Faculty and Staff

Announcements

• It's Time for Chili to Rumble!!!

  12th Annual Graceland Chili Challenge
   
  DATE: Thursday, January 15
  
  PLACE: MSC Main Room
  
  WHO: GU Employees, Students, Clubs, and Organizations
  
  REGISTER: Please contact Lisa Jones in the Student Activities Office at 5230 or email ljones@graceland.edu DO IT NOW!!!!
  
  DETAILS: Bring a full crockpot, name for your chili (without your department name please!), a ladle, and your recipe to the MSC Main Room before 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 15. Any department with an entry is invited to stay and eat chili after the judging. To ensure there is enough chili for everyone....bring extra! Judging begins at 11:00 SHARP! Lunch begins immediately after the winners have been selected.
  
  PRIZES: 1st - 2nd - 3rd place trophies and bragging rights for the entire year!
  
  QUESTIONS??? Contact the Student Activities Office at 5230.

• Civil War Classic Movie at Coliseum

  Buster Keaton's classic 1927 silent film, The General, shows FREE OF CHARGE at the Coliseum at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 17. Live entertainment before the show and during intermission includes a barbershop quartet, a Civil War reenacting demonstration complete with rifle fire, and more. Graceland community members will provide some of the entertainment. This film is still acclaimed as one of the best ever made.

  This event is a fund-raiser for Lamoni's 7^th Civil War Days Reenactment and Living History Festival, and there will be a freewill offering.  Civil War Days is scheduled for Labor Day weekend, September 4-6. Visit http://www.civilwardays.org/. This event draws thousands of spectators each year and includes battles between hundreds of Civil War reenactors. Call 784-8484 or doug@hdhunt.com with questions.

• Winter Horizons is Available Online

  The winter issue of Horizons, which recaps the excitement of the inauguration of President Sellars, the quality of the academic symposium, and the great fun of Homecoming, is now available online at Graceland's website. Please go to www.graceland.edu/horizons to go directly to the current issue.

• Student Callers Needed

  The Admissions Office is looking for motivated, hardworking, and energetic students to make calls to prospective students. We would prefer upper-class students but will review each individual application.

  If you know of someone who might be interested, please ask them to stop by the Admissions Office to pick up an application as soon as possible. We are hoping to hire students before the second semester gets underway.

  If you have any questions, please call Kevin Brown at 5149.

• Gensler Baby

  Travis Gensler and his wife, Bree (Veazey), are proud first-time parents. Bailey Grace Gensler was born on Friday, December 19, at about 4:15 p.m., weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces, and was 20 inches long. All are doing well.

• For Those Who Like to Read...

  If you like to read, you may be like me and have books around the house that you just don't know what to do with. Well, how about a book swap? This is just an idea so bear with me.

  If you have books you would like to bring to let people take, box them up and bring them to the basement of Briggs on January 15 and 16. Put your name on your box; and at the end of the day on Friday, January 16, you can come and pick up your box and the books that are left in it. During the days of the 15th and 16th everyone is free to browse the literary labyrinth and hopefully take away some great finds.

  If it turns out to be a success, we'll try it again in the summer. If you do not pick up your box, the books left will be donated to the public library.

  Lori Christensen

• Reminder - Live Healthy Iowa

  If you would like to participate in Live Healthy Iowa, please form your team of 2-10 employees and choose a leader. The leader needs to contact Nicole Patience, nclement@graceland.edu, before the end of the day on Friday, January 9.

  For more information about this program, please go to the wellness page at http://www.graceland.edu/facstaff/offices/20253/.

• Makeup Class Needs HELP!

  The January Theatrical Makeup class needs help finding two portable hair dryers for a hair styling session on January 15. These are the kind of hair dryers used with curlers and pin curls.

  Please call Bob Hamel at 5265 if you have a hair dryer that we could borrow. Thanks.

• Recreated Email Addresses

  Three employees on campus have had their email addresses recreated. If you send a message to any of them, you will need to make sure Outlook is not pulling their name from the To... address history. It is best to type in their username@graceland.edu or use it from the Global Address Book. Once the recreated address is used, it should be stored correctly in your Outlook's history.

  If you have any questions about these changes, please contact the Help Desk at helptech@graceland.edu. 

