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Success rary n November 21, 1997, With participants ranging from the Presidenl's Club third ambilious students to learned pro­ 0 annual Premier Event fessors, the winner at the end of transformed Lhe Colum­ the evening was 10 year old Jared bia College Library into five floors Bailey, son of English department of spectacular entertainment, professor George Bailey. Jared hap­ The Parker family food, and fun attended by more pily received his award of a goody helps Jeanne Parker celebrate than 300 friends and supporters. bag fi!Jed with Columbia College her Li brarian The normally hushed library mugs, T-shirt, and other treasures. Emeritus award. From left: Frank pulsed with life as guests lhronging The Premier Event also fea­ Green, Marla each floor were greeted by African tured an important announcement Green, Jeanne Parker, AI Parker drumming, Easl Indian dance, jazz by President's Club co-chair and Neil Parker; piano, poetry readings, and other Marcia Lazar. In a new initiative, front are lively performances by talented half of the group's fundraising grandsons. Columbia faculty, students, alumni efforts this year wi!J provide seed re: columbia and slaff. There was a progressive support for the Center for Teach­ no. 21/spring 1998 dinner of delicious and beautifully ing Excellence. The Center's Tri-a nnual publication sent free presented food, from antipasto on mission is to enhance instruction the first floor to incredible desserts and achieve excellence in teaching of charge to alumni and friends "Paper Chase" of Columbia College Chicago on the fifth. and learning al Columbia. It will Treasure Hunt Among the evening's high­ offer workshops, seminars and winner Jared Bailey (front) lights was a special Librarian orientation sessions lo supporl and ·shows his bag c Emeritus Award presented to acquaint faculty witl1 i1movative of prizes to OL~ A (from left) Library j ea1me Parker by provost Bert teaching methods, research on Director Mary Gall. J eanne began as a librarian at effective teaching, and technology. Schellhorn, Columbia in the 1940's. While at These activities will, in turn, President's Club co-chair Marcia Columbia, she met her husband, help raise student retention and Lazar, and his AJ Parker, currently chair of graduation rates. mom, Linda Columbia's Radio/Sound Depart­ The President's Club will Bail ey. ment. AJ was on hand to help continue to raise funding for celebrate her award, along with Presidential Scholarships. Last their son Neil, daughter Marla, year, the group raised over $80,000 son-in-law FrarJk Green, and towards these awards, which grandsons Robbie and Jimmy support incoming freshmen. Alum­ Green. ni, friends and supporters are all Over the course of the inviled to contribute to these evening, guests joined the Paper important funds. President's Club Chase Treasure Hunt, following members receive discounts on clues on all five floors of the events, invitations to special Provost Bert Gall presents Jeanne Parker Graduate student Arati Ayappa performs Library in order lo answer ten programs, library cards, and otl1er with Librarian Emeritus award. an East Indian dance for the Premier Event questions about tl1e Library. benefits. roundC 18 Chicago Communications Arts Entrepreneurship Fischetti Awards 23 Luncheon Awards Luncheon Luncheon The 23rd annual Chicago Communications luncheon Recipients of the 1997 Arts Entrepreneurship Awards, Another outstanding November event was the 16th featured NBC sport scaster Bob Costas as keynote sponsored by the Management Department, were annual Fischetti Ed itorial Cartoon Competition Awards speaker. Costas is pictured here (right) with Chicago honored at a festive awards luncheon at Symphony Luncheon held at the Pump Room. Winner Gary Sun-Times columnist lrv "Kup" Kupcinet. The Center. From left: John litis (president, litis Associ­ Markstein (left), editorial cartoonist for the Milwaukee standing-room-only event raised $26,000 for the ates); Zari n Mehta (executive director, Ravinia Festival Journal-Sentinel, views his winning cartoon with Karen Albert P. Weisman Scholarship Fund. Association); Dennis Rich (Management Department Fischetti, widow of cartoonist John Fischetti, and chair); Joan Gray (president, Muntu Dance Theatre); keynote speaker Studs Terkel. Henry Fogel (president, Chicago Symphony Orchest ra). Fall '97 Committee members for the Chicago Communications Fischetti Lu ncheon supporters and guests included (from luncheon, pictured here, enjoyed the opportunity to meet left) Bottega Veneta manager Biba Roesch, who donated with Bob Costas (center). From left: Joan Lufrano, co-chairs a handbag from the store as a door prize; trustee Doug Dome and Harriet Wilson Ellis, and