May Happenings at Montgomery College
For MC Alumni and Friends  

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In this issue:

- 57th MC Commencement Ceremony scheduled for May 21
- Congratulations 2004 Alumni Award Recipients!
- MC President Nunley’s State of the College Address available on-line
- Montgomery College announces 2003-2004 Faculty Outstanding Service Awards
- MC SIFE students win regional competition
- More Aesop’s Fables comes to Performing Arts Center
- Donate your old car or truck to help raise funds for scholarships and programs at MC
- Searching for extraterrestrial life? Come to TP Campus Planetarium for discussion on this topic
- Annual Fund needs your support
- MC Bookstores introduce new line of alumni merchandise
- Seneca Valley High School Class of 1979 to hold its 25-year reunion
- Employment Opportunities at Montgomery College

Click on any of the links below for more information.

Montgomery College will hold its 57^th commencement ceremony on Friday, May 21 on the Rockville Campus athletic field. This year, more than 600 graduates will participate in the ceremony. It will be televised on Montgomery College Channel 10 and also shown live on the internet through the MC website. This year’s commencement speaker will be H. Patrick Swygart, President of Howard University.

The MC Alumni Association sells diploma frames to the new grads in frames that feature a mat emblazoned with the Montgomery College logo. These frames are also available to MC alumni to display your diploma. Frames come in a variety of styles, including a gold metal, walnut, and mahogany finishes. If you’re interested in obtaining a frame, contact the MC Alumni Office at 240-567-5378 or e-mail to alumni@montgomerycollege.edu, or you can stop by the MC Alumni Office to purchase one in person at 900 Hungerford Drive, Suite 200, Rockville, Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Congratulations Alumni! The MC Alumni Association honored nine alumni on Friday, April 23 at the annual Alumni Awards Banquet. Six alumni were honored as outstanding alumni and three alumni were inducted into the MC Athletic Hall of Fame. Master of Ceremonies for the evening was longtime Washington Post columnist Bob Levey. To view the honorees, visit http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/alumni/achievement.html. If you know of a former student or graduate of MC that you think should be nominated as an outstanding alum, then go to http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/alumni/achievementform.html to download a nomination form. Deadline for submitting an application this year is October 1.

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If you weren’t able to attend the State of the College Address given by MC president Dr. Charlene R. Nunley, then you can read the text of the speech by going to http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/state_of_college/followup.html. You can also submit an electronic feedback card to Dr. Nunley with any comments or concerns that you might have about the speech.

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Congratulations Faculty! Montgomery College has announced the recipients of the 2003-2004 Faculty Outstanding Service Awards. In alphabetical order, they are: Dana Baker, Counseling (Rockville); Sam Blate, English Composition, Literature, and Professional Writing (Rockville); Jane Blocher, Reading (Germantown); Marcia Bronstein, English (Takoma Park); Roxanne Davidson, Speech, Dance & Theatre (Rockville); Kamala Edwards, English Composition, Literature and Professional Writing (Rockville); LeRoy Froom, Visual Communications Technology (Rockville); Denise Simmons Graves, Counseling (Rockville); Orest Poliszczuk, Art (Rockville); Lois Robertson, Counseling (Germantown); Randy Steiner, Applied Technologies (Rockville); and William Witte, Mathematics (Germantown).

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Montgomery College’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team captured the regional championship in the two-year college division, for the second year in a row, for its presentation of educational outreach projects at the 2004 SIFE USA Regional Competition, which took place on March 29 in Crystal City, VA. Sixteen honors students from Montgomery College’s Macklin Business Institute program participated on the MC SIFE team, taking the crown as regional champions for community colleges.

The competition, sponsored by Unilever, featured teams from 30 universities and colleges divided into leagues of two-year college and four-year university divisions. Regional Champions in each league earned a $1,500 cash award and a trophy. To read the press release on SIFE’s achievement, visit http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/pr04-45.html.

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The Parilla Performing Arts Center  presents Jim West’s More Aesop’s Fables, on Saturday, May 22, at 11 a.m. Master puppeteer Jim West returns to the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center with an all-new, large-scale production of More Aesop’s Fables. Join Jim and Aesop, along with his faithful dog Moral as they share famous fables, puppet-making ideas and more silliness than ever before. Don’t miss this delightful performance by one of the Performing Arts Center’s perennial favorites. Tickets are $6 regular, $5 seniors, children and students. Call the PAC box office at 240-567-5301 for more information.

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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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The Montgomery College Planetarium will present The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence on Saturday, May 8, from 7-8 p.m. in the Takoma Park Campus Planetarium.

Since Marconi invented the radio transmitter (1897) and we first started sending radio messages we have been announcing our presence to the technologically-advanced civilizations of the cosmos. How likely is it that we have been heard? How likely is it that we have been visited before or after we started radio broadcasts, which go out to all of space? How would we go about listening for extra-terrestrial intelligence? What are we doing now about searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence? Come to this planetarium show and find out.

The planetarium shows 1,834 naked eye stars, the Milky Way (the diffuse band of light caused by the dust of our own galaxy), and the five naked-eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) under a twenty-four-foot dome with forty-two comfortable chairs. For more information, 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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The MC Bookstores have introduced a new line of MC Alumni merchandise. You’ve waited patiently, and now you can show your MC pride by wearing “MC Alumni” clothing and displaying other items that are emblazoned with “MC Alumni.” Keep checking the MC Bookstores website, http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/bkstores/alumni/index.htm, for new items as they become available, or you can visit one of the campus bookstores to purchase items.

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Courtesy Posting:

The Seneca Valley High School Class of 1979 will hold its 25-year reunion over Labor Day weekend, September 3-5, 2004. Reunion activities include a golf outing on Friday, Sept. 3; a dinner/dance on Saturday, Sept. 4; a family picnic with the SVHS Class of 1978 on Sunday, Sept. 5. For more information, visit the SVHS Class of 1979 website or contact Julie Foster at 301-663-7979 or e-mail to Julie.foster@montgomerycollege.edu.

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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