Inside Gustavus October 22, 2009 | Volume 42, Number 8

News & Announcements

Encourage Students to Apply for Scholarship... Applications are now available for the Patricia Lindell Scholarship. The scholarship, established through the generosity of Gustavus Library Associates, awards a junior or senior student $1,200 to undertake a research project for the Gustavus library. This year's project focuses on how undergraduates utilize space in academic libraries. During spring semester 2010, the recipient of the scholarship will work with Assistant Professor Julie Gilbert to design and execute an ethnographic study exploring the use of space in our library; the study will ultimately provide insight into the ways the library can better meet the needs of Gustavus students. To apply, pick up an application at the library circulation desk and complete by Nov. 9. Questions? Contact Julie Gilbert at jgilber2@gustavus.edu or x7552.

Tuition Benefits Explained... Kirk Carlson (financial aid) and Richard Aune (admission) will present information about admission, tuition benefit, and tuition exchange options Friday, Oct. 23, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Board Room. All employees with current high school juniors or seniors are encouraged to attend. Contact Kirk Carlson (x6362 or kcarlson@gustavus.edu) if you have questions.

Administrators' Meeting... As part of the administration's efforts to encourage open communication across the campus, a meeting for all administrators is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 29, 3-4 p.m., in the Three Crowns Room. This session will provide an opportunity for President Ohle to give an update on the state of the College and time for interaction and sharing ideas.

Gustavus After Hours... On Monday, Nov. 30, at 5 p.m. in the atrium area of the Nobel Hall of Science, employees are invited to visit with President Ohle over refreshments at the close of the workday. This will be a casual social gathering. All are encouraged to come and enjoy one another's company. 

Faculty Luncheon with the President... President Ohle is pleased to invite faculty members to join him for a luncheon forum this fall. This event will provide an opportunity for interaction and a time for sharing ideas. The luncheon will be held on Friday, Nov. 13, at 11:30 a.m. in the Presidents Dining Room. RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 11, to the President's Office by calling Pat Leagjeld at x7538 or e-mailing her at pleagjel@gustavus.edu.

Campus Happenings

Chapel Schedule... All are invited to the worship services at 10 a.m. weekdays and 10:30 a.m. Sundays in Christ Chapel. The upcoming schedule is as follows.

• Friday, Oct. 23 - Interreligious Observance: Florence Amamoto (English)
  
• Sunday, Oct. 25 - NO SERVICE, Reading Break
• Monday, Oct. 26 - NO CHAPEL, Reading Break
• Tuesday, Oct. 27 - NO CHAPEL, Reading Break
• Wednesday, Oct. 28 - Morning Praise
• Thursday, Oct. 29 - GACAC Service Award: Susan Alexis '71
• Friday, Oct. 30 - Founders Day: Mark Anderson (admission & fin. aid), homilist; President Ohle, awards presentation

Classics Lecture Tonight... Barbara Weiden Boyd, Ph.D., Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College, will lecture on "Example and Imitation: Shared Identity and Living Tradition in Augustan Rome" tonight (Thursday, Oct. 22), 7-8 p.m. in Confer 127. Her visit is sponsored by the Department of Classics. Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Welcome Mexican Delegation... International guests from Petatlán, Mexico, are in St. Peter exploring a sister-city relationship and will make a presentation of their community for Gustavus faculty, staff, and students. Hear their impressions of St. Peter. Hear impressions of Petatlán from St. Peter community members who visited there earlier this month. The presentation takes place tonight (Thursday, Oct. 22) in the Interpretive Center from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Come and enjoy appetizers and beverages and entertainment by the Flood Plains Four or More! Follow the Sister City Blog at gustavus.edu/go/sistercity. Then, on Sunday, Oct. 25, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Senior Center of the St. Peter Community Center, there will be a joint public presentation by the Petatlán delegation and the delegation from St. Peter that recently went to Petatlán. Come hear about the recently matched sister cities and how they plan to maintain their relationship. Light refreshments will be provided.

Service Award to be Presented... The Gustavus Adolphus College Association of Congregations will present its 2009 Service Award to Susan Alexis '71 during chapel services on Thursday, Oct. 29. for the past 13 years, Alexis has provided interpreting services for the interdenominational Volunteers in Medical Missions (VIMM) in Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, and Guatemala.

