20th annual Veterans Day Ceremony – TODAY, reception at 1 p.m., followed by the ceremony at 1:30 p.m., both in A. Lincoln Commons.
Veterans Club Jeans Day (tomorrow) – Take a $5 donation to the Student Life Office to support the Brian McMillen Veterans Scholarship and wear your jeans.
In the spirit of “think before you print,” we would like to ask you to “think before you order business cards.” Please consider how often you or a staff member will actually use them before ordering.
PRM will now be ordering business cards once a month, rather than on demand, in order to take advantage of bulk pricing. Thank you!
Shrink your documents if copies are for your own filing; this is an option on most copiers. Four pages, if reduced 65%, will fit onto one double-sided sheet and still be readable – and take up less space in the file cabinet.
Dr. Mario Masvidal Saavedra, a distinguished professor at the University of the Arts in Havana, Cuba as well as a popular Cuban radio and TV host, will speak at LLCC Monday, Nov. 16.
At 10 a.m., Dr. Masvidal will speak to students and faculty on Ernest Hemingway’s connection to Cuba. His morning presentation is entitled “Hemingway and Cuba.”
At 6 p.m., Dr. Masvidal will speak on “USA vs. Cuba? A Love Story,” taking an in-depth look at Cuban/American relations before and after U.S. involvement, and through the Castro regime, along with his outlook for future relations. The public is invited to attend his evening presentation in the Trutter Center, focusing on Cuban/American relations since the 1940s.
Currently, Dr. Masvidal is a full professor in the Linguistics Department, University of the Arts in Havana, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in semiotics, communication theory and other related disciplines. He also teaches courses at University of Havana (foreign languages, social communication, arts and letters), “Jose Marti” International Institute of Journalism, and The Center for TV and Radio Studies, all in Havana; as well as the International Film and TV School in San Antonio de los Banos,
Dr. Masvidal has also taught courses and workshops on the history of the English speaking countries, English as a second language, linguistics, English and Spanish stylistics and professional communication at the Enrique J. Varona Teachers Training College and the Paul Lafargue Foreign Language Teachers Training College, both in Havana.
He currently hosts the talk show “Catalejo” at Habana Radio Station and participates in four TV programs: “Cuerda Viva,” in which he interviews musicians; “X-Distante,” an animated show for adults in which he presents and comments on the cartoons; ”Ritmoclip,” a music video program where he presents and comments on artistic music videos; and “Banda Sonora,” where he is a script writer.
Dr. Masvidal is a full member of both the Ph.D. National Board of Examiners in the fields of linguistics, arts and social communication, and the Scientific Council at The University of the Arts in Havana. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistic studies from the University of Havana, where his thesis explored Hemingway’s literary prose.
He has served as adviser to the rector, vice-rector, dean, vice-dean and department chair at several universities and colleges, and written and co-authored academic books, as well as essays and scripts. He is a founding member of both the Cuban Linguists Association and the Teachers Association of Cuba.
Dr. Masvidal’s visit is at the invitation of LLCC president Dr. Charlotte Warren and other Illinois community college presidents who met with him and several other Cuban academics last February. LLCC is his first U.S. speaking engagement before traveling to several other community colleges in the state.
LLCC Theatre presents “Your Swash Is Unbuckled” by Jeff Goode, a collection of short, humorous plays featuring swashbuckling, sword-swinging action, on Nov. 11, 12 and 13. Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the Hoogland Center for the Arts Theatre III.
Three of the plays are world-premieres, authored by Goode just for LLCC Theatre under the direction of Mark Hardiman, LLCC professor of theatre.
Tickets are on sale for $18 ($16 for seniors and $10 for students with ID) at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 South 6th St., by calling 217.523.2787 or online at http://www.hcfta.org. The production is suggested for mature audiences.
More information about the play can be found HERE.
LLCC’s Public Relations and Marketing Office won six awards at the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR) District 3 Conference in Ft. Wayne, Ind. last Thursday. First place (gold) was for best logo (Go Near. Go Far.); second place (silver) in the categories of class schedule (Forward Summer/Fall 2015) and single print ad (Go Near. Go Far.), and bronze awards for radio ad series (Go Near. Go Far.), print ad series (Go Near. Go Far.) and illustration, (Greg Walbert’s Edgar Allen Poe image for LLCC Theatre).
National Radiologic Technology Week (Nov. 8-14) is an annual event established by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists to celebrate the important role medical imaging professionals play in patient care and health care safety. This year’s theme is “Discovering the Inside Story.” The weeklong celebration highlights the radiologic technology profession and raises public awareness about radiologic technologists. LLCC has offered an Associate Degree Radiography Program since the early 1970s and it is still going strong!
The first National Radiologic Technology Week® was held July 22-29, 1979. The annual celebration was later changed to November to commemorate the anniversary of the X-ray’s discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen on Nov. 8, 1895.
Craig McFarland, Veterans Club advisor, was interviewed by Fox News Nov. 9 regarding LLCC’s upcoming Veterans Day Ceremony.
Lesa Schaive, adjunct instructor, Culinary Institute, and some young students were interviewed Nov. 7 by the SJ-R regarding the Young People’s Etiquette class. Read the story HERE.
Bill Harmon, agronomy professor, was interviewed Nov. 6 by WFMB regarding LLCC’s ag program and LLCC as a water quality demonstration test site.
Joe Hoenes, HVAC instructor, was interviewed Nov. 4 by the SJ-R regarding a local HVAC apprenticeship program. Read the story that ran in Sunday’s issue HERE.
