Aug. 25, 2008

The DigestWhat’s Happening at KVCC

What’s below in this edition Welcome ‘em back (Page 1) KVM T-shirts (Page 7) New KAFI feature (Pages 2/3) Food service (Page 7) Cougar Connection (Pages 3/4) Scottish history (Pages 7/8)

Corrections II (Page 4) Jefferson exhibit (Pages 9/10) Sunday Series (Page 5) Sky shows (Page 10) Trash team (Pages 5/6) Impressionism (Pages 10-12) PTK seeks members (Page 6) Recycling paper (Pages 12/13) Spread the word (Pages 6/7) And Finally (Page 13)

☻☻☻☻☻☻Student welcomers needed to launch fall semester

Faculty and staff are invited to man welcome-back-students tables on both the Texas Township and Arcadia Commons campuses for an hour or two.

“We're looking for a few good women and men to help staff fall-semester welcome tables on Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept. 2-3),” Mike McCall said. “Let's get our new students off to a good start and remind our returning students why they came back to the most helpful college in Michigan. In addition to serving our students, it is quite fun to do.”

Those who would like to volunteer for an hour or two can contact Rose Crawford at extension 4347 to sit with a colleague at locations around the Texas Township Campus, answer questions and give directions. Folks can also stop by her desk in the Admissions, Registration and Records Office to sign up.

Personnel at the Arcadia Commons Campus can contact Jackie Cantrell at extension 7805 to volunteer, offer directions and answer questions.

Music-animation contest new twist for KAFIBorrowing from a blending of the art forms of music and animation that began

with Walt Disney’s “Fantasia,” KVCC and Western Michigan University majors in those fields will compose original scores and set them to film in a new competition for the 2009 Kalamazoo Animation Festival International (KAFI).

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Teams of students from the two schools will compete for $5,000 in prize money and their creations will be showcased as part of the fifth KAFI set for downtown Kalamazoo May 14-17.

They are scheduled to begin their projects early in the 2008 fall semester and have them completed for judging by April 30.

Called the Kalamazoo Animation And Music Competition (KAAMC) and a first-of-its-kind partnership between WMU and KVCC, animation and music students will form teams. Judges will award $2,500 to a team for best animation and $2,500 for best musical composition with the possibility that the same team could win both awards.

A special KAFI screening will present the top entries and the winners will be announced at the festival’s wrap-up event on May 17.

Applicants must be current students or be previously enrolled at KVCC and WMU from the fall of 2006 up to the end of the 2007-08 academic year. They must be the original composer/creator of the finished film. Only one entry per team is allowed. There is a $20-per-team entry fee.

A team will be composed of one or more animators and one or more musicians, but there is no limit to the number of members per team to produce a finished film that is no longer than six minutes, two-thirds of which must feature the musical composition.

Applicants must attend a “Meet and Greet” information reception to interview and select their team members. Each applicant will present a one-minute pitch of his/her work to the group and bring samples of work to display and discuss. That session is set for Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Arcus Gallery of the KVCC Center for New Media in downtown Kalamazoo.

Successful units will practice team-building skills through collaboration and promote creativity of the two arts by scheduling regular meetings, storyboard updates, testing and final reviews during the contest period. No previously created material can be used for this competition. Music compositions may either use computer-generated or processed sound as a major component, or consist of sound created on an electric musical instrument, such as a synthesizer or sampler. Compositions that combine acoustic instruments and/or electric or computer sound are also accepted, but must be quality recorded/mixed/produced as part of the film. Animation may use any software application or style.

Among the criteria to be judged will be: quality and design of the finished piece; transitions from one idea to the next; musical and visual innovation used; integration of the two art forms; degree that music enhances the animation; and degree that animation enhances the music. Interested students must submit a KAAMC application form by Oct. 10 to verify they are eligible to take part in the competition.

Following the “Meet and Greet” session at which the teams will be formed, they will have until Nov. 6 to submit a team-application form and to pay the entry fee.

The idea for the music-animation collaboration was developed during a brainstorming session between KAFI staff and one of the festival’s funders, the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation of Kalamazoo.

The original idea was to advance the appreciation of the two art forms in the visual and audio world, to enrich the artistic talents of students and educators in the Kalamazoo area, and to create a blended masterpiece of animation and music.

