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THE ACADEMY MONITOR VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 4 FROM THE COMMANDANT T Greetings from the great H Halls of Learning, Starfleet Academy! Q From the Principal’s Office U Here we are, the beginning of a new year, still trying to get accustomed to writing 2016, and STARFLEET Academy has plans to make itself A better for all the members of STARFLEET. Ok, when doesn’t it? I’m starting my ninth year as the Academy’s Commandant and I have R seen so many changes since January 1, 2008. The Academy has grown with more Institutes, housing more colleges, that house more courses and now we have found that sometimes more isn’t always bet- T ter. Many of the once, very active colleges have fizzled down to practi- cally not even getting any students to some none at all. So, a moratori- um on new Colleges will be waived only for those that will be consid- E ered educational, a popular series, and of those that would enhance Academy. Promotions R 2 Project Purge and Merge is coming along nicely. There are some Col- Outstanding Students 3 leges and courses tagged for purging later on, since they are loosing graduate counts over 3 years and of overall interest. Cadet News 4 3rd Qtr Omissions 5 2015 was a very active year. The total graduate count for 2015 was 2 20,908. This is an approximate average of 1742 grads per month! I Staff/College News 6-7 foresee 2016 as also being a very busy year for members as well as So You Want to be a Director 0 the staff at the Academy. 7 Academy Graduates 8-12 Admiral Peg Pellerin, SFA Commandant Program Awards 13-15 1 [email protected] Boothby Awards 1-888-734-8735 EXT. x705 16-18 All Manner of Stuff 19-28 5 Happiness is a choice, today I will choose to be happy. Editor Comments 28 Page 2 PHILLIP GILFUS TO LIEUTENANT ANDREA DEBRESTIAN TO LIEUTENANT ALLEN ANDERSON TO CAPTAIN ROBIN FLEMING TO LIEUTENANT J.G. CHAD GRIFFITH TO ENSIGN DON MURRAY TO LIEUTENANT J.G. PAM NERY TO CAPTAIN DARLENE HARPER TO ADMIRAL NANCY HALL TO FLEET CAPTAIN ALLEN ANDERSON TO CAPTAIN Page 3 The OUTSTANDING student for the month of October 2015 is: David Goldsberry The OUTSTANDING student for the month of November 2015 is: James Herring The OUTSTANDING student for the month of December 2015 is: Catherine Weeks Admiral Peg Pellerin, SFA Commandant Page 4 Hello everyone. CADET STAR AWARDS Some of you may remember an award I started about Congratulations to Katherine Lightheart - College three years ago, called the Cadet Star Award. For of Young Detectives - Hardy Boys TV those of you who don't remember, let me refresh Congratulations to Martin Lightheart Jr. - College your memories. of Space History Congratulations to Cynthia Lightheart - College Cadets (6 to 18 yrs of age) who take courses from of Xeno Studies the college offerings within the Institute of Cadet Studies must complete a college with Honors &/or Distinctions. When doing so, they receive a Remember, those of you who direct Cadet congratulatory letter from myself as well as a special Colleges, that when you have a Cadet who has certificate and a gold star pin. They can complete as fully completed a Cadet College with Honors many colleges as they want, earning more letters, and/or Distinctions to let me know so I can send certificates and pins. that Cadet the same Award. If a cadet completes any college within the Adult Institutes with Honors and/or Distinctions and only 1 They can earn as many Star awards as there are Pass, the cadet will also earn the Cadet Star Award. Cadet Colleges. Some of the older cadets (13 to 18) have never attempted the colleges within the adult institutes I'd love to see a Cadet weighed down by loads of because they didn't know they were allowed to. So, star pins! please pass this on to your cadet members. Peg Pellerin I do hope with these incentives, that we start seeing SFA Commandant more of our younger members start getting involved [email protected] at STARFLEET Academy. [email protected] Peg Pellerin SFA Commandant [email protected] [email protected] Page 5 THESE AWARDEES WERE INADVERTENTLY OMIT- TED FROM THE 3RD QUARTER AWARD LISTS. GOLD STAR AWARDS: College of Alien Studies: Cynthia Lightheart Vulcan Academy of Sciences: Katherine Lightheart Cynthia Lightheart Martin Lightheart Jr. Jessica Lightheart College of Xenostudies: Martin Lightheart Jr. College of Federation Studies: Cynthia Lightheart College of International Language Studies: Beverly Lightheart Beverly Lightheart Martin Lightheart Jr. Jessica Lightheart College of Humor: Mary Lightheart College of Evidence: Martin Lightheart Beverly Lightheart Mary Lightheart College of Engineering: Mary Lightheart College of Economics: Martin Lightheart Jr. Beverly Lightheart Beverly Lightheart Mary Lightheart College of Special Operations Resources: submitted