News Releases for December 2001
Successful Single Parent is Commencement Speaker Dec. 15
OSHKOSH-Linda Hartenian, a professor of management in the College of Business
Administration, will deliver the address at the 37th Midyear Commencement Saturday,
Dec. 15 at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Hartenian considers one of her greatest personal accomplishments the earning
of master's and doctorate degrees as a single parent of two children. Both children
are now students at the UW Oshkosh.
The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Kolf Sports Center, 785 High
Ave. Chancellor Richard H. Wells will preside.
More than 700 undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to receive degrees
at the ceremony.
For the first time, the ceremony will include an interpreter for the hearing
impaired, who will provide sign language for the entire ceremony from the stage.
An expanded stage party also will include representatives of students, classified
staff, academic staff and faculty.
The graduating class speaker is Jackie Feucht of Lomira, an elementary education
major. Feucht, a top student academically, has been a volunteer for several
community organizations, including Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Special Olympics
and the Boys and Girls Club. She has been active in several campus and community
organizations and presented programs locally and nationally on issues such as
gang education and diversity.
The song leader for the commencement ceremony is Kenton Schindler, who will
receive degrees in both music and business administration. Schindler, a 1995
graduate of Abbotsford High School, is president of the UW Oshkosh Students
for Music and has performed for four years in the UW Oshkosh Chamber Choir.
His business emphasis is marketing.
Retiring members of the faculty and staff who will be listed on the commencement
program are Timothy Crimmins, chemistry, retiring after 36 years of service;
Gene Drecktrah, biology, 36 years; Mary Drecktrah, education/human services,
8 years; Suzanne Inciong, academic advisement, 23 years; Vicki Lord Larson,
provost and vice chancellor, 10 years; John Minniear, music, 35 years; John
Oman, mathematics, 32 years; and Kenneth Penniston, academic computing, 33 years.
Hartenian, a professor of management, earned a master's degree in industrial/orga-nizational
psychology at the UW Oshkosh in 1986 and a doctorate in management at the University
of Kentucky.
A member of the UW Oshkosh faculty since 1990, Hartenian has worked for large
and small family-owned businesses. At UW Oshkosh, she has served as acting assistant
vice chancellor of Graduate School and Research and chair of the Faculty Development
Board, the Institutional Review Board, and the Task Force on Women's Issues.
She was on the board of Evergreen Retirement Community in Oshkosh and is now
a member of the board of the Oshkosh Area Humane Society.
Quilt Project Leader to Deliver First 100 to New York
OSHKOSH-The Oshkosh woman and her daughter who have led an effort to assemble
a quilt for every victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are scheduled to
fly to New York City before Christmas with the first 100 quilts for families
of those victims.
Mary Ann Falsetta, the office manager at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Children's Learning and Care Center, and her 13-year-old daughter Michelle will
go to New York Dec. 19-23.
"We wanted to get there before Christmas because that will be such a hard
time for the families of the victims," Falsetta said. "It's really
amazing how so many people here at the university and throughout the community
have helped in this project."
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff have contributed squares for the Falsetta's
"Quilts for America" project, Falsetta said.
"Our goal is to have the approximately 4,000 quilts done by Sept. 11,
the one-year anniversary," she said.
Departments and student organizations throughout campus have contributed.
"Complete strangers have come in with squares," she said. "A
graduate student, she said her name was Kelly, came in one day and handed me
a bunch. People all over the United States are sending squares."
Family and friends in Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico and Washington
state have collected quilts and squares for the project, Falsetta said.
"Phi Mu (sorority) has been awesome, the financial aid office contributed
several quilts, three art classes of Themina Kader brought in so many beautifully
done squares," said Falsetta, who will bring the quilts made from those
squares to Kader's classes next Tuesday.
Students, faculty, staff and administrators have signed, written messages and
drawn images on squares at a table set up at Reeve Memorial Union every two
weeks to accept contributions for the project.
"Chancellor (Richard H.) Wells signed one Tuesday night," she said.
Falsetta will continue sewing quilts until the day before she and her daughter
leave for the airport for the trip to New York. She will ship most of the quilts
the week before so she only has to carry a few on the plane on Dec. 19.
The project began with the families of children at the center. Falsetta and
her daughter spend hours each day and over the weekend assembling the 7-inch-square
pieces of material they receive from contributors.
If you would like to contribute to the project contact Falsetta at (920) 424-0260
or 303-0224.
