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New Director of Campus Activities
The Student Life Division is very pleased to announce that Lee Clark has been hired as the new Director of Campus Activities! Lee Clark comes to Carleton directly from Missoula, Montana. For the past 7 years, Lee served as the Associate Director of the University Center at The University of Montana heading the Student Activities and Leadership Development unit. His professional areas of interest include developing student leadership programs and creating progressive methods of assessing student development throughout higher education.
Prior to his experience at The University of Montana, Lee held several other positions within higher education including the Director of Housing and Residence Life at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska and as a Residence Hall Director and Career Counselor at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. Lee has over 17 years of combined Student Activities experience and looks forward to drawing from his diverse professional experience in developing close working relationships with students, staff, and faculty at Carleton.
Lee received his Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Frostburg State University in western Maryland and has a Master’s degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from The University of Montana and has started work on his dissertation, entitled “Campus Violence in American Higher Education.”
Lee is an avid outdoorsman and spends much of his spare time fly fishing, hiking, camping, white water rafting, cross country skiing, and dodging grizzly bears. He is a certified Wilderness EMT, and has spent much of his life pursuing outdoor adventures throughout the United States and Canada. Lee also enjoys a variety of live music and has been involved with a number of music recordings.
Lee joins Carleton today, March 30 and his office is in Sayles-Hill 155. Please join me in welcoming Lee to Carleton.
Ramsay Accepts Provost Position at Muhlenberg College
John Ramsay, Carleton College Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies and chair of the department, has accepted the provost’s position at Muhlenberg College, Pa.
Ramsay has taught at Carleton since 1989, and served as associate dean from 2004-07. During his tenure as associate dean, Ramsay coordinated the College's efforts to recruit and retain a talented and diverse faculty. He worked on the renewal of major institutional grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council on Education, and the American Council of Learned Societies supported Ramsay’s own teaching and scholarship.
"Especially when John Ramsay served as associate dean and during his year as an ACE Fellow, but also routinely and most enjoyably during Carleton women's and men's basketball games, I have come to know and to treasure John's talents and expertise and friendship,” said Carleton President Robert A. Oden Jr. “Carleton will sorely miss this rightly esteemed teacher, scholar, and educational leader, even as we congratulate both Professor Ramsay and Muhlenberg College on this great appointment. Muhlenberg is very, very fortunate to have recruited John, and it will benefit from his wisdom and leadership for years ahead.”
Ramsay earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University (Pa.) and received his Ph.D. in educational studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1984-89 he was the chair and director of the teacher education program at Dickinson College.
“This is an exciting challenge for me,” Ramsay said. “The quality and breadth of the liberal arts opportunities for students are two of Muhlenberg's many distinguishing features, and what attracted me to the college.” Ramsay begins his term July 1. In his capacity as provost, Ramsay will manage fiscal and personnel aspects of the academic program, overseeing all academic department heads.
“John Ramsay brings experience, integrity and vision to this position and I look forward to working with him,” Dr. Peyton R. Helm, President of Muhlenberg College, said. “I have been tremendously impressed with his thoughtfulness, energy and intelligence, and am confident that he will provide Muhlenberg with outstanding academic leadership.”
Chaplain to Homeless and Mentally Ill Individuals Presents the April 3 Convocation
Craig Rennebohm ’67 walks a regular route through downtown Seattle, seeking out those who are most vulnerable; those whose confusion or fear makes it hard to seek or accept assistance; those whose illness makes them feel isolated, unworthy, and hopeless. Rennebohm is there for the person who is seriously disturbed and uncertain about where or how to find aid. Working tenderly, he builds trust, helps find shelter and care, and continues to walk alongside as each person makes his or her way toward a new and stable life. In 1987, Rennebohm founded the Mental Health Chaplaincy in Seattle which, under his leadership, has grown to serve families, create mental health ministries in local congregations, and advocate for an effective and readily accessible community mental health system. His pioneering work with the homeless mentally ill community is known around the U.S. and overseas. His presentation titled “Recovering Human Neighborhood: From Our Streets to Wall Streets” will take place at 10:50 a.m. in Skinner Memorial Chapel. If you would like to attend the post-convocation luncheon discussion, please e-mail kraadt.
