Volume 28, No. 28
April 11, 1997
Scott A. Miller
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NEWS
Act 101 program to celebrate 25th anniversary
MU's Act 101 program will host the Silver Jubilee Banquet celebrating its 25th anniversary Saturday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. in Manser Hall's North Dining Room.
The event will honor the state-funded program that has provided quality educational opportunities to residents of Pennsylvania.
"We have several alumni from the region and we hope they come back to celebrate the anniversary," said Dave Russell, director of the Act 101 program at Mansfield University. "We are proud of their accomplishments and look forward to meeting them again."
The Act 101 program has approximately 430 graduates including Marilyn Ouellette, MU senior accountant and 1996 statewide Act 101 alumnus of the year, and Denise Deter, a Williamsport area attorney who spoke at last year's Act 101 banquet.
Tickets to the banquet are $10 and must be purchased in advance. A vegetarian entree is available upon request. For more information about the banquet or to reserve tickets please call 4436. The deadline for reservations is April 16.
Lena Rieppel show opens
The MU Art Acquisition and Exhibition Committee will feature a multimedia exhibit by Lena L. Rieppel through May 9 in the first floor North Hall Gallery.
Though she is often referred to as Tioga County, PA's "Grandma Moses," Rieppel does not work in the "primitive" genre for which Grandma Moses was known. Her drawings, oils and watercolors includes landscapes, still life, animal studies and floral compositions.
A native of Mansfield, Rieppel's first art teacher was her mother, the late area music and art teacher Mabel Snover Lewis. Her early works were gifts to friends and family and drawings on the walls in the bedrooms of her five children, including MU custodian Barb York, an artist in her own right. The children were allowed to color the pictures in as they saw fit.
Rieppel began her elementary education training at Mansfield in the 1930s and served as art director of the Mansfield yearbook, The Carontawan. She completed her elementary education at Edinboro and married Paul Rieppel in 1938. After raising her family, she took a position as layout artist for the Mansfield Pennysaver in 1954 and this, she says, was the closest she ever came to becoming a commercial artist.
In 1964, she was hired to teach kindergarten at Charleston Elementary School, a position she held for 13 years. During this time, she also returned to Mansfield to take courses in drawing, painting, ceramics and printmaking.
Rieppel did not exhibit her work until after retiring. She has exhibited in area artist shows hosted by the First Citizens Bank of Mansfield, regional juried shows by the Wellsboro Area Art Club and at the Council of Aging Senior Arts Festival. She is also a member of the Wellsboro Area Art Club.
A gallery reception in Rieppel's honor is set for Sunday, April 13, from 2-4 p.m.
Regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The gallery is closed Saturday and Sunday.
Distance Learning Open House set
Several faculty will demonstrate the university's newly upgraded videoconferencing capabilities during an open house in Butler Center 208 Tuesday, April 15, and Wednesday, April 16.
Several of demonstrations on Tuesday will originate off-campus including: "The Philosophy of Sex on the Internet" by Robert Timko, philosophy and liberal studies, at 9 a.m.; "A Sense of Place: The Importance of Where We Are" by Tom Murphy, English, at 10 a.m., "Exxon Corporation: Valdez and Post Valdez" by Mary Jane Mitchell, business administration, at 1 p.m.; "High School Forensics Workshop" by Ken Musselman, education, and Michael Leiboff, communication and theatre, along with students from Mansfield and Williamson High Schools, at 3 p.m..
At noon on Tuesday, visitors can participate on a discussion on Mansfield's role in distance education. Also on Tuesday Larry Miller, social work, will present "An Orientation to PictureTel" at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
On Wednesday visitors can:
For those who can't attend these sessions, Richard Feil, psychology, will teach Introduction to Psychology simultaneously at MU and at Warren/Forest Higher Education Council on Friday at 8 a.m.
The open house is sponsored by the Distance Education Committee and The Center for Lifelong Learning.
For more information, contact the Center for Lifelong Learning at 4244.
Saturday, April 19, 8 p.m., Steadman. The MU Concert Choir, under the direction of Peggy Dettwiler, music, will present the second of two concerts in Tioga County as part of its annual tour. The first is Sunday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of Wellsboro. The choir's program will include international selections from the baroque era to the 20th Century performed in six different languages. Tickets for the concerts are $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens, and $2 for MU students and children.
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Barry Brucklacher, education, presented the results of his study, "Second Graders' Ideas and Misconceptions About Animals," at the National Science Teachers Association National Convention in New Orleans on April 4, 1997.
Sandra Woolley, education, presented the paper "What Student Teachers Tell Us" at the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators in Washington D.C. The paper, based on a survey completed each semester by MU student teachers since fall 1993, suggests criteria for the selection and training of cooperating teachers and university supervisors. Woolley, chairperson of the Early Childhood Teacher Educators Special Interest Group, also coordinated the group's conference session.
MU football standout Nate Gibson is the sixth highest rated center in the nation for the upcoming NFL Draft, April 19-20, according to USA Today. A native of Philadelphia where he graduated from Overbrook High School, Gibson is just one of two NCAA Division II players ranked in the top prospects list. In addition, he is the only player from the state of Pennsylvania ranked on offense on the top prospects list. Gibson is also listed high on the "sleeper" list in numerous pre-draft newsletters.
Basketball player Louis Judson was named MU's Winter Athlete of the Year for the 1996-97 winter season. The presentation was made at the MU Winter Sports Appreciation Banquet. "On the national level, this is one of the most successful winter seasons in Mansfield University athletics," said Roger Maisner, director of athletics. "We had three very qualified student-athletes nominated for this honor, but the season that Louis Judson produced was truly exceptional." Others nominated were swimmer Nikki Noaeill, an All-American, and wrestler Joel Brinker, the first wrestler in history to win 30 matches in a season. Judson was named all-conference and all-East in basketball after putting together one of the greatest seasons in the sport's 97-year history.