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April 16–23, 2007
THE WEEK AT MARIAN
Produced for Marian College students, faculty and staff
Art auction to benefit Thanatology program
Gromme’s work featured in live,
silent auction and dinner May 5
“Snowy Owl and a Lucky Mouse”
Marian College will hold an Owen Gromme Wildlife Art
Auction and Dinner in Marian’s Stayer Center for
Technology & Executive Learning Saturday, May 5 at 6 p.m.
Proceeds from the art auction and dinner will benefit the
Edwin S. Shneidman Program in Thanatology, a
collaborative initiative of Agnesian HealthCare, St. Agnes
Hospital Foundation and Marian College. Gromme prints
will be featured in a silent auction at 6 p.m. and a live
auction following the dinner.
Born in 1896 in Fond du Lac, Gromme began his career
at 21 as a taxidermist at the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago. After World War I, Gromme worked at
the Milwaukee County Museum (now Milwaukee Public
Museum) as a taxidermist, collector, photographer, movie
editor, background painter, botanist, geologist, sculptor and
curator of birds and mammals. He retired in 1965 to devote
himself full-time to painting.
Gromme gained acclaim in 1945 when he won the
Federal Duck Stamp competition. In 1963 Gromme
completed an internationally respected volume of scientific
paintings, Birds of Wisconsin. He was frequently called the
“dean of American wildlife artists.” His reputation as a
painter of wildlife art enabled him to bring about important
conservation issues such as legislation to protect birds, the
protection of the Horicon Marsh, and the formation of the
International Crane Foundation. Gromme served as
president of the Wetlands for Wildlife organization and was
among the first to crusade against the use of harmful
chemicals in the outdoors.
Gromme
received
five
honorary
“Wood Ducks on Gall’s Pond”
doctorates for his environmental work,
including one from Marian College in 1978.
“We owe a great deal to those who came
before us, and it is our duty to pass on to
posterity a world morally and physically as
good as, or better than, the one we live in,”
said Gromme at Marian’s spring 1978
Commencement. “By every legal means it is
our duty to oppose those who out of greed
and avarice, or for selfish or other reasons,
would pollute, defile or destroy that which
means life itself to every living being.”
The evening will begin with a reception at
6 p.m., featuring hors d’oeuvres, microbrews
and a winetasting, and a silent auction. The
live auction will follow the roasted duck
dinner. Noted Gromme items for auction
include “Days End — Mixed Bag,” “Snowy
See AUCTION page 4
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MONDAY 16
Critical Thinking Open
Forum
Stayer Center 217
12:45–2:15 PM
Still Need a Job? How
to Perform the OneMinute Miracle
Career Development
Center
3–4 PM
5:30–6:30 PM
TUESDAY 17
Federal and state
income taxes due
WEDNESDAY 18
Remembering Service
Dorcas Chapel
12:30 PM
Inside Strategies for
Your Résumé
Baseball at Wisconsin
Stayer Center Sodexho Lutheran (doubleheader)
Dining Room
1 PM
5:30–7 PM
Softball at Wisconsin
Lutheran (doubleheader)
3 PM
Softball at Concordia
(doubleheader)
3 PM
Men’s tennis vs.
Concordia
4 PM
MONDAY 23
THURSDAY 19
April 16–23, 2007
FRIDAY 20
“Creating Peace Amidst Stability ball training
Civil War in Colombia” Sadoff Gymnasium
Stayer Center
12:15–12:45 PM
11:15 AM–12:40 PM
Faculty Senate meeting
Critical Thinking Open Stayer Center
Forum
auditorium
Stayer Center 212–213 2:30 PM
12:45–2:15 PM
Men’s tennis at
Baseball vs. Ripon
Dubuque (Iowa)
(seven- and nine-inning 3 PM
doubleheader)
Fond du Lac Baseball Marian College Theatre
Complex
“A Midsummer Night’s
1 PM
Dream”
Hornung Student
Ballroom dancing
Center
lessons
8 PM
Stayer Center 212–213
4:45 PM
Debt and Investing
sponsored by Business
Club
Common Grounds
6 PM
“An Inconvenient Truth”
Stayer Center
auditorium
7 PM
Tunnel of Oppression
Stayer Center
7–10 PM
2
SATURDAY 21
Softball vs. Aurora (Ill.)
