Volume 3, Number 3
Spring 2009 Summer culinary class ...... page 2 Retraining opportunities ...........3 Professor inducted....................4 The armed Man Concert.............6 intertribal Center .....................8 Virtual skills lab..................... 10
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Central Wyoming College is offering a culinary arts course this summer for the first time at its Riverton campus. While CWC offers a full culinary arts program at its Jackson campus, this is the first course offered on the main campus. CULA 2800: Meat Preparation and Cooking is offered in the kitchen of the CWC Food Court and is taught by CWC’s Food Services Manager Duane Van Skike. Van Skike, a graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu program at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute, said the class would be helpful to local cooks and chefs as well as to butchers and anyone interested in improving their culinary skills. The four credit course is tentatively scheduled to be held on the weekends this summer, Van Skike said. Lecture material will also come from Henry Cittone, the college’s director of the Jackson Culinary Arts and Hotel and Restaurant Management programs. Cooking methods and meat preparation applicable to beef, lamb, veal, pork, fish, and poultry are the main emphasis of the course. Cook procedures such as roasting, sautéing, braising, grilling, baking, and pan broiling and pan frying are included. Also addressed in the course are the identification and characteristics of cuts of meat, U.S.D.A. quality grades and federal meat inspection regulations. Overall kitchen functions for preparing and expediting food during service hours in a restaurant are emphasized. For more information, contact the Registration and Records Office at (307) 855-2115 or 800-8650194.
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Chef Duane teaches class in Riverton
JOBS Where at one time Central Wyoming College was preparing employees for Wyoming’s laborstarved job market, the college staff is now positioning itself to re-train those who have lost jobs as a result of the nation’s economic woes. “There has been a major shift,” said Lynne McAuliffe, CWC’s assistant dean for Workforce and Community Education. “We’ve been trying to train employees for a tight job market where there was once a labor shortage. Now we’ll be retraining those employees.” McAuliffe, along with officials from Wyoming Workforce Services and economic development specialists, are examining the resources that will be made available through the federal economic stimulus package to enhance job training and re-training. There has been interest in green and renewable energy fields, she said, including programs in solar energy development, weatherization and jobs related to wind energy, such as turbine blade repair. “It will be a change in direction into areas that we are not familiar with,” McAuliffe said, acknowledging the challenges of transitioning workers from one skill set into other growth areas.
College offers retraining opportunities for people who have lost their jobs
“Part of the challenge is taking people from the oil and gas industry where they’ve made high wages to transition into areas where wages aren’t as high,” she said. While McAuliffe recognizes Wyoming may be somewhat insulated from the global economic downturn, she said small businesses are affected because of the credit freeze. Regardless, CWC intends to be there to help people “get back on their feet,” she said. “We’re fortunate to have a tight knit community in sharing resources with workforce, economic development and social service agencies.” CWC has been providing an assortment of programs for more than a decade. With grant support, the college’s Employment Training for Self Sufficiency program assisted more than 350 needy parents with customer training and life skills programs. College credential and certificate programs in construction trades, information technology, bookkeeping, certified nursing assistant and dental assisting have followed. In addition, the college has been partnering with business and industry to customize shortterm training by providing courses in CDL, line locater and occupational safety. As the college ramps up its program in Environment, Health and
Safety, McAuliffe said to expect additional job safety training. McAuliffe’s department keeps a pulse on the local job market by scanning want ads and state employment reports to determine emerging needs in the community. The development of CWC’s dental assistant training, for example, was a result of McAuliffe seeing numerous job openings. “I’m really proud of it,” she said of the dental assistant program. “We’ve had incredible participation from local dentists as guest lecturers and teachers and have had excellent placement of students from the program. We thought we’d run it once every other year, but there’s been demand to run it every year.” Her staff has been in demand for leadership, management and supervisory training statewide, including the Department of Education, the Wyoming Business Council and the Department of Workforce Services. Recently the department has developed a pilot project with Wind River High School to provide entrepreneurial training to strengthen the school’s vocational programs. McAuliffe suggests businesses that have training needs to contact her.
