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In this issue:
- President
gives State of the College Address
on March 31 -- you and your community are invited
- MC Alumni Association presents 2004
Alumni Awards
- One last blast for Professor
Dan Voss
-
Tartuffe comes to the Performing Arts Center
- MC publications earn four national awards
- Donate your old car or truck
to help raise funds for scholarships and programs at MC
- Study-travel course to China
being offered
- Holocaust Commemoration event
at MC-Rockville
- Mercy Clinic in Germantown in
need of nursing volunteers
- Come to TP Campus to hear lecture on
Space-time Invariance and Quantum Gravity
- Annual Fund needs
your support
- MC hosting Career Information/Job Fairs
at each campus
- Girl Fight
at Rockville Campus
- MC Alumnae Joy McManaman has
art exhibit on display in Germantown
- Employment Opportunities at
Montgomery College
Click on any of the links below for more information.
All alumni and friends of the College are invited and encouraged to hear MC President Charlene R. Nunley give the State of the College address on Wednesday, March 31. Dr. Nunley will mark her fifth year as President of Montgomery College in an address that will review her tenure, the College’s successes, its past, and look to the future and the challenges that lie ahead. This event will be held at the Theatre Arts Arena on the Rockville Campus and begins at 8 p.m. As the event will be televised, those wishing to attend are asked to arrive no later than 7:30 p.m. to be seated by 8 p.m. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to 240-567-4006 or e-mail to event@montgomerycollege.edu.
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Join us for a great evening on Friday, April 23 beginning at 6 p.m. in the Theatre Arts Arena, Rockville Campus, as the Montgomery College Alumni Association honors six outstanding alumni and inducts three former athletes into the MC Athletic Hall of Fame at the annual Alumni Awards Night. Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be longtime Washington Post columnist Bob Levey. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for children under 12, and includes a buffet dinner. To make reservations, call the MC Alumni Office at 240-567-5378. To view this year’s honorees, visit http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/alumni/achievement.html.
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An art exhibition featuring the works of the Visual Communications Technology program’s Professor Dan Voss will be shown in the VCT Gallery on the Rockville Campus from April 1 through April 20. The exhibit is a "last blast" for Voss who will be retiring this summer. He began painting about five years ago. His photos, however, represent years during which time Voss was a designer, traveler, and teacher.
"As a photographer you can capture an image in a moment, in a way no painter can manage. Try painting on an escalator, in a downpour, or on a traffic island in the middle of Times Square. You can record the overall scene, catch a lighting effect, and closeups of details - then make your selection when you get back to the darkroom or studio," says Voss.
The works vary in size from small portrait studies to larger landscapes, plus a couple of tributes to old movies thrown in. For more information about the exhibit, call 240-567-7521 or e-mail to dan.voss@montgomerycollege.edu
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The Parilla Performing Arts Center presents Tartuffe, Wednesday through Saturday, April 21-24, 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 25, 2 p.m. Banned from the public stage by Louis XIV in 1664, this updated version of Moliere’s Tartuffe is about an odious religious hypocrite who ingratiates himself into a well-to-do family. While the family patriarch, Orgon, and his mother, Mme. Pernelle, think Tartuffe is an example of morality and goodness, the rest of the family is perceptive enough to see right through him. This wickedly acerbic classic will have you laughing all the way to the end. Tickets are $10 regular, $8 seniors and students. Call the PAC box office at 240-567-5301 for more information.
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Montgomery College earned national honors recently for four of its marketing and public relations projects, as the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations presented the College with three gold “Paragon” awards and one silver award at NCMPR’s annual conference, held this year in Baltimore.
The College’s three gold awards were in the categories of: “Best Magazine,” for its alumni magazine, Insights; “Best Newsletter,” for its tabloid-sized publication, Montgomery College Today; and “Best Feature/General News Story,” for a press release and article concerning the discontinuation of the College’s longstanding football program. The College earned a silver award in the “Print Ad Series” category for a grouping of ads promoting the various ways prospective students could register for classes. Each of the projects was produced by Montgomery College’s Office of Communications, which is part of the Institutional Advancement unit.
The National Council for Marketing & Public Relations is the only organization of its kind that exclusively represents marketing and PR professionals at community, technical, and junior colleges. As one of the fastest-growing affiliates of the American Association of Community Colleges, NCMPR has more than 1,550 members from more than 600 colleges across the United States, Canada, and Bahamas. This year, the organization’s annual Paragon Awards competition attracted approximately 1,640 total entries in 40 categories.
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We are pleased to introduce the Montgomery College Foundation’s new Automobile Donation Program. The Montgomery College Foundation will accept 1992 vehicles or newer, and only if there is no damage to the body of the car. All donated cars will be sold at automobile auctions by a licensed wholesaler, and the proceeds will support Montgomery College students and programs through the annual fund effort, which supports scholarships, academic initiatives, and specific college initiatives, including the new expansion project for the Homer S. Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education. Call 240-567-7900 for more information.
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Montgomery College’s International Education Department is sponsoring a study-travel course to China (including Hong Kong), May 16-29, 2004. China is strange and familiar, traditional and modern, socialist and capitalist. Join us to explore the fascinating past of imperial China, the dramatic transformation of modern China from a Marxist state to a consumer society, and its unpredictable future. For more information or to obtain a copy of the itinerary, contact Professor Helena Wong by e-mail at Helena.wong@montgomerycollege.edu, or contact the travel agent, Mr. Max Wang, of China Travel Service Chicago at 312-328-0688 or e-mail to ctschicago@hotmail.com.
