Does your class have a service project coming up? Know a group of faculty, staff or students that has a community service project planned? Be sure to let us know and we will get it listed on the 50 Acts of Service webpage. If you have donated your time anywhere throughout your community, log onto the webpage to complete the google form so we can track all of our hours, too! So far, we have over 60 service projects on the schedule! Thank you LLCC!
Category Archives: General
SGA sponsoring Angel Tree
LLCC SGA is sponsoring an Angel Tree to spread joy and cheer to local senior residents of Springfield Retirement Village. Students, faculty and staff are invited to take an angel from the holiday tree located in A. Lincoln Commons and purchase a gift for the resident named on the angel tag. Gifts can be returned to the Student Life Office with the angel tag included.
Recital Series continues Sunday with Millikin University Latin Jazz Project
Group invited to perform in Cuba in December
LLCC’s Recital Series continues Sunday, Nov. 20, with a performance by the Millikin University Latin Jazz Project. The recital begins at 4 p.m. in the Trutter Center.
Director Brian Justison, professor of percussion at Millikin University in Decatur, has announced that the Millikin University Latin Jazz Project has been invited to perform at the Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 16-18. Millikin Chamber Percussion Ensembles have been widely acclaimed for their performances of concert repertoire for percussion instruments..
All LLCC Recital Series performances are free and open to the public.
Film series continues Thursday with “Still Walking”
The Arts and Humanities department invites you to view and discuss the film “Still Walking” on Thursday, Nov. 17, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Trutter Center. “Still Walking” (2009) tells of 12 years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger’s life, the parents welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. The younger son still feels that his parents resent that he isn’t the one who died, as his wife is awkwardly introduced to the rest of the family for the first time.
The event is part of LLCC’s fall film and discussion series entitled “Through a Different Lens” and is hosted by Ashley Green, Ph.D., assistant professor of English; Paul Van Heuklom, professor of English; and Joseph Hoff, Ph.D., professor of Spanish. There is no charge to attend.
The final film in the series is:
Dec. 8: “Birth of a Family” (2012)
Loggers headed to national tourney for 2nd year in a row!
Go Loggers! The LLCC Loggers volleyball team, coached by Jim Dietz, is seeded third in the NJCAA Division II Volleyball National Championship in Charleston, West Virginia. LLCC opens Nov. 17 at 8 a.m. against #14 seed Metropolitan Community College-Longview (Missouri). The Loggers placed second to Parkland College at the national championship last year.The Loggers (37-8) are making their second straight trip to the 16-team national tournament.
Great War Encampment this weekend; LLCC families invited
Dr. Chris McDonald, professor of political science, and Dr. Mark Roehrs, professor of history, will present Saturday at the Great War Encampment at the Illinois State Military Museum, 1301 N. MacArthur Blvd., Springfield. Throughout the day, there will be educational programs for children, a scavenger hunt around the museum, outside exhibits and a hands-on artifact analysis. LLCC employees and families are invited and Chris will have uniforms to try on and will take photos. Mark will speak at 1 p.m. on “Mobilizing for War, 33rd at Camp Logan” and at 3 p.m., Chris speaks on the “33rd Division in Combat.”
Film series tonight; Veterans Day Ceremony tomorrow
LLCC’s 21st annual Veterans Day Ceremony is tomorrow Nov. 11 with a reception at 1 p.m. and ceremony at 1:30 p.m. in A. Lincoln Commons. American Legion Post 759 Color Guard will post the colors and Gailyn Draper, administrative assistant to the vice president of student services, will sing the national anthem. The program also includes LLCC Trustee Dennis Shackelford serving as master of ceremonies and LLCC student Lance Corporal Bobby Herpel, U.S. Marine Corps, providing remarks and playing taps.The ceremony is sponsored by the LLCC Student Life Office and honors all veterans including LLCC faculty, staff and students who served in the armed forces.
Congratulations to LLCC-Litchfield!
LLCC-Litchfield was chosen as the November Litchfield Chamber Member of the Month. Congratulations!
Newest members of ADN honors society
A ceremony Nov. 8 planned by associate degree nursing professors Dr. Pam Bradley and Mary Goldstein honored the newest members of Beta Nu Chapter of the Alpha Delta Nu Nursing Student Honor Society.
Front row: Amanda Nichole Graves (Student Secretary), Abigail Marie Crocker, Sarai Ayala, Paige Debra Ruyle, Brittany Nicole McGrath, Jessica Marie King. Back row: Nicole Lee Scott, Jessica Jayne Gunarwardena, Paige Anne Davenport, Allison Sue Taylor (Student VP), Chastity Fawn Jensen, Robert Curtis Wankel (Student Pres). (not pictured Chelsey M. Garner)
Election watch party
Here are a few scenes from the election watch party Tuesday night sponsored by political science faculty Drs. Chris McDonald and John Vinzant, with approximately 45-50 students coming throughout the evening. (Thanks, Chris for these photos.) Several other faculty and staff stopped by and approximately 20 students also met at LLCC-Taylorvile with adjunct instructors Andrea Graff and John Coady.