with apologies from the editor Beverly Lightheart Page 6 PERSONNEL CHANGES Oct 1, 2015 – Jan 1, 2016 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES Oct 1, 2015 – Jan 1, 2016 Assistant Academic Coordinator to Barbara Paul Deanship of the IOLEM to Leo Rogers Colleges of North American Indians and South American Indians have been merged into the Starfleet Leadership College to Jessica Reynolds College of North and South American Indians. Science Fiction Writers to Patricia Lewis The Colleges of Detectives in TV and Detec- Chapter Development College to Andrea Debrestian tives in Cinema have been merged into the College of Detectives in the Media. College of Red Dwarf to Wayne Smith The School of Body Language has been moved College of Plasma Technology to Robin Fleming to the College of Communications. College of Evidence to Oliver Savander The College of Macabre is closed for evalua- History of Major League Baseball and History of the tion NFL to Andrea Debrestian Anthropology and Archaeology were Colleges of Crusades Military Knowledge, Civil War, merged at the request of the Director. and Roman Military Knowledge to Kelli Caplette New College of Viking Invasions in the College of CMIK: A Nation’s Beginnings and Ancient IOMS under Glen Diebold Military Knowledge to Allen Anderson New College of Middle Eastern History in Colleges of NCIS and Battlestar Galactica to Carol the IOIS under Glen Diebold. Thompson New College of Historical Sites in IOHG under Chris Johnson NOTE: Some Colleges may be temporarily closed when a Director is on vacation, or when Academy is looking for a replacement Director. Other Colleges may be merged for the good of Academy. Check the index page at http://acad.sfi.org/courses/index.php for the status of any College. Page 7 SO YOU WANT TO BE A DIRECTOR ACADEMY INFORMATION Further information about the Academy, its staff and Basic requirements are: Be at least 18 years faculty, courses offered, and scholarships will be of age and have taken OTS and OCC. found at the following website: Cadets at least 14 years of age may serve with an adult mentor. http://acad.sfi.org/courses/index.php To assume a vacancy, you must pass all of the exams in the College, or if a College of 35 to 60 exams, 75% of the exams. Colleges over 60 exams are tested out at 50%, with a maximum of 50 exams required. Assistant Directors must meet the same requirements as the Director. To direct a College of your own creation, first check the College Catalogue to make certain your idea is not already being used. If the concept is not being used elsewhere, submit a College outline, exam, and key to the Course Development Contact ,Carol Thompson at: [email protected] She will determine where your College fits within the Academy structure and introduce you to your Dean, who will lead you through the approval process. Page 8 OCTOBER 2015 THRU DECEMBER 2015 TOTAL GRADUATES = 4211 APPROX 1404 PER MONTH (NUMBERS FOLLOWING THE NAMES ARE APPROXIMATE. THESE INDICATE NUMBER OF EXAMS COMPLETED IN EACH INSTITUTE) INTELLIGENCE AND ALIEN STUDIES CADET STUDIES HISTORY AND ESPIONAGE GOVERNMENT Brian DeSoto (4) BElanna Stooke (4) Brian Landry (4) Cynthia Lightheart (6) Adam Wenclewicz (5) ESPIONAGE STUDENT Brittany Stevens Jessica Lightheart (4) Allen Anderson (8) Christopher Gibson (2) Carol Hamill Kendalyn Jarrett Andrea Debrestian (2) David Goldsberry (10) Chad Griffiths (65) Martin Lightheart (5) Bryan Jones (7) David Jarrett (2) David Goldsberry (3) Shelby Caplette Christopher Johnson (7) David Miller (6) David Jarrett Tesla Felty (2) David Goldsberry (23) Denise Rush (47) Denise Rush (7) william mcgrath David Miller (2) Denzil Miracle (4) Douglas Roach (3) Dirk Behana Douglas Roach (2) FANTASY, HORROR E. Jerry Beaulieu Donna Jarrett (2) Fred Parsons (6) AND SUPERNATURAL Elizabeth Worth Eric Johannson Hooper (20) Franklin Newman (7) Fred Parsons (4) Ian Novotny (2) Andrea Debrestian (2) Glendon Diebold (8) James Herring (5) James Herring (2) Brittany Stevens James Ferguson (9) joseph wischler (4) Jeremy Skelton (4) Bryan Jones (5) Jude Peace (6) Jessica Lightheart (6) David Goldsberry (6) Joshua Thomas (3) John Bevan (4) David Jarrett (4) Karen Mitchell Caroth- Kelli Anne Caplette Kathryn Hansen (2) ers Kendalyn Jarrett Katie Staples FANTASY, HORROR Katherine Lightheart Kraig Johnson (8) ALIEN STUDENT AND SUPERNATURAL (2) Lee Vitasek Larry French (3) Kelli Anne Caplette Linda Nobles Lee Vitasek (3) David Miller Pamela Nery (3) Marcos Rodriguez - Par- Leo Rogers (16) Donald Arnold Peg Pellerin (7) Maryse Quinn (3) Donna Jarrett (5) Phillip Gilfus (3) do Matthew Miller (2) E. Jerry Beaulieu Ricardo Garcia (5) Mary Lightheart (4) Michael Lewis (4) Edward McQueen Richard Hewitt Michael Lewis (2) Michael Naas (5) Elizabeth Worth (2) Robert Towne (3) Rex Moffett (8) Rezty Felty (3) Eric