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NEWS RELEASES JANUARY '05
Russian Ballet to Perform "Romeo and Juliet"
January 5, 2005
UW-Marinette Continuing Education has scheduled a special trip to see "Romeo and Juliet" performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre Company from St. Petersburg, Russia January 14 at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton. Herbert L. Williams, professor emeritus and former Theatre on the Bay Artistic Director, will give pre- and post- performance lectures on the full-lenth ballet in three acts based on William Shakespeare's tragedy. Choreography is by Serge Vikulov. Yuri Petukhov is the artistic director.
The cost of the trip is $89 and includes dinner at the Good Company Restaurant in Appleton, tickets, and motorcoach transportation leaving from UW-Marinette at 4 pm.
To reserve, call Jane Jones at 715-735-4343 or email jjones@uwc.edu.
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Watercolor Class Begins January 18 at UW-Marinette
January 10, 2005
Local free-lance artist Johanna Axelrod will offer a Water Color Painting Class through UW-Marinette Continuing Education on 6 Wednesdays January 18-February 22. The class will meet from 11am-1pm in T-149 of the Fine Arts Building on campus.
Students will learn various water color techniques by doing several mini paintings using the instructor's photo references, and one larger painting using their own reference material. Students can bring their own supplies or purchase them through the instructor.
From fibers to watercolor, Axelrod has worked as a freelance artist for the past 30 years, exibiting and selling her work, as well as teaching.
The fee for the course is $79. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.
To register for this and other Continuing Education classes, call Jane Jones at 715-735-4343, e-mail or visit the Continuing Education website. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.
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Students Honored on UW-Marinette Dean’s List
January 17, 2005
The University of Wisconsin-Marinette has announced the Dean’s list for the Fall, 2004 Semester. All of the students on the Dean’s list have obtained a grade point average of 3.5 or higher for their spring semester classes. The list includes both full- and part-time students.
Highest Honors for grade point averages of 4.0 (straight A)
Full-time students
Roland Kecskemeti, Hungary; Tsuginosuke Sakauchi, Japan; Aizhana Kurmangaliyeva, Kazakhstan; Beth Millner, Jamie Overman, Kristin VanVleet, Marinette; Loren Brown, Amanda Mortinson, Jennifer Philibeck, Rebekah Williamson, Menominee; Miranda Pillsbury, Oconto; Annagul Yaryeva, Turkmenistan; Guzal Azamatova, Uzbekistan.
Part-time students
Barb Kroll, Deborah Pincon, Crivitz; Meredith Baxter, Marinette; Donna Kehoe, Suzann Porter, Menominee; Matthew LaValley, Peshtigo; Robert Bray, Porterfield.
High Honors for grade point averages of 3.75 or higher
Full-time students
Pernille Sorenson, Denmark; Nurbol Kurmangazin, Kazakhstan; Christine Alloy, Sherry Basak, Anthony LaMalfa, Isaac Linstad, Brian Lowis, Marinette; Diana Castillo, Menominee; Morgen Meier, Oconto; Morgan Foley, Oconto Falls; Charles Cikulin, Meghan Guay, Eric Walters, Peshtigo; Walter Hanson, Rapid River; Su-Yeon Kim, South Korea; Holly Anderson, Stephenson; Carol Warden, Suring; Rebecca Dunlap, Wausaukee.
Part-time students
Pam Beschta, Lena; Rebecca Spaude, Menominee; Paul Kowalski, Peshtigo.
Honors for grade point averages of 3.5 or higher
Full-time students
Courtney Peterson, Coleman; Russell From, Crivitz; Katie Jo VanHulle, Lena; Travis Anderson, Lindsay Eggener, Michael Engeldinger, Susan Kraus, Sara Nipple, Angela Salewsky, Jessica Schrafer, Cassie Strojny, Marinette; Jennifer Bergemann, Lara Brendemihl, Stephen Jensen, Kimberly Klatt, Garnet Miller, Amanda Raygo, Cindy Zaharias, Menominee; Lacey Schnurer, William Tuck, Niagara; Maggie Lefevre, Oconto; Nicole Sagen, Kendra Thomson, Oconto Falls; Michelle Bergeson, Kelly Kunya, Daniel Mosincat, Melissa Schulke, Peshtigo; Seang-Jae Lee, Jin-Woo Nam, South Korea; Beth Otto, Suring; Kasipoom Chutphotong, Thailand.
Part-time students
Dana Dziedzic, Daggett; Anna Perez-Pelaez; Susan Tallis, Marinette; Annette Wojciehowski, Porterfield.
UW-Marinette faculty and staff congratulate the students on the Dean’s List for Fall Semester, 2004.
