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R S REFLECTIONS Muskegon Community College Magazine For Alumni, Retirees & Friends of MCC Summer 2019 REFLECTIONS MAGAZINE is published by the Foundation for Muskegon Community College Contents MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | REFLECTIONS MAGAZINE | Winter 2018 CONTACT US [email protected] Foundation for Muskegon Community College Letter from the President 221 S. Quarterline Road Muskegon MI 49442 (231) 777-0559 FEATURES muskegoncc.edu BOARD OF TRUSTEES Donald Crandall, M.D. 4 Frauenthal Center Chair I often lead my presentations by saying “Muskegon Community I am humbled to share that this February, the Grand Rapids Diana Osborn College is on the move.” Given what we have accomplished Business Journal recognized me as the Newsmaker of the Year Vice-Chair recently, this phrase never gets old. in the Education Category in West Michigan. While this is an Nancy Frye individual honor, many individuals on and around campus Earlier this year, we welcomed Michigan’s new governor, 8 Health and Wellness Center Secretary contributed to the recognition. Not to be outdone, Dr. John Gretchen Whitmer, to campus to visit our recently opened Selmon, our Executive Vice President and Provost, was selected Sean Mullally Health and Wellness Center and to share her proposals on by the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program to join Treasurer 10 New Mascot the community college role in talent development in the the 2019-2020 class of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Kathy Moore State. Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist came Community College Excellence, a leadership program aimed at Trustee to MCC to tour the Sturrus Technology Center and learn preparing the next generation of community college presidents. Ann Oakes how we are providing pathways to employment in advanced Congratulations, Dr. Selmon! 15 NextGen Award Trustee manufacturing and entrepreneurism for traditional students and incumbent workers. The College has purchased property in Grand Haven as the new Roy Portenga home for our Ottawa Center beginning this fall. This permanent Trustee MCC Biology Instructor Darren Mattone led a group of students location will replace space leased by the college at the Grand 16 Strategic Student Success LEADERSHIP to Washington, D.C., to present their research nationally as part Haven Community Center and will annually serve almost 400 of the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative students including Ottawa Early College Students. Advances on MCC Campus Dr. Dale K. Nesbary (CCURI), the result of a National Science Foundation grant. President Professor Mattone was a co-principal investigator of the original Muskegon Community College’s momentum is palpable. Under Dr. John Selmon NSF grant and continues to ensure that MCC students have the visionary guidance of Chair Diana Osborn and the MCC Provost and Executive Vice President every opportunity to expand their capacities. Board of Trustees, we are able to move our mission forward Kelley Conrad while building upon the work of those who came before us. Vice President for Academic Affairs Our Nursing graduates led the nation once again with their All of you, our alums, retirees, and greater community make us 100% first time pass rates on the National Council Licensing proud to be Jayhawks! Kristine Anderson Examination for RNs and the National Council Licensing Executive Director of Human Resources Examination for PNs. The national pass rates for these Trynette Lottie-Harps examinations is 85%. Dean of Community Outreach Marty McDermott Dean of College Services and Athletic Director Foundation Board of Directors Eduardo Bedoya Diana Osborn Mary Anne Gorman Director of Institutional Research and Grants Dale K. Nesbary, Ph.D. Wayne Barrett Goeff Hansen Michael Alstrom President Chief Information Officer Muskegon Community College Sean Mullally Richard Kraft Ellucian Janie Brooks-Davis Frank Marczak Amy Swope Arn Boezaart Toby Moleski Director of the Foundation for MCC Gary Britton Nick Strait Jon “J.B.” Meeuwenberg Institutional Technology and Research Tom Dake Edgar Watson Be in the know, at home or on the go! Tina Dee Susan Zemke Director of Strategic Initiatives News and opportunities President’s Blog News and updates from for MCC alumni Dale Nesbary, Ph.D. all MCC athletic teams facebook.com/mccalumni presidentblog.muskegoncc.edu twitter.com/jayhawkathletic 2 Summer 2019 Reflections Magazine 3 explained Richard Oman, who served in and professional actor, Celebrating many capacities - theater instructor, resident who has managed both scenic and lighting designer, Center for the Frauenthal and the Theater director and department chair – Playhouse at White Lake. 50 years during his 35 years at MCC until retiring in 2008. “The Dinner Theater, most often, was “A lot of professional of MCC’s combined with a buffet in the Blue and Gold theater that is done