forest park holiday party time to judge the decked doors project
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forest park holiday party time to judge the decked doors project
Music Professor turned Art Student Tom Zirkle created this pastel drawing of the campus which is the centerpiece of President Cindy Hess’ 2012 holiday greeting. Giving projects, the annual door decorating contest, division potlucks, final exams…it must be holiday time at Forest Park. Although business continues as usual near the end of a very busy semester, the countdown clock has begun for winter break. Mark your calendars for these upcoming events, and don’t forget: Spring Service Week is just around the corner! FOREST PARK HOLIDAY PARTY Thursday, Dec. 13, noon-1:30 p.m., Highlander Lounge Join your colleagues for refreshments, holiday music, hot cider, door prizes, and the annual bestowing of the Door Decorating Contest trophy. No retirees yet… TIME TO JUDGE THE DECKED DOORS And so the judging begins…you’ll see official-looking judges walking the halls this week, analyzing the creative efforts of our holiday door decorating enthusiasts. Thanks to the unflagging efforts of Marla Bowers and Jennifer Heffner, we have an unprecedented number of door decoraters this year—17! So make sure you come to the Holiday party Thursday to congratulate the winners. Yes, you are all winners for bringing joy to the campus… PROJECT BACKPACK Kids who get moved out of their homes because of domestic violence are usually scared and vulnerable, with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Project Backpack provides backpacks filled with personal and emergency items such as sleepwear, toiletries and comfort items like small teddy bears. The backpacks are distributed to police departments, social service agencies and shelters, and handed to kids “on the scene and at the moment they are needed.” Project Backpack is this year’s giving project for the Business, Math & Technology division. To donate, bring a filled backpack, or baby tote bag, with age-appropriate items to the BMT office, F-317, by Friday, Dec. 14. Their wish list includes t-shirts, socks, underwear, school supplies, small toys, hats, gloves, hair and makeup products, toiletries, etc. Linda Basich, ext. 9286; Gerri McCottrell, ext. 9760 WEWIN FOR HEALTHY KIDS Gifts items or cash donations are needed for the 8th Annual Holiday Party of WeWin for Healthy Kids, a local non-profit agency which helps at-risk and underserved youth through health and fitness related programs. WeWin is this year’s giving project for the Student Government Association and Campus Life Programming Board. Toys, books, gift cards, beauty and hygiene products, socks, underwear, soap and laundry products are needed (no stuffed animals). Drop off in Campus Life by Tuesday, Dec. 11 at noon. More than $1,000 in cash has already been donated—help them meet their goal of $2,000! Monique Webb, ext. 9138 CANNED FOOD DRIVE I Surgical Technology Club students would like to thank the generous Forest Park folks who helped fill an entire shopping cart with canned foods for the Arnold Food Pantry. The food was delivered last week to the non-profit pantry, which serves about 150 needy families every week in Arnold, as well as parts of Imperial and Fenton. The food pantry opened in 1983 in the basement of an old school house, and just yesterday cut the ribbon at its new location, 2024 Key West Drive. CANNED FOOD DRIVE II & MOVIES If you missed the first food drive, there’s still time to help the hungry. Bring canned foods and other non-perishable items to Café East, Dec. 11-13, watch free movies and enjoy popcorn and punch with the Business Club. All donations will go to the Christ Pilgrim Church Food Pantry. Movie times are 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. each day: Tuesday, Dec. 11, The Hangover Wednesday, Dec. 12, Green Hornet Thursday, Dec. 13, Fright Night HARRISON CENTER TOY DRIVE New, unwrapped toys are needed for the Harrison Education Center’s Annual Holiday Toy Drive. Sponsored by the TANF Student Advocate Office, the toy drive is targeting children between the ages of newborn to 12 years. Bring the new toys to the TANF office at the Harrison Center by 4:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 14. TANF Office, 314-763-6017 A big pat on the back to our other giving projects: The Stitch-N-Chat ladies who knit and crochet hats year-round for the homeless folks at St. Patrick’s Center. These ladies can always use yarn donations— send to Linda Basich, BMT division office. The Human Services Club, which adopted four families for a Thanksgiving food drive and is also collecting school supplies for a school in Solwezi, Zambia. Drop off school supplies in C-214. The Clay Club and Culinary Arts students who again sponsored the Empty Bowls fundraiser to benefit Operation Food Search. This year’s drive was moved from the campus to Plaza Frontenac, Nov. 2728, where several hundred (student-made) ceramic bowls were auctioned off. Operation Food Search is taking orders for their holiday card (shown right). Click on http://www.operationfoodsearch.org/events/2012holiday-cards-now-available.php Angelic Cole’s Business Administration students who cleaned and decorated the Imperial Crown Pet Cemetery on Saturday, Dec. 1. About 200 of Cole’s students have donated their time to this project during spring and