  Recreated mailboxes:

  Pam Combs
  Kurt Remmenga
  Kelly Everett

• Reminder to Renew Motor Vehicle Record Check

  As the new year has begun, the need also arises to renew your driving stickers. If you are planning to drive a Graceland University vehicle in 2009, please take your driver's license to the Human Resources Office and fill out a new form to renew your Motor Vehicle Record Check.

  Thank you.

  Facility Services Department

• Food Service Winter Term Hours

  During Winter Term our food service hours at the Commons will be:

  Sunday, January 4 - Dinner--4:30-6 p.m.
  Monday, January 5 through Thursday, January 22 (Monday-Friday) Breakfast--7:30-9 a.m., Lunch--11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Dinner--4:30-6:30 p.m.
  Saturday and Sunday Brunch--11 a.m.-1 p.m., Dinner--4:30-6 p.m.
  Friday, January 23 through Sunday, January 25 - Brunch--10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Dinner--4:30-6:15 p.m. (Breakfast and Lunch Meal Exchange available in the Swarm Inn on Friday, January 23 - 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.)
  Continuous dining resumes on Monday, January 26.

  Winter Term hours at the Swarm Inn will be:

  Sunday, January 4 - Closed
  Monday, January 5 through Thursday, January 22 (Monday-Friday) 8 a.m.-8 p.m.--Meal Exchange available for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
  Saturday and Sunday - Closed
  Friday, January 23 - 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. with Breakfast and Lunch Meal Exchange available
  Saturday, January 24 - Closed
  Sunday, January 25 - 4-10 p.m.
  Swarm Inn will resume regular business hours on Monday, January 26 (7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.)

• Winter Term Pool Hours

  Winter Term pool hours are as follows:

  Open Swim (Faculty and Staff) Monday through Friday - noon to 1 p.m.
  Open Swim (Students) Monday through Friday - 6 to 8 p.m.
  Open Swim (Students) Saturday - 2 to 5 p.m. (if no home basketball games)
  Open Swim (Community) Sunday - 2 to 5 p.m. 

• Prayers for the Saxton Family

  Please remember Marcie Saxton and her family in your prayers. Her mother, Vicki Saxton, who worked in the Student Finance Office from 2000 to 2005, passed away on Sunday. Her services are pending at this time.

• Movie Suggestions Needed

  Graceland has been awarded a $1,720 grant from Humanities Iowa to sponsor a classic movie series this spring.  The Coliseum will show one film classic each month from February through May and provide a commentator to offer an overview and lead a discussion following the showing.  The movies will be free to the campus and Lamoni community.  Brad Carr, Tom Neville, and Tom Morain are currently working on the spring schedule.  Mike Casey, Alex Casey, Brian White, Bob Mesle, and Barbara Higdon are serving with Brad, Tom, and Tom as a coordinating committee. 

  The committee invites suggestions for movie classics. What are the all-time best films ever produced that you would like to see on the big screen?  Please share your favorites with the committee.

• Rosetta Stone Spanish Software

  Help! I loaned my Rosetta Stone Spanish software to someone and it has not been returned. I am in desperate need of the software--please let me know if you have it. Thanks!

  Tina Washburn
  Extension 5423
  washburn@graceland.edu 

• KBUZ Radio Looking for Talent--All Ages!

  KBUZ Radio will be back on the airwaves just in time for Winter Term, and we need upbeat on-air talent. Running a show is quite easy, and we are opening it up to anyone within the Graceland family who is anxious to entertain.

  Please call Paul Davis at extension 5422 if you would like the quick training that will put you on the airwaves! If you have I-tunes in your computer, you can listen to KBUZ or on your car radio around campus on FM 88.1 Let's ROCK!

• End-of-Year Giving Alert

  Please watch your mail carefully through January 8 to direct donor gifts for your program to the Development Office for processing. If you won't be in your office during Winter Term, please designate someone to check your mail for gifts. Donors can only be given a 2008 gift receipt if their gift was mailed no later than December 31 and the Development Office receives it by January 8. Thanks for your help.

• Seminary Convocation on January 11, 2009

  The seventh annual Seminary Convocation will be held on January 11, 2009, on the Graceland University Independence Campus, 1401 W. Truman Road in Independence, Missouri. President Emeritus Wallace B. Smith will be presented with the Visionary Award.  Tony Chvala Smith will be the speaker at the 7:30 p.m. worship service. The convocation will conclude with a reception. All are welcome. For further information, please contact Tere Naylor at extension 4903.