MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CONNECTION
AUGUST 2011
MCC
FACULTY
& STAFF
NEWSLETTER
WHAT’S
INSIDE
AROUND CAMPUS
MCC BASEBALL
FIELD NAMED FOR
ERNIE MYERS
HEALTH SERVICES
CENTER
ANNOUNCES HOURS
MCC Board of Trustees Re-elects
Lenore Croudy as Chair, Welcomes
Trustee Michael Freeman
Lenore Croudy was re-elected as Chair
of the Mott Community College Board of
Trustees in a unanimous vote at the trustees'
organizational meeting on July 13, 2011.
Croudy, who begins her fifth term serving on
the MCC Board of Trustees, is the longest
serving chairperson in MCC's history. First
elected in 1995, she is also the trustee with
the longest tenure on the Board. All other officers were re-elected, including Dr. John L.
Snell Jr., D.V.M. as Vice Chairman; Sally
Shaheen Joseph, J.D. as Secretary and Albert
J. Koegel as treasurer.
In addition, Michael Freeman was sworn
in as MCC's newest trustee. Returning trustees
Newly elected MCC Board of Trustee
Lenore Croudy and Pam Faris, re-elected to
Michael Freeman is sworn in.
the MCC Board in the May school election,
were also sworn in for new terms. The trustees will serve six-year terms.
The Board of Trustees generally holds meetings on the fourth Monday of each month, with exceptions for holidays. Meetings are open to the
public and held in Room 1301 of the MCC Regional Technology Center, unless otherwise
noted. For more information, contact Michael
Simon, Manager, Office of the President and
Board of Trustees at (810) 762-0453.
HISPANIC
TECHNOLOGY AND
COMMUNITY
CENTER RECEIVES
DONATIONS FROM
COMMUNITY
Re-elected MCC Board of Trustees Chair
Lenore Croudy with her son is sworn in.
QUOTE OF
THE M ONTH
"An investment in knowledge pays
the best interest."
--Benjamin Franklin
Re-elected MCC Board of Trustee
Pam Faris is sworn in by Judge Duncan Beagle.
Around Campus
Lori Hancock, Senior Institutional Research Analyst - Planning,
Research, and Quality, (and incoming Director of Institutional Research), has been awarded a Presidential Scholarship to the Data and
Decisions Academy through the Association of Institutional Research.
She was nominated by President Shaink for the competitive scholarship and will complete two courses in advanced Institutional Research: Learning Outcomes and Survey Design. "This is quite an
honor for Lori," said Steve Robinson, Executive Dean-Planning, Research and Quality, Lori's supervisor. "The Data and Decisions Academy will give her a strong start in her tenure as IR Director."
Dental Hygiene faculty members, Rita Fondren, Mary Nicolai,
Margaret Pobocik, and Jennifer Walker attended the Carolina Institute for Dental Radiology Educators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 16-19. Faculty attendees were introduced
to an overview of digital imaging including Phosphor Plate Receptors
along with Cone Beam Imaging and Scanning Techniques. The Institute provided a wealth of information on Dental Radiographic Evaluation, Interpretation, and Faculty Grading/Calibration. Topics of New
Horizons in Dental Radiography were presented. Attendees will provide an MCC faculty in-service to ensure consistency for teaching radiographic techniques and calibration for dental hygiene student
evaluation.
New employee: Suzanne Stevens, Office Assistant II - Health
Sciences/Dental Programs, Health Sciences; start date: Aug. 22, 2011.
Welcome, Suzanne, to the MCC family!
Out & About
Jim Drummond and Kathleen Goodrow, Kathy Irwin and
Senator John Gleason at the MCC Library grand reopening.
2011 retirees Louvella Miller, Gail Ives, Paul Rozycki, Tom Healey,
Bob Loth, Lynn Thigpen, Dennis McKenzie and Gail Knapp, seated.
Ballenger Lecture Series to Feature Acclaimed
Artist Patti Smith, Oct. 13
Patti Smith, singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, will keynote the Mott
Community College Ballenger Eminent Persons Lecture Series, set for Thursday,
Oct. 13, 2011 from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Ballenger Field House. This event is free and
open to the public.
Born in Chicago and raised in Southern New Jersey, Smith gravitated toward
the arts and human rights issues at an early age. She studied at Glassboro State
Teachers College, migrating to New York City in 1967, where she teamed up with
then fellow art student Robert Mapplethorpe, both of them pursuing painting and
drawing and her poetry. In February 1971, Smith performed her first public reading
at St. Mark's Church on the lower eastside, accompanied by Lenny Kaye on guitar.
In April of the same year she co-wrote and performed the play Cowboy Mouth with
playwright Sam Shepard. Continuing to write and perform her poetry, in 1974 Smith
and Lenny Kaye added Richard Sohl on piano. Smith described their work as "three
chords merged with the power of the word." Smith was signed by Clive Davis to the
Arista label and recorded four albums: Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter which included her top 20 hit Because the Night co-written with Bruce Springsteen, and
Patti Smith
Wave, produced by Todd Rundgren.
She is the author of Witt, Babel, Wool Gathering, The Coral Sea, and Complete, a catalog of lyrics, photographs, illustrations, original artwork and reflections. A volume of poetry, Auguries of Innocence, was published in 2005. Patti Smith's drawings have been exhibited at the
Robert Miller Gallery in New York, the Museum Eki in Kyoto, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In
September 2002, Strange Messenger, an exhibition of drawings, newly created silk screens of images depicting the remains of the World Trade
Center September 11, 2001 (9/11), and black-and-white Polaroid photographs printed in silver gelatin process, opened at the Warhol Museum in
Pittsburgh.