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longtime professor inducted Longtime Central Wyoming College Broadcasting Professor Dale Smith is being inducted into the Wyoming Broadcasters Hall of Fame. “I was stunned,” said a humbled Smith of his induction. He will join other famous Wyoming broadcasters, including Curt Gowdy, Larry Birleffi and Tony Kehl into the Hall of Fame. Smith’s former employer, Lander broadcaster Joe Kenney, nominated Smith for the honor. “He touched many lives during his career at CWC and has launched many broadcasting careers along the way,” said Kenney, president of KOVE-KDLY. “Smith has been the play-by-play announcer for football and basketball for KOVE throughout his CWC career. He has always had a way of involving the audience in the game and made them feel as though they were on the 50 yard line or at center court.” Smith, who taught a quarter of a century at CWC, was forced to retire this fall when complications from his cancer treatment caused him to lose his sight and dimensioned his immunity to infection. “It’s something I thoroughly enjoyed doing,” Smith said of his long career as a teacher and broadcaster. “It’s almost like being paid for a hobby or something you just adored.” Smith combined his experience in theater, sports, broadcasting and his studies of world religions into a long career that will be honored at a June 20 induction ceremony at the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Green River.
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“There were several things that I wanted to do when I was young,” he said during a recent interview at his Riverton home. “I got to do all the things I imagined I wanted to do one way or another.” He began his career in broadcasting in Georgia at the age of 12. His friend’s father was the program director at a local station Retired Broadcasting Professor Dale Smith shares a moment with graduates at CWC’s 2007 Commencement. He’s pictured with Monica (Murdock) Steen and Joanna Dorothy.
and Smith volunteered to do any kind of work, from sweeping floors to emptying the trash, so that he could be at the station and learn from veteran broadcasters. “I just sat there and lis(continued on next page)
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tened and watched. Most of the broadcasters had been there since the ‘40s when radio was king,” he remembered of his pre-teen broadcasting experience. At 14, Smith was given the opportunity to work on-air and he fell in love with the profession. He learned the basic skills of broadcasting, music programming, sports casting, sports writing, play by play, color commentary, and interviewing during those early years. He believes his broadcasting expertise was enhanced because of his experiences in theater, which Smith first became involved in at the age of 5. He acted, directed and even wrote some plays and learned to control his voice and perfected various forms of dialect. Those elocution skills helped him while teaching broadcasting and coaching actors in theater productions. During his radio shows, Dale developed different characters with his ability to change his voice. “That helped me a lot in broadcasting and teaching broadcasting,” he said. Broadcasting made it possible for Smith to go to college. In the late 1970s, Dale came out West for a visit, liked what he saw and moved to Wyoming in the early 1980s. He went to work as an announcer at KVOW/KTAK in Riverton as well as working for the KCWC-TV, the state’s lone public broadcasting station at CWC. Dale was the master control operator for the station and did some production work as well. He was asked to teach a few courses for CWC’s fledgling broad-
casting program while working at KOVE-KDLY in Lander. The part-time job at CWC quickly turned into a full-time position by 1985. He can recall the success that many of his students achieved following their studies at CWC, including those who have been successful in large market radio and television stations. Former student Amanda Watkins Nicholoff worked her way into a San Francisco NBC affiliate and now she is the TV Broadcasting instructor at CWC. Dale continued as the voice of the Lander Tigers for KOVE-KDLY during his 25 years at CWC. His broadcast name was Danny O’Day and he partnered with Ray Rintamki, currently the general manager of Riverton radio station KVOWKTAK and later with one of his former students, Nick Hudson. In 2008, Dale was honored during a LanderRiverton football game when current and former players presented him with an official Lander Tiger “Voice of the Tigers” letterman’s jacket. Many former players were on hand for the event. Dale always encouraged his students to continue their education just as his father, a Methodist minister, had encouraged him to do. His father suggested he study religions of the world and as a result, Dale began teaching a course on the subject at CWC. That extra teaching load expanded when Smith developed two other religion courses, including one on History of Islam. Smith admits that he wasn’t ready to retire this past fall. Because of his blindness he had to
give up teaching broadcasting and managing the student-operated FM station on campus. The plan was for him to teach religion and humanities this past year, but a diminished immune system put him in danger for deadly infections. After one year of retirement, Smith may return as a guest lecturer or even teach a course here and there. “Smith’s retirement leaves a void in broadcasting in the state,” Kenney wrote in his nomination of Smith into the Wyoming Broadcast Hall of Fame. “His encyclopedic knowledge of sports, his way of teaching his students, and his always cheerful attitude even when undergoing cancer treatment has left an indelible mark on everyone he knows.”