(doubleheader)
Noon
Baseball vs. Maranatha
Baptist (doubleheader)
Fond du Lac Baseball
Complex
Noon
Men’s tennis at Rockford
1 PM
Marian College Theatre “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Hornung Student Center
8 PM
SUNDAY 22
Baseball vs. Rockford (Ill.)
(doubleheader)
1 PM
Marian College Theatre “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Hornung Student Center
1:30 PM
Faculty/Staff
Recognition Banquet
6:30 PM
The Week Ahead at Marian:
Monday, April 16–Monday, April 23
For an updated list of events, go to
http://www.mariancollege.edu/interior.asp?id=67
Marian College Theatre
“A Midsummer Night’s
Dream”
Hornung Student
Center
8 PM
Symphonic Band Pops Concert is Sunday
The Fond du Lac Symphonic Band will
present its 28th annual Pops Concert in
the Performing Arts Center at Fond du Lac
High School Sunday, April 22 at 3 p.m.
There will be no admission charge for
general seating. Funding will be provided
by a free-will offering and reserved
sponsors’ seating, which is available at $15
per single main floor seat, and $100 per
mezzanine box, with seating for four
people. To arrange for reserved seating, call
907-7678, or mail requests with payment
to Pops Tickets, P O Box 1483, Fond du
Lac WI 54936. Information is also
available on the Band’s Web site,
www.fdlsymphonicband.org.
The concert will feature trumpet soloist
Marty Robinson, Assistant Professor of
Trumpet and Jazz at the University of
Wisconsin–Oshkosh. Dr. Robinson is a
native of Neenah and holds degrees from
Lawrence University, the Eastman School
of Music, and Florida State University.
Prior to his appointment at Oshkosh in
2004, Dr. Robinson taught at Florida A&M
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University in Tallahassee, where he was
recognized as Teacher of the Year in 2001.
Three area vocalists will be featured as
the Band presents selections from Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s 1949 hit musical
“South Pacific.” Deb Fett will sing the role
of nurse Nellie Forbush. Fett currently
teaches elementary music at Riverside
and Rosenow schools in Fond du Lac, and
she has performed in various shows
throughout Wisconsin including Fond du
Lac Community Theater, the Fireside
Playhouse in Fort Atkinson, and several
seasons with the Heritage Ensemble in
Fish Creek.
Returning to the Band’s stage to
perform the role of Bloody Mary is Susan
Pitzen. A regular with the Symphonic
Band in Cathedral, Pops and summer
concerts since 1981, Pitzen has also been
active in theater with leads in “My Fair
Lady” and “Arsenic and Old Lace” at St
Lawrence Seminary and with the
Community Theater in Fond du Lac.
Mark Plummer will complete the trio as
the French plantation owner Emile de
Becque. Plummer is Associate Professor of
Music at Marian College, where he has
served on the faculty since 2000. Plummer
is equally comfortable with operatic and
popular idioms, having sung such roles as
Cavaradosi in Puccini’s “Tosca” and Jud
Frye in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
“Oklahoma!”
Differing styles will comprise a set of
three tangos on the program. The mostfamiliar, La Cumparsito, was composed in
Uruguay in 1917, and has become known
as the definitive “tango piece” throughout
the world. Music of Russian composers will
be represented with a spritely “Polonaise”
by
Anatoly
Liedov,
and
Dmitri
Shostakovich’s brilliant “Festive Overture.”
The Band also will perform a patriotic
elegy composed after the tragedy of 9/11:
“Ever Braver, Ever Stronger” by Gordon
Goodwin. In a lighter vein is Dance of the
Hours by Ponchielli (better-known for the
lyrics “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” that
were added by comedian Allen Sherman).
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Common Grounds
Coffee House
SPRING SEMESTER
Monday–Thursday
7 a.m.–9 p.m.
