Recycling Bins Added in Student Union Building
Heartland Chautauqua to Perform at Kirksville's NEMO Fairgrounds July 1-6
Public Safety Reduces Office Hours
North American Prairie Conference to be held June 23-27 on Truman Campus
The City of Kirksville, Truman State University, the Chamber of Commerce and conference sponsors will be hosting the 18th North American Prairie Conference “Promoting Prairie” June 23-27 on the Truman campus.This year’s conference will focus on the following subthemes: restoration and reconstruction of prairie, prairie biodiversity and its importance to society, legislative and organizational initiatives to preserve prairie, prairie education and outreach, commercial ventures: backyard prairies and landscaping, and prairies as pollution control and environmental improvement.
The conference program includes concurrent sessions of oral and poster presentations, engaging workshops, a symposium on creating a native plant market, and a full day of unique and diverse field trips. Other events include a picnic at Thousand Hills State Park with a Native American Storyteller, a silent auction with all proceeds going to the Missouri Prairie Foundation, a luncheon and banquet, each with featured speakers.
For more information about the conference, please call 665.3766 or visit the Web site at http://www.napc2002.org/.
Recycling Bins Added in Student Union Building
Recycling bins have been added to the main meeting rooms in the Student Union Building to help the University community recycle paper, books, magazines and newspapers in the building. For more information about campus recycling, contact Howard Worcester at 785.7672.
18th North American Prairie Conference
June 23-27
on Campus
Heartland Chautauqua
July 1-6
Kirksville’s NEMO Fairgrounds
Heartland Chautauqua to Perform at Kirksville's NEMO Fairgrounds July 1-6
The Heartland Chautauqua will bring a slice of
history to Kirksville’s NEMO Fairgrounds July 1-6. Five scholars will appear
in full costume each evening and present historical characterizations.
Each program is free to the public and will begin at 7 p.m with 45 minutes
of local entertainment.
Historical characterization is a format reminiscent
of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain or Steve Allen’s television show, “Meeting
of the Minds.” Unlike scripted actors, the scholars speak spontaneously
in the first-person and exchange ideas with audience members because of
their knowledge of the character’s history.
Personalities to be portrayed include Aimee
Semple McPherson on July 2. McPherson was born in 1890 in rural Canada
and was the founder of the International church of the Foursquare Gospel.
She was the first woman to preach over the radio. During her young adult
life she spent much of her time evangelizing throughout the United States.
By the time her life ended in 1944, she had built and dedicated the 5,300
seat Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, built the L.I.F.E. Bible College, started
her own radio station, KFSG, and instituted many welfare projects.
Willa Cather will be portrayed at Heartland
Chautauqua on July 3. Cather was a writer who considered the pioneer woman
an artist in her own right. She moved to Nebraska when she was nine years
old and wrote about the pioneer spirit and old traditions which shaped
the America West. She began her career as a journalist and a teacher
in Pittsburg and New York City. She is best known for her novels “O Pioneers!,”
“My Antonia” and “Death Comes for the Archbishop.”
Other personalities to be portrayed will be
Harry Reser on July 4, H.L. Mencken on July 5 and John Dos Passos on July
6. They will be discussed in the next issue of the Truman Today. Musical
entertainment and other festivities will accompany the skits underneath
the giant tent.
The Kirksville community will celebrate the
arrival of the Heartland Chautauqua by meeting at the NEMO Fairgrounds
on July 1 to share the task of raising the Chautauqua circus tent, a community
activity that recalls a tradition established more than 100 years ago.
The Chautauqua Sojourners program will
be at 12:15 p.m.on July 3. Members will eat before the program. Members
of the University community are welcome to attend. The program is sponsored
by Missouri Humanities Council.
For more information about the Heartland Chautauqua
program, or to contribute a monetary donation, contact the Chamber of Commerce
at 665.3766.
Summer Writing Center Hours
12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Friday
9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
McClain Hall 303
If you have any questions, contact the Writing Center at 785.4484.
Public Safety Reduces Office Hours
As part of the transition to the E-911 centralized dispatching system the Public Safety Building will be reducing hours. The new building hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. effective May 13.Police officers are on duty 24-hours every day. For police response call 911 for an emergency or 665.5621 for a non-emergency.
Calls to the Department of Public Safety after 1 a.m. will be automatically transferred to the E-911 communications center downtown.
Please take these hours into consideration when scheduling for pick-up and drop-off of state vehicles. There will be a drop box for state vehicle keys for after hours.
Scholarship Opportunity Available
A scholarship opportunity is currently available.The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Minority Issues Committee announces a $5,000 scholarship available to minority accounting students who show significant potential to become certified public accountants. Applications are available at http://www.aicpa.org/members/div/career/mini/index.htm or in the Financial Aid Office. The deadline will be July 1.
Notables
Melissa Passe, clinical supervision coordinator for the Speech and Hearing Clinic; Heather Brady, graduate student from St. Joseph, Mo.; and Jenny Garvin, junior communication disorders major from Manhattan, Kan.; provided hearing screenings at the Children's First Health and Safety Fair June 4.
Joy Pugh, justice systems instructor, is a criminalist at the Northeast Area Criminalistics Laboratory. She received her recertification as a Diplomate from the American Board of Criminalistics this spring.
Notes
There will be a Red Cross Blood Drive from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., June 17, in the Student Union Building Activities Room.
The Staff Development Committee will present the program “The Physical Plant and You” from 9:30-11 a.m., June 20, in the SUB Alumni Room. R.S.V.P. to Human Resources at 785.4031 by June 14.
The Speech and Hearing Clinic is providing hearing evaluations
for the month of June from 10:30-11:20 a.m., Tuesday-
Thursday. There is no cost to the public.
On Campus
14 Friday
1:30 p.m.-Board of Governors Retreat, Thousand Hills Dining Lodge15 Saturday
9 a.m.-Board of Governors Meeting, Thousand Hills Dining Lodge17 Monday
11a.m.-4 p.m.-Red Cross Blood Drive, SUB Activities Room; see Notes20 Thursday
9:30-11 a.m.-”The Physical Plant and You,” SUB Alumni Room; see Notes
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