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KCC NEWS
ISSUE 42
April 2013
Kilian Commnity Collge Issue 42 Page 2
Staff and Stu-
dent ID Cards
If you have not already obtained your new photo ID card, please do so as soon as possible by visiting the front desk to have your photo taken. All students, staff and visitors are re-quired to wear an ID when on cam-pus. This policy is strictly enforced and you may be asked to show ID while on the Kilian campus.
There is no charge to get this new ID (unless you’ve already had one made this year and lost it!) If you forget your ID at home, please see the front desk to secure a “Visitor” ID. If you lose your ID, you must obtain a re-placement at a cost of $5.00.If you have any questions, please ask a staff member.
Earth Day falls on Mon-
day, April 22 this year,
and to celebrate, the
Kilian Green Group will
be celebrating Earth Day
and sustainable initia-
tives for most of the
month. From April 1 –
April 22 the school will
be participating in an
electricity use competition, the second annual “Acts of Green,”
a community service project and other fun events and activities
geared at helping students learn more about Earth Day and
sustainable living.
“We will see if we can beat last year’s total number of acts of
green,” said Registrar Janet Garcia. Information on the Big
Sioux river Clean-up on May 4 will be posted around the cam-
pus, and students can learn more about all of these events dur-
ing snack time events running the first week of the month in
the student lounge area.
What are “Acts of Green?”
“Acts of Green” allow students, staff and faculty to help Kilian
be more sustainable by encouraging things like reusing, recy-
cling and reducing. For each
“act of green” committed—such as recycling a pop bottle after
class, reusing a cup or even printing class notes with the
“double sided” print feature (and thus reducing paper waste), a
person is committing an “act of green.” Turn these in on a slip
of paper each day!
Did you Know...
...that April Fools Day may have be-
gun in France?
“While some historians disagree, the
most popular theory about the origins
of this day for pranks and practical
jokes is that it began in the 1500s in
France, when the start of the New
Year was moved from March to Janu-
ary. Word of the move traveled slowly
to the rural dwellers, who continued
to celebrate the New Year in April,
earning them the title of ‘April
fools’.”
—from www.holidays.net/seasons
Next time you celebrate the begin-
ning of the month with a fun or silly
prank, you’ll know why this tradition
exists.
Gemini (5/21-6/20): People are craving your attention this month. Share it wisely.
Cancer (6/21-7/22): Look for a boost of confidence and success at month’s end.
Leo (7/23-8/22): Spring fever will really hit at the end of the month, so don’t fight it!
Virgo (8/2323-9/22): Finish old projects before starting something new.
Libra (9/23-10/22): The middle of the month will be positive and fun-filled!
Scorpio (10/ 23-11/21): Weigh the pros and cons before making any decisions.
Sagittarius (11/22-12/21): Work will rattle you this month, but keep cool.
Capricorn (12/22-1/19): Use your creativity this month—don’t hold back.
Aquarius (1/20–2/18): Pay attention to details in work and personal life this month.
Pisces (2/19-3/20): Consider your health this month and take care of it!
Success Center News As the semester gets busy,
the SSC is happy to announce
some “feed your body while
you feed your mind” activi-
ties.
On April 8th the SSC team will
host a pulled pork feast from
11:30 to 1:30 and again from
4:30 to 6:30. Chips will also
be provided, but diners must
bring their own beverages.
During midterm week the Student Success Center will of-
fer popcorn for students throughout the day. If you don’t
already take advantage of the Student Success Center and
the helpful tutors, make sure to swing by for these yummy
offerings!
~KCC Pride~
Pictured left to right, KCC staff and faculty display their KCC pride with logo wear. All items available in the bookstore. Back row:
Mark Millage, Christine Shelske, Cheryl Hartman, Jim Smorada, Craig Jucht, Wendi Van Beek, Carolyn Halgerson, Denver Davis,
Veronica Fischer, Mary Klockman, Wendy McDonnel, Wendy Jansen. Front row: Joyce Hubregtse, Donna Devries, Rose Toering,
Rose Leibhan, Linda Haskett, Stacy Walters.
