The Board of Control recognized three longtime employees for a total of 128 years of service to the University. Among them was Mary Ann Beckwith, who gave 39 years of service.
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Jennifer Donovan.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will hold a Lunch and Learn, “A Blended Learning Buffet,” from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25. The location will be provided after registration.
Among the discussion facilitators is Joel Neves on the topic of Computerized Testing.
Read more in Tech Today.
Lindsey Licht, a fifth-year exercise science major, is also an artist, and two of her sketches have been selected for display in the House of Representatives Office Building in Lansing, part of the annual Art in the House exhibit.
Licht’s teacher is pleased. “I have had Lindsey in several art classes,” says Susan Kilpela, senior lecturer in visual and performing arts.
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Dennis Walikainen.
A Pep Band photo is featured in Alumni Around the World in TechAlum Newsletter during the Miner’s Cup Tailgate.
Read more at TechAlum Newsletter, Vol. 19, No. 2, October 9, 2012.
The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra presents the first night of a four-city concert tour of an electric all-Russian concert, “From Russia with Love,” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, in the Rozsa Center.
Read more at Tech Today, by Bethany Jones.
KSO to Begin Season with Russian Music, Tour
Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode.
KSO to present all-Russian concert
Bathe in the luxurious beauty of Russian exoticism as the KSO performs works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Shostakovich.
Read more at the VPA Blog.
Four Actors from the Stratford Shakespeare Company will be on campus Monday, Oct. 22. Workshops will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, 1 to 3 p.m., and 4 to 6 p.m., in the McArdle Theatre. Schools may attend one of these times. The workshops are appropriate for English and Theatre classes and are free. The actors will lead exercises in exploring the text of various plays.
To attend, contact Professor Roger Held (VPA) at 487-1080 or rheld@mtu.edu .
A day to celebrate the Keweenaw
This year, students were greeted by crowd favorite tunes by the Michigan Tech Pep Band, and a rock band eventually took the stage to pump out popular music from the last decade.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stacey Kukkonen.
The Department of Visual and Performing Arts invites the campus community to a retirement party for Professor Mary Ann Beckwith from 4 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 12, in the Rozsa Lobby. Mary Ann taught art at Michigan Tech for more than 30 years.
Auditions are: September 4 and 5, in McArdle Theatre, Walker 207, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm.
We will audition folks on both Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Anyone auditioning should plan to stay for the entire time on one of the two evenings.
Auditions will be readings from the scripts of the two plays: The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, and Romancing Horror.
No preparation or experience is necessary to audition, though scripts are available to borrow from the VPA office.
A little information about each production:
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
October 25-27, Rozsa Theatre, 7:30 p.m. (Possibly remounting in January for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival)
A hilarious “who done it” that pokes fun at 1940s movie thrillers and campy musical comedies.
The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher”) assemble for a backer’s audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people—all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows and the “Slasher” unmasked—but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author’s biting, satiric when the infamous “Slasher” makes his reappearance and strikes again—and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and refreshingly irreverent wit.
Romancing Horror: the Tales of HP Lovecraft
November 29-30, December 1, McArdle Theatre, 7:30 p.m. (Possibly remounting in January for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival)
A special performance featuring original sound designs and music.
Growing from the fertile soil of the Romantics and the symbolist poets, HP Lovecraft surpassed his predecessor, EA Poe, in perfecting the classic horror story. Since then every horror film concocted in Hollywood from the subtly and intrigue of Hitchcock to the evil of “Chucky” have followed Lovecraft’s mystery mantra. In the sedate salon of their New England home, Professor Rodney C. Phillips, world authority on horror fiction, and is somewhat eccentric but charming wife, Edith Abigail, conjure theatrical life into Lovecraft’s tales for their friends. Of course, there will be a surprise ending.
Interspersed throughout the season are also numerous local classical music concerts, with multiple concerts by the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, which will also perform with the Hampton [Rock] String Quartet. Jazz aficionados can attend the Jazz Showcase in the fall or the Don Keranen Memorial Jazz Concert in the spring, and there will also be a pair of choral concerts by the Tech Concert Choir and the Michigan Tech Chamber Singers.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Zach Kukkonen.