Room followed by the performance.” across this country is done in smaller spaces. Harold Luoma joined Scott Cutting on the Anybody who goes Frauenthal music faculty in 1968. From its third floor to theater with some environs, the program burgeoned within frequency understands Fine Arts a year to 11 performing groups – the that the more intimate Collegiates and College Singers, the Jazz the space, the greater the band, Stage Band and Concert Band, and level of the connection to Center ensembles in brass, woodwind, percussion, real theater.” string and instrumental. “It’s absolutely a magical Today, the proud legacy of MCC’s music place,” said Harryman, By Peter D. Koryzno The MCC Student Art and Design Exhibition in Overbrook Gallery, now its 55th year, program remains robust, with performances who came to MCC remains a Frauenthal Fine Arts Center highlight. MCC Communications Manager A scene from “J.B.,” the very first play performed in the Frauenthal Fine Arts Center as part of the January 1969 opening gala. in New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall in the early 1970s to major in political among its many accomplishments. One of science. “After I started performing here, it In early January, while noisy construction play “J.B.,” directed by MCC theater instructor college art gallery that a commercial, reawakened my love of working in theater. I productions. I don’t think any of the actors crews were busy transforming the old tech its alumni, trombonist Dr. Dale K. Nesbary, Carlo Spataro, who helped in the design cooperative, or the Muskegon Museum serves as the college president. did everything. I performed, ran lights, built only acted.” wing into the new Art and Music Building, of Overbrook Theater and created the of Art cannot do,” noted Erin Hoffman, an sets, and toured.” across campus an important Muskegon theater arts program at the college. Scott art faculty member since 2008. “We can Since the Frauenthal Fine Arts Center “It’s what I like to say is vocational work,” Community College milestone passed Cutting, who developed the college’s music have more cutting-edge artists because opened, its Overbrook Theater has For theater students of that era, the green explained Harryman. “We were able to without much fanfare. program, added his expertise to the theater’s we don’t have to fund ourselves through been home to more than 200 theater room, a place behind the stage intended practice here. As a professional actor, it’s acoustical decisions. sales and donations. We have much more department shows. for actors waiting between scenes, was not like I don’t practice anymore. It does not The Frauenthal Fine Arts Center, whose contemporary art exhibitions and are equally legendary. work that way for music, theater, dance or three floors include the Overbrook Theater, Spataro, who would remain at MCC for reaching out to more nationally recognized “We were on the cutting edge of a lot art, either. You’ve got to continue to create, Overbrook Art Gallery, dance and music more than 40 years, recently reflected on the artists than any other art gallery in of things,” said Spataro, putting MCC’s “Most students started and ended their grow and do different things.” rooms, marked its 50th anniversary on center’s impact. Muskegon County.” participation in the American College day there,” noted Don Bogema, a budding January 5. Theater Festival at the forefront. “We draftsman who got into theater after Spataro “One of the things that Carlo and Richard “For me, it exceeded my fondest joys in Originally located on the center’s second and then-technical director Kent DeYoung Oman did was rename this the Center With the college’s music program set to were one of only two community colleges terms of being able to create,” he said, floor, the art department needed more space regionally – the other was in Ohio – reached out to MCC students who scored for Theater,” noted Harryman. “Part of the vacate the center later this year for its adding that he was among a large wave of and moved to the pole barn across the north high the arts section of the ACT responsibility of taking on that name is impressive new quarters, where the art to submit plays for adjudication and new faculty members with master’s degrees parking lot. In its place, the college built a competition. We did new plays that came test. Bogema would later serve as the that you are a resource. We continue to be program will also fulfill the promise of state- who viewed MCC as a stepping-stone to a dance studio. The dance program flourished technical director and assist the department a resource for the Playhouse at White of-the-art facilities made a half century ago, out of the American College Theater Festival four-year college or university. “But none under the late Judith Brooky-Green, who at Ohio State.” in many capacities. Lake, the Muskegon Civic Theater, and we it is important to pause and celebrate the of us left and the reason we didn’t was arrived in 1975.