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Opportunities in Emerging Technologies, Sept. 14

biotech Join Santa Fe College faculty and staff as they guide you through the state-of-the-art laboratory sciences training facility at the Perry Center for Emerging Technologies, and explore the cutting-edge, high demand careers of Biotechnology, Clinical Laboratory Specialist and Biomedical Engineering.

Explore the CSI world of laboratory sciences and learn about the employment opportunities, salaries, and unique career personalities. Additionally, faculty will discuss the successful academic path into each training program.

The tour for opportunities in emerging technologies will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Perry Center for Emerging Technologies in Alachua. (Map)

If you have questions, please contact Scott Fortner.

Children's Movement of Florida to Stop in Gainesville Sept. 8

Children's Movement of Florida A message from Dug Jones, Assistant Vice President, Economic Development:

I hope you will join me and lots of other child advocates and interested folks in making the wellbeing and education of our children the state's highest priority.

This new initiative is called the Children's Movement of Florida -- and is being spearheaded statewide by a large, influential and non-partisan group of state leaders.

This state tour will host 15 "milk and cookies" parties across the state starting in Pensacola and working down to Key West.

We would like to show our community and our state that Gainesville truly cares about its children by getting at least 1,000 people to participate. Hope you will join me in the one-hour rally on Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Gainesville to raise awareness of and support for the movement.

Time: 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8
Place: SF Northwest Campus, Gymnasim
Goal: 1,000 people per location in order to attract the media and to make a statement to the Florida legislature that kids are our priority

Each site will attract families and advocates with refreshments, local bands and choirs, balloons, entertainment, local celebrities, milk and cookies, and buses to get folks to the event, etc. It is backed by grants from the Kellogg Foundation among several others. This is not a request for money and/or involvement in campaigns -- just an hour of your time and sending a few emails.

For more information email to david.abrams@childrensmovementflorida.org.

Fall 2010 Leadership Seminar Series

Follow the Leader The Santa Fe College Leadership Institute is offering a certificate of completion for those who attend all five basic leadership seminars in the Fall 2010 Leadership Seminar Series. The presenter will be Bruce Tucker, the Coordinator of the SF College Leadership Institute. All seminars are free and open to the public. If you'd like more information, please contact bruce.tucker@sfcollege.edu.

The first two seminars are described below. Select "read more," below for the entire series.

Leadership Institute website

Session I: Understanding the true meaning of leadership.

If everyone agrees on what good leadership is, there would be no need for a two-party system, football coaches would never be fired, and my dog would obey me. My dog needs treats, coaches need wins, and the talking heads on TV need jobs. Why are there so many differences of opinion? How does this affect leadership effectiveness?

Date: Sept. 15, Time: 2 p.m., Location: S-326/327

Session II: Assessing your leadership potential.

My only qualification for chairing this committee is that I was absent for the meeting when officers were elected. I have two years to serve. Is my self esteem about to take a dive? What kind of legacy will I leave behind me? Are there any hints that can indicate whether I will be successful?

Date: Sept. 29, Time: 2 p.m., Location: S-326/327

Calling All Scrabble Lovers!

Scrabble This message is from Professor Naima Cherie Brown:

"I have started a new club, Scrabble Lovers of Gainesville, and I want to invite interested members of the SFC family to join. If you love Scrabble like I do, then you know exactly why I started this group! And you also know why you want to join this group...to play Scrabble, and to play Scrabble, and to play Scrabble. So join the group! Then plan to come to the monthly meeting.

First meeting is Sept. 7

"The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every month from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m. The first meeting is September 7. Bring your Scrabble board, bring your Scrabble dictionary, and bring your A-game. (Don't worry if you don't have your own board and dictionary, I will bring a few). The meeting room at the Tower Road Library has been reserved for 3 hours. This means that each person can get in at least three (two-player) games during each meeting.

Game #1 will be from 5:40-6:30 p.m.
Game #2 will be from 6:35-7:25 p.m.
Game #3 will be from 7:30-8:20 p.m.

You can pick and choose which games you want to play. Just show up in time for the time slot that interests you. Players will have 25 minutes each for every game. That way, each game between two people lasts no more than 50 minutes. Feel free to bring your own snacks! Note: This group is open to the public. So, inform and/or bring along Scrabble lovers that you know.

For more information, call Naima at 352-395-4477.

Scrabble Lovers of Gainesville online

Please Join Us as UF and Santa Fe Enter a New Partnership!

The UF@Santa Fe Center, aka the Gator Den, is a new academic resource center for both SF and UF students enrolled in online degree programs at the University of Florida. It is located on the south side of campus in Building H.

Currently there are two UF online degree programs promoted through Santa Fe: a BS in Business Administration offered through the College of Business Administration and a BS in Sport Management from the College of Health and Human Performance.

Additional degrees are anticipated as UF continues to grow its distance learning programs, and Santa Fe looks forward to expanding this exciting academic partnership.

The Center will serve as a clearinghouse where students can receive information and advice about the wide variety of programs open to them. It will also provide space for advisors and recruiters from many UF colleges to make presentations about their programs and for distribution of information on a continuing basis. Two study-rooms allow UF students enrolled in online programs to collaborate on group projects or meet with faculty as needed. This joint-use facility will be monitored by staff funded by both institutions.