Dale Smith is pictured with his wife, Rebecca, prior to the 2007 CWC Commencement ceremony.
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College musicians and special guests Musicians from Central Wyoming College and Northwest College, along with several special guest vocalists and instrumentalists, are teaming up to present a major choral piece at each college campus in May. Organized by CWC Vocal Music Professor Robert Hussa, the 100-voice choir and 55-piece orchestra will present The Armed Man-A Mass for Peace by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. The concert at CWC is set for Sunday, May 3 at 3 p.m. in the Robert A. Peck Arts Center Theatre and the concert at NWC is Sunday, May 10 at 3 p.m. in the Nelson Auditorium. The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds for the Millennium celebrations and was initially dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis. It is the latest in a six century old tradition of “Armed Man” masses that takes the 15th Century French song “L’Homme Armé” as its starting point, according to Jenkins’ website. “Jenkins draws from a wide variety of genres, including rock and Brazilian rhythms, very traditional Mozart-like harmonies, and crashing percussion,” Hussa said. “The music is thought-provoking, sometimes disturbing, and ends peacefully.” Jenkins decided to add a video montage to the performance in 2005, Hussa said, which will be included both performances in Riverton The Armed Man – A Mass For Peace in and Powell. The video consists of news reels and video footage from “The Armed Man must be feared; the early 20th Century to today and the scenes relate to each song of Everywhere it has been decreed the Mass. That everyman should arm himself “The video adds another dimension to the production, one With an Iron coat of mail” that the audience will not forget,” Hussa said, emphasizing some of Anon, c1450-1463 the scenes are graphic in nature and (continued on page 7)
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he strongly discourages children under 6 from attending the concert. In addition to the CWC Collegiate Chorale and the NWC Chorale, members of the Jackson Civic Chorale and singers from Riverton and Lander high schools join the group. The orchestra will include members from the Fremont County Orchestra, the Northwest College Orchestra and special guests from Casper College and the University of Wyoming. The soloists are mezzo Dr. Nicole Lamartine, who is the director of Choral Studies at UW, tenor Larry Munari, director of choirs at Cody High School; baritone Jan Michael Kliewer, director of choral music at Northwest; sopranos Diana Marble of Kinnear and Andrea Souza of Riverton, and the director of the Fremont County Orchestra, Rebecca Murdock, is the cello soloist. The work concerns the consequences of war and consists of 13 movements, drawing from texts from the Catholic Mass, the Islamic Call to Prayer, secular texts and texts by such authors as Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson, Hussa said. Reserved tickets for the show at CWC are $10 and are available at the CWC Box Office and the CWC Lander Center, and remaining tickets will be available at the door. For more details, contact the Box Office at 307-855-2002. It is open from 3-6 p.m. weekdays and is located in the Arts Center. General admission tickets for the performance in Powell are $10 and can be obtained by calling the Northwest College Music Office at 307 7546425.
The 100-voice choir and 55-piece orchestra includes: • Central Wyoming College Collegiate Chorale • Northwest College Chorale • Guest singers from Riverton High School, Lander High School and the Jackson Civic Chorale Orchestra members: • Musicians the Fremont County Orchestra • Northwest College Orchestra and • Special guests from Casper College and University of Wyoming Guest soloists: • Dr. Nicole Lamartine, mezzo, Director of Choral Studies, University of Wyoming • Larry Munari, tenor, Director of Choirs, Cody High School • Jan Michael Kliewer, baritone, Director of Choral Music, Northwest College • Diane Marble, soprano, Kinnear, and Andrea Souza, soprano soloist, Riverton • Rebecca Murdock, cello soloist, Director Fremont County Orchestra
Conclusion After experiencing The Armed Man as a whole, the listener is left with a sense of awe. Jenkins has taken the listener through a broad range of emotions and has not shunned the more horrific aspects of war and suffering - all the better to make the argument against it. As such, this mass has a remarkably strong point of view. It is also clear that Jenkins meant for this song cycle to be experienced as a whole: the composition and execution of these songs creates a wonderful overall experience, yet it is difficult to separate out a song and have it stand on its own. Each song is part of the larger story, each song makes sense as part of the overall composition, and by itself each song seems to be missing its context. It must also be noted that the powerful imagery of this song cycle cannot easily be separated from world events. Jenkins notes this as he dedicates the work to the victims of the Kosovo tragedy. At the present, this composition rings true once again and the incorporation of both Christian and Muslim texts and melodies provide a powerful commentary on the disagreements between followers of these and other faiths. While this may not be for everyone, there is no denying the sincerity of the composition’s argument and the enthusiasm of its execution. Not recommended for young children.