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The following students and donors were recognized at a scholarship
Scholarship Recognition Day
Presidential scholar/donor: Nicole Wilson/ DeGroot
Family
Achivement scholars/donors:
Gabriela Custer/Delbridge Family
Tatiana Egan/Ann Louise Kuehn
Steve Fideler/ First Premier Bank& Premier Bankcard
Branden Jastram/ Sioux Falls Downtown Rotary
Keanette Kuntz/ First National Bank
Encouragement scholars/donors
Angela Alberston/Risk Administration Services
Emily Carroll/Citi & Golf Event
Scott Ducheneaux/Cit & Golf Event
Suzanne Francis/First Premier Bank & Premier Bankcard
Sarah King/Avera McKennan
Tiffanie Taylor/First Premier Bank & Premier Bankcard
Nichole Wilson (pictured at left with President Mark Millage)
received the Presidential Scholarship this year, after main-
taining a 4.0 and writing a moving essay about education.
Her essay is shared here:
“Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying, ‘Be the change that
you wish to see in the world.’ This is also a perfect single sen-
tence description of my educational goals.
I believe that without a reason to do something, the goal
itself will always seem too far away. So when it comes to my
education, I want to first point out my reason for starting this
journey.
When our son was first diagnosed as Autistic, I was told that I
needed to go through the five stages of grief in order to deal
with this life changing news. However, I found myself stuck in the depression stage and it took the supportive, yet firm advice
from a social worker to help me realize that Autism was not terminal and there was still time to help him. I just needed to rise out
of my rut and step up to be the mother our son needed and deserved.
Thanks to the work, advice, and dedication of our son’s social worker, I realized that I wanted be able to help the other
one out of eighty-eight families that will find themselves in our position. The best way to do that is become a Social Worker.
Eventually, I want to get a Master’s Degree and be able to counsel other families that have children with special needs. I see this
as a needed change in our society and a void that I want to fill.” Congratulations to Nichole and the other winners. Pictured be-
low, at left, are President Mark Millage and Tatiana Egan, recipient of an Achievement scholarship. Below at right are pictured
Scott Ducheneaux and Emily Carroll, recipients of Encouragement scholarships, and their donor representative. See page 4 for a
listing of other scholarship recipients, their donors and their awards.
Scholarship Recognition Day
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Happy Lit-
tle Trees In other staff news, adjunct instructor
and tutor Dori Mushaney has been
using her artistic license to create some
great artwork a la Bob Ross. The
“Happy little trees” in this painting
represent her initial foray into working
with this style. Looks like someone
better submit work for the Artists
Against Hunger event in June!
Staff & Faculty News
Ever wonder what Kilian’s faculty and staff members are up to outside of Kilian? They are busy people,
and five of our staff/faculty members have exciting news this month!
On April 27th, two of our Kilian history faculty will be presenting at the Center for Western Studies Dako-
ta Conference. This conference includes presenters from universities and colleges in several states in the
area. Charles Rogers is presenting on “South Dakota’s Challenges since 1960.”
Aaron Woodard is presenting on “Spanish Progeny, American Buckaroos.”
To get a paper accepted at a conference of this caliber is quite an accomplishment. Please congratulate
Charles and Aaron if you see them, or feel free to email them. Adjunct English instructor and admissions
rep Marcella Prokop has a short fiction story coming out in the Brooklyn Review’s 30th anniversary is-
sue, and our own Assistant Registrar, Veronica Fischer, went to an Alumni Interpretation event in St.
Louis recently. The event was put on by Pi Kappa Delta, a national Forensic Organization. Veronica com-
peted in college in oral interpretation and other forensics. At the alumni event, she competed and won
first prize for her oral interpretation. Please congratulate her if you see her. Competing against other
alum at this level had to be challenging. Kilian history instructor Mark Kirschbaum was elected to his
township board. He is part of Clear Lake township near the north Minnehaha border. If you have staff
and faculty notes to include in the newsletter, please send them to the admissions office.
