Steinway & Sons
recently named Garik Pedersen, an EMU professor of music,
a Steinway Artist. As a Steinway Artist, Pedersen joins
a distinguished society that includes such immortals as
Vladimir Horowitz, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Ignace
Paderewski and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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Acceptance into the worldwide Steinway Artist roster indicates
not only high musical performance achievement, but also
reflects the artists' dedication to and confidence in the
Steinway piano.
Pedersen will be officially welcomed at a reception at
Steinway Hall in New York City Oct. 10. On March
29, 2009, Pedersen will present a recital at Pease Auditorium
to celebrate his recognition as a Steinway Artist and his
20 years of teaching at EMU. The benefit recital will raise
funds for a practice room Steinway grand in honor of Pedersen's
significant contribution to the university.
"I am now beginning my 20th year at EMU, and I would be
horribly remiss if I didn't share this honor with the many
wonderful colleagues, students and administrators who have
provided the environment, motivation and encouragement
that has allowed me to thrive here," Pedersen said. "Virtually
all the documentation that Steinway considered before naming
me a Steinway Artist is the result of performance, recording,
teaching and research opportunities that have come my way
since I came to EMU. Since I plan to be here for
quite a few more years, I hope that this recognition will
bring increased visibility and credibility to the department
of music and dance and the University."
Edwin Etter,
an EMU professor of accounting, recently passed the Certified
Internal Auditor exam. Additionally, Etter received the
Internal Auditors' William S. Smith Certificate Honor award
for having one of the top scores worldwide
Rachel Krumwiede,
a 2008 EMU graduate, recently was awarded Pre-Service Teacher
of the Year from the Michigan Council for History Education
(MCHE). The MCHE Conference is scheduled Nov. 15 in Lansing.
Krumwiede is director of education at Yankee Air Museum
in Willow Run. She graduated in April with majors in history
for teaching and in language, literature and writing for
teaching. While at EMU, Krumwiede served as president of
Phi Alpha Theta and the Student History Association.
Krumwiede is working on three projects
at the Yankee Air Museum. The first is "Family Night!
Halloween in the Hangar," an education event for families
scheduled Oct. 24. The second is developing a curriculum
to enable Boy Scouts to earn the aviation merit badge at
the museum. And the third is putting together a teacher
advocacy panel that will serve as a forum for teachers
to come together and share ideas that allows Krumwiede
to tailor programs at the museum that fit the needs of
teachers and their students.
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Howard Booth,
an EMU professor of biology, continues to beat back the
clock of Father Time. Booth, 65, won gold medals in the
pole vault with a clearance of 9 feet, 6 inches and the
long jump (14 feet, 4 inches) at the World Masters Regional
Championships (North and Central America) Aug. 28-31 in
Clermont, Fla. During an Aug. 8 meet at EMU, Booth improved
the Michigan Senior Olympic pole vault record from 8-feet,
3-inches to 10 foot. He also won the long jump at that
meet, just missing the state senior record by 1 ¼ inches.
A
team of Eastern Michigan University graduate students have
received a silver and honorable mention from the Direct
Marketing Education Foundation's 2008 Direct Marketing
Educational Foundation Collegiate ECHO Awards.
Alyssa Koontz, Walid Khalil and Shawna
Fleming received
the honor for their media plan, "It's What Your Business
Deserves." Matt Sauber was the faculty adviser for the
project.
With an emphasis on using multi-channel direct marketing,
creativity and technolog — such as blogs, social networking,
and e-mail — this year's competition was to create a $4
million innovative and integrated direct marketing campaign,
which targeted small businesses.
Introduced in 1929 as the "Best in Direct Mail" contest,
the DMA International ECHO Awards honor excellence in creativity,
marketing strategy and response results in direct marketing
campaigns. With more than 1,000 entries submitted by direct
response agencies worldwide, DMA's annual ECHO Awards recognize
every type of media used in direct and interactive marketing
campaigns. The DMEF is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation.
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Jeanne Thomas,
an EMU professor of nursing, was the Ann Arbor "top walker" for
the American Heart Association, raising $3,290 during the
June fundraiser. For her efforts, her photo was placed
on the Top Walker billboard, located at U.S. 23 and Whitmore
Lake (just after the six-mile exit). Eastern Michigan's
team of Kay Woodiel, Freman Hendrix and Wendy Kivi were
among the county's top 10 fundraising teams, raising approximately
$26,000.
Blue
Ribbon Basketball Magazine has selected the Eastern
Michigan University men's basketball team as the favorite to win
the 2008-09 Mid-American Conference West Division championship.
The preseason magazine also chose EMU senior point guard
Carlos Medlock a first-team All-MAC player this year.