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Given a successful inaugural, the plan is to extend it regionally for students in middle and high schools, and then on a national/global level to the world of professional animators and musicians for future KAFIs.

Among those from KVCC, which has hosted the four previous festivals, and who conceived the new competition and organized its parameters are: Lauren Beresford, director of operations for the M-TEC of KVCC; KAFI operations manager Margaret Noteboom, and instructors Linda Rzoska, Kevin White and Aubrey Hardaway. Representing WMU are David Colson, director of the School of Music, and Anders Dahlberg, artistic director in the School of Music’s Bullock Performance Institute.

Prospective students are advised to contact their animation or music instructors for additional information. Details and application forms are also available at these web sites: www.goKAFI.com or www.wmich.edu/music.

Information about this competition and the 2009 KAFI is available through Noteboom at (269) 373-7883 or mnoteboom@kvcc.edu.

Cougar Connection 2008 on Sept. 2KVCC programs, departments and services will be welcoming fall-semester

students at the 2008 Cougar Connection on Tuesday, Sept. 2, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the Texas Township Campus.

One of the new wrinkles will be “Bala” Balachandran setting up the college’s solar cooking in the morning for students, vendors and visitors to enjoy sky-powered pancakes and omelets. He and organizer Mary Johnson are looking for some volunteers to help with the food preparation. People can contact her at extension 4182 to sign up for those duties and to staff some welcome tables in the Student Commons.

This year’s "Connection" for new and returning students will also feature:♦ door prizes and other give-aways, including a computer♦ a variety of games♦ free food provided by vendors♦ fitness orientations by the KVCC Wellness and Fitness Center.♦ a scavenger hunt♦ massages by the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts♦ a local radio station’s remote broadcast♦ food and refreshments.♦ displays by college organizations and programs.♦ and promotions by local financial institutions, restaurants, and businesses.All will be free at the seventh Cougar Connection whose main sponsor is the

Educational Community Credit Union. Vendors for the 2008 Cougar Connection include: Midwest Radio Group AM

1560, Arra Insurance Agency, Boesky Chiropractic, Caricature Drawing, Charter One Bank, the Child Development Center, Downtown Kalamazoo, Inc., 1st Community Federal Credit Union, Frayed, Great Clips, Greenleaf Hospitality Group, JC Penney Salon, Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts, Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center, National City Bank, Papa John's Pizza, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Saffron, Sam's Club, Soccer Zone Multi-Sport Complex, S.W.A.T., Sweetwater's Donut Mill, Taco Bob's, The Coffee Bar, The Pointe at Western, The Spicy Pickle, U.S. Army, and the Young Chefs Academy.

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KVCC programs and services to students that would like to gain exposure during the 2008 Cougar Connection should contact Johnson, student activities and programs coordinator in The Student Commons.

To arrange for a table and any other preparations, contact her at extension 4182 or

e-mail her at mjohnson@kvcc.edu. Corrections Academy II a go at ACC

Training for a career in the corrections field begins again at KVCC on Monday, Sept. 8.

Under the auspices of the Kalamazoo Law Enforcement Training Center at the Texas Township Campus, the second Corrections Academy will prepare people for jobs in county jails and other lockup facilities operated by municipalities. However, it will be held this time at KVCC’s Arcadia Commons Campus.

Corrections Academy II has enrolled a full complement of 30 students for 160 hours worth of training in 14 modules through Oct. 3. The fee is $1,100.

The enrollees hail from sheriff’s departments in Kalamazoo, Van Buren, Cass, Barry, Branch and Allegan counties. About half are in an in-service mode because they are already in the profession while the others are using the academy to launch a career.

Because there is a standby list, a third academy will probably be scheduled for early 2009, according to David Reid, the in-service training coordinator for the center that includes the Kalamazoo Police Academy.

The concept of an academy, he said, sprang from state legislation that now requires certification for professionals in the corrections field.

“Most of the enrollees come from those already in the profession who now need the required state certification,” Reid said, “but there are people who are interested in establishing careers in the corrections field.”

Those who successfully complete the 160 hours of training will also receive 10 credit hours that they can apply to a degree in criminal justice at KVCC.

The college’s center, which is directed by Rick Ives, is offering the academy in conjunction with the Michigan Sheriffs Coordinating and Training Council.