Dedication scheduled for Sept. 1

Please join us for the hour-long dedication beginning at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1. SF President Jackson Sasser, UF Provost Joe Glover, UF Dean Steve Dorman, and SF Provost Ed Bonahue will all give welcoming remarks. Please RSVP to Cheryl Farrell at 395-5181 if you plan to attend. A continental breakfast will be served beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Invitation in PDF format

"The Past Is Now" Opens Sept. 10 in the Santa Fe Gallery

"The Past is Now" The Santa Fe Gallery will be a very busy place when the A. David Crown, M.D., retrospective opens on Sept. 10. The appropriately named "The Past is Now," includes more than 135 pieces, some dating back more than 25 years. The opening night mixer runs from 7-9 p.m., and will include live music and catering by Blue Water Bay. The gallery is located on Santa Fe College's Northwest Campus, in building M, room 147.

David Crown is in the midst of his second career and first love: art. The retired physician laid down his stethoscope in 1982 after 35 years in practice, moved to Gainesville and picked up a paintbrush.

His new show is focused on one art form that has fascinated him more than any other: mezzotint. This ancient type of printing was developed in the 1600s and became very popular until the early 1800s. The name comes from the Italian mezza tinta, meaning middle tone. The standout feature of mezzotint is its ability to create rich, velvety blacks. No other method can match it, says Crown.

Crown is the director of the International Mezzotint Society, which he founded 14 years ago. For this exhibition, there will be 135 mezzotint prints. Some are color but most are black-and-white. By nature, the scale tends to be small. The largest is 9" by 12"; the smallest is ½" by ½".

"Big can be beautiful, but small can be exquisite," says Crown.

The exhibition will be up through Nov. 4. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Gallery Director Jayné Grant at 352-395-5464 or jayne.grant@sfcollege.edu. The Santa Fe Gallery is open weekdays, noon-4 p.m.

Theatre Santa Fe Presents "The Day They Shot John Lennon," Nov. 10-13

Theatre Santa Fe's Fall 2010 play, entitled "The Day They Shot John Lennon", will be showing at 8 p.m., Nov.10-12, and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 13 in the E Auditorium for your viewing pleasure. The play was written by James Mclure and is being directed by Terry A. Klenk.

Comprised of a deftly blended series of encounters between a group of strangers who assemble at the site of John Lennon's assassination, the play captures the sense of shock and uncomprehending loss that followed that awful event. The play was first produced by the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.

The Story:

The action of the play takes place on the street in front of the Manhattan apartment where John Lennon was killed. Deeply moved and shocked by this awful event, many New Yorkers spontaneously assembled there to pay tribute to their slain idol, and it is from the interwoven stories of a cross section of people that the author builds his play.

Included are a young advertising executive and a "women's libber" who had both been at Woodstock, a group of high school students preoccupied with romantic disputes and entanglements, a pair of Vietnam vets with larceny in mind, an elderly Jewish man from a neighboring building who mistakenly thinks that the murder victim was Jack Lemmon, and a hip, young, would-be comic who is the son of the old Jewish gentleman's doorman.

Through the interaction of these people—sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, sometimes menacing—the author points out the larger significance of the event which has brought them together; the shock wave which was felt across the nation by this further evidence of the violence and ugliness lurking in our communal soul.

"…we're transported right back to that December 1980 day of mourning when the songs of an era took on sad, new ironies, and when no one could think of the right words to express an inexplicable loss." —NY Times.

Respiratory Care Open House

resp_care The Respiratory Care Program will be hosting an Open House from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 5-6, in rooms W-49/50.

Come learn what respiratory care therapists do in the intensive care unit (ICU) by getting hands-on experience performing tracheal intubations, arterial aspiration, and manipulating mechanical ventilators.

The Class of 2011 will be there to answer any questions you may have about this exciting career opportunity.

Contact: Paul Stephan at 352-395-5706
Info Packet for A.S. in Respiratory Care

Discover "Unknown Japan"

We know Japan through TV and magazines. Hollywood has given us depictions of a feudal society and hi-tech Tokyo. But, do we really know what Japanese culture is like without the makeup and glitz? "Unknown Japan," takes us into everyday Japan and delivers a slice of life beneath the rising sun.

This new exhibit will hang in the President's Hall Gallery from Aug. 24 through Sept. 22. It contains more than 35 color photos taken by Alaina Doten, who teaches history at Santa Fe College. The photographs offer a broad spectrum of subjects, from the grandiose to the commonplace, and range from 5 x 7 to 16 x 20 inches.

On the grand side you have pieces like "Mt. Fuji," where the famous mountain towers in the background, bathed in the blue and purple light of the setting sun, while modern Yokohama sprawls across the foreground.

The commonplace is portrayed in the day-to-day photos that pepper the collection. These snapshots reveal the similarities and differences between our two societies. Doten took many of her photographs on the Japanese subway system. We see a mother watching her infant as it sleeps on a subway seat; a surfer with his board; children in uniform, probably riding to school; and workers packed inside subway cars like sardines.

For more information, contact Jayné Grant, Gallery Director, at 352-395-5464 or jayne. grant@sfcollege.edu.

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