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As a chaplain, Craig Rennebohm has worked for the last twenty years on the streets of Seattle with individuals who are homeless and mentally ill. He serves as a resource to families and their loved ones facing mental illness; provides assistance to local congregations seeking to develop mental illness ministries; and offers trainings for faith leaders, laity, and mental health providers; and as a grassroots community health organizer. He is the author of Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, published in 2008, and the Gentle Bible, a set of daily readings supportive of healing, companionship, and community.
Rennebohm, born in Spokane, Washington, was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Carleton College (1967), received a masters in divinity from the Chicago Theological Seminary (1970), and a doctor of ministry degree in pastoral care from the Pacific School of Religion (1989). While in Chicago, Rennebohm lived and worked with the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang confederation on the city’s South Side. In 1987 he founded the Mental Health Chaplaincy in Seattle with the aim of building a caring neighborhood with the most vulnerable and isolated souls on Seattle’s streets.
Rennebohm serves as a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Faithnet Advisory Board, the Disabilities Ministries Board of the United Church of Christ and as a consultant for Pathways to Promise, a national interfaith mental illness ministry. From 1994 to 2001, he was a course director for the Social Work and Spirituality Symposium, an international network active in fostering peace and reconciliation theory and practice, based in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Since 2005 he has served as a faculty member of the International Street Medicine Symposium, working with colleagues from across the globe to create effective community health care systems, beginning with ready access to education, prevention, and treatment for the most marginal and impoverished neighbors in our communities.
Rennebohm received the Carleton Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 1997.
SAC Spring Lunch
Staff at Carleton are invited to the Annual Spring Lunch on Tuesday, April 28 at 11:30 a.m. in Great Hall. Join us for a pizza party! Menu will include sausage, pepperoni, plain cheese, and veggie pizzas. (Due to budget reduction, this year's event is a simple pizza lunch rather than a catered affair.) RSVP online. The lunch is hosted by the West End Staff, and will be followed by the annual SAC meeting. Hope to see you there!
Spring Term Fire Drills
Security Services will be conducting annual fire drills in the following buildings during the week of April 6 through 10: CMC, Goodsell Hall, Laird Hall, Language and Dining Center, Recreation Center, Scoville Hall, and Sayles-Hill.
In addition to inspecting the operation of the building fire alarm system, a fire drill provides each department with an opportunity to review and practice its evacuation plan.
With your continued cooperation, each drill should only take between five and ten minutes.
Order Your General Reading Books Online Through the Bookstore Web Site
Looking for the convenience of ordering your books online from work or home? Just a reminder that you can do so online through the Carleton Bookstore and they’ll be ready for pick-up the next day (as long as the book is instock). If we have to order the title, we’ll let you know. We can get most titles within a week!
We also have our own book search function available on our site. No need to go to Amazon.com or Books-in-Print to search for the titles you want. Every book-in-print is listed in our online search engine. The book search function is on our shopping site in the left menu bar, or you may access it directly. Why not bookmark it on your desktop computer?
We urge you to take advantage of the convenience of ordering your books online through your local independent campus bookstore. Shopping locally is good for all of us and we appreciate your business.
April Human Resources Educational and Development Opportunities
We have some exciting and very interesting topics in April. Please contact Linda Laughlin with questions or to register at llaughli@carleton.edu or call x5989.
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Identity Theft: Prevention and Resolution
Wednesday, April 8, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting Room-
The identity theft crisis
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Identity theft prevention
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The need for identity theft assistance
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What to do if you are a victim
Mandatory Training
Minnesota Employee Right-to-Know MERTKA/Blood-Borne
Thursday, April 2, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting RoomMandatory for all new staff (Right-to-Know) and all those employed in or transferred to jobs which require training (Asbestos Awareness and Blood-Borne Pathogens). New staff are required to participate in this training as part of their orientation process. Any employees not required to attend but interested in attending are welcome.
