MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CONNECTION
DECEMBER 2014
Turn Up The Roar for the College Town
Food Drive!
MCC
FACULTY
& STAFF
NEWSLETTER
WHAT’S
INSIDE
AROUND CAMPUS
YOU GOTTA HAVE ART
PUBLIC SAFETY AND
LAPEER EXTENSION
CENTER
FINE ART GALLERY
NEWS FROM THE
FABLAB
GOOD READS FOR
THOSE LONG WINTER
NIGHTS
MCC WOMEN’S
SOFTBALL TEAM
GIVES BACK
COUNSELING AND
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
ON THE ROAD
Tis the season, and once again MCC is participating in the
College Town Food Drive to benefit the Foodbank of Eastern
Michigan. Food donations and cash donations are welcome,
however, “Cash/check donations are a better value for the
Foodbank,” according to Jennifer McDonald, executive director of Admissions & Recruitment. “Every $1 donated is equal
to 9 lbs. of food, because the Foodbank purchases food in bulk
at a discount,” she added.
Donation boxes are located around campus in the Business, Humanities, Health Sciences and Technology division offices. Food donations will be piled in the Prahl College Center
through Dec. 19. Cash and check donations can be given to
Dawn Vanniman in the Student Life Office (PCC 1240)
through Dec. 19. Make checks payable to: Foodbank of Eastern Michigan.
The College Town Food Drive is a competition between
MCC, Kettering University, UM-Flint and Baker College of
Flint to collect the most food and raise the most “food” dollars (cash donations). Kettering has won the
trophy five times and Baker College won it once. This year we need to bring the trophy to Bear Country! Let’s show Kettering, Baker and UM-Flint how we TURN UP THE ROAR!
Commit to Fit
Mott had 66 employees participate in the
Fall Commit to Fit Challenge, and individuals
who participated were entered into a drawing to
win several prizes courtesy of the MCC Wellness
Advisory Council and the President's Office.
The winners were:
• Emily Varney, Student Financial Services Mott T-Shirt
• Terry Love, Counseling & Student
Development - Mott T-Shirt
• Rita Szukhent, Health Sciences Division Mott water bottle
• Scott Burton, ITS - Mott water bottle
• Krishna Govada, ITS - Fitbit activity tracker
Stephanie Kile holds the bucket as Dr. WalkerGriffea pulls the winning name.
Additionally, all Commit to Fit 2014 Fall 4 Fitness Challenge participants that achieved the
goal of 900 minutes of physical activity were entered into a drawing to win a prize. Jennifer McDonald and Terri Loyer each won a $50 Cash prize and Kid Fedio won a one-month membership
to Insight Health & Fitness Center.
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Ca m p us
John Dempsey reports that
students in the Fine Arts program are gaining some notoriety. Painting students Casey
Carter and Ashley Simmons
are the featured artists at the
Good Beans Cafe, Nov. 3 to
Dec. 31. Good Beans is located
at 328 N Grand Traverse St.,
Flint. Tom Myers, painting student, is the November/December
featured artist at the Flint Institute
of Arts art sales and rental gallery.
Mara J. Fulmer is now the Faculty Director in the CTL. (Jim Shurter has replaced Mara as Program Coordinator in Graphic Design.) Mara also successfully defended her
dissertation “An Examination of the Role of the Creative Arts in Stu-
Arou
n
dent Success in Non-Arts Fields” on Oct. 24, and completed the final
requirements for her D.Ed. in Community College Leadership from
Ferris State University. In addition, last Spring, she was awarded the
FSU’s Faculty Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award for her work
in the doctoral program. And if that weren’t enough - on Dec. 13, 2014
she will marry Steven James.
When we come back from the Holiday break in January, there will
be a new face in Health Sciences. Jennifer Walker will join the Dental
Hygiene staff as a full-time instructor on Jan. 7. Smile at her when you
see her around campus!
Congrats to the MCC Men’s Wrestling Team for earning the highest score at the Mott Bear Open Wrestling Tournament on campus Sunday, Nov. 23. The Bears earned a score of 98.5 beating UM, GVSU,
Muskegon Community College, University of Toledo, Bowling Green
and six other colleges.
You Gotta Have Art!
The Friends of Mott
Library (FOML) hosted
their bi-annual Art Auction
Nov. 13. More than 100
people attended the event
which raised in excess of
$4,000 for FOML. Raffles
for two pieces of donated
art brought in approximately $400, the highest
total ever for the raffles.
