CAMPUS NOTES
SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
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FACULTY/STAFF NEWSLETTER
January 11, 2013 • Volume 49, Number 17
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Special events planned for MLK
Day, Presidential inauguration
Both races wind through the beautiful and challenging bluffs and valleys surrounding the Saint
Mary’s campus. The cost to participate is $10 for
one race or $20 for both races.
Special events are planned for Monday, Jan. 21,
on campus in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Day and the Presidential inauguration. First,
the Inauguration Address will be played at 11
a.m. in Page Theatre.
Registration, the starting line and the finish line
will be near Saint Yon’s Hall, located on the
back east portion of campus.
At noon the MLK “I Have a Dream” speech will
be shown in Page Theatre. Following the
speech, Dr. Lori Charron (Theatre and Dance)
will address the rhetoric of the speech.
For more information, call Gary Borash at Ext.
8740 or e-mail gmbora05@smumn.edu. A registration form can be found online at www.saintmaryssports.com.
Following her presentation, the President’s
inauguration speech will be replayed.
SMU alum’s one-man show a
tribute to his grandfather
A Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and
Prayer service will begin at 8 p.m. in Salvi
Lecture Hall, hosted by Campus Ministry.
“The Accidental Hero,” a Czech-American
World War II true story, brought to life by a
Saint Mary’s alumnus, will be performed at 2
and 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at Page Theatre.
The film documentary “At the River I Stand,”
set in Memphis during 1960s about the events
leading up to MLK’s death, will run in Salvi,
beginning at 8:30 p.m. The offices of Residence
Life and Student Activities will sponsor the film
and provide light refreshments for the film.
The show’s creator and actor Patrick Dewane is
a 1985 graduate, and “The Accidental Hero” is
about his grandfather, Lt. Col. Matt Konop, a
World War II veteran who never openly shared
stories from his time in the service. When
Konop died, the family discovered typewritten
accounts, photos and rare film footage that told
an astonishing story.
All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to
attend.
SMU 10K ski races scheduled
for Jan. 27, Feb. 17
Based on this information, Dewane created a
one-man, multimedia show that offers a captivating, humorous and heartwarming tale of
coincidences and heroism. The performance
includes World War II film footage, shot with a
home movie camera of the liberation of a Czech
town.
This year SMU 10K cross-country ski races will
be held on Sundays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 17, at Saint
Mary’s University.
The public is invited to classic-style citizens’ ski
events at 10 a.m.; skate races will begin at 1 p.m.
Participants can register in competitive or recreational classes.
Dewane has performed “The Accidental Hero”
throughout the United States and in the Czech
Republic. His webcast performance of it from
Rochester, N.Y., on July 4, 2011 was seen by
more than 18,000 people worldwide. Dewane’s
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MCA announces
winter programming
career in the arts began in 1985 when he moved
from Winona to New York City. His career on
the management side of the arts includes work
with Luciano Pavarotti, the Dance Theatre of
Harlem, the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next
Wave Festival and Minnesota Opera.
The new Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts
Winter Semester II Catalog is now available.
Registrations are being accepted. Offerings run
from Jan. 14 to March 23 and include:
This performance makes good on a promise
made in March 1981. Dr. Donald Peake, then
chairman of Saint Mary’s theatre program, told
Dewane (then a visiting high school senior)
that if he enrolled at Saint Mary’s he would get
to act on the stage of its new theatre. However,
because of delays, the theatre opened two
years after Dewane graduated. So this performance brings Peake’s prophesy to fruition.
When Dr. Peake was told this story last spring,
he responded with a hearty Irish laugh. Dr.
Peake had read the first draft of “The
Accidental Hero” a few years prior and was an
early champion of the piece. Dr. Peake passed
away last summer. “This performance is dedicated to his memory and the countless lives he
enriched with his dedication and great wit,”
Dewane said. “He was loved by many.”
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Architecture for Kids (new) for youth
in grades 1-3 and 4-6.
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Creative Drama and Visual Art, and
Creative Music and Movement (new) for children ages 3 to 5. Enroll your child in these
classes and take Nia and Mindfulness classes at
the same time for only $10. Pay-as-you-go
options are available.
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Jazz Combos (new) with well-known
Winona director Dave Gudmastad. Three
options are available.
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Dance Technique for Boys for male
students, ages 8-12. This $10 class focuses on
the development of dance technique used in
classical and contemporary disciplines in addition to increasing flexibility, range of motion,
physical strength and stamina.
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Advanced Ballet packages (new) for
individuals serious about ballet training.