Students Learn as Volunteers in Community Service Program
OSHKOSH-The first community service learning course at the University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh has been a success this fall, and the three faculty members who teach
it hope it is the first of many at the university.
Psychology professor Susan McFadden and her colleagues want to see the campus
establish a community service-learning center to help more students and faculty
get involved in courses that tie classroom work with "meaningful service"
in the community.
"We hope that the experience can be the beginning of a lifelong commitment
by the students to responsible citizenship and caring for their communities,"
McFadden said.
A committee in the College of Letters and Science is discussing establishment
of a center and two community service learning certificate programs, said College
of Letters and Science Dean Michael Zimmerman.
One program would involve students in community service in connection with
their courses. The other would award a certificate to students who do volunteer
community service work throughout their four years in college.
"We will start some of this in the spring," said Zimmerman, adding
that many faculty have expressed an interest in making community service part
of their courses.
The first ever community service learning course was taught at UW Oshkosh this
fall by McFadden, urban studies professor Michael Burayidi and social work professor
Carolyn Wells.
The 10 students in the course - all freshmen - live in North Scott Residence
Hall, where they "live and interact with people who share the same desire
to serve others,"
McFadden said.
They come from several academic majors, including business, political science,
special education, communication and criminal justice.
As part of the three-credit course, each student must do at least five hours
a week of volunteer work. This semester the students are divided among the Boys
and Girls Club of Oshkosh, Christine Ann Center and Evergreen Retirement Community.
Each week the faculty members and students discuss experiences at the agencies
and how they relate to the reading and other work they are doing as part of
the course.
"The goal is to help students learn what goes into effective and ethical
public service," McFadden said. "Tying their classroom work to people
with various needs in the community can help them better understand social issues
such as poverty, homelessness and domestic violence."
In addition to the agency work, the students read each week from books such
as Paul Loeb's "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical
World" and "Some Do Care," by Anne Colby and William Damon. In
addition to the class discussions, students keep a journal of their experiences
with the community agencies.
The students taking the course this semester are Sarah Barber of Oneida, Erica
Cieslak of Milwaukee, Nicole Hetzel of Wisconsin Rapids, Ryan Johnson of Hudson,
Jessica Kohlman of Fond du Lac, Shannon LaDue of Mukwonago, Kristen Orheim of
Wisconsin Rapids, Tammy Philbrick of Madison, Emily Rabe of Lake Geneva and
Jennifer Srnka of Oshkosh.
The public service program is one of five Renaissance Living options for students
in UW Oshkosh residence halls. In addition to PUSH (Public Service Hall), they
include Health Education Working Place (HELP), Environmentally Conscious House-Oshkosh
(ECHO), Student Artists in Residence (STAR) and Women in Science Hall (WISH).
All five integrate academic and residence hall experiences through special activities,
out-of-class opportunities and daily living with students with similar interests.
14 Named 'Outstanding Senior' for December Graduation
OSHKOSH-Fourteen University of Wisconsin Oshkosh students who will graduate
Dec. 15 have been each named an Outstanding Senior for 2000-2001.
The Outstanding Senior Award is made on the basis of scholarship, leadership
and participation in university activities.
International Students Win National Award for Post-911 Event
OSHKOSH-A forum sponsored by international students at the University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh was selected "Education Program of the Month" by the National
Association of College and University Residence Halls.
The "We Care" forum Sept. 27 raised $270 for the Red Cross and drew
more than 200 campus and community residents to discuss the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
It was sponsored by an organization representing Asian and Pakistani students.
The director of the two residence halls where most international students live
at UW Oshkosh said the event was an opportunity for people to hear talks by
experts on Islam and Afghanistan and discuss the horrific events of Sept. 11
just two weeks after airliners commandeered by terrorists killed thousands in
New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
"Students, faculty and community residents got the chance to hear from
experts about the issues," said Kristine McCaslin, director of Evans and
Stewart residence halls. "The event ran more than twice as long as planned."
Also at the event, international students described what the terrorist attacks
meant to them.
"The terrorist attacks were not just a tragedy for Americans, they were
a tragedy for the world," said McCaslin.
The Asian Student Association, Pakistani Student
Association and the Stevans International Community, which includes international
students from Evans and Stewart residence halls, sponsored the event.
About 90 international students attend UW Oshkosh, including 19 from Pakistan
and others from India, Jordan and Oman.