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Groundbreaking planned for summer Central Wyoming College plans to break ground this summer on the Intertribal Education and Community Center. Conceived more than 40 years ago, the center is an “important way for us to expand the substantial presence of Native American cultural influences in this area,” said CWC President Jo Anne McFarland. Though the college is about $264,000 short of its fundraising goals for the Intertribal Center, Dr. McFarland said the college saw a window of opportunity because of the considerable decline in construction costs. She believes the college will get more building for the construction dollars raised. “We believe with the favorable construction climate, the value engineering, the various partners who are working with us on the construction of the center, we will either be able to bring the cost in low enough to take care of the remaining equipment and furnishing needs, or we will be able to go out and obtain donations in smaller increments given the difficult economic climate,” the president said. The college is in desperate need of more classroom space, so making the early construction move this summer becomes even more important. CWC has had a sizeable enrollment growth. Last year, the student population grew by 14 percent, and this year’s student population grew by an additional 9 percent. President McFarland anticipates continued
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growth because the college’s enrollment historically swells during poor economic times. “People come back to the college for retraining or because they don’t have job prospects,” she said. “We are packed to the gills here and can barely accommodate the need for our classes much less respond to the community for facilities needs.” The Intertribal Center will have a multipurpose function. In addition to being a teaching facility, the building will serve as a venue for conferences and workshops. The center will also be a “highly visible cultural landmark,” McFarland believes. “We have always believed that the Intertribal Center is more important for the activity and learning that will take place than the bricks and mortar.” The 13,920 foot facility will eventually house a number of CWC academic programs, the college’s collection of Native American artifacts as well as the Outreach Center for the University of Wyoming. CWC began planning for the center in 2000 though it was conceived by former legislator and CWC counselor Scott Ratliff more than 40 years ago. “Early on, the college had identified a need for a Native American cultural and heritage center,” McFarland said. “We’ve come full circle with the original seed that wouldn’t die. I find that incredibly inspiring.” The funds for the facility have come from a varied revenue stream, including state and federal appropriations as well as from private donations.
Most recently, the John Miller and Shirley Sauer Miller Endowment for Tribal Education and Community Enhancement was established by a gift of $100,000 that was matched by the State Endowment Challenge Match. The Miller endowment was created to provide support of programs and activities related to the operations and educational opportunities within the center, said CWC Foundation Director Dane Graham. Other donations for the construction came from the Dragicevich Foundation and from Berte and Alan Hirschfield of Jackson. The college has also received support from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribe. The University of Wyoming has kicked in $1.1 million toward the center’s construction to make its Fremont County Outreach Center more visible and accessible. “This exciting higher educational partnership will allow UW to expand its outreach presence, visibility, and access in Fremont County and tie the university closer to CWC,” McFarland said. “This makes sharing of space a very appropriate use of space and better use of scarce state resources. But even more important is the increased access to UW courses and programs for our students, many of whom transfer to UW, as well as the synergy and joint programming that we expect will come through this enhanced partnership with UW.” The college expects the facility to be busy from the early morning to late in the evening. (continued on page 9)
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“The Intertribal Center will be a tribute to the historical significance of the Native American culture to our state and Fremont County, but it will also be a place where natives and non-natives alike can work together for a better collective future,� said President McFarland. The college is proposing to build the center on a site south and west of the Arts Center that would be highly visible from U.S. Highway 26.