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The Paul Peck Humanities Institute at Montgomery College will hold its annual Holocaust Commemoration on Wednesday, April 21 in the Music Recital Hall, Music Building, Rockville Campus beginning at 7 p.m.
The Montgomery College Holocaust Commemoration is an annual humanities event sponsored by the Paul Peck Humanities Institute. Each year, the Institute commemorates the Holocaust by bringing survivors, humanists, and scholars together to share their experience and bring intellectual and historical focus to the tragedy of the Holocaust. This year, the Holocaust Commemoration features a lecture by noted Holocaust scholar Myrna Goldenberg and an interactive multimedia presentation by Bernice Steinhardt, president and chairperson of Art & Remembrance, a non-profit organization dedicated to illuminating the effects of war, intolerance and other forms of injustice.
For more information about this event, contact the Paul Peck Humanities Institute by e-mail at pphi@montgomerycollege.edu or by phone 240-567-7417.
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Last year, Mercy Clinic cared for over 2,000 patients in 4,383 visits. Located in the Germantown Upcounty Regional Center, the clinic opened in October, 2000 as a collaboration between Our Lady of Mercy Church in Potomac and the County’s Department of Health and Human Services. The clinic provides health care services to low-income, uninsured adults living in Montgomery County. The most critical need is for volunteer nursing assistance. If you can volunteer your services, even for a few hours a week, then please call Alvina Long at 301-469-8893.
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Come to the
MC Planetarium located on the
Takoma Park Campus on Saturday, April 17, 7-8 p.m., and learn about
Space-time Invariance and Quantum Gravity.
What significance does using Discrete Numbers (where
there is a smallest or shortest quantity) versus Real Numbers (where there is
no smallest or shortest quantity) to measure length and time have in the
observable universe. Is it time to abandon the Real Numbers in
describing space-time? What is the smallest time: chronon, hodon, and space:
extintion in
SI units? Real small, so
that is why we thought the universe was continuous when it was really discrete
or pixilated.
What are the physical consequences to our freedom to move forward and backward
in space, but only forward in time? What causes causality? Is there a cosmic
censorship principle that prevents messing with time travel so you can not
kill your mother before you are born? Does it even make sense to talk about
time travel? How can we modify the theories of gravity so that it is no longer
time inversion invariant? What does this have to do with
CPT invariance? Charge
Conjugation (transforming matter to anti-mater)
Parity (mirror inversion in space)
Time (going forward or backward
in time). For more information on this lecture, contact Dr. Harold Williams at
240-567-1463 or e-mail to
Harold.williams@montgomerycollege.edu.
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This year, rejection letters were sent out to over 700 Montgomery College Foundation scholarship applicants because the Foundation could not afford to fund more than 300 requests. It is imperative that we increase the pool of scholarship dollars available to the hundreds of qualified students who are in desperate need of financial support.
Please do whatever you can to keep the dream of a college education alive for all who seek it.
You can help by making a donation the MC Annual Fund today.
Visit http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/giving to find out more.
Make your tax-deductible* donation to the Annual Fund today at:
https://mconline.mc.cc.md.us/pls/eagle/hzskpldg.p_vt_giving
Good deed for the day!! Please forward this email to anyone who you think may be interested in supporting Montgomery College. Thank you for your help!
*The Montgomery College Foundation is a registered charitable 501(c)(3) organization, and all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent as provided by law.
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Montgomery College will host a series of spring Career Information/Job Fairs in April on each of the College’s three campuses, at Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park.
--The Career Information/Job Fair at the Takoma Park Campus will be held on Thursday, April 1, 1-5 p.m., in the Falcon Gym, 7600 Takoma Avenue, Takoma Park. For more information, please call 240-567-1479.
--The Germantown Campus job fair will be held on Wednesday, April 14, 1-5 p.m., in the Atrium, High Technology and Science Building, 20200 Observation Drive, Germantown. For more information, please call 240-567-7772.
--The final Career Information/Job Fair will be held on Wednesday, April 21, 1-5 p.m. on the Rockville Campus in the Gym, Physical Education Building, Room 119, 51 Mannakee Street. For more information, please call 240-567-5062.
To request disability accommodations, please contact Montgomery College’s Disability Support Services at 240-567-5058 or 301-294-9672 (TDD). For additional information, contact Jeanie Hale, career center specialist at the Rockville Campus, at 240-567-5062 or jeanie.hale@montgomerycollege.edu.
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On Wednesday, April 21, at 2 p.m., the MC International Education Program and the MC Women’s Studies Program present a showing of Girl Fight. Michelle Rodriguez as Diana Guzman burns up the screen with her performance of a tough high-school girl with a violent streak and family problems who finds respect and love by training in a gritty Brooklyn gym and earning her place as a championship boxer. Movie is 110 minutes, in English and Spanish with English subtitles. Showing will be in room 122 Science West Building, Rockville Campus. Free and open to all. Call 240-567-7443 for more information.
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MC alumnae Joy McManaman ’01 has an art exhibition titled “Pop’s Shop” at the Black Rock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, MD. The Center’s phone number is 301-528-2260. The exhibition is on display now through April 23.
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For a complete and current listing of employment opportunities at Montgomery College, including faculty positions, visit: https://jobs.montgomerycollege.edu/wss/start.asp?application=ewss&group=monc&function=home.
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The above listings are just a sampling of the numerous events scheduled at Montgomery College. To view a comprehensive listing of events at MC, go to the on-line calendar of events: http://webdb.montgomerycollege.edu/Internet/calendar/daily.cfm