts Camp
9 am-3 p.m.
MMB
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No Excuses Summer
Basketball Camp
9 a.m.-3 p.m.-Ballenger
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