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Former Student News
Rebecca Wiener is someone you might like to know. She graduated from Kilian in 2001, after switch-
ing from Drug and Alcohol Counseling to Liberal Arts studies because she wanted to transfer. She
then went on to earn a B.A. in psychology from Southern New Hampshire University in 2003. Today,
Rebecca is founder of HealWithHypnosis.com and is a full-time hypnotist and life strategist. She helps
people from all over the country overcome their fears and achieve their goals. She says it is a “pretty
rad job if you can get it!” Rebecca says that because of her education, her confidence level increased.
“I knew that I could achieve things. That confidence eventually helped me start my own company.”
Rebecca offers these words of advice to those in college: “Use this time to learn what you're made of
and what you can become. Do not waste a moment of your time being less that you are capable of
being.” Rebecca credits the Kilian family of teachers and advisers for changing her thinking. She cites
Dr. Cheryl Hartman and Kip Scott as having helped her change her way of thinking. “Because I was
pushed to think critically, my whole life changed,” Rebecca says. She points out that what Dr. Dyer
said is really is true: "When you change the way you think about things, the things you think about
change."
Important Dates: April 1-5 Midterm Week April 4
Overage checks out for first time borrowers
April 26 Last day for student withdrawals
May 10Presentation College graduation ceremony
May 17 Spring Semester Ends
Bridges
Facebook page The Bridges program has its own Facebook
page now. Joyce will be using it to stay in
touch with Bridges students here and beyond
the program. As KCC students, staff and facul-
ty, we can welcome Bridges participants to
the Kilian family with the easy act of “liking”
the page. You can find it and “like” it by going
to the Bridges page on Kilian’s website, then
clicking the “Find Us on Face Book” link at the
bottom. Like, promote, suggest friends… the
more you help spread the word about Bridges
the more it will help our community!
Gonzales pardoned
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has par-
doned Kilian Community College student Carlos Gonzales
bringing to an end a three-year effort to have his record
cleared. According to the letter from the governor, Gonza-
les was granted “a full and complete pardon” for felony
drunk driving offenses in Lincoln and Minnehaha County
nearly ten years ago. The pardon restores rights of citizen-
ship and the right to carry firearms. Gonzales made two
appearances before the state Board of Pardons and Pa-
roles. The first appearance served as a screening for the
pardon request before it went before the full board. The
second meeting passed the recommendation for a pardon
on to the governor’s desk.
The pardon was granted in February 2013. Gonzales,
who is from Nicaragua, attended high school in Madison, S.D. and has been a part-time student at Kilian
Community College for three years. He is married and the father of four children.
Gonzales has won Kilian scholarships for his academic performance at Kilian. He will graduate in May
2013. For people visiting the Kilian web site, Gonzales is one of the first faces people see; he is shown in a
staged lab setting looking at a batch of beakers full of colored water. Congratulations, Carlos! Your persis-
tence and efforts to grow have paid off!
MESSAGES AT
THE FRONT DESK
If you need to contact your instructor, please use the contact information in your syllabus. If you do not
have this information, you may ask Linda to contact an instructor for you. At the front desk we are unable
to notify your instructor if you are going to be late or miss class. Regarding your own information, please
fill out a FERPA release form if you want us to give out your personal information when people call here
for you, or else we cannot. If you need to correspond with a classmate, you can email that person,. If you
have any questions about this policy, see Gene McDaniel in Room 121.
Summer semester begins June 3 2013. Encourage
your friend to apply online.
Programs go to 60 credits
The academic services committee has de-
cided to reduce the number of credits re-
quired for an associate-level degree to 60
credits, based on the SD Board of Regents
decision. The courses no longer in the de-
grees were carefully selected for elimina-
tion. If you are a current student and
would like to reduce the number of credits
required for you to graduate, please dis-
cuss this with your advisor to learn more
and sign an “acceptance of revised degree”
form.
STUDENT REFERRAL CARDS
Do you know someone who is con-
templating going to college? Invite
them to come check out Kilian. Kilian
offers medical, business, human ser-
vices and general education courses.