“The academy was created,” Ives said, “to not only meet the need for corrections certification, but also to offer a different kind of career opportunity to KVCC students. Pre-certified candidates would set themselves up with an edge in the employment market.”

All of the instructors are certified and approved by the council. Completion of the 160 hours of training becomes one of the requirements needed to become certified as a corrections officer. Each enrollee must have a high school diploma or its equivalent.

The 14 training modules are: booking and intake, correctional law, cultural diversity, custody and security, defensive tactics, ethics in corrections, fire safety, interpersonal communications, prisoner behavior, report writing, workplace harassment, stress management, suicide prevention, and first aid, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and automated external defibrillator (AED) familiarity.

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For information about the academy or to apply for admission, contact Reid at (269) 488-4459 or dreid9615@kvcc.edu. Another source of information is at the

college’s web site – www.kvcc.edu – under the keyword of “Corrections Academy.” ‘Sunday Series’ spans spectrum of local history

The Kalamazoo man whose quest for adventure led to his death near the top of the world, the 175-year history of Kalamazoo College, the toys and games created in this community that achieved national fame, and murders that brought infamous notoriety are among the topics booked for the Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s 2008-09 “Sunday Series” presentations.

Beginning on Sept. 14 with “Edward Israel: Kalamazoo’s Arctic Pioneer,” each of the free programs will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater.

Historian Tom Dietz, the museum’s curator of research, will make all of the presentations with the exception of the second one.

On Sept. 28, Marlene Francis, a former member of the Kalamazoo College Board of Trustees, will use her new book marking the institution’s 175th anniversary as the basis for her perspectives on “Kalamazoo College: 175 Years of Academic Excellence.”

The October schedule includes “Toys and Games from Kalamazoo” on Oct. 12 and “Murders Most Foul: Notorious Murders in Kalamazoo” on Oct. 26.

The lone billing in November will be “Four Corners of Kalamazoo County” that sheds light on the crossroad settlements that dotted this part of the sate in the 19th century. It is set for Nov. 9.

The 2008 finale will be “Things of History” on Dec. 14 as Dietz tells the stories behind some of the museum’s more intriguing artifacts.

Here’s the line-up for the first half of 2009:♦ “Charlie Hays: Home Builder” on Jan. 11.♦ “Where the Streets Got Their Names” on Jan. 25.♦ “The Michigan Land Survey” on Feb. 8 looks at the origins of the mapping of what had been the Michigan Territory.♦ “The Sins of Kalamazoo Were Scarlet and Crimson” on Feb. 22 recounts the city’s red-light districts and speakeasies during Prohibition♦ “The Velvelettes” on March 8 – the Kalamazoo connections to Motown♦ “Famous Visitors to Kalamazoo” on March 22 – notables, celebrities and politicians who have come to this community for a variety of reasons.♦ “Red Terror in Kalamazoo: The 1948 Shakespeare Strike” on April 26.For more information, contact Dietz at 373-7990 or visit the museum’s website at

www.kalamazoomuseum.org.

Kane’s roadside-trash pickup crew back in actionAre you appreciative of those litter-filled plastic bags you see along Michigan’s

highways and freeways, and of the folks who give of their time to clean up after some people’s thoughtlessness?

You can turn appreciation into action by joining the KVCC Faculty Association in its participation in the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway program.

Tim Kane, who can be reached at extension 4466, is gathering a third cadre of volunteers to clean up a section of state road on Saturday, Sept. 20..

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Instructors Mark Sigfrids, Steve Walman, Natalie Patchell, Lisa Winch and Jean Snow have joined Kane at the two previous efforts.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to gather by 10 a.m. at the intersection of M-43 and M-40 west of Kalamazoo in the car-pool lot, or to share a cup of joe around 9:30 in the Outpouring Coffee Shop.

He reports that volunteers only need to bring a pair of gloves. Trash bags and safety vests will be provided.

The faculty association has received a certificate of appreciation from M-DOT and Gov. Jennifer Granholm for its 2007 willingness to take part in the program whose motto is “Pitchin’ in for Pleasant Peninsulas.”

PTK chapter seeking new membersThe KVCC chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society will begin its

new-member drive the third week of September with letters of invitation being sent to students who meet the requirements to join.

Those criteria include 12 credits completed at the 100 level with an academic average of 3.5 for those courses.

The chapter will be hosting four gatherings to inform students about Phi Theta Kappa, the benefits of membership, and what the chapter does at KVCC.

