NorWester - Fall 2012

7/30/2019 NorWester - Fall 2012

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Annual Campaign ...................

New degree added .................

Faculty honored .....................

Plan ahead calendar ..............

A Publication

Alumni & Frien

of Northweste

Michigan Colle

Fall 2012

The Golden Dragon Acrobats return

to Milliken Auditorium Oct. 12. See p. 4.

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is the season when

numbers run amuck.

As the 2012 presidential

election enters its homestretch,

statistics on a constellation o

issues are to be ound all over

radio, V, online, and on your

voice mail.

We know youre tired. Youre

weary. Youre yearning to breathe

spin-ree air on Nov. 7. In the

meantime, we say i you cant

beat em, join em. But with

something lighter. Something

surprising. Something you

havent heard beore. Something

that, dare we say, inorms you.We went looking or statistics

about NMC that would do just

that. o the right is what we

ound.

I the whole is greater than the

sum o its parts, as Aristotle said,

then what does this portrait o

NMC add up to? A dynamic

environment thats constantlyevolving to better serve students

and community, whoever gets

elected.

P.S. Political junkies, ip to p. 7

and the back cover to see politi-

cal snapshots at NMC through

the years. No audio. Promise.


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Timothy J. Nelson

NMCs Annual Campaign or Scholarshipsand Programs gets underway this month. Pleasejoin these generous people and organizations whohave stepped orward as matching donors or the2012-13 campaign. Gits, as always, maybe designated toward any specic NMCprogram or scholarship.

Tey have provided unds that willmatch two kinds o gits dollar or dollar:

Allgiftsfromnewdonors

Increasesingiftsfromcurrentdonors

Whether you make your rst git or increaseyour giving rom last year, youll doubleyour impact.

X Save time; give online! www.nmc.edu/give

or use the enclosed remittance envelope.

American Waste

H. Cox & Son

Fith Third Bank

Ford Insurance Agency

Huntington Bank

Jordan Exploration

NMC Foundation Board

NMC Retirees

TBA Credit Union

Utopia Foundation

The Art & Mary Schmuc

Family Foundation

Noverr Family

WTCM/WCCW

Make a difference for an NMC studenThe NorWester is published by the NMCOfce o Public Relations and Marketing.

Alumni news and updates may be submitted

online at www.nmc.edu/alumni or by

e-mailing [email protected]

For correspondence and address updates:

1701 E. Front Street

Traverse City, MI 49686

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Editor: Andy Dolan

Writer: Cari Noga

NMC Board o Trustees

Robert T. Brick, Chair

William D. Myers, Vice-Chair

Douglas S. Bishop, Secretary

Susan K. Sheldon, Treasurer

K. Ross Childs

Cheryl Gore Follette

Walter J. Hooper

NMC President

Timothy J. Nelson

Printed with bio-renewable ink.

Preparing our learners to createeconomic and social wealth

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From the President

At NMC, we havecharged ourselveswith providing ourlearners with theskills and experiencesthey need to create

economic and socialwealth in their lie-time. Tose needs areconstantly evolving,

as are the learners themselves. How do wekeep up? By re-organizing and re-deploy-ing NMCs greatest resource our acultyand sta. Tis all weve established a newOfce o Outreach Services to serve learn-ers in three emerging and critical areas:

High school services Early College,

an ever-growing concept that aordsacademically-capable high school studentsthe opportunity to begin taking collegecourses in high school. Ater their senioryear, they then spend a 13th year oncampus at NMC, taking the nal coursestowards their associate degree. OutreachServices will ensure that these studentsreceive the highest possible level osupport to make Early College a well-rounded and valuable experience.

Military services More and more vetans o our armed orces are returning rduty and ready to take on their next chlenge. NMC is here to help them exploall o their options. We are increasing oveterans services and working to build

partnerships and relationships to suppothem as they start their next career.

International services We are educating students who are going to work andlive in an increasingly globalized societyand it is important that their experiencat NMC lay the groundwork or them be successul. We must integrate globalization into our courses to provide everstudent with an international experiencTat experience could be studying abro

studying with students who have comeNMC rom around the world, or in-destudy o the intercultural aspects o ourcourses. Te global economy and societis made up o thousands o cultures, anis imperative that we provide our learn-ers with a oundation to create a broadeunderstanding o the world we live in.

Let me know what you think [email protected].

Find and friend NMC

You can fnd NMC, the DennosMuseum Center, Great Lakes

Maritime Academy, WNMC

radio, student groups and

more on Facebook and Twitter.
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3/8

Campus briefsVanderKolk appointed to

state nursing board

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Mary VanderKolk

A ast-track degree in audio technology is

now available to NMC students.