100s at UW Oshkosh Help Community During Holidays
OSHKOSH-Hundreds of UW Oshkosh faculty, staff and students are raising money,
"adopting" families and singing Christmas carols to try to make the
holidays happier for those less fortunate in the community.
"It's something that our campus does every holiday season, but maybe there
was a little more incentive this year following the events of Sept. 11,"
said Elliott Garb, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Following is a partial list of activities:
o 13 staff from the student affairs division rang bells for the Salvation Army.
o Students in four residence halls "adopted" needy families.
o Staff from student affairs adopted 11 needy families from Lincoln Elementary
School.
o Student Titan Volunteers rang bells for the Salvation Army. It also will take
ornaments off all the holiday trees at Mercy Medical Center in early January.
o Students in the Criminal Justice Association raised more than $280 for the
Christine Ann Center.
o Admissions office adopted two families.
o 15 from Titan Volunteers hosted a holiday party at Encore Senior Villa.
o Titan Volunteers and campus Greek organizations sponsored an all-day blood
drive.
o Academic advisement/registration office adopted two needy families.
o Clemans Hall students signed cards for those at Evergreen Retirement Community.
o 16 Residence Life staff members sang carols and volunteered at Bethel Home.
o Student alumni ambassadors have a "mitten tree" at Pollock Alumni
House, where anyone on campus may hang mittens, scarves and hats for the Salvation
Army.
o Advisement/Registration is getting supplies/equipment for Boys and Girls Club.
o Reeve Memorial Union staff adopted a family.
o College of Nursing adopted a family. The college also is contributing money
to buy food certificates for participants in the college's Living Healthy program
serving the uninsured of Winnebago County.
o College of Education and Human Services sponsored a "giving tree,"
with hats, mittens, gloves and more for the local Association for Retarded Citizens.
o The campus student nurses association raised $690 for gifts for an adopted
family and for groups such as Christine Ann Center.
o The student Human Service Organization completed a food drive for America's
Second Harvest of Wisconsin that raised 558 pounds of food.
o College of Business Administration collected gifts for Oshkosh Boys and Girls
Club.
o Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority adopted the Martin Luther King Family Reading Program
at the Christine Ann Center, where it will hold a book drive, and provide readings
and maintenance.
o Webster Hall donated food and money to Father Carr's. The hall also went caroling
at Bethel Home and raised more than $400 in a campaign for Red Cross.
o Donner Hall decorated a holiday tree with hats, scarves and mittens for the
needy.
o Fletcher Hall participated in a "live" nativity scene at Bethel
Home, conducted a canned food drive and hosted a holiday party for kids at Big
Brothers/Big Sisters.
o Scott Hall conducted a food drive for the Salvation Army and Christine Ann
Center, bought presents for children in a group home, held a party for residents
of the Christine Ann Center, conducted a holiday card decorating event for residents
of Bethel Home and volunteered at Parkview Health Center.
o Stewart and Evans residence halls conducted three food and clothing drives
and sang Christmas carols for the elderly.
o Taylor Hall adopted a child overseas and provided babysitting for shoppers.
o United Students in Residence Halls decorated the Christine Ann Center, adopted
a family, visited and entertained at Evergreen Nursing Home and rang bells for
the Salvation Army.
Holiday Music Program Begins Dec. 18 on WRST-FM
OSHKOSH-University of Wisconsin Oshkosh sociology professor Gerry Grzyb, a
self-described "holiday music obsessive," will present his 13th annual
series of Christmas music programs on WRST-FM (90.3) from 1 to 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 18, through Monday, Dec. 24.
Grzyb, one of the judges in the "Seasonal Music" category for the
Association For Independent Music's "Indie" awards for the past four
years, will again give away free Christmas CDs during the weeklong holiday music
show.
"I've gotten even better at finding hard-to-find Christmas CDs," said
Grzyb. "Many of those I'll play this year aren't available from anyone
but their producers, not even on the Internet."
Grzyb also will do holiday readings, including "a 'chapter-a-day' kind
of thing with Bob Litak's 'Reflections of a Small Town Santa.'"
A certain type of music will be featured each day, but Grzyb said the schedule
of shows will be set a day or two before because he's still receiving about
50 CDs a week.
"Listeners will have to tune in to find out what they'll hear and when,
or they can call me for information when I'm on the air," he said.
Basic information about the programs and playlists for the past six years can
be found at http://wrst.rtf.uwosh.edu/christmas.html. The 2001 playlist will
posted on the WRST Web site in late January.