Here’s the schedule:● Tuesday, Sept. 23, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Student Commons Forum.● Wednesday, Sept 24, from 4:30 to 5:30. p.m. in Room 128C in Anna Whitten Hall.● Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Student Commons Forum.● Thursday, Oct. 2, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Student Commons Forum. “These meeting are open to anyone,” said chapter adviser Natalie Patchell. “We

will be accepting applications from invitees until Wednesday, Oct. 8, and the induction ceremony will be held on Sunday, Oct. 12, at 2 p.m. in the Dale Lake Auditorium. Faculty and staff are encouraged to celebrate with us at this event.”

PTK brochures are available through Patchell.

Spreading the wordOK, your new program, project, activity, community service or happening has

been given the green light by the powers-that-be. Or, you have been selected to make a presentation at a statewide or national conference.

Your next telephone call or e-mail should be to Tom Thinnes (extension 4280, tthinnes@kvcc.edu) to begin spreading the word both around the college and around the community.

Don’t – REPEAT – don’t wait around until the week before to contact those whose duties include public relations, promotions, marketing, communication and dealing with the news media.

What’s important to remember is that members of the news media and other vehicles of communications don’t sit on their hands waiting for calls giving them clues on what to do.

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As with all of us at KVCC, they have schedules, full platters, agendas and days, and plenty to do. They appreciate as much advance notice as the rest of us so that they can properly apply their resources and their responses.

The same modus operandi applies to those who organize and present annual and repeating events. They, too, are often just as newsworthy and require as much advance notice in order to generate the public exposure many of them deserve.

Helpful Hint No. 2 – There is no such animal as making a contact too early.Helpful Hint No. 3 – If something in the program, project, activity, community

service or happening changes or is eliminated, make another contact – and quickly -- so that the material/news release can be revised or updated.T-shirts themed to museum’s summer activities available This summer’s exhibit attraction at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum is “The Amazing Castle,” and souvenir T-shirts are available to mark its flashback to the way things were in medieval times.

Children and family activities have been linked to Middle Age legends, myths and cultures.

Available for purchase by KVCC staff and their families are gold T-shirts with a dark red dragon on the front. It contains the words "Once Upon A Time, Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Summer 2008.”

Adult sizes L-4XL and others are available at cost of $5 each. “Send checks made out to Kalamazoo Valley Museum to me via office male with

a note as to sizes,” says program coordinator Annette Hoppenworth. “Your shirt will be sent back through office mail.”

Food-services hours moving toward normal schedule Normalcy in food service on the Texas Township Campus begins to return the week of Aug. 25-29 with hours from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on those five days.

Food service will be back to its normal hours beginning Sept. 2. Regarding the coffee shop in the Student Commons, it has shut off the pot and

ground to a halt through Friday (Aug. 29).

Scotland’s ‘Royal Mile’ featured in ‘doc’A fantasy medieval castle and village from days of yore are the venues for

defining what “community” is all about in contemporary times, and it is on a three-month stay at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.           The free bilingual attraction will be in downtown Kalamazoo until Sept. 14.             Throughout the summer and into the fall, a compendium of documentaries are being shown in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater to complement the exhibit’s focus on the Middle Ages and the way things were back then.   Each will begin at 1:30 p.m. and there is no charge.  The schedule is below.

The Aug. 24 billing is “Great Streets: The Royal Mile.” From the palace of Holyroodhouse to Edinburgh Castle, the Royal Mile captures the history of Scotland with witch burnings, body snatching, and royal assassinations.

“The Amazing Castle” is targeted to entertain youngsters from toddlers to pre-teens, while at the same time delivering messages about the collaborating roles people play in the success of a community.

So, what’s in “The Amazing Castle” for adults?

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Conceived and created by the Minnesota Children’s Museum in St. Paul, the eight themes of “The Amazing Castle” and their hands-on activities allow plenty of opportunities for family and friends to be entertained by watching children use their creative energies and imaginations.

The youngsters are actually experiencing village life through the perspectives of characters working together to throw a castle party.

“The Amazing Castle” and its magical role-playing as lords and ladies, carpenters, cooks, gardeners, tailors and seamstresses, entertainers, blacksmiths, and builders will be welcoming visitors in downtown Kalamazoo into mid-September.

