Life Enrichment is always looking for new members. Bring a friend, neighbor, or family member as a guest.
Be a Golden Grizzly!
Anyone 60 years of age or older from Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion, or Morris counties can receive a college identification card to be a “Golden Grizzly.” This card allows for tuition waivers (fees not included) for all Butler credit courses on a space available basis; free admission to regularly scheduled, non-athletic college-related activities; and discounted tickets to athletic events.
Contact the Butler registrar at 316322-3123 or registrar@butlercc. edu to ask about getting your Golden Grizzly ID!
Butler Offers New Programs
Art in the Elementary Classroom Online
Butler Community College now offers Art in the Elementary Classroom, an online course starting this semester. With the development of this new course, students can now earn an Elementary Education associate degree fully online.
Casi Short, art adjunct instructor, designed the course to suit the needs of Butler’s online learning population. Students will create
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October 7th Program
Join us for coffee & a light breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the 2000 Bldg. (Hubbard Welcome Center)Clifford/Stone Community Room
Tuesday, October 7
Feel free to bring a neighbor, friend, or other guest!
9 a.m. - Kayleigh Hartley, a naturalist at Great Plains Nature Center, will present a program on birds of prey. She will bring an ambassador animal with her.
9:45 a.m. - Break
10 - 10:45 a.m. - Taylor Frank, coach of Butler’s Livestock Judging team, will bring a few of his students to talk about their experiences. Last year’s team earned National Team of the Year honors, with four team members being named all All-Americans. This was the sixth time the Butler judging team was named National Team of the Year.
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art, engage with art history, and design meaningful art lessons for their own students. The course guides students through topics in art education and effective classroom management strategies for their future classrooms.
Welding at Rose Hill High School
Butler Community College now offers welding technology classes at Rose Hill High School, taught by Butler Welding alumni and industry professional Jake Duerksen. Classes began in August at the new stateof-the-art welding lab. Seats are available to all students, including those in the high school Early College Academy (ECA).
The curriculum at this new location is the same applied learning taught in El Dorado. Butler’s Welding labs offer ten booths at the Rose Hill location and 15 in El Dorado.
“I am excited to join Butler’s CTE Division as lead welding instructor at Butler’s Rose Hill Welding lab,
teaching new welders as well as sharing my knowledge and love of welding,” Duerksen said. “I hope my experience in welding and manufacturing will help grow the Rose Hill program, developing new welders to prepare them for the workforce when they graduate.”
The Rose Hill location allows high school students who cannot attend El Dorado campus classes to still receive welding instruction. “The start of Welding came from conversations with high school partners who indicated that other programs in the area were full, including Butler’s program on the El Dorado campus. Rose Hill is a proven location that attracts high school students in the southern part of our service area,” Heather Rinkenbaugh, dean of online, high school, and community learning, said.
Butler Welding courses are consistent with the American Welding Society (AWS) standards.
Grizzly Athletics Home Schedule
A Golden Grizzly card, available through the Registrar’s Office to individuals 60 and older from the Butler service area (Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion, and Morris counties), provides free admission to regularly scheduled, non-athletic college-related activities; discounted tickets to athletic events*; and a tuition waiver (fees not included) for Butler credit courses on a space available basis.
Men’s Football @ Home
Oct. 18, 3 p.m. vs. Highland
Women’s Soccer @ Home
Oct. 4, 7 p.m. vs. Garden City
Oct. 11, 7 p.m. vs. Cowley College
Oct. 15, 7 p.m. vs. Coffeyville
Oct. 25, 1 p.m. vs. Dodge City
Women’s Volleyball @ Home
Oct. 4, 2 p.m. vs. Seward County
Oct. 17, 1 p.m. vs. Iowa Western
Oct. 18, 2 p.m. vs. Pratt
Oct. 25, 1 p.m. vs. Garden City
Oct. 29, 6 p.m. vs. Cloud County
*General Admission tickets to all home, regular season athletic events at the Golden Grizzly/Youth rate (not available for NJCAA National & Region VI events).
October Birthdays
Ada Soyez – Oct. 3
Regina Kieffer – Oct. 9
Linda Trent – Oct. 11
Lydia Gulick – Oct. 13
Donald Shepherd – Oct. 13
Lou Clennan – Oct. 15
Don Remington – Oct. 15
Stephen Taylor – Oct. 19
Mike Clifton – Oct. 24
Glenis Pennington – Oct. 29
Lonnie Nave – Oct. 30
Doug Rickard – Oct. 30
Butler Fine Arts
Art - E.B. White Gallery
Michael McCaffrey
September 22 - October 29
Instrumental Music
Friday, October 3 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 4 at 7 p.m.
Location: Butler Community College, 700 Building Theatre
Vocal Music
Vocal Music Concert (Off-Campus)
Saturday, October 18 at 2 p.m.
Saturday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
Location: El Dorado High School, 401 McCollum Rd
Free, general admission event
Vocal Music (Off-Campus)
Wednesday, October 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Location: Walter’s Pumpkin Patch
Admission to Walter’s Pumpkin Patch required.
Golden Grizzly cardholders are admitted for free but reservations are required. When calling or making a reservation online, make sure to mention if you are a Golden Grizzly member. Box Office is open from 1-5 p.m. Mon. - Fri. The phone number is (316) 322-3262.