Sherman Wolf. Enid H. Long; Karen Fi schetti; and trustee Averill Leviton. Dane nter Receive Renewed Fundin2: For Outreach, Audience Development here is an edge, an energy, that Mordine and Company land), and Wirn Vandckeybus a rhytlun tl1aL emanates (and, by extension, the College's (Belgium). from the Uptown neigh­ dance program) have "played This past fall, two-year grants Tborhood Columbia College's an integral role in helping to devel­ of $150,000 each were given to Dance Center calls home. Such op a whole generation of new ilic Dance Center by ilie MacArthur words can just as easily apply and promising dancers and clloreo­ and J oyce Foundations. The to ilie Center itself, for it has taken graphcrs." Many alumni are MacArthur fundmg will help a kind of tough grace to bloom now artists in ilieir own right, such support ilie Community C ulture and nourish in a place and time as performance artist Brigid Council Project, an outreach that has not been easy for the arts. Murphy ('87) of tl1e acclaimed program which encourages partici­ In ] 969, a young dancer "Millie's Orchid Show;" Margi pation in Dance Center progTanls named Shirley Morclinc agreed to Cole ('90) of The Dance COLEctive; from residents of diverse Chicago All smiles at the success of DanceAfrica Chicago are (from left) Columbia president John B. Duff; his wife Estelle M.Shanley; DanceAfrica Chicago artistic director and move her company from a small and Robin Lakes ('79), founder neighborhoods. TheJoyce founder Chuck Davis; PureMovement artistic director Rennie Harris; and Dance Center second floor studio in Old Town to of Roughdance. Foundation grant is earmarked for executive director Julie Simpson. Columbia College. From Lhat Over the past seven years, tl1e community involvement and decision grew a unique dance pro­ Dance Center's growth has audience development in the resi­ gran1. In ilie United States, only been explosive. Class enrollment dencies of Margaret J enkins Mordine and the Dance Center of Columbia has doubled. Audience figures Dance Company, David Rousseve/ Company Dance College combines academic pro­ have risen from 6,000 to 48,000, REALITY, and HT Chen & Theatre in gramming and dynamic public with 65% minority attendance. Dancers. Anotl1er gift received in a captivating performance performance with a resident dance With fundraising directed by 1997 was a $350,000 four-year company. Sin1pson, ilie budget has increased grant from ilie Lila Wallace Read­ "We are first and foremost an from $250,000 Lo $1.8 million. For er's Digest Foundation, which educational institution," Dance her work with Columbia's Dance provides seed money for audience Center executive director Julie Center, Crain s Chicago Business cited development, educational and Simpson is quick to point out. "All Simpson as one of ilicir "40 Under outreach activities associated wiili aspects of ilie Center are integrated 40:" one of the 40 people under Lhese iliree major U.S. contempo­ with our academic program." Mar­ 40 years old making Lhe most rary dance companies. cline and members of the company impact in Chicago. Wiili its multi-faceted public all teach classes at Columbia, while The Dance Center recently progranuning, exceptional stan­ visiting artists from tl1roughout received a new conuniunent dards fo r teaching and performing, the world give master classes and from the Elizabeth F. Cheney and extensive community out­ lecture demonstrations at the col­ Foundation, which has supported reach, the Dance Center has lege and in the community. These programmmg over tl1 e past iliree become a model for oilier dance features have earned Columbia years. The Foundation will be programs and a resource for ilie a national reputation as one of ilie the Litle sponsor of EuroConlempo, cmire city to e~oy. As it moves best places to study contemporary an extraordinary festival of toward it 30m year wiili increasing dance. "We offer one of Lhc most European contemporary dance artistic strength and vision, well-rounded, professionally-based presented from March Lhrough Columbia's Dance Center is programs available," observes early May 1998 featuring Herve a place to keep your eye on. Simpson. Robbe wiili Le Marietta Secret Just don't blink. A study coiru11issioned by (France); Beppie Blankert witl1 ilieJohn D. and Catherine T Dansers Studio (Netherlands); MacArthur Foundation asserted Compagnie Philippe Sairc (Switzer- Trustee Nancy Tom Establishes The Center for Asian Arts and Media and the Helen Fong Dare Scholarship at Columbia n 1996, when Columbia Col­ ly generous. "When she was 10 American artists, wiili a focus on the Center. Columbia is innovative serves on the honorary board, lege trustee Nancy Tom visit­ years old," some villagers recounted contemporary art.