Flexible scheduling, financial aid and
free tutoring also make the KCC ex-
perience a great one!
For more information contact Mary
Klockman in room 104 or Marcella
Prokop in room 107. You can also
call 605-221-3100.
Presentation
Graduation
Although Presentation College and Kilian Community Col-
lege have traditionally held gradu-
ation ceremonies at the same
time, this year PC and KCC are do-
ing things a little differently to
accommodate scheduling con-
flicts. Presentation College will
hold their graduation ceremonies
on May 10 at 6 pm at the college’s
new Sioux Falls location. Staff,
faculty and student are invited to attend the ceremony and
an open house following commencement.
Campus smoking policy
Just a friendly reminder that while Kilian
Community College is NOT a smoke-free
campus, we do have a clear policy on
where you can and can’t smoke.
It is OK to smoke:
Inside your car (windows up or down).
In the immediate area near the picnic
table behind the shed and dump-
ster.
It is NOT OK to smoke:
Inside the building.
Anywhere else on the Kilian grounds.
You are also reminded to properly dispose
of all cigarette butts. If we have recurring
problems with this policy, we may have to
revoke smoking privileges altogether.
Most people might not have a problem
with that, but we do want to maintain a
welcoming place to all students, staff and
guests. Thank you!
Student Activities Suggestion Box
Help student Services plan the next fun event or events! Is there a board game you love playing with
your family and friends? Do you enjoy doing outdoor activities? Is a casual workout session more
your style? Whatever it may be that interests you, drop a suggestion card into the suggestion box lo-
cated at the front desk. The student services team will review the suggestions and put together some
fun activities based on the requests/ideas they get. For any questions, see Wendi Van Beek in room
137.
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Help Artists Against Hunger
Help represent Kilian at Artists Against Hunger by submitting new or old original artwork!
Kilian Community College will have an art collec-tion on display during the June Artists Against
Hunger event. The event will be held Friday, June 7th from 5-10pm and Saturday, June 8th from 10am-10pm at the 8th & Railroad building.
The Artists Against Hunger art show is a bi-annual fundraiser for Feeding South Dakota. Over
the past four years, the art show has donated over 30,000 pounds of food to the Sioux Falls Food Bank. “Using art, compassion, and commu-
nity” as the “backdrop” for the issue of hunger, the people involved work to “make a change with-in South Dakota one painting at a time,” says the
group on their Facebook page. If you are interested in having your artwork
shown, please contact Stacy Walters at swal-ters@kilian.edu by April 8th for information. We currently have eight Kilian students, alumni and
faculty participating.
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Gallery in the Hall Kilian Community College ad-
junct psychology instructor Scott
Moeller is exhibiting a series of im-
pressionist and abstract paintings this
semester and next in the 2nd floor
hallway gallery. Moeller’s work has
been rendered in mixed media and
oil. Some of the images are taken
from back yard views, but one cap-
tures a moment in early summer at
Spirit Mound, near Yankton, S.D.
Moeller saw an abundant flowering
of wild flowers and captured the im-
pression on canvass. Moeller, a clini-
cal therapist, has taught psychology
courses for more than two decades at Kilian. He has worked at the Sioux Falls Mental Health Center as a
therapist, and for the past ten years Moeller has worked as a therapist at Lutheran Social Services in Sioux
Falls.
In an artist’s statement accompanying the show, Moeller writes: “Art is the experience of the behold-
er. A piece of art works to the degree it connects with the viewer.” Connect with Scott’s work during class
breaks and appreciate this instructor’s work on another level.
Alumni news Do you keep in touch with former classmates? Get a random email or text from a former stu-dent on occasion? If so, share that news with the admissions office for the “former student news” section. It’s always great for our current students to learn from those who came be-fore them, and the staff and faculty enjoy hearing about familiar names and faces. This in-formation is also helpful for our director of development, Wendy McDonnel, so send her any contact information you may have as well. Your help building the alumni and former stu-dent database makes Kilian a better place for current and future students!