News & Notes

Women's History Month celebrated on campus

In an effort to honor women during Women's History Month, the Liberal Arts Learning Center will sponsored two displays for the North Lake College community.

First, the cloth wall outside J-211 will showcase the lives of amazing women through a collection of collage posters. Faculty, staff, and students will use their creative talents to combine photos, images, fabric, paint, and an array of objects to portray the life of a wonderful woman.

These women collectively have inspired families, shaped exceptional minds, forged new territories, and achieved the unimaginable. Dr. Avis Rupert invites the campus to view the artistic tribute March 1 through March 10.

The second display is a collaborative effort among the history college faculty. Using the submissions from students, faculty, and staff, a pictorial timeline will honor women who have experiences with war.

These women may represent any war, from any period, and from any corner of the world. The featured women may have served as nurses, wrote about war, experienced war as a participant, or exhibited any other connection.

Charlotte Rike and her colleagues will display the exhibit, “Women and War: A Celebration of Women during Women's History Month,” from March 1-31, along the main ramp leading to the Gallery.

Keena Smith wins Dell laptop

Keena Smith, a single mother of a two-year-old son, was the big winner at the Welcome Back Party Jan. 31, when she was awarded a Dell laptop.

Smith works full-time in a children's day care and had no computer, using her neighbor's when she could. She moved from New Orleans to Mississippi to Alabama to Texas after her family lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.

In addition to the Dell laptop, 10 iPODs and 30 USB flash drives were given away in a drawing to registered students.

Photo by Michael Marion
Paul Kelemen, (right) vice president for community & economic
development, presents a Dell laptop to Keena Smith, whose name was
drawn at the Welcome Back Party Jan. 31.

League for Innovation art winners announced

On Wednesday, Feb. 21, the annual League for Innovation reception was held for the DCCCD's entries. Each of the seven colleges were allowed to enter 10 pieces of art, for a total of 59 on display.

The winners from North Lake were: Matt Windle, who took Honorable Mention for an enamel on canvas entitled 5b; Elza Guedes, the John Cowan Memorial Purchase Award for an oil on canvas entitled 5 Cubes; Sandra Legere, a Purchase Award, for cattle marker on canvas entitledm Kaleidoscope; and Vipin Kohale, a Purchase Award for an inkjet print entitled Canoes.