UW Oshkosh Researcher Featured in Acclaimed Book
OSHKOSH-A University of Wisconsin Oshkosh biologist and his research in the
rainforest of Panama is featured in the acclaimed new book "The Tapir's
Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are
Trying to Solve Them."
The book by Elizabeth Royte includes a chapter about Gregory Adler and his
continuing research on the spiny rat on 12 small islands in the Panama Canal.
It also includes two UW Oshkosh student research assistants who worked with
Adler in Panama. They are Paul Trebe, a 1993 graduate of Wauwatosa West High
School who earned a bachelor's degree in biology at UW Oshkosh in 1998, and
Scott Mangan, a 1989 graduate of Lomira High School and a 1997 graduate of UW
Oshkosh who is working on a doctorate in biology at Indiana University.
The chapter "Rat Patrol" details what Adler has learned in his research.
"Far-reaching and long-running, Adler's project was a paradigm of ecological
studies," Royte wrote. In 1991, he was "doing experimental work at
a time when ecological experiments were freshly in vogue" and "he
rose quickly in the field of population biology."
Royte's book, said Edward Wilson, a professor at Harvard and winner of two
Pulitzer Prizes, "penetrates the world of the tropical biologists to explain
their culture, passion, and above all their uniquely valuable work. As an exact
and endearing chronicle, this book will have enduring value." only add/Research
by UW Oshkosh Ecologist Featured in Book The book by Royte, a contributing writer
for Outside magazine who has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's
Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, weaves together
her own adventures in Panama with stories of researchers trying to understand
the workings of the rain forest, the most complicated natural system on the
planet.
"While humanizing the scientists in the field, she explores the tension
between their research and the reality of a world that may not have time for
the answers," said the publisher, Houghton Mifflin.
"Readers will come away…with an appreciation of the way narrow research
questions become the material from which useful knowledge is constructed,"
said a review in The Christian Science Monitor.
Adler, whose research in Venezuela was featured in the Nov. 30 issue of Science
magazine, is currently conducting research in French Guiana during a semester-long
sabbatical.
With funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian
Institution and the National Geographic Society, Adler has conducted research
in such places as Laos, Vietnam, Colombia, Russia and Brazil. He has done post-doctoral
work at Harvard, Boston University, University of California-Davis and the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute.
Adler will return from his sabbatical to resume teaching at UW Oshkosh when
the spring semester begins Feb. 4.
Couple to Again Bring Books, Materials to Belize
OSHKOSH-A special education professor and her husband, a biology professor,
will again lead a student study trip to the Central American country of Belize
with a hefty supply of books and other materials for hard-pressed schools there.
Mary and Gene Drecktrah hope the Jan. 7-17 trip is not their last to Belize,
but the couple will both retire from UW Oshkosh a week after they return.
Mary Drecktrah, who has gone to Belize every January even though she was diagnosed
with cancer just after the first trip in 1997 and had a reoccurrence of the
cancer in spring 2000, said teachers and students at a small school in Indian
Church Village in the remote rainforest and at an elementary school in San Pedro
are grateful for what the Wisconsin group brings every year.
"I really feel like we make a difference," she said.
The student council at Murray Park Elementary in Ripon has again collected books
and materials for the Drecktrahs.
The couple asks that each of the students on the trip bring an extra, large
suitcase to carry books and supplies for the school.
The UW Oshkosh students making the trip with the Drecktrahs are: Kathy Chronis
of Sheboygan , Jason Daul of Appleton, Meghan DeGroot of Green Bay, Andrea Farchmin
of Waukesha, Marie Gabavics of Oshkosh, Stacey Grossman of Glenview, Ill., Shannon
Kahelski of Fond du Lac, Tara Kent of Fond du Lac, Catherine Micka of Germantown,
Mark Rabe of Waupun, Lynda Schlottman of Boyceville, and Sara Stuart of Winneconne.
A year ago, the Oshkosh Public Library, Fox Valley Reading Council, a UW Oshkosh
student organization and students at three Fox River Valley schools contributed
so much that many items had to be donated to the Christine Ann Center in Oshkosh
because all of it could not be carried.
This year, Mary Drecktrah purchased 200 individual chalkboards and supplies
that she shipped early so they would not have to be carried in suitcases.
