Grade changes for an “Incomplete” assigned during the fall semester are due in the Admission, Records and Registration office by Friday, May 8. If no grade change is submitted by this deadline, the student’s grade will roll to the grade specified on the original “Incomplete” form or an “F” (if grade area was left blank). Contact Shanda Byer at 786-2290 or Susan Mendenhall at 786-2424, if you have questions.
Ag Club selling picnic table and bean bag sets
The Ag Club is selling an 8-foot picnic table and five bean bag game sets. The table is $135, including free delivery in Springfield and bean bag sets are $50 each. They are in various themes, including sports, etc. Email bill.harmon@llcc.edu or call 786.2573. First come, first served.
LLCC students and staff participate as Lincoln-era re-enactors during presentation
Members of the LLCC community participated as Lincoln-era re-enactors as part of Dr. Terry Alford’s presentation about John Wilkes Booth at LLCC Thursday. Actors included LLCC alum Matthew Reuker (back right) 
portraying Harry Clay Ford, treasurer of Ford’s Theater; LLCC Community Education student Terry Jones (far left) as James P. Ferguson, owner of restaurant/tavern next door to Ford’s Theater; LLCC Academy of Lifelong Learning member Mary Disseler (standing) portraying Katherine M. Evans, actress waiting in the green room to go on stage in “Our American Cousin;” LLCC staff member Kevin Lust (front right) as Joseph B. Stewart, an attorney attending the play; and LLCC student Elizabeth Roehrs (seated) portraying Julia Shepherd, a New York visitor attending the play. Dr. Alford is back center.
The presentation was sponsored by the Logger Activities Board.
In the News
Unique partnership on campus: Look for a story in the State Journal-Register Saturday about the Highway Construction Careers Program, which is currently building a structure to house bird banding activities led by Tony Rothering, professor of biology, and students. Julie Rourke, director of workforce development; Jim Betts, construction instructor; Prof. Rothering and student Tyler Beckerman were interviewed for the story.
The building will also provide storage for the athletic department.
TODAY: Nationally recognized scholar on John Wilkes Booth to present at LLCC
The Logger Activities Board invites the LLCC community to a symposium to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Dr. Terry Alford, 
professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College-Annandale will present “John Wilkes Booth: A New Look at an Old Story,” TODAY at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the Trutter Center. The event is open to the public and admission is free.
In his presentation, Dr. Alford will discuss new discoveries, as well as new thoughts on old understandings of the young man who committed the most consequential murder in American history. The presentation will feature actors portraying individuals who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination.
Dr. Alford is a nationally recognized scholar on John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln assassination. He has appeared on “20/20,” ABC News, the History Channel, the Discovery Network and PBS. He is the author of “Fortune’s Fool,” Alford’s biography of Booth, which is the first full biography of Booth ever written that offers new information on the Booth family’s acting careers and relationships and 19th-century theater history.
Questions about the symposium can be directed to the LLCC Student Life Office at 786.2241.
Student Art Show winners announced; see the show before it’s gone!
Winners of the juried annual Student Art Show have been announced. All entries will be on display until May 7 in LLCC’s James S. Murray Gallery. The gallery is open weekdays from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Fifty-eight art students submitted a total of 112 entries for consideration; the juror selected 62 entries for the show. Winners (with titles and categories) are:
Printmaking: Becky Field, “Boy Hair,” Serigraphy
Drawing: Diane Wilson, “Scribble Flowers,” Graphite
Painting: Hye Young Kim, “Carissa,” Oil on Canvas
Ceramics: Wilma Wofford, “Olive Teapot with Sugar,” Stoneware
3-D Design: Kelcie Salvo, “Hackneyed Hashtags,” Mixed Media
Design Graphics: Holly Baxter, “Marilyn Monroe,” Digital Media
Photography: Summer Spain, “Rock of Ages,” Giclée Print
Best in Show: Emanuela Bruce, “Teapot Set,” Stoneware
Art History Award: Tara Starling
Local artist Suzanne Schmid served as juror for the show. Schmid, operator of Zanne Avenue Custom Jewelry in Springfield, holds a sculpture and art installation degree from the College in Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Beans and Fried Chicken questions answered!
In this week’s SJ-R Epicuriosity 101 column, Nancy Sweet, culinary operations manager, answers readers’ questions about finding stones in beans, and how to make the best fried chicken.
Today at LLCC–Earth Week activities; LLCC trustees meet
Earth Week: Environmental Club Activities, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., A. Lincoln Commons. Heirloom tomato plant sale • Earth Day T-shirt sale • Common Milkweed seed giveaway. Workforce Development Activities, 10 a.m.–1 p.m., outside A. Lincoln Commons. Solar trainer • Green giveaways • Student surveys
LLCC Board of Trustees meeting, 5:15 p.m., R.H. Stephens Room, Menard Hall. The agenda can be found HERE.
Congratulations to Radiography Program students
The Lincoln Land Community College Radiography Program students attended the Illinois State Society of Radiologic Technologists April 15–17. As participants in the conference every second-year student in the RAD program had the opportunity to 
submit either a research paper or an electronic poster. Congratulations go out to Sister Mary Gianna for her 1st place paper on “Code Stroke,” Sara Wurtzler for her paper on “Idiopathic Scoliosis” and Ashley Lewis for her electronic poster on “Diagnosing Dwarfism,” both receiving 2nd place. Great job, students!
Celebrating the environment!
The Environmental Club traveled to Kearney, Neb., for two days over spring break to view the Sandhill crane migration. 
(Approximately a half million cranes visit the Platte River area in central Nebraska every March and April as they migrate to parts of Canada, Alaska and Siberia.) The club went to the Rowe Sanctuary-Audubon at Gibbon, Neb., and watched the birds from a viewing blind at the river as they roost 
at sunset. Unfortunately, we didn’t see as many as we had hoped that evening because of two major snowstorms that came through before we arrived. But we did get to see several thousands of them feed in the fields nearby the next day!