fall the past two years. Our AAWCC chapter, which is chaired by Forest Park’s Patricia Sherman this year, who is spearheading a drive to collect personal items (toiletries) to benefit a small village in Uganda. Sherman won’t be mailing the boxes until February, so you still have time to collect some items and send them to her in Health Information Technology. Radiologic Technology 2nd-year students who collected school supplies and more than $225 for KidSmart, a nonprofit that ensures local schools have basic supplies like pencils, paper and crayons. Rad Tech students Greg Taylor, Aasia Langrial, Darya Mogilenskikh, Marusha Melo, Becca Cordia, and Sana Shaikh collected supplies for KidSmart. COMING EVENTS: Spring Service Week Calendar We know you really don’t want to think about Spring Service Week yet, but before you leave for the holiday, mark your calendar for the Spring Opening Session, Monday, Jan. 7 in the Cafeteria: 8:30 a.m., Continental Breakfast 9 a.m., Opening Session A complete calendar is being finalized now and will be available later today or tomorrow. If you have a meeting or event for Spring Service Week that you haven’t sent to Donna Nelson for inclusion in the calendar, SEND IT NOW: [email protected]. As usual, the calendar is a work in progress and will be updated periodically as new events are scheduled. Get your cookbook today! Donna Bakke and Dan Yezbick want to remind you that the “One College, Many Tables” cookbook is still available for sale in the bookstore. Cost is $20; all proceeds will benefit the Study Abroad scholarship program. More than 100 recipes are featured in the cookbook, available in a binder format. Just in time for holiday cooking and giving! 10 Questions with Anita Zieren where they were sharecroppers. She taught me strong ethics and values, that everyone is a creation of God and that I should show and demonstrate respect-even though it may not appear that others do, because of how they wish to live their lives, even liars and cheats. She would tell me, “God is the judge, not you.” 5. What would people be surprised to know about you? I have a wicked sense of humor. 6. What are some of your favorite things to do? I enjoy playing and teasing my cat; spending time with my friends; and driving around, seeing new places, without a plan before starting out. Anita Zieren has worked in higher education for 20 years and has been an academic adviser here since 2005. Prior to joining STLCC, she worked at Saint Louis University for 12 years, first as an associate registrar for Parks (Air) College, then academic programs coordinator in the dean’s office when Parks moved from Cahokia, Ill., to the mid-town SLU campus. Before SLU, she worked as an assistant registrar at Webster University, where she earned a master’s degree in business administration. Her undergraduate degree in criminal justice is from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. 1. Where did you grow up? St. Louis. My first few years were spent living down the street from the Anheuser-Busch brewery, then a move to Florissant. I moved back to the city for 24 years, and now live in beautiful Webster Groves. 2. What drew you to your career path? I enjoy working with college students, as they provide a treat each day. They are on the boarding platform to their future. It's wonderful to see the transformation from anxious freshmen to accomplished seniors and alumni. At the community college, however, I'm only able to see half of this transformation. 3. What do you like best about your work? 7. What motivates you to do your best? Knowing that tomorrow will bring on new challenges and keep life lively. 8. If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be? This one is difficult. There are so many people in the past, real and imagined, that I would love to chat with. I would enjoy having discussions with our founding fathers—Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Washington, Paine, Hamilton, John Jay, and so forth. I’d be thrilled to talk to Abigail Adams. I’d love to get into the mind of Agatha Christie and how she developed such characters as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, or spend time with Colin Dexter and Chief Inspector Morse. I’d enjoy being in Alan Shepard’s seat as he became the first U.S. citizen in space or standing next to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they took the first steps on the moon, or being on the Wright Flyer when Orville Wright first took flight. I’d like to talk to William Shakespeare about his humor in penning his plays. Wouldn’t be fascinating to sit and talk to the early Roman and Greek philosophers, the masters in art and find out who Mona Lisa was to DaVinci? I suppose this means that I would trade places with Dr. Who, the Time Lord, in his TARDIS. Every day there is something new. Each student I see presents a new perspective on what can be the same old, same old. 9. What is a future goal for you? 4. Who has had the greatest influence in your life? 10. How would you like to be remembered? It sounds corny, but my mom had the greatest influence on my life. She grew up in Waynesboro, Tenn.; then the family migrated to Caruthersville, Mo., I would love to relocate to the upper west coast after retirement. Anyone say coffee and seafood? I hope that people will remember me as someone who cared and would leave them with a smile.