Started this all, the new associate oapplied science degree is oered as an18-month program completed over ourconsecutive semesters, including summer.Some two dozen new classes have beenadded to previous a la carte course oer-ings to create a comprehensive programthat will train students to be studio engi-neers, recording engineers, composers andmore, said NMC music program director

Je Cobb.

Te industry has really changed. Its gonerom an old model o several big corpora-tions creating all the music to musicianscreating, recording and producing musicin their own project studio. You donthave to live in LA or New York anymore.Te technology allows you to do it all inyour home studio. Were going to be cre-ating a new niche in the audio technologytraining market, Cobb said.

Classes are held at NMCs University

Center campus. Students will also gethands-on experience in NMCs Mil-liken Auditorium, running and recordingsound or the venues wide range o liveevents, rom jazz concerts to lectures.

Cobb added that students will also takeclasses rom the music major curriculum.Along with the new degree, NMC isbringing back the second year o musicmajor courses, which had been on hiatus.

Our students are going to be musiciansand technically savvy, he said. Teyregetting a oundation in music, true musictraining, on top o all that technologytraining.

In addition to the degree, three levels ocertication are oered. Students will alsohave the opportunity to earn platorm-specic certication rom industry leaderslike Apple.

XVisit www.nmc.edu/music

or more inormation.

Audio Techology degree available
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In Milliken Auditorium:New sound system

In September, a new, state-o-the art

sound system, made possible with a grantrom Rotary Charities and a major gitrom Richard and Diana Milock, wasinstalled in Milliken Auditorium. Tissystem was designed to integrate with andsupport NMCs new Audio echnologyprogram (see p. 3.) We thank our donors,and we know you will too, when you hearthe dierence.

Te concert series includes the returno audience avorites as well many

exciting new perormers.

Oct. 6 - Bob Seeley and Bob Baldori

Prepare or an amazing, two piano bluesconcert. Bob Seeley is considered one othe greatest living boogie-woogie pianoplayers with a distinguished solo career.

Boogie Bob Baldori has been a mainstayin the music world since the 1960s,playing harmonica and piano withChuck Berry or more than 40 years.

Oct. 12 - The Golden Dragon Acrobats

Back or an encore perormance, theGolden Dragon Acrobats represent the besto a time-honored Chinese tradition thatbegan more than 2,000years ago. Directrom Hebei, China, their amazing artistry,beautiul costumes and props provide a

visual east or the entire amily to enjoy.

In The Dennos galleries:

Nov. 3 - Nora Jean

Said to have the voice o Koko aylorand declared by some to be the nextQueen o the Blues, Elnora Jean (BruWallace was born and raised in Green-wood, Mississippi, a town amous orproducing blues and gospel greats. Herather was Bobby Lee Wallace, a bluessinger and sharecropper; her mother wIda Lee Wallace, a gospel singer. Withthat heritage, Nora Jean Wallace was bto sing the blues.

Miao Xiaochun

Beijing-based multidisciplinary artist Miao Xiaochun expands the boundaries o phtography into the realm o new media. His most recent work involves the developmo paintings rom Western art history into computer models that are then projected digital videos. Tese works are expanded rom their two-dimensional origins into a virtual space complete with enhanced depth and volume. Trough Feb. 10, 2013.

Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered Reality, Sixty Years with Marshall M. Frederi

Small sculptures and related drawings and sketches showcase the creative process oFredericks, who spent his career as designer and sculptor in Michigan.

Organized rom the collections o the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum atSaginaw Valley State University, Fredericks creative mind is on display as he trans-orms two-dimensional ideas on paper into three-dimensional sculptures. While mao the drawings in this exhibition resemble the nal sculpture they would become,others only hint at elements o their outcome or point to a dierent outcome entirelTrough Jan. 6, 2013.

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Business, Maritime instructors named 2012 FacultyExcellence winners

Business instructor Kristy McDonaldis NMCs 2012 Imogene Wise FacultyExcellence Award winner. Maritimeinstructor John Biolchini is the 2012 Ad-junct Faculty Excellence Award winner.

Chosen by a student selection committee,award criteria includes teaching excel-lence, rapport with students, innovationin the classroom and a sense o dedica-tion. Both awards were made at the 2012Commencement ceremony in May.

McDonald began working in NMCsCareer Services ofce in 2006 and movedto the aculty in 2011. Biolchini joinedthe Maritime program in 2007.

In nominating McDonald, students said:

Her class is truly the highlight omy week.

Tis instructor deserves recognition orthe way students are encouraged to stepout o their comort zone to help them

reach their ull potential. I am so glad thatI had this experience because I let thatclass a changed person.

McDonald said she was particularlygratied by comments like the latter.

It takes it outside o the academic lens,

she said. We do more than that at NMC.We touch peoples lives in so many wayswe dont even know it.

In nominating Biolchini, students said:Captain John Biolchini has over 30 years

o sailing experience, and his expertise hbeen so evident during the two years Ihave been attending the Academy.