In 2003, Patti Smith was the recipient of the Torino Poetry Award, as well as the Premio Tenco Award in Italy and in 1975 was awarded the
Academie Charles Cros, Grand Pris du Disque Award in France for the recording of Horses. Patti also received the prestigious Women of Valor
Award at the ROCKRGRL Music Conference in 2005 – exactly 30 years to the day since Horse's release. The 30th anniversary re-issue of
Horses, entitled Horses/Horses was released in Fall 2005, and was heralded as one of the most poignant reissues in the recording industry. On
March 12, 2007 Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smith continues her writing and art projects and touring with her
band.
MCC Baseball Field
Named For Ernie Myers
One of the key
figures in the rich
sports tradition at
Mott Community
College is former
Athletic Director
and Coach Ernie
Myers.
MCC paid tribute to
Myers with a dedication
ceremony at the colErnie Myers
lege baseball field
located at the northeast corner of Flint's Kearsley Park with the ball field
formally named the Ernie Myers Baseball Field in a ceremony held on
Friday, July 22. The list of Myers' accomplishments is impressive. As
MCC basketball coach in the 1960's, Ernie Myers fashioned a program
that won 11 Conference Championships, three Region XII Championships, and three Top Ten finishes in the NJCAA National Championship tournaments. He wound up being named to the incoming National
Junior College Athletic Association Hall of Fame as well as the Greater
Flint Athletic Hall of Fame. Myers started the all-senior baseball game in
the late 1960s as a way to monitor, and ultimately keep, homegrown talent in Flint and was pivotal in creating the successful Kearsley Park Project that has revitalized that large park in the heart of Flint.
Health Services Center
Announces Hours
Nurse practitioners will be available to perform physical examinations in Health Services by appointment. Physicals are $25. Visitors
to the Center should pay the cashier, and bring a receipt to the clinic,
located at CM 1146. Healthcare counseling with the nurse practitioners will also be available by appointment. There is no charge for this
service. If you need to see a nurse practitioner, please call in advance.
However, nurses on staff will accept walk-ins if no one else is scheduled. Russell Bush, MD, MPH is the Medical Director. Nurse Practitioners are MCC Nursing faculty members Pat Ward and Lynn Zink.
The schedule for the Nurse Practitioners follows:
Monday August 1, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, August 3, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Monday, August 8, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, August 10, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Monday, August 15, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, August 17, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Monday, August 22, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, August 24, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Monday, August 29, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, August 31, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Additional dates may be added later.
TB Tests, Tetanus, Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccinations are
available from 8 am to 4:30 pm most days by appointment. TB Tests
are $10, Tetanus and MMR vaccinations are $50. Please pay at the
cashier's office and bring the receipt to CM-1146. For more
information, call Lt. Michael Becker, Paramedic and Public Safety
Health Services Coordinator at 762-0541.
Hispanic Technology &
Community Center
-Receives Donations From
Community
When Eduardo Zimmermann, Site Coordinator for the Hispanic Technology & Community Center gave a recent routine tour of the center to two
officials from a local foundation, he might have expected a simple "thankyou" for his time. Highlighting the center's GED program offerings, the computer lab, its urban garden, interpreter and translation services, Zimmermann's
tour must have impressed the visitors, as the center received a check in the
mail for $7,000 less than two weeks after their visit. Officials with the foundation wish to keep the donation anonymous.
"The officials praised the work being done at the center and wanted to do
their part in seeing that we continue to offer services to the residents of the
east side of Flint," said Carlos Cisneros, Community Outreach Coordinator of
the Workforce & Career Development at Mott Community College, who
serves on the executive board of the center. "The funds will be used to help
run the center and potentially expand offerings."
Prior to this most recent donation, Norwood Jewell, Director, and Steve
Dawes, Assistant Director of the UAW Region 1C, presented the Center with
a check for $2,500. The funds are being used to help improve facilities and
further expand offerings.
The American GI Forum of Flint/Hispanic Technology and Community
Center, a community-based organization providing programs and services
that meet the needs of Flint's most underserved neighborhoods, is a 501c3
nonprofit organization which partnered with Mott Community College to
open the center, a former Citizens Bank Branch, in 2002. Located at 2101
Lewis Street in Flint, the center has continually expanded to meet the needs of
the community by offering:
• GED Instruction through MCC's Workforce Development Department
• Free Income Tax Preparation to low to moderate-income families using
IRS software.
• Free Internet access with 15 computers in operation
• English as a second language and Spanish as a second language classes
offered weekly
• Translation/Interpretation and Notary Public services
For more information, visit www.htcc.us or call Site Coordinator Eduardo Zimmermann at 424-3760.
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AUGUST 2011
Monday
Tuesday
1
Wednesday Thursday
2
3
4
Bob Milne Lecture
Musical Performance
1:00-3:00 p.m.
MMB 1130
8
15
22
9
Student Employees Orientation
12:45 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
2:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
PCC 1230
16
10
17
23
24
30
31
Board of Trustees Meeting
7:30 pm • RTC 1301
29
Nursing 101, Fall 2011
Orientation
8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
CM 1211
11
Sierra Club Meeting
6:00-9:00 pm
Genesee Room
Friday
Saturday
5
Sunday
6
7
13
14
20
21
27
28
GSA Club Meeting
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Genesee Room
12
GSA Club Meeting
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Genesee Room
18
Neighborhood
Watch Meeting
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
RTC 1301
25
19
GSA Club Meeting
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Genesee Room
26
Michigan FIRST
Lego Meeting
8:00 am-5:00 pm
Gorman
For more calendar items visit
www.events.mcc.edu