President's Message: May 3, 2011

Dear Faculty and Staff:

This week promises to be busy with campus cookouts and many other end of semester activities. Thanks to all of you who work so hard to make these events such a big success.

College Marvels
When I talk to students and hear about their favorite instructors, I also ask them to tell me about anyone at the College who has especially helped them. Here are the names mentioned to me most recently:

David Dean, Information Technology
Colleen Ley, Nursing
Kevin McGuinnis, Culinary Arts
Marty Richards, English
June Sarbacker, Business Technology

More Marvels
Congratulations to our Culinary Team for taking fourth place and bringing home a silver medal from a recent regional competition in New Orleans. The other teams came from Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Indiana to compete for the honor of going to the National competition later this summer in Texas.

Trista Langer, second year Respiratory Therapy student, was recognized as the Wisconsin Society for Respiratory Care's Student of the Year. She was nominated by RT instructors Patty Montgomery, Lauri Mill and Amy Setchell. It was Trista’s dedication to her studies, her fellow classmates and her passion to her new profession that made her the overwhelming choice. Congratulations Trista and instructors!

Instructor Christine Casselman and her Contemporary American Society students gave their time and resources to help the underserved in Milwaukee over Easter weekend. They served Easter dinner to more than 230 of Milwaukee’s hungry and homeless in 1-1/2 hours! The students also worked hard preparing food before the meal and cleaning up after, and many students made homemade cookies and donated gallons of milk and coffee to the organization. Congratulations students and Christine!

Green Tip of the Week – Make Spring Cleaning Earth Friendly
Make your own cleaning supplies if possible. Common household items such as vinegar and baking soda make great cleaning products.  Avoid cleaners containing phosphates – they biodegrade totally and quickly, and when they get into rivers and lakes they cause algae blooms, rob the water of oxygen, and even block sunlight that may harm marine life.
  
In the next week or two I will be on campus only intermittently due to a family illness. I appreciate your understanding as this semester comes to a close.

Following is a quote I saw at the end of an email from Mary Robbins. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Theodore Seuss Giesel

Thanks for everything you do for our students.

Bettsey