Captain Biolchinis teaching style inphenomenal. His integration o persona

sailing exploits, practical lessons on rivernavigation, and a thorough instruction otextbook seamanship makes his class oneo the most important and inuential inhis students academic careers at NMC.

Tis award is really their award,Biolchini said o the Maritime cadets.Te students have to give you theopportunity to teach at your peak.

Te Imogene Wise Faculty ExcellenceAward was initiated by a contribution

rom longtime NMC beneactors Har-old and Imogene Wise in 1970 and rstawarded to a ull-time aculty memberin 1971. Te NMC Adjunct FacultyExcellence Award was created as acompanion in 1999.

Retired nursing instructor receives colleges highest honor

Hettie Molvang, a

nursing instructorrom 1974 to 1994,has been named the2012 recipient o theNMC Fellow award,the colleges highesthonor.

As a teacher,Molvang believedshe had a broader duty to students thanoverseeing their academic perormance.o that end, she went so ar as to makepersonal loans so struggling studentscould continue their education. As abirthday git, her late husband, EricMolvang, established an endowedscholarship in her name.

Established in 1989, more than 40students have been helped by the Eric& Hettie Molvang Endowed Scholar-ship, awarded to nursing and maritimestudents. She was also named NMCsImogene Wise Faculty Excellence award

recipient in 1986, only the second emale

aculty member to be chosen or thedistinction.

Now a retiree, Molvang has been instru-mental in helping NMC remain con-nected to other retirees through NMCsAnnual Campaign. Her support alsoincludes the Dennos Museum Center,where she retains an active membership,Commitment scholarships and the NMCScholarship Open gol outing.

Beyond NMC, Molvang is active in the

community. In 2011 she was namedDistinguished Senior Citizen o the year

by the National Cherry Festival or her

advocacy or people with Parkinsonsdisease, especially veterans. She is as aboard member and acilitator o theGrand raverse Area Parkinsons SupporGroup and assistant state director orParkinsons Action Network, the politicavoice or all Parkinsons associations.

NMC has named Fellows each year sinc1964 as a way o recognizing and thanking those individuals who have madespecial contributions to the college.

XWatch a video o Molvang sharing her NM

story at www.nmc.edu/mystory.

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CommunityandContinuingEducation

Short classes AugustthroughDecember

Community andContinuing Education

NMC is your center or proessional and personaldevelopment. New, short ormat courses begineach week all year long.

X See the schedule at www.nmc.edu/ees

or call (231) 995-1700.
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6/8

Campus briefsCleaner, renewable marine fuel

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7/8

From the archives:Politicianspln o olcns so

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Team members: (ront row, let to right) Gary Gladman, Mark Hopkins, Greg Ingles, Bart Stupa

Sam Wright, Bruce McGhan, Al Davis. (back row, let to right) Coach Bob Inglis, Don Gundy,

Charlie Meach, Werner Koehler, Mike Mezzano, Al Nutter, Jon Wyko.

Plan ahead

October 4

Community Cinema - As Goes Janesville

Co-sonsor wCMu plc tlson.

7 .m., Mllkn aorm.r, onon frs trs o mon.

lm smmrs: www.dennosmuseum.org

October 5

Great Lakes ~ Great Ches dinnerLolls tcn RsrnRsrons: (231) 995-3120

October 5, 20

Public Viewing Nights

8-10 .m., Rors OsrorSs onon $2/rson, $5/ml

r s: www.nmc.edu/rogersobservatory

October 18

International Aairs Forum

Can the U.S. Help Prevent Europe from Collapse?

6 .m., Mllkn aorm.tcks $10, cll (231) 995-1700Coml 2012-13 skr scl:www.nmc.edu/ees

October 26

NMC Community Band presents

An Evening with Gershwin

8 .m., Mllkn aorm

tcks: (231) 995-1553,www.dennosmuseum.org

November 9

Mariners Memorial

Noon, gr Lks Mrm acm corrwww.nmc.edu/maritime

November 15

International Aairs Forum

One Michigander Making a World of Difference

in Southern Africa: Dr. Terrie Taylor6 .m., Mllkn aorm.

tcks $10, cll (231) 995-1700Coml 2012-13 skr scl:

www.nmc.edu/ees

November 30

NMC Community Band holiday concert

8 .m., Mllkn aormtcks: (231) 995-1553,www.dennosmuseum.org

December 1

NMC Childrens Choir holiday concert

2 .m., Lrs hocks aorm(Cnrl gr Scool)www.dennosmuseum.org

XVisit www.nmc.edu/news or

more events and details.

X Follow NMC on Twitter to fnd ree events

on campus: http://twitter.com/NMCfree
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arcs: [email protected], (231) 995-1016.

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Michigan.

X For more political photos rom

the archives, turn to page 7.

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