Trio of Plays Opens Theatre Season... The Department of Theatre and Dance opens its 2009-10 Anderson Theatre season with a trio of short but spellbinding plays: Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and Seven Jewish Children, and Deb Margolin’s Seven Palestinian Children. Performances of the plays, which are directed by Amy Seham (theatre & dance), will be held Oct. 30 and 31 and No. 5 and 6 at 8 p.m., with matinee performances on Nov. 1 and 7 at 2 p.m. Far Away is a comical, bizarre, and lively play with an intriguingly serious undertone. Churchill uses a child’s nightmare, an office romance, and a parade of designer hats to challenge us to look more closely at our own actions. Seven Jewish Children was written by Churchill in response to the Israeli incursions into Gaza in 2008-2009. In seven scenes, adult characters urgently discuss how to teach Jewish children (who are never seen on stage) about important events and violence in Jewish history. Since it opened at London’s Royal Court in January 2009, this 10-minute play has been so controversial that many other plays have since been written in response. One of these is Seven Palestinian Children, written by respected American playwright Deb Margolin in a similar format, which gives a fascinating account from a different perspective in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Gustavus's social justice theatre class will be performing in Seven Jewish Children with faculty members Mary Gaebler (religion) and Laurent Déchery (MLLC), while Seven Palestinian Children will be performed by seven female Gustavus students. Because of the provocative nature of the plays, talk-back sessions will be held after every performance with the director and cast, led by members of the Curriculum II theatre arts course in dramaturgy. Tickets are available through the Gustavus Ticket Center (507-933-7590) at $7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens, with Gustavus students and staff able to obtain a ticket free of charge. Tickets not purchased in advance may be purchased at the Anderson Theatre Box Office beginning one hour prior to curtain. **NOTE: Ticket prices refer to Far Away only. In accordance with requirements set by playwrights Churchill and Margolin, admission to the two "children" plays is FREE. These plays will begin after a break approximately one hour after Far Away begins. Donations are requested to Medical Aid for Palestinians and to the One Israel Fund. 

Classroom Technology Is Topic of Next Faculty Shop Talk... Daniel Moos (education) will present the next Faculty Shop Talk of the 2009-10 academic year. His talk, titled "Technology in the Classroom: Frustration Meets Theory," will be presented on Friday, Oct. 30, at 4:30 p.m. in the Interpretive Center. Feel free to arrive any time after 4:15 p.m. The abstract for this and future talks may be viewed at gustavus.edu/events/shoptalks/.

Pompeii: Fact vs. Film... Martin Winkler, Ph.D., University Professor of Classics at George Mason University and an internationally recognized expert in classics and film studies, will visit Gustavus to present a lecture titled "The Last Days of Pompeii: From Fact to Fiction to Film." His lecture is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 1, beginning at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall. Winkler's visit is part of the College's Lecture Series and is sponsored by the departments of Classics, Art and Art History, and Communication Studies; Curriculum II; and the film studies unit of the Department of English.

Off-Campus Events of Interest

Creation Care Workshop... There's still time to pre-register for the Creation Care Workshop being offered by First Lutheran Church (1114 W. Traverse Rd.). The workshop will be held Sunday, Nov. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the church. Presenters will be Pat Benson, Creation
Care coordinator with Lutheran Coalition for Public Policy in Minnesota, and J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director with Fresh Energy. The workshop is free and open to the public. RSVP to flcstp@flcstp.org or phone 507-934-3060 by Monday, Oct. 26.

Luuutefisk!... Scandian Grove Lutheran Church (10 mi. NW of St. Peter on Hwy. 22) will host its annual Lutefisk Fall Supper on Saturday, Nov. 7. On the menu are meatballs, mashed potatoes, green beans, lefse, buns, apple and pumpkin dessert, milk, coffee . . . and lutefisk. Come for lunch or dinner: serving times are 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Cost is $14 for adults, $6 for children 6-12, and free for children 5 and under.