Friday
7 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sunday
Noon–9 p.m.
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Shakespeare’s
“Dream” starts
Thursday
(From left) Brittany Woyak plays Puck,
Rob Gustafson plays Oberon and
Chantelle Graczkowski plays Titania.
Cardinal Meyer Library
Monday–Thursday
7:30 a.m.–11 p.m.
Friday
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday
Noon–4 p.m.
Sunday
2–11 p.m.
Bookstore and
Sabre Shop
Monday–Friday
8 a.m.–4 p.m.
Weekends
CLOSED
Stayer Center
Monday–Friday
7 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
(Extended hours based on
conferences and events)
Stayer Center client parking is
located south of the Stayer Center.
General campus parking is located
south of Sadoff Gymnasium.
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Monday–Thursday
9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Friday
9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Sunday 4–7 p.m.
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Marian College Theatre will
present William Shakespeare’s
fun-filled romantic comedy, “A
Midsummer
Night’s
Dream,” as its spring 2007
featured drama.
The play completes the
student-founded Theatre’s 15th
season on a classical note of
high-spirited humor.
Performances will take place
in the college’s Hornung
Student Center April 19–21 at
8 p.m. and April 22 at 1:30 p.m.
Admission is $5 for the general
public, $2 for senior citizens
and non-Marian students with
a valid ID, and free to the
Marian College community.
Founded in 1992 by a group
of creative students who
provided the impetus and startup funding for the college’s first
annual play, Marian College
Theatre is directed by Dr.
David Schimpf. The Theatre
engages students from all
divisions of the college, ranging
from science and nursing to the
arts and humanities.
The spring 2007 production
enlists the talent of student
actors and technicians along
with theatrical artists from the
local
community.
Cast
members include Renee Beyer,
Scott Bins, Andy Brault, Nicole
Brocks, Amanda Czajkowski,
April
Dunisch,
Tiffany
Erdmann,
Chantelle
Graczkowski, Rob Gustafson,
Veronica Hilgenberg, Amanda
Koss, Katie Oestreich, Brett
Petri, Maggie Pickart, David
Schimpf,
Mark
Schimpf,
Elizabeth Stafford, Melissa
TeWinkle,
Annette
Van
Straten, and Brittany Woyak.
A carnival of contagious fun
and folly, “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” follows the
romantic revolts and reveries of
four star-crossed youths who
spurn
the
trappings
of
arranged marriage in pursuit of
true love. The youths are aided
and abetted by a cast of
matchmaking fairies with an
uncanny knack for mischief.
Considered
one
of
Shakespeare’s
finest
and
funniest comedies, the play
captures
the
everyday
frustrations
and
common
pitfalls that pave the road of
romance, dating and marriage
while also adding a dash of
magical
spice,
reminding
audiences that anything is
possible in a world transformed
by love’s rebellious spirit.
Celebrating its 15th season,
Marian College Theatre draws
its strength from a long legacy
of student activism that
inspired the formation of the
theatre in the 1992–93 school
year, when members of a
student club approached college
faculty to discuss founding a
theatre program. Student club
funds financially backed the
college’s first play. The outlay of
student support — coupled
with a separate but synchronous effort by the college
administration to establish a
Communications department
— led to the inception of
Marian College Theatre, a fullservice theatre arts program.
Marian College Theatre includes an academic minor and
experiential-based
learning
through spring and fall
productions. It advocates a
holistic study of the theatre arts
as a means of creative expression, personal enrichment
and civic participation.
Creating a collaborative
exchange between college and
community, past productions
have united the skills of
student actors and community
members, including volunteers
from the Fond du Lac
Community Theatre, which
celebrates its 50th anniversary
this year.
For
more
information,
please contact Dr. David
Schimpf,
(920)
923-8734,
[email protected].
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Sabre Sports Schedule
For more information, head to the Marian College athletics Web site:
http://www.mariancollege.edu/interior.asp?id=37
Men’s tennis
April 16: Concordia, 4 p.m.
April 18: at Dominican, 3 p.m.
April 20: at Dubuque (Iowa), 3 p.m.