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UW-Marinette/UW-Green Bay Partnership for BSN Degree
January 24, 2005
It is going to get a lot easier for area registered nurses to obtain a bachelor’s degree in nursing, according to plans being developed by UW-Marinette Dean Paula Langteau and UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard.
Responding to perceived community need for bachelor’s-prepared nurses, UW-Marinette’s Dean Langteau invited representatives from Bay Area Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to recent meetings to assess demand for expanded nursing education and to investigate the possibility of offering a local degree completion program. Initial discussions reveal that UW-Marinette can do quite a bit to enable local RNs to finish their bachelor’s degrees.
“UW-Green Bay offers the complete bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) both on its campus and over the internet,” said Dean Langteau, “but they will collaborate with UW-Marinette so that students may not have to travel to Green Bay.” Of the 60 credits required to complete the BSN, UW-Marinette can provide 30 of those credits now, at less than half the tuition students would pay to take those courses directly from UW-Green Bay online. The remaining 30 credits may be offered locally if the community has a cohort of students that have common needs for course times. “We hope to arrange classes to meet the scheduling needs of interested local RNs. Courses could be offered through traditional classroom instruction, online instruction, and/or a combination of the two modes,” said Langteau.
With interest high, UW-Marinette is releasing this week, to local health care providers, a needs assessment survey for distribution to area registered nurses. Those interested in completing a bachelor’s degree in nursing may obtain a survey form from one of three sources: their employers, UW-Marinette Campus or the UW-Marinette website at http://www.marinette.uwc.edu/bsn.html. The information gleaned from this survey will enable UW-Marinette to proceed with a plan to offer BSN coursework locally.
This degree completion program could also expand options for recent graduates of NWTC’s Associate Degree in Nursing program. “This is a great opportunity for associate degree graduate registered nurses to advance their career opportunities,“ said Pat O’Hara, Dean at NWTC. And it offers the chance to start baccalaureate coursework immediately for students waiting to begin the associate degree nursing program as well. “They can take the first 30 credits toward the bachelor’s degree now at UW-Marinette,” explained Langteau.
This program could develop into further collaboration possibilities with NWTC. “I am very supportive of the proposed collaboration,” said O’Hara, “and we at NWTC will be happy to do what we can to make it successful in the community.“
According to projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2012. “We have an obligation to do what we can to expand nursing education at a time when the need is very great,” said Langteau.
For more information about admissions, registration and courses, contact Cindy Bailey, Assistant Campus Dean for Student Services at 715-735-4301.
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Cast Announced for Theatre on the Bay’s “A Play on Words”
January 27, 2005
Theatre on the Bay’s first spring production, “A Play on Words: A Trans-Atlantic Romantic Comedy,” takes to heart George Bernard Shaw’s witty aphorism that “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.”
Written by TOB Playwright-in-Residence Dr. Doug Larche during his work at a playwrights workshop at Oxford University in England, "A Play on Words" has been staged in Great Britain, at the University of Iowa and at Carousel Theatre in America. Making its premiere at UW-Marinette, this light-hearted look at culture and language will be staged February 11-13 and 18-20 at 7:30 pm.
The play offers an unlikely four-way romance, a British word game gone awry, a hero nearly frozen to death, sweet poetry, angry interchanges, silly songs, plenty of laughter and a single tear. Based loosely on the experiences of Larche and his son, Jason, who spent six terms studying theatre at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London before completing his American MA in Theatre, the TOB production is the first opportunity for Larche to direct his son in the role that was written for him.
"A Play on Words" offers a wide-eyed American playwright, played by Jason Larche, who gets separated from his tour bus in Stratford-on Avon and ends up on the doorstep of the rural Bishop and Chicken pub in a driving rainstorm in the middle of the night. The skeptical pubmaid Maggie, played by Amanda Rhines, is a single mother and aspiring poet who begrudgingly takes him in.
Two eccentric locals, Maggie’s Mum Lil, and Hugh the Trustworthy Constable, add to the relational and linguistic perplexity and by dawn, they all discover that there is substantially more than an ocean between England and America.
Lil will be played by Barb Bertagnoli on Fridays and by Lisa LeBoeuf for Saturday and Sunday performances. Brian Cashen will play the role of Hugh.
The Bishop and Chicken Pub will be recreated in the UW-Marinette cafeteria so that audiences may enjoy refreshments and the ambience of an English pub during the show as well as at intermission.
Tickets are $10 for students and $12 for general admission, and are on sale at the box office beginning February 7. As a T.O.B. fundraiser, Twenty V.I.P. seats in sofas and easy chairs are available for each performance on a first-reserved, first-served basis for $15. Box office hours are 4 - 6 pm Monday through Friday and until curtain time on show days. Call 715-735-4313 for reservations.
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