forest park holiday party time to judge the decked doors project

Music Professor turned
Art Student Tom Zirkle
created this pastel
drawing of the campus
which is the centerpiece
of President Cindy Hess’
2012 holiday greeting.
Giving projects, the annual door decorating contest, division
potlucks, final exams…it must be holiday time at Forest Park.
Although business continues as usual near the end of a very
busy semester, the countdown clock has begun for winter
break. Mark your calendars for these upcoming events, and
don’t forget: Spring Service Week is just around the corner!
FOREST PARK HOLIDAY PARTY
Thursday, Dec. 13, noon-1:30 p.m., Highlander
Lounge
Join your colleagues for refreshments, holiday music, hot
cider, door prizes, and the annual bestowing of the Door
Decorating Contest trophy. No retirees yet…
TIME TO JUDGE THE DECKED DOORS
And so the judging begins…you’ll see official-looking judges
walking the halls this week, analyzing the creative efforts of
our holiday door decorating enthusiasts. Thanks to the
unflagging efforts of Marla Bowers and Jennifer Heffner, we
have an unprecedented number of door decoraters this
year—17! So make sure you come to the Holiday party
Thursday to congratulate the winners. Yes, you are all
winners for bringing joy to the campus…
PROJECT BACKPACK
Kids who get moved out of their homes because of domestic
violence are usually scared and vulnerable, with nothing but
the clothes on their backs. Project Backpack provides
backpacks filled with personal and emergency items such as
sleepwear, toiletries and comfort items like small teddy bears.
The backpacks are distributed to police departments, social
service agencies and shelters, and handed to kids “on the
scene and at the moment they are needed.”
Project Backpack is this year’s giving project for the Business,
Math & Technology division. To donate, bring a filled
backpack, or baby tote bag, with age-appropriate items to
the BMT office, F-317, by Friday, Dec. 14. Their wish list
includes t-shirts, socks, underwear, school supplies, small
toys, hats, gloves, hair and makeup products, toiletries, etc.
Linda Basich, ext. 9286; Gerri McCottrell, ext. 9760
WEWIN FOR HEALTHY KIDS
Gifts items or cash donations are needed for the 8th Annual
Holiday Party of WeWin for Healthy Kids, a local non-profit
agency which helps at-risk and underserved youth through
health and fitness related programs. WeWin is this year’s
giving project for the Student Government Association and
Campus Life Programming Board. Toys, books, gift cards,
beauty and hygiene products, socks, underwear, soap and
laundry products are needed (no stuffed animals). Drop off in
Campus Life by Tuesday, Dec. 11 at noon. More than $1,000
in cash has already been donated—help them meet their goal
of $2,000!
Monique Webb, ext. 9138
CANNED FOOD DRIVE I
Surgical Technology Club students would like to thank the
generous Forest Park folks who helped fill an entire shopping
cart with canned foods for the Arnold Food Pantry. The food
was delivered last week to the non-profit pantry, which
serves about 150 needy families every week in Arnold, as well
as parts of Imperial and Fenton. The food pantry opened in
1983 in the basement of an old school house, and just
yesterday cut the ribbon at its new location, 2024 Key West
Drive.
CANNED FOOD DRIVE II & MOVIES
If you missed the first food drive, there’s still time to help the
hungry. Bring canned foods and other non-perishable items
to Café East, Dec. 11-13, watch free movies and enjoy
popcorn and punch with the Business Club. All donations will
go to the Christ Pilgrim Church Food Pantry. Movie times are
10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. each day:
Tuesday, Dec. 11, The Hangover
Wednesday, Dec. 12, Green
Hornet
Thursday, Dec. 13, Fright Night
HARRISON CENTER TOY DRIVE
New, unwrapped toys are needed for the Harrison Education
Center’s Annual Holiday Toy Drive. Sponsored by the TANF
Student Advocate Office, the toy drive is targeting children
between the ages of newborn to 12 years. Bring the new toys
to the TANF office at the Harrison Center by 4:30 p.m.,
Friday, Dec. 14.
TANF Office, 314-763-6017
A big pat on the back to our other giving projects:
The Stitch-N-Chat ladies who knit and crochet
hats year-round for the homeless folks at St. Patrick’s
Center. These ladies can always use yarn donations—
send to Linda Basich, BMT division office.
The Human Services Club, which adopted four
families for a Thanksgiving food drive and is also
collecting school supplies for a school in Solwezi,
Zambia. Drop off school supplies in C-214.
The Clay Club and Culinary Arts students who
again sponsored the Empty Bowls fundraiser to
benefit Operation Food Search. This year’s drive was
moved from the campus to Plaza Frontenac, Nov. 2728, where several hundred (student-made) ceramic
bowls were auctioned off. Operation Food Search is
taking orders for their holiday card (shown right).
Click on
http://www.operationfoodsearch.org/events/2012holiday-cards-now-available.php
Angelic Cole’s Business Administration
students who cleaned and decorated the Imperial
Crown Pet Cemetery on Saturday, Dec. 1. About 200
of Cole’s students have donated their time to this
project during spring and fall the past two years.