April 21: at Rockford, 1 p.m.
Softball
April 16: at Concordia (doubleheader), 3
p.m.
April 18: at Wisconsin Lutheran
(doubleheader), 3 p.m.
‘Creating Peace
Amidst War
in Colombia’
Thursday
Marian College’s Social
Justice Series will present
“Creating Peace Amidst Civil
War in Colombia: The Peace
Community of San José de
Apartadó,” in Marian’s Stayer
Center Arthur H. Sadoff
Auditorium Thursday, April 19
at 11:15 a.m.
To escape the relentless
brutality of Colombia’s civil
war, which has lasted nearly 50
years, a small group of
subsistence farming families
founded the Peace Community
of San José de Apartadó in
1997. With the blessing of the
local bishop but without
support from the Colombian
government, they responded to
the escalating violence and
extrajudicial killings of their
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April 19: at St. Norbert (doubleheader), 3
p.m.
April 21: Aurora, noon.
Baseball
April 18: at Wisconsin Lutheran
(doubleheader), 1 p.m.
April 19: Ripon (doubleheader), 1 p.m.
April 21: Maranatha Baptist
(doubleheader), noon.
April 22: Rockford (doubleheader), 1 p.m.
community
leaders
with
peaceful
resistance.
Nevertheless, the community
has suffered more than 160
deaths. The survival of this tiny
community depends on the
conscience of the international
community.
Shane
Boeder,
Ph.D.,
associate professor of Spanish
and human rights activist,
went to Colombia with the
Fellowship of Reconciliation
and stayed in the Peace
Community in August 2006.
She talked with the director of
Colombia’s Human Rights
Office
as
well
as
representatives of the U.S.
Embassy and the United
Nations, and met families of
the disappeared, the murdered
and the displaced.
Boeder’s
presentation,
sponsored by Marian’s Social
Justice Committee, is free and
open to the public. A light lunch
will be served.
Art auction
in Stayer
Center May
5 to benefit
thanatology
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Owl and a Lucky Mouse,” and a
master print edition of “Wood
Ducks on Gall’s Pond.”
The auction items have been
donated by Irving Koren,
former owner of River’s Edge
Art Gallery. Jim Chatterton,
president of American Bank in
Fond du Lac, and Jack Twohig,
owner of Jack Twohig’s Carpet
One, are honorary chairs of the
event.
The cost for this one-time
event is $75 per person, half of
which is a tax deductible
donation to the Edwin S.
Shneidman
Program
in
Thanatology, a collaborative
initiative
of
Agnesian
HealthCare, St. Agnes School
Hospital
Foundation
and
Marian College. Reservations
are requested by April 20 to
Kathy Gellings, (920) 923-8133,
[email protected].
More information on the art
auction
is
available
at
www.mariancollege.edu/special
events.
Scoreboard
Men’s tennis
Marian 5, Concordia–Chicago 4
Softball
Marian 2, Dominican 0
Marian 7, Dominican 1
Marian 15, Maranatha Baptist 0
(5 innings)
Marian 12, Maranatha Baptist 2
(5 innings)
Marian 2, Edgewood 0
Edgewood 3, Marian 2
Marian 7, Rockford 4
Marian 11, Rockford 0 (5 innings)
Baseball
Rockford at Marian postponed
to April 22
Marian at Edgewood postponed
to April 25
Benedictine 3, Marian 2
Marian 12, Benedictine 5
The Edwin S. Shneidman
Program in Thanatology offers
a
continuing
education
certificate program in death,
dying, care of the dying, grief
and bereavement, to advance
knowledge about the physical,
emotional, ethical and spiritual
needs of individuals and
families confronting death
through research, education
and practical experience. The
program is consistent with the
recommendations
of
the
Association of Death Education
and Counseling for the study of
thanatology for health care
professionals, social workers,
public safety professionals,
educators
and
school
counselors, hospice workers,
ministers
and
chaplains,
mental health professionals
and funeral directors. This
certificate
program
is
appropriate for those who work
with individuals and families
confronting death and dying.
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