Achievements
Head cross
country ski coach Sten Fjeldheim (Athletics, pictured
right ) received the Domestic Coach of the Year Award from
the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. The USSA is the national
governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding. This is the
second time that Fjeldheim has picked up the award. He won it in
2000 and is the only two-time recipient.
Gavin
Leach (Finance and Admistration,
pictured left) is the recipient of the
2005 Rising Star Award from the National Association of College
and University Business Officers (NACUBO). This award is given to
"up-and-coming individuals in the areas of finance, administration
and business who provide innovative, meaningful contributions to
the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of their
institutions."
Leach
will receive an inscribed plaque as well as a scholarship for a
NACUBO seminar of his choice. NACUBO serves a membership of more
than 2,500 colleges, universities and other higher education service
providers across the country.
Michigan's
Gray Wolf: Ghost of the Big Timber, produced by Dwight
Brady (Communication and Performance Studies) and NMU alumnus
Nick VanCourt, is one of 10 films selected for a summer film festival
at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. On May 28, Brady
helped kick off the premiere of the "Wolves of the World"
festival at the center (as pictured at right). He introduced
the NMU documentary and answered follow-up questions from audience
members.
"The reaction of
the staff to this film has invariably been deep admiration,"
said Jim Williams of the International Wolf Center. "We know
how difficult it is to simply tell the whole story about this complex
animal and our complex relationship to it. Michigan's Gray Wolf
tells the whole story and does so with such unerring accuracy, clarity,
respect and humanity that we have come to see it as a model of excellence
in wolf education. Needless to say, we are very proud to be exhibiting
this film."
For more information on
the film festival, go to Wolves
of the World.
The
NMU Army ROTC Wildcat Battalion commissioned its largest class in
more than a decade at a May 7 ceremony in the commons area of Whitman
Hall.
The
nine officers commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army
are (pictured back row, from left): Anne Seeburger, Elise VanDerPuy,
James Kolky, Darnell Lollis, Michael Zultak Jr., Trent Anderson,
Matthew Allen, Jacob Davis and Alexander Gualdoni. Attendees included
(front row, from left): Cameron Howes (College
of Professional Studies), Phyllis Wong, NMU President Les
Wong, Terry Seethoff (College of Arts
and Sciences), and Lt. Col. John Vickers (Military
Science).
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