Additional classes have been added.
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Theatre Division classes (new) for students in grades 4-6, and grades 7 and up.
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Adult Wellness classes — including
Mindfulness (new), Nia, Dance Conditioning,
Clogging, Ballet, and Tap and Jazz. Parents
who have a child enrolled in an MCA class can
take an Adult Wellness class for $10. Pay-asyou-go options are available for Nia and
Mindfulness.
The special 2 p.m. matinee has been added to
accommodate seniors and those who prefer to
not travel in the evening.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $5 for students and
seniors and are available at the SMU Box
Office, Ext. 1715 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays or online at www.pagetheatre.org.
A related Page in History event, “Military
Genealogy: Finding Accidental Heroes” — is
planned for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the
Winona County History Center, 160 Johnson
St.
Class days, times, and tuition vary. Financial
need-based scholarships are available. For a
brochure and a complete listing, visit
www.mnconservatoryforthearts.org, e-mail
mca@smumn.edu, “like” the MCA on
Facebook, or call 453-5500. Interested students
may register online, by mail, or in person at
MCA’s Valéncia Arts Center.
Family history researcher Sandy Mochal
Thalmann will teach attendees how to search
their families’ military service history using the
latest research tools. This event is free and open
to the public.
Special thanks to the Winona County
Historical Society and the Winona Foundation
for supporting this event and Winona National
Bank for providing major support for the performances.
The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts offers
programming in dance, music, visual art, and
theatre, year-round. Classes, lessons, workshops, and camps are offered for ages 3 to adult
at the Valéncia Arts Center located at 1164
West 10th St.
Auditions approach for Fireside
MCA announces 2013 DRC
spring concert auditions
Auditions for the Fireside student music show
are Jan. 25-26. Shows are Feb. 8-9. Sign up outside the Phi Mu Alpha room in the basement of
Toner Student Center.
Auditions for the Dance Repertory Company
of the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts will
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be Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. at the Valéncia
Arts Center, 1164 W. 10th St.
auditorium. Opening for the group will be the
Century High School Jazz Ensemble. The
school is located at 2525 Viola Road Northeast,
Rochester, and tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for seniors and students. Tickets
will be available at the door. Also included in
the JP Sextet is pianist Larry Price.
The DRC will present its annual Spring Dance
Concert April 25-27 at Page Theatre. Roles for
male and female intermediate and advanced
dancers in rhythm, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern,
and classical/contemporary ballet and pointe
are available for age 12 through adults.
Younger students can participate by invitation
only. Students under the age of 21 who are cast
are required to be enrolled in at least one dance
class at MCA, Saint Mary’s, or Winona State. A
$75 performance fee is required.
Swing Inc. performs 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday at
Signature’s Restaurant, County Road 17,
Winona.
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“Campus Notes” is published for the faculty
and staff of Saint Mary’s University by the
Office of Marketing & Communication.
This spring’s production will be a collaborative
process, the focus being the incorporation of
the visual and performing arts into all aspects
of choreography.
Deadline for news items for Friday publication is noon Wednesday. The newsletter’s
office is Room 45 Heffron, Winona campus.
For more information, contact MCA director of
dance
Tammy
Schmidt
at
tschmidt@smumn.edu or call 453-5500.
On-campus phone: Ext. 1497. Off-campus
phone: 507-457-1497. E-mail:
dnahrgan@smumn.edu.
Truax exhibiting
in three shows
Editor: Deb Nahrgang
The artwork of Lisa Truax (Art and Design
Department) is currently being exhibited in
two group exhibitions and one solo exhibition.
The solo exhibition, titled “Subsumed
Remnants,” at the University of Wisconsin
Parkside in Kenosha, is being held in the Fine
Art Galleries, and runs Jan. 22 through
March 7. The opening is Feb. 14 from 4 to 6
p.m.
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Terrace Heights #36, Winona, MN 55987-1399.
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Her work is also part of two group exhibitions,
the Orton Cone Box Show, which is an international juried traveling show that will be at
NCECA (the National Conference for
Education in Ceramic Art) in Houston, Texas,
starting on March 19. The specific NCECA
exhibition venue is to be announced. The first
location of the Cone Box Show exhibit was at
Sept. 14 through Oct. 31 at the Lawrence,
Kansas Art Center.
The second group show, “Two by Two, an
international juried show, is at Eastern
Washington University from Jan. 24 through
March 14 at the EWU Gallery of Art.
Jazz notes
Century High School will host the John
Paulson Jazz Sextet for a special evening concert Thursday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in their
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