While no moat is involved, the slowly meandering Arcadia Creek flanks the exhibition’s home for those three months.

The special duties and roles of the characters will be explored and experienced as visitors make their way through a variety of workshops in the castle village.

Instead of individual pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the activities make the points that a community consists of different kinds of people, and for that community to succeed, people must help each other solve problems and work toward achieving common goals.

An important role in “The Amazing Castle” is that of the town crier. But this newscaster comes in the form of “Herald the Dragon,” a creature feature that has a tendency to fall asleep on the job.

However, the child participants and their families can get “Herald” to deliver the latest news and make castle-wide announcements by solving an electronic matching puzzle that sends the dragon a wake-up call.

“Herald” will rise from the top of a tower and tell the world what he knows.“The Amazing Castle” can launch children into “a world of dramatic play and

imagination” as they and their families become inhabitants “of a fanciful castle village and playfully explore ideas related to community life.”

Donning costumes as they assume roles, they can: ● Harvest fresh ingredients from the castle’s garden and become a cook mixing a

mouth-watering stew in the Great Hall’s cauldron.● Capture the creativity of a carpenter in constructing a small chair.● Build a small fortress out of lightweight “stone.:● Try their “hands” as purveyors of entertainment as puppeteers and court jesters.The exhibit’s design creates the impression of stepping into a time machine and

dialing up the Middle Ages in a playful way. Arches, towers, split-beam construction, hand-cut stone walls, and heraldic

symbols abound.“The impression of a small, bustling village within castle walls,” a promotional

brochure states, “is attained by assembling a group of structures related to the basic functions of a community – working, eating, playing – and making them quickly identifiable. Life-sized images of rather comical castle residents stationed in the doorways and at work further the perception of being in a village or community,” and that it is time for a little fun.

Joining with the museum in St. Paul in supporting the creation of “The Amazing Castle” was the Curtis and Marjorie Nelson and The Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation, along with the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) Foundation Inc.

Here is the rest of the documentary line-up:

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● Sept. 7: “Visions of Scotland” – a bird’s-eye view of this historic country.● Sept. 21 – “Visions of England” – a similar perspective of Great Britain.

Days dwindling to sample Jefferson exhibitThomas Jefferson’s far-reaching interest in the sciences is the theme of an

exhibition that is filling the first-floor gallery of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum through Sept. 1.

Featuring scientific instruments, furniture, maps, and Native American objects from the period of Jefferson’s life, all are from the private collection of Paul Millikan, retired professor of history at KVCC.

To augment this special showcase, the museum is showing a series of free documentaries on Sundays at 3 p.m. in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater about Jefferson and his times.

The Aug. 24 segment is about “The Lewis and Clark Expedition” that Jefferson promoted and financed as president. The second half of the two-part documentary chronicles the explorers’ return to “civilization” after their journey to the Pacific Ocean.

“I have always had an abiding interest in the genius that was Thomas Jefferson,” said Millikan, who taught history at KVCC for 32 years. “A true Renaissance man, he was statesman, architect, political philosopher, author, diplomat, designer, musician, collector, inventor, and always the keen observer, analyst and recorder of the things around him.”

Born in 1743, Jefferson grew to adulthood during the Age of Enlightenment, and lived to see the beginnings of America’s Industrial Revolution before his death on the Fourth of July in 1826. In one of U. S. history’s most remarkable coincidences, fellow American Founding Father John Adams died that same day – the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson had a passionate interest in learning, from political philosophy to the latest invention or scientific discovery. That curiosity was not only a personal thirst for knowledge, but was aimed at applying that knowledge to better the lives of humankind.

In Jefferson’s time, scientists were often referred to as “practical philosophers” who were trying to learn as much as possible about the natural world and scientific phenomena.

Jefferson, who came to be recognized as a pioneer in numerous branches of science, said: “No inquisitive mind will be content to be ignorant of the sciences of astronomy, natural history, natural philosophy, chemistry, and anatomy.”

Following his two presidential terms, Jefferson in retirement at his home in Monticello said: “Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.”

The exhibition provides a glimpse of the range and breadth of his scholarship and pursuits.

“Upon my first visit to Monticello in 1962, I was very much taken with Mr. Jefferson’s interest in natural history and his collections of specimens,” said Millikan, who is also a prolific collector of Civil War artifacts. “I began to read about all of Mr. Jefferson’s scientific interests.