While in Belize, the UW Oshkosh teacher education students will work at the
three-room Indian Church school and at the larger elementary school in San Pedro
on Ambergris Caye.
Gene Drecktrah's biology students will study the coral reef ecosystem off the
coast of Ambergris Caye, identifying fish, corals and other reef organisms.
While at Lamanai Field Research Center in the rainforest, they will collect
insects and continue the development of the educational insect collection they
began last year. They will also take field trips to identify birds and explore
the Lamanai Mayan ruins.
"It is both an educational and a cultural experience for the students,"
said Mary Drecktrah. "After we came back last year, one student said she
will never complain again about textbooks she has to use or what she has for
her studies. Those children in Belize have so little."
'Adventures in Music' Program is for the Very Young
OSHKOSH-The students in Roberta Dorgan's "Adventures in Music" are
so young that some parents sign them up before they're born.
The unique program to get kids started in music before they can even spell
the word will begin accepting students for its second semester at the University
of Wisconsin Oshkosh on Jan. 2.
Parents of children ages "0" to 5 years can sign up. Classes begin
Feb. 4.
"Research shows that children getting guided exploration and positive
reinforcement in the arts early are much more likely to reach their potential
later on," Dorgan said.
The half-hour classes will be in the Arts and Communication Center, 926 Woodland
Ave., between about 9 a.m. and noon on Thursdays and Fridays. Class size is
limited to eight.
The program is part of the Oshkosh Suzuki Talent Education Center at UW Oshkosh.
Dorgan began teaching early childhood music classes at UW Oshkosh in September.
She also teaches in similar programs at Lawrence University in Appleton and
in a preschool program in Oshkosh.
Two of the four classes she taught this fall were for children up to 1½
years old. One student was 10 weeks.
"We're not teaching specific instruments," Dorgan said. "We're
trying to introduce the children to all kinds of musical instruments and sounds,
from wood blocks and maracas to bells and triangles. It becomes their first
musical learning experience. The hope is that
they will be intrigued enough to want to go further."
Dorgan, who holds degrees in music and psychology from Indiana University, began
teaching music to very young children in a new program at Carroll College in
Waukesha 10 years ago.
She was also one of three music instructors participating in UW Oshkosh psychology
professor Fran Rauscher's five-year research project exploring the effects of
music on the spatial intelligence of preschool children in the UW Oshkosh Head
Start program.
Parents work with their children in Dorgan's "Adventures in Music"
classes, playing instruments and helping them make sounds with triangles and
bells.
"The teaching is done through games, songs, finger plays, jumping and
running," Dorgan said. "They don't even know they're learning motor
and verbal skills as they're doing it."
Classes are divided by age group. In addition to those for 0 to 1½,
there are sessions for 1½ to 2½, 2½ to 3½ , and
3½ to 5.
For more information or to register, call Dorgan at (920) 232-1282.
French Major Wins 2001 National Essay Contest
OSHKOSH-Elizabeth Horton of Oshkosh, a student at the University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh, won first place in the 2001 National French Week Essay Contest organized
by the American Association of Teachers of French.
Horton's essay, "Learning French Opens New Doors," was among 300
submissions by French students from across the country in the college student
category.
Horton is a student in Andrzej Dziedzic's survey of literature course at UW
Oshkosh.
Two other students of Dziedzic's, Emily Bruski and Kelly Bezio, both of Oshkosh,
also participated in the contest and received certificates of recognition.
The essay entries were judged according to theme/clarity of ideas, originality
and written expression.
In the next several weeks, the essay will be posted on the AATF Web site, http://aatf.utsa.edu.
Oshkosh Student Featured in Art Exhibit Jan. 5-11
OSHKOSH-An exhibit of art work by senior Barbara Chancellor of Oshkosh will
be at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Jan. 5 through 11.
The exhibit, "Calling Emotions," will be in the Allen Priebe Gallery,
Arts and Communication Center, 926 Woodland Ave.
There will be an artist's reception from 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5.
Work in the exhibit will include oil and acrylic paintings.
The gallery also will be open for the exhibit from 12 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m.
Sunday through Thursday, Jan. 6-10, and from 2 to 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11.
19 Selected for 2002 'Who's Who' of College Students
OSHKOSH-Nineteen University of Wisconsin Oshkosh students graduating Dec. 15
will be listed in the 2002 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges," a directory of outstanding student leaders
from more than 1,800 institutions of higher learning in the United States and
several foreign countries.