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Virtual medical skills lab enhances clinical experience Appropriations from a federal agency will give the Central Wyoming College nursing program and practicing health professionals in the community enhanced learning tools. The college was recently notified of an appropriation from the Health Resources Services Administration which allows the college to complete a Virtual Medical Skills Lab and to purchase sophisticated mannequins which can replicate
any type of illness or medical disorder that a student or practicing nurse in a rural setting may not normally encounter. The college has received a $428,000 appropriation for the renovation of a space to house the facility and $190,000 to purchase additional simulated patients. The nursing program had previously received a federal grant for the “Sim/ Man” mannequins but space for the virtual lab
Second-year nursing students Sarah Gantenbein and Heather Cook (holding syringe) practice a nursing skill with one of the new “Sim/Man” mannequins that can replicate any medical disorder.
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has been an issue. The college is now scrambling to find an appropriate space to locate the lab. The equipment is mobile and can be moved when the college is finally able to build its planned Allied Health and Sciences building. While the virtual medical skills lab enhances a student’s clinical experience, it may also make it possible to expand the number of students CWC can admit into the program, Nursing Director Kathy Wells said. The college is limited to the number of students it can accept into the nursing program because CWC is “maxed out” on its clinical hours at regional health care facilities. With the virtual lab, clinical time in the hospitals can be reduced. Last year alone, CWC had to turn away 100 qualified applicants to the nursing program. Wells is most excited about giving students the flexibility of dealing with particular illnesses or traumas at the time they are being taught as the simulators will respond like a real patient and can be programmed to suffer any medical malady. If a student reacts properly to the signals of the simulated patient, its vital signs improve. If the nursing student responds incorrectly, “it will go downhill,” Wells explained. The program’s graduates will be much more marketable to hospitals and other acute care facilities when employers know they have been trained to deal with trauma and illnesses not normally seen at rural clinic sites, she added. “We can expose students to things that typically would only be seen in large urban hospi(continued on page 11)
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tals,” said Vice President for Academic Services J.D. Rottweiler. “We can simulate things rural nurses may not see during their entire career.” The “Sim/Man” mannequins provide a sampling of various medical emergencies in which our nurses need training. “The simulation lab will present these symptoms and train our nurses to immediately recognize and provide needed assistance; thus saving lives,” he said. The Virtual Medical Skills Lab can also be used by practicing health care professionals for continuing education and refresher courses that are required by law. “Instead of sending doctors and nurses away for continuing medical education, the lab will allow them to get it locally,” Rottweiler added. The simulated mannequins can be programmed to produce any medical condition. The nursing faculty will have the recipes for all bodily fluids so that students can learn to test, for example, urine with high and low Ph levels. The new appropriation allows the college to purchase simulated mannequins for different stages in life, from infants to elderly. The dummies can even deliver babies in the breech position. Two nursing faculty, as well as the nursing director, will attend training in Texas this summer to learn moderate and advanced operational applications of the equipment.
Schedule of upcoming Events april 28 ...............................................Spring Showcase Concert May 1 ....................... High School Graduate Scholarship Deadline May 3 ...................................................... Music Student Recital May 4 ..................................................................... Finals Feed May 6 ..................................................................... Classes End May 6 ........................................................ learning By Degrees May 7 ................................................ nurses’ Pinning Ceremony May 8 ...............................................................Commencement May 9 ............................................................... GED Graduation May 25 .................................................... Memorial Day Holiday May 26 ......................................... First Summer Session Begins June 26 ........................................... First Summer Session Ends June 29 .................................... Second Summer Session Begins Front cover images: (left) CWC nursing students Lacey Mills (left) and Bridgett Carlson get enhanced clinical training with sophisticated mannequins that will be used in a Virtual Medical Skills Lab at CWC with the assistance from a federal grant. (center) Architect’s rendering of the planned Intertribal Education and Community Center; a facility CWC is planning to begin work on this summer. (right) Duane Van Skike, CWC’s food services manager, will teach a culinary course at CWC this summer. Back cover:(top) The Armed Man Concert May 3 and (bottom) Retired CWC Professor Dale Smith inducted to Wyoming Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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