“When I purchased part of the petrified tusk of a mammoth,” he said, “the collector bug had bitten and I determined to collect duplicates of as many of the scientific

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instruments, specimens, and objects in Mr. Jefferson’s inventory at Monticello as I could. The results of that collecting interest are presented in this exhibit.”

In the exhibition are an 18th-century electric-generating machine, surveyor’s equipment, telescopes, maps, and a replica of a painted buffalo robe given by the Mandan Indians to Lewis and Clark, who sent it to Jefferson.

Specially featured is a pair of Country Chippendale chairs that were made to Jefferson’s order for him at the joinery at Monticello.

All other pieces are duplicates of items that Jefferson owned. The originals are found at Monticello, the University of Virginia, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

“It is my hope that the exhibit will add to the education, inspiration, and enrichment of this community and the surrounding area,” Millikan said. “I believe it to be a unique look at an often overlooked facet of one of our most diverse and complex

founding fathers,” he said. Here is the remaining lineup of documentaries:♦ Sept. 7: “Monticello – Home of Thomas Jefferson”♦ Sept. 21: “Saving the National Treasures,” an account of how a team of

conservators, engineers and historians worked to save the Declaration of Independent and other original documents that are being ravaged by time.

3 planetarium shows ending summer runThree planetarium shows designed to introduce children to the wonders of the

universe are wrapping up their summer billing at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.Tickets to showings on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 31 are

$3.“Treasures of the Milky Way” is the offering on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. and

Saturdays at 2 p.m. This 50-minute show targets viewers from the sixth grade up.“Night of the Falling Stars” brings into focus the origins of meteors and meteor

showers as they are viewed from Earth. It’s the planetarium’s 30-minute feature on Saturdays at 11 a.m., on Sundays at 1:30 p.m., and on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. Its material can be comprehended by third-graders and older.

“Ring World” tells the story of the Cassini spacecraft and its mission to Saturn to explore the planet’s clouds, rings and moons. One of its probes landed on the moon known as Titan. Designed for fifth-graders and up, “Ring World” is flashed on the planetarium’s dome on Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Those turned on by these space treks can also sign up for 45-minute mini-missions to Mars aboard the museum’s Challenger Learning Center on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. The fee to become a Challenger crew member for this simulated mission is $3.

These experiences are open to children 6 years old and older, but those under 12

should be accompanied by a partner who is at least 12 years old.

Impressionism art exhibit in Muskegon ends Aug. 31Five paintings, which are part of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s collection, are

on loan to the Muskegon Museum of Art as part of its current exhibition – “Sunlight in a Paintbrush: American Impressionism from Regional Collections.”

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Open through Aug. 31, the 59-painting show is viewable at the Muskegon museum that is located at 296 W. Webster Ave.

Other lenders include the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, John Todd III of Kalamazoo, and the Ox-Bow School of Arts and Artists Residency in Saugatuck.

Here are the five that will be spending the next four months in The Port City: “Spalato from San Stefano,” a 1912 work by Alson Skinner Clark (1876-1949) “Cloudless Day,” 1926, by Franklin DeHaven (1856-1934) “In the Berkshires,” 1927, by Michigan native George Glenn Newell (1870-

1947) “The Lily Pool,” 1920, by Charles Oppenheimer (1875-1961) “The Joy of the Sea,” 1918, by Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927)Impressionism is described as a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose

association of Paris-based artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, which provoked a critic to coin the term in a satiric review that was published.

Among the characteristics of Impressionism painting are visible brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities often accentuating the effects of the passage of time, ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.

Newell was born in Berrien County and grew up in Grand Rapids. He graduated from Albion College in 1890 and studied at the Teachers College of Columbia University. He received his art training at the National Academy.

Pastoral landscapes were his specialty. He raised dogs and cattle and used the animals as models for his paintings. His work is in the National Gallery in Washington, the Art Association of Dallas, and the Detroit Institute of Arts

Potthast was among the celebrated handful of artists from Cincinnati who became leading American Impressionists. He studied in his home city as well as abroad, notably in Munich where the German-American was drawn to the broad brushwork of artists in that nation.

After working as a lithographer back in Cincinnati, he moved to New York City where he established himself as a painter. He was known for his sun-drenched, richly colored and animated beach scenes.