Students are selected for Who's Who based on academic achievement, service
to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for
continued
success. The annual directory of outstanding students has been published since
1934.
Sorority/Fraternity Raffle Raises $4,000 for Local Charity
OSHKOSH-A raffle by eight campus Greek organizations raised nearly $4,000 for
the UW Oshkosh Children's Learning and Care Center and the Oshkosh Area United
Way.
"This is awesome," said Mary Ann Falsetta, office manager at the center,
which received 60 percent of the raffle proceeds, or $2,386.
The other 40 percent, or $1,586, went to the Oshkosh Area United Way.
The fund-raiser ran Nov. 19-Dec. 7. It was headed by Micah Harr of Bexley,
Ohio, president of the UW Oshkosh chapter of a national honor society for fraternities
and sororities. Harr, a human services major, graduates this month.
"The real goal in this event was to get members of the campus Greek organizations
working together," said Harr, noting that it was a first joint fund-raiser
by UW Oshkosh Greek organizations. Harr said about 250 individuals participated.
Prizes in the raffle included a 27-inch television, cash awards and more.
Members of Phi Mu sorority sold 1,572 of the 4,628 raffle tickets sold for the
event. The fraternity selling the largest number of tickets was Theta Chi.
Phi Mu member Andrea Hill of Oshkosh sold 631 tickets. Harr sold 608.
In addition to Harr, members of the organizing committee that put together
the fund-raiser were Kerry Ayers of Oshkosh, Thomas Breunig of Sun Prairie,
William Debelak of Appleton and Abigail Gosdeck of Kenosha.
Businesses supporting the raffle are Fazoli's Restaurant, BMF Weight Training,
Candle Outlet, The Exclusive Company, Family Video, University Books and More,
Cost Cutters Family Hair Care, Cousins Subs, People's Choice Salon, Nutrition
Supply Co., and Steinbruner Heating and Cooling.
Other sororities participating in the fund-raiser were Phi Mu, Gamma Phi Beta,
Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Sigma Sigma.
Other fraternities participating were Kappa Sigma, Beta Theta Pi and Delta
Sigma Phi.
Kalinoski Play to Air on French, German TV Dec. 20
OSHKOSH-University of Wisconsin Oshkosh playwright Richard Kalinoski's play
"Beast on the Moon" will be broadcast in France and Germany Dec. 20
on the prestigious television channel ARTE.
The 10:30 p.m. broadcast in French, which will be subtitled in German for the
German broadcast, is a presentation of the award-winning play that ran in Paris
from January through June 2001 at the historic Theatre de L'Oevre.
Both the play and the television version were directed by English director
Irina Brook. The production won five Moliere awards in Paris last May, a record
for a play by a non-French speaking playwright.
The Molieres are the French equivalent of the Tony Awards.
The Education Ministry of France will sponsor several assemblies at French
high schools in coming months where the TV version of Kalinoski's play will
air.
Kalinoski has been asked by the television producers to write a commentary for
the study guide to be used in the high schools where the play will air.
African American Folk Choir Performs at King Dinner Jan. 21
OSHKOSH-The seventh annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community/University Celebration
will begin with a reception at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21 in the expanded and
remodeled Reeve Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
The event is meant to honor the memory of the slain civil rights leader and
all who support diversity in our community, said Muriel Hawkins, assistant vice
chancellor for academic support.
Dinner will be at 5 p.m., followed by the presentation of a "Celebration
of Diversity Award" at 6 p.m. The award honors an individual or organization
for efforts to further diversity in Oshkosh. It is presented by the Oshkosh
Human Relations Council.
Entertainment will be provided by Grammy-nominated producer/arranger Linda
Tillery and The Cultural Heritage Choir. In addition to songs and chants delivered
through call-and-response, multi-layered harmonies and repetitive verse, the
five-woman choir also performs intoned sermons, folk tales, polyrhythmic percussion
and dance.
"It is this music, particularly the spirituals, that has kept black people
alive through slavery, night riders and segregation," said Tillery.
Dinner tickets are $18. Tables (seating for 10) may be reserved for $180. There
is no charge to attend the entertainment only.
To reserve seats and/or make donations call Jackie Challis, (920) 236-5000.
To submit a nomination for the diversity award, contact Jan Viste, (920) 233-7156
or e-mail JanViste@aol.com.
For more information, contact Jan Keene, (920) 424-2245 or e-mail keene@uwosh.edu.
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