Obituaries

• Donald Wahlund, father of Dean Wahlund (marketing & communication), passed away on Thursday, Oct. 15. Interment was at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Dr. Wahlund served most of his career as superintendent of finance for the Minneapolis Public Schools. He was 87. A memorial service is planned for Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. at Hope Presbyterian Church in Richfield (7132 Portland Ave. S.). Memorials are preferred to Camp Ojibway of Hope Presbyterian Church.
• Kathleen Hamrum, wife of the late biology professor Charles Hamrum, who taught at Gustavus for 39 years (1949-1988), died on Oct. 19, at the Benedictine Living Community of St. Peter. She was 87. A celebration of life service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Peter (511 S. 5th St.), followed by burial at Resurrection Cemetery. Memorials to the Charles L. Hamrum Scholarship Endowment at Gustavus are preferred.

To inform the campus community of the death of a current student, employee, or trustee; an emeritus professor or trustee; or an immediate family member of a current employee, contact the Office of the President (x7538 or pleagjel@gustavus.edu). Death announcements and funeral notices for students, current and emeritus faculty and employees, and trustees will be sent to the community via written notice from the president, posted on community-l, the official campus-wide e-mail list, and published in the Inside Gustavus or Summer Scoop. Notices for immediate family members of current employees will be published in the Inside Gustavus or the Summer Scoop unless they occur during a publication break, in which case they will be posted on employee-l.

Congregational Outreach

Partners in Education... Presenters for this week include Mary Solberg (religion), who will be giving her talk, "Whatever Happened to Martin Luther? A Fresh Look," at 9:50 a.m. at Woodlake Lutheran Church in Richfield, Minn., Sunday, Oct. 25. Partners in Education is a program coordinated by the Office of Church Relations in which participating faculty and staff members prepare topical presentations for adult forums, workshops, and seminars in congregations of the ELCA.

Retreats... The Office of Church Relations will host a confirmation retreat for Christ Lutheran Church from Faribault, Minn., Friday, Oct. 23, and Saturday, Oct. 24. Church Relations will also host a confirmation retreat for Peace Lutheran Church from Bloomington, Minn., Friday, Oct. 23, through Sunday, Oct. 25.

Music in Worship... Any Gustavus music ensemble of soloist is welcome to perform in congregations. For more information, contact Marilyn Beyer (x7001).

Facility Hours

Library Hours for Reading Days... Friday, Oct. 23 - 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. ; Saturday, Oct. 24 - 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ; Sun., Oct. 25 - noon-6 p.m. ; Mon., Oct. 26 - 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. ; Tues., Oct. 27 - 8 a.m.-1 a.m.

Health Service Closed during Reading Break... The Student Health Service office will be closed Oct. 26 and 27.

Telecommunications Updates

Following are changes and additions for the "Personnel Phone Directory 2009-10."

• Ethan Armstrong, sports information, phone: x8411, e-mail: earmstr2 (addition)
• John Grabow, sports information, phone: x8411 (deletion)

For further information or corrections, contact Laura McCabe (x6261 or lmccabe@gustavus.edu).

Plugs

For Rent... New three-room apt. with wood-burning fireplace, private sun deck overlooking wooded creek and gardens. $700/mo. including utilities. Heated garage optional. References required. For appt., call Jeff at 507-248-3719.

Kitties for the Taking... Junior student Katie Winkelman writes, "I found a pair of little orange kittens and need to find a home for them ASAP.  I am having them fostered for the time being, but I need to find a home for them by Friday [Oct. 23] because my mom will kill me if I bring home more cats.  I'm wondering if someone you know would be interested in adopting them. They are the sweetest little kitties! Please let me know as soon as you can! I'm desperate to find them a good home and the shelters are overflowing." If you are or know the perfect home, contact Katie by e-mail at kwinkelm@gustavus.edu.

For Sale... Toro 1028 PowerShift Snow Blower. Electric Start, 10 hp, 4-cycle Tecumseh engine; 28" clearing with breaker bar. Light kit, 4 forward gears, 2 reverse, wheels can automatically rotate to the rear creating a lower center of gravity that's great for packed or heavy snow. Purchased in 2000 but barely used since 2004. $800 or best offer takes it. Contact Michelle or Tyson at 934-6748 for more information.

For Rent... One-bedroom, furnished apartment across from Minnesota Square Park. Available Nov. 1. Contact Craig Nelson '70 at canelson@hickorytech.net for more information. Online pictures are available.

"Plugs" is maintained as a forum by which members of the Gustavus community may offer goods and/or services to others in the community, or seek the same from them. It is not meant to accommodate ads or announcements from area businesses such as real estate agents or retailers, although from time to time such announcements may be published when deemed to be of particular interest to the community.



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