Issue No: 477
September 10, 2001
We impact the way America learns.
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BURKE RECEIVES RENAISSANCE GROUP FELLOWSHIP
Wendy Burke has been named one of three Fellows of The Renaissance Group for this year in national competition. It is the second consecutive year that an EMU faculty member has received one of the Fellowships, Shawn Quilter having recently completed his Fellowship year.
The award carries with it a cash stipend to support the proposed research. Burke will study “The Impact of Participation in a Pilot Project on Student Teachers Pedagogical Decision Making and Practice During Their First Year of Teaching.” This research is an outgrowth of EMU’s participation in the Renaissance Group Partnership for Improving Teacher Quality.
Quilter’s research will be presented to The Renaissance Group in Washington, D.C. later this month. Burke’s research will be presented at this time next year. The two other award winners this year are from Coastal Carolina University and the University of Central Florida.
The Renaissance Group is a consortium of 30 institutions, all of which are similar to EMU in a number of ways. For additional information, see http://www.emporia.edu/rengroup/index.htm.
FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
Kathy Conley has been elected vice president of Eta Sigma Gamma, the National Professional Health Education Honorary. As a result, she will serve as president of the organization in 2003-2005 and as immediate past president in 2005-2007.
Sue Grossman and Judy Williston published “Strategies for Teaching Early Childhood Students to Connect Reflective Thinking to Practice” this summer in the Association for Childhood Education International Journal.
Helen Ditzhazy has been elected to the executive board of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration for a one-year term.
Bill Cupples has been appointed to serve on the Council for Clinical Specialty Recognition, one of four councils of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). The CCSR oversees the eleven special interest divisions of ASHA and monitors the development and implementation of advanced clinical specialty training. He will serve as chair of the Council in 2002.
Maureen McCormack has been appointed to an EMU task force on “Students in the Community.” This group of town and university representatives will work collaboratively to better student-community relations.
EMU new student orientation included a panel on “Life in the College Classroom” on which Nora Martin participated. Elizabeth Broughton presented “Student Behavior: What Every Parent Wants to Know and What We’re Allowed to Tell Them.”
Recent EMU service anniversaries included: Alane Starko, Sarah Huyvaert, Joann McNamara (15 years); Anne Bednar, Sue Stickel, Bill Price, Lynne Rocklage, Cristina Jose-Kampfner, Jim Berry, Kathleen Beauvais, Olga Nelson (10 years).
ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT
Although he will not be there to deliver it in person, Jerry Robbins’ paper on “Renaissance Group Principles Support Diversity and Peace in Teacher Preparation Curricula: The Eastern Michigan University Story” will be presented at the World Council on Curriculum and Instruction in Madrid, Spain this Tuesday.
Don Staub has called a meeting for Wednesday, September 12, 2001 at 2:00 p.m. in the HPERD conference room. The topic will be visiting Thailand college students. If you are interested, but haven’t received an invitation, contact Staub in the COE Office of Collaborative Education.
VAN HORN TO PRESENT FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Royal Van Horn, a professor at the University of North Florida and the widely-read author of a monthly column on educational technology in the Phi Delta Kappan, will present a COE faculty development session on October 26. The event will be held in the Porter Building and is sponsored by the College of Education for all COE faculty members. For additional information, contact Michael Bretting.
STUDENT NOTES
Madonna Emond won the preliminary talent contest and second runner-up in the Miss Michigan pageant this past June. She won the Miss Redford contest this past August. She will compete again in November for the Miss Washtenaw title. Her talent routine is jazz dance.
ALUMNI NOTES
Josephine B. Hackel ‘25, age 95, died recently. She graduated from what is now EMU in 1925 with a degree in physical education. She was a longtime employee of Ford Motor Company.
Thomas B. “Barney” Dyer, age 81, who received a degree from what is now EMU following his service in World War II, died recently. While at Michigan State Normal College, he was a distinguished athlete and assistant football coach under Elton J. Rynearson. Later he taught science at what is now Slauson Middle School between 1958 and 1981.
Applications for the 2002 competition in the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program may be submitted via www.iie.org/pgms/fmf until December 18. K-12 teachers and administrators may participate in a fully-funded three-week study visit to Japan.
BROBST-WALCH TO RECEIVE ODYSSEY AWARD
Alice Brobst-Walsh ‘87, a fourth-grade teacher at Paddock Elementary School in Milan, is one of five exceptional fourth-grade teachers in the state to be honored on September 29 in Lansing with the Michigan Historical Center Foundation Odyssey Award.