Educated at the Chicago Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York, Clark also studied in Paris for two years. He moved to Pasadena, Calif., in about 1920. During World War I, he served as one of the first aerial photographers.

Clark took up mural painting shortly after his arrival in southern California, although he primarily considered himself a landscape painter. He taught at Occidental College and was director of the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena. He painted murals for the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, but the theater was demolished during the 1960s because it wasn't earthquake safe.

Born in Bluffton, Ind., DeHaven found himself in New York City in 1886 as a student of a landscape painter who favored Rocky Mountain, Florida, New England and Atlantic shoreline scenes. Much of De Haven's works were done in the New England area. His paintings are characterized by variety, excellent draftsmanship, and a thorough understanding of nature. Dramatic skies are almost always a major element.

A popular tonalist painter, he exhibited at the prestigious National Academy of Design for more than 50 years. Known as "Pop" to members of the prestigious

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Salmagundi Club, DeHaven is exhibited at the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.Oppenheimer was born in Manchester, England, and trained as an artist there and in Italy. By 1910 he had settled in Kirkcudbright, which at that time had an active artists' community. Oppenheimer was a landscape specialist whose work concentrates on the changing light and seasons of Galloway, Ayrshire and Italy. Being a keen fisherman he

was an acute observer of river life and the effects of light upon water. Recycle those paper products

With thoughts of gearing up for the fall semester and cleaning out the officer, don’t just dump those papers. Keep those recyclable resources in the mainstream.

Think about what you are doing and don’t be lazy in doing it.The college’s commitment to recycling the mountains of paper required for daily

operations is still strong. The losers for not maintaining that strength are the landfills of Southwest

Michigan, and the trees that help replenish the planet with the stuff we all breathe.Hammered through all of us in many a science class is that trees eat what we

exhale and what comes out of our vehicles’ exhausts. Each time a tree is saved through the use of recycled paper, so is an oxygen generator.

It’s not that tough to do. All that is required is a little patience and a sense that one is doing the right thing.

The same goes with metal and plastic products that touch our lives and, without any consideration, end up in trash containers. What good is it to down a plastic bottle of that good, clear, clean water, and then relegate the containers to the landfills?

Just about every ilk of paper product that comes our way can be recycled. In one KVCC study, it was concluded that 80 percent of what the college

incinerates doesn’t have to be destroyed that way.Print out this list of “recyclables” and post it just above your blue bin: Newspapers Business cards Hard-cover books Copy paper Index cards Trade journals and magazines Cardboard Fax paper Junk mail Notebook paper Paper bags Envelopes without plastic windows (Think about cutting out the plastic

windows) Business forms Computer printouts File folders Maps Post-it notes

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StationeryIt is not necessary to remove staples or other forms of bindings from the paper

items to be recycled. Obviously, paper clips can be easily salvaged before launching the paper

materials into the blue bin. However, if the above materials are soiled by excessive dirt, food, grease or other

forms of gook, send them to the incinerator. Most of this applies to what we do in our homes, too. By taking the time to

recycle paper, plastic, metal and glass products, the amount of trash, debris and garbage bound for the landfill can be drastically reduced.

If possible, establish a compost pile in your yard. That can accomplish at least three goals – create your own fertilizer, build up a personal supply of worms if you are an angler, and greatly reduce the amount of trash you put out along the roadside for pickup, thus reducing your costs.

Need more convincing? It is estimated that it takes a plastic container 50,000 years to decompose. Think about that the next time you chuck away that empty water

bottle that cost you at least a buck. And finally. . .

Medical terminology continues to grow more complex, but here are a few new twists for your grinning pleasure:

Artery – the study of fine paintingBarium – what happens after a patient diesBenign -- what happens after you are eightCesarean section – a neighborhood in RomeColic – a sheepdogCongenital – friendlyDilate – what happens when you live longerFester – quickerG. I. series – a baseball game between soldiersHangnail – a coat hookMedical staff – a doctor’s caneMinor operation – digging coal, or what the other guy is going under the

knife forMorbid – a higher offerNitrate – Lower than the day rateNode – was aware ofOrganic – church musicianOut-patient – a patient who has faintedPost-operative – a letter carrierProtein – favors young peopleSecretion – the act of hiding somethingSerology – studying English knighthoodTumor – an extra pairUrine – opposite of you’re outVaricose veins – veins that are very close together

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