There were a number
of door prizes throughout
the evening donated by area
business, such as The Cork on Saginaw, Luca's Chop House, The Laundry, and
Crust. Two special door prizes included a Kindle Fire, won by Dolores Sharpe, and
a piece of art donated by Arin Ross.
Arin Ross Auction in conjunction with Marlin Art were the vendors this year.
The evening was emceed by Bill Reich, president of the Friends.
Proceeds from the auction purchase books for the Peggy Brown CAN DO Collection, Retiree’s Collection, Baker & Taylor fiction and non-fiction lease collection among others, in addition to sponsoring speakers and supporting building
renovations.
To join the Friends of Mott Library contact Kathleen Goodrow at ext. 20408.
Public Safety and Lapeer Extension Center hosts
Halloween Safety Program
MCC Public Safety Office and the Lapeer Extension Center hosted a Halloween Safety Program Oct. 28, for 53 second graders from
Chatfield Charter School and Turrill Elementary School. The party was a joint initiative between the Lapeer Extension Center (LEC) and
the MCC Public Safety Office to host a community awareness event to promote Halloween Safety. Students viewed two age-appropriate
safety videos and were given Halloween safety tips by Public Safety officers. They were treated to a pizza lunch and given Halloween
goodie bags. The program was funded by donations from MCC Public Safety Office, Lapeer Extension Center, S&M Union Donation,
Meijers, and Walmart.
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Fine Arts Gallery
The Mott Community College Fine Arts Gallery in the Visual Arts
and Design Center will present an exhibition of work by Kalamazoo
area artist Nichole Maury titled Mixed Media Installation.
Her work will be in the gallery from Nov.24 through Dec. 9. In addition
Maury will give a Public Presentation about her work on Wednesday,
December 3, at 1 p.m. in the Visual Arts and Design Center, room 129.
These events are made possible in part by the Ballenger Trust. For the
exhibition, Maury presents mixed media work that is tied to a sense of
time and place as it suggests the act of mapping and recording.
News from the FABLAB
Sue Kellogg, president of Mello & Company, is one of the
innovators using the
FABLAB. The FABLAB team worked
with Kellogg to create
3D CAD files, 3D
printed parts and early
stage materials/manufacturing considerations
to produce a model of
the NAWGUM.
“The quality, professionalism of the students, and the
impressive lab are tools
my company continues
to use today,” said KelMCC graduate Justin Klimeck helped create
logg of working with
the CAD files for the NAWGUM
the FABLAB.
NAWGUM (patent pending) is an all-in-one teether for babies ages
zero to 24 months. It is designed to manage all areas of the mouth, and
all three stages of a baby’s oral development: gumming, front and side
teeth and back molars.
NAWGUM has won a number of awards including: 2014 Top
Choice of the Year Award by the 2014 Baby Maternity Awards Program
consisting of new moms and moms-to-be; FIRST PLACE for “Best New
Product” in Reader’s Favorite from Baby & Children’s Product News; a
2014 National Parenting Publications Award; winner of a 2014 Family
Choice Award!
Stay tuned for additional exciting products coming out of the Mott
FABLAB.
MCC Women’s Softball
Team Gives Back
The Mott Women’s
softball team completed
a “Community Service
Day” as part of a
fundraising project. All
19 members of the upcoming 2015 softball
team participated in at
least one Saturday outing, and many worked
on two consecutive
Saturdays, working in
groups of four to eight
people. The athletes worked for
Flint’s “Fight
against Blight”
project painting
and repairing
housing in the
city, packed food
for the Food
Bank of Eastern
Michigan,
passed out candy
and greeted children at Crossroad Village’s
Halloween celebration and painted a mural on a building on Saginaw Street.
Counseling & Student
Development on the road
Good Reads for Those
Long Winter Nights
Curl up with a good book from the Mott Library. There is something new at the Library every month! New titles available now include:
• The watchdog that didn't bark: the financial crisis and the
disappearance of investigative reporting
• The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap
• David and Goliath: underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling
giants
For the latest list of new titles, visit http://www.mcc.edu/library/annotations/lib_annotations.php
From left to right: Anne Gupton, Skip Downing and Tom Shannon.
Tom Shannon, Academic Support specialist, MaryAnn Newbill,
part-time counselor, and Anne Gupton, counselor participated in the On
Course Summit held at Jackson College Nov. 14. The facilitator was
Skip Downing, renown author of On Course, the text that CASD utilizes for the Survival Skills for College course at Mott.
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