According to Michigan Living, “[t]o give her students insight into Michigan’s French heritage, for example, she dresses up and assumes the character of Madame Chevalier, a mother at Fort Michili-mackinac.” Further, “[t]o celebrate Statehood Day in Michigan, she arranges a lunch using all-Michigan food products. And she annually stages a Great Lakes Festival, during which her students present reports on the geography, history and economics of the Great Lakes. Students gather information for the reports during hands-on exercises staged during the year.”
There’s a quote that says to appreciate the future, you have to learn from the past,’ she says. When our children know their history, ‘they can build it into future generations in Michigan.’”
SPONSORED PROJECTS
As of the end of August, for the fiscal year to date, COE faculty members had submitted 14 proposals (compared with three at the same time the previous year), with a request for $1,010,659 in funding (compared with $577,209 at the same time the previous year).
SHORT NOTES
Prominent author Parker J. Palmer will appear at MSU for a series of sessions September 19-21. The opening session is September 19, 8:30-10:00 a.m. in Brody Residence Hall. The closing session is September 21, 10:30-noon. To register, or for more information, contact Frank Fear at fear@msu.edu.
The new Professional Development Center on the campus of the Monroe County Intermediate School District will be dedicated on September 12 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. This is located at 1101 S. Raisinville Road in Monroe. EMU faculty members are cordially invited. For additional information, 734.242.5799, ext. 1010.
Persons interested in being nominated for the 2002-2003 ACE Fellows Program should contact Jerry Robbins for nomination materials and information. The application deadline is November 1.
The First Year,” a PBS documentary on first-year teachers that has received critical acclaim, is now airing. See www.pbs.org/firstyear for viewing details.
FROM “THE SCHOOL THAT WENT TO COLLEGE” By Ruth B. MacFarlane
(Continued from last week)
It took a small army of workmen to overcome the obstacles and hazards ahead [in moving the Geddes Town Hall School building from its location in rural Washtenaw County to the EMU campus].
There was Garland Hepner, weigh master for the Washtenaw County Road Commission, making sure that the move did not damage the road. He and his brother had attended the school in the early 1940's.
Another alumnus, Gerry Marshall, was busy clearing telephone lines along the road.
Dozens of workers from Michigan Bell, Detroit Edison, Columbia Cable, and Michigan Consolidated Gas, as well as police officers, sheriff’s deputies and EMU forces, helped the school’s travel, by directing traffic, and raising or lowering utility lines at seventeen checkpoints. A score of utility trucks, including several cherry-pickers, were mobilized for the move.
First the school was inched up out of the Geddes cornfield onto black-topped Platt Road, and headed north. At Platt and Ellsworth, traffic signals had to be taken down to clear the right turn, a sharp-angled one. The cavalcade trundled across the I-94 overpass–a tight squeeze, but they made it–and along Ellsworth Road to Hewitt Road and a left turn. Whenever utility wires were taken down and laid on the ground, Westerman’s men were there with heavy 2 x 8-inch or 2 x 10-in. planks so that the truck and the heavily laden dollies could pass over.
It was a hot day, and those guys really suffered,” said Gwaltney. “One of those pieces of wood weighted about 100 pounds. That man who drove the truck was a worker, one of the strongest men I ever saw.”
North up Hewitt Road they went, with people hanging from house windows to watch the show, and cameras snapping, video cameras recording. Gwaltney strapped himself into his van and leaned out the open side door, snapping away. Not all drivers were happy at the enforced delays.
On it went, across busy Washtenaw Avenue, past EMU’s stadium and out onto Huron River Drive eastward, to turn in to the north side of the campus, where the school was backed into place. “That driver could have turned it on a dime!” admired Gwaltney.
(To be continued)
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)September 11--ORD’s “Introduction to the World of Grants,” 2:00-2:45 p.m. To enroll, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 12--ORD’s “The Essential Elements,” 9:00-9:45 a.m. “Identifying Funding Sources,” 2:00-2:45 p.m. To enroll, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 12--COE Council, 2:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
September 13--ORD’s “Developing the Budget,” 2:00-2:45 p.m. To enroll, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 13--Basic Programs Committee, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
September 13--United Way Day of Caring, Pam (Mrs. Sam) Kirkpatrick, general chair. Volunteer to work for the day (by August 1 to Cathy Hill, University Marketing) in a local community service agency, or, if that is not possible, contribute a new children’s book to the Washtenaw Literacy Coalition. Book collection boxes are available in McKenny Union. For information, contact Cathy Hill or Melinda Ostrander (Physical Plant).
September 14--COE ad hoc Diversity Committee, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)September 10--proposals due for Eastern Educational Research Association. For information, contact Peggy Moore-Hart.
September 14--Articles due on theme of “the state of school reform” for Principal Leadership. For information, plmag@principals.org.
September 15--manuscript deadline for articles on “the social side of teaching” for Kappa Delta Pi Record.
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