Our AAWCC chapter, which is chaired by Forest
Park’s Patricia Sherman this year, who is spearheading
a drive to collect personal items (toiletries) to benefit
a small village in Uganda. Sherman won’t be mailing
the boxes until February, so you still have time to
collect some items and send them to her in Health
Information Technology.
Radiologic Technology 2nd-year students
who collected school supplies and more than
$225 for KidSmart, a nonprofit that ensures
local schools have basic supplies like pencils,
paper and crayons.
Rad Tech students Greg
Taylor, Aasia Langrial,
Darya Mogilenskikh,
Marusha Melo, Becca
Cordia, and Sana Shaikh
collected supplies for
KidSmart.
COMING EVENTS: Spring Service Week Calendar
We know you really don’t want to think about Spring Service Week yet, but before you leave
for the holiday, mark your calendar for the Spring Opening Session, Monday, Jan. 7 in the
Cafeteria:
8:30 a.m., Continental Breakfast
9 a.m., Opening Session
A complete calendar is being finalized now and will be available later today or tomorrow. If you
have a meeting or event for Spring Service Week that you haven’t sent to Donna Nelson for
inclusion in the calendar, SEND IT NOW: dmnelson@stlcc.edu. As usual, the calendar is a work
in progress and will be updated periodically as new events are scheduled.
Get your cookbook today!
Donna Bakke and Dan Yezbick
want to remind you that the
“One College, Many Tables”
cookbook is still available for sale
in the bookstore. Cost is $20; all
proceeds will benefit the Study
Abroad scholarship program.
More than 100 recipes are
featured in the cookbook,
available in a binder format.
Just in time for holiday cooking
and giving!
10 Questions
with Anita Zieren
where they were sharecroppers. She taught me strong
ethics and values, that everyone is a creation of God
and that I should show and demonstrate respect-even though it may not appear that others do,
because of how they wish to live their lives, even liars
and cheats. She would tell me, “God is the judge, not
you.”
5. What would people be surprised to know
about you?
I have a wicked sense of humor.
6. What are some of your favorite things to do?
I enjoy playing and teasing my cat; spending time with
my friends; and driving around, seeing new places,
without a plan before starting out.
Anita Zieren has worked in higher education for 20
years and has been an academic adviser here since
2005. Prior to joining STLCC, she worked at Saint Louis
University for 12 years, first as an associate registrar
for Parks (Air) College, then academic programs
coordinator in the dean’s office when Parks moved
from Cahokia, Ill., to the mid-town SLU campus. Before
SLU, she worked as an assistant registrar at Webster
University, where she earned a master’s degree in
business administration. Her undergraduate degree in
criminal justice is from the University of Missouri-St.
Louis.
1. Where did you grow up?
St. Louis. My first few years were spent living down the
street from the Anheuser-Busch brewery, then a move
to Florissant. I moved back to the city for 24 years, and
now live in beautiful Webster Groves.
2. What drew you to your career path?
I enjoy working with college students, as they provide
a treat each day. They are on the boarding platform to
their future. It's wonderful to see the transformation
from anxious freshmen to accomplished seniors and
alumni. At the community college, however, I'm only
able to see half of this transformation.
3. What do you like best about your work?
7. What motivates you to do your best?
Knowing that tomorrow will bring on new challenges
and keep life lively.
8. If you could trade places with any other
person for a week, famous or not famous, living
or dead, real or fictional, who would it be?
This one is difficult. There are so many people in the
past, real and imagined, that I would love to chat with.
I would enjoy having discussions with our founding
fathers—Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Washington,
Paine, Hamilton, John Jay, and so forth. I’d be thrilled
to talk to Abigail Adams. I’d love to get into the mind
of Agatha Christie and how she developed such
characters as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, or
spend time with Colin Dexter and Chief Inspector
Morse. I’d enjoy being in Alan Shepard’s seat as he
became the first U.S. citizen in space or standing next
to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they took the
first steps on the moon, or being on the Wright Flyer
when Orville Wright first took flight. I’d like to talk to
William Shakespeare about his humor in penning his
plays. Wouldn’t be fascinating to sit and talk to the
early Roman and Greek philosophers, the masters in
art and find out who Mona Lisa was to DaVinci? I
suppose this means that I would trade places with Dr.
Who, the Time Lord, in his TARDIS.
Every day there is something new. Each student I see
presents a new perspective on what can be the same
old, same old.
9. What is a future goal for you?
4. Who has had the greatest influence in your
life?
10. How would you like to be remembered?
It sounds corny, but my mom had the greatest
influence on my life. She grew up in Waynesboro,
Tenn.; then the family migrated to Caruthersville, Mo.,
I would love to relocate to the upper west coast
after retirement. Anyone say coffee and seafood?
I hope that people will remember me as someone
who cared and would leave them with a smile.