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Natural Resourcery: Studio Art Faculty Go Outdoors
Friday, April 3 celebrate spring and Carleton’s talented studio art faculty with Natural Resourcery: Studio Art Faculty Go Outdoors, opening reception from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Art Gallery. (Artists offer brief remarks at 7:30 p.m.) Dan Bruggeman, Kelly Connole, Fred Hagstrom, David Lefkowitz, Stephen Mohring, and Linda Rossi each address nature and culture in their work. Western culture both romanticizes nature and exploits its resources. Americans love to “escape” to the woods, but hate bears, bugs, weeds, and other “pests.” Natural Resourcery presents drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and other works that confront our paradoxical relationship to the natural world. Additional surprise event around 8 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum Event
“Joan Baez at Spring Hill College: A Study of Intersecting Histories,” a lecture on Thursday, April 2 at 4 p.m. will be given by Stephen Kelly. On May 7, 1963 Joan Baez gave a concert at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. On the surface, this would seem to be a wholly unremarkable event. After all, in 1963 Joan Baez, who had emerged as the “Queen” of the folk revival, performed on many college campuses. Furthermore, this particular event evokes no stirring memories in the public mind as does, for example, “Three Days of Peace and Music.” However, this little-known performance in Alabama, on the day after Baez had been present at the historic civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, takes on extraordinary significance when viewed from the intersection of multiple histories: social, musical, institutional, and personal. Using eyewitness accounts, photographs, and a precious unreleased live recording which includes Baez’ comments on the racial climate, Kelly reveals this larger meaning. This event is sponsored by the American Studies Program, the Music Department, and Gould Library.
The Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching (LTC) Welcomes You to Their Spring Term of Events
Just when it seems that winter will never end, the calendar turns and renews the possibilities for colleagues to meet and converse about our shared concerns. In addition to our regular programming on issues ranging from classroom pedagogy to national trends in higher education, this spring term the Perlman Center offers a new event, Dialogos, co-sponsored with the Humanities Center, featuring several of our colleagues in conversation around a shared research interest. We also provide two spring reading groups and a set of conversations designed to advance our consideration of the new graduation requirements. So, join us as often as you can for lunch or for any of the featured events; click here for the full LTC calendar.
Upcoming Chaplain’s Office Services and Events
- Christian Lenten Service—Wednesday, April 1, 8:30 p.m., Chapel Main Sanctuary. Taizé worship with meditative silence, readings, and song.
- Centering Prayer Meditation—Thursday, April 2, noon, Chapel Lounge. A brief time for Christian meditation and prayer led by Jill Tollefson.
- Torah Study—Thursday, April 2, 5 p.m., Reynolds House. Led by Rabbi Shosh Dworsky.
- Buddhist Meditation—Thursday, April 2, 8 p.m., Chapel Main Sanctuary. Led by Bhante Sathi, Sri Lankan monk.
- Shabbat Service—Friday, April 3, 6 p.m., Reynolds House. Dinner after the service.
- Catholic Mass—Sunday, April 5, 5 p.m., Chapel Main Sanctuary. Led by Father Denny Dempsey of St. Dominic's Catholic Church in Northfield. Musical guests: St. Dominic's Joyful Noise Choir. A soup supper follows Mass.
- Carleton Community Passover Seder—Wednesday, April 8, 7 p.m., Great Hall. Reservations required—e-mail jtruax@carleton.edu by Friday, April 3.
- Jewish Community Passover Seder—Thursday, April 9, 7 p.m., Evans Dining Hall. Reservations required—e-mail jtruax@carleton.edu by Friday, April 3.
Goodsell Observatory Open House
You are invited to view planets, stars, and nebulas at the Goodsell Observatory Open House Friday, April 3, from 8 to 10 p.m., if clear. The open house will be cancelled if it is cloudy. Dress warmly as the Observatory domes are unheated. Open houses are held the first Friday of each month. For more details, go to our Web site.