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Terry Ann Sanders named community inclusion coordinator at Veridian Credit Union
Family of the Week: THE TIMBERLAKES
Veridian is pleased to announce that Terry Ann Sanders will become the credit union’s community inclusion coordinator in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska. Sanders, a resident of Bellevue, has worked at Veridian for four years. She was previously a loan advisor. Sanders has a bachelor’s degree in Leadership and Communications from Creighton University. Veridian Credit Union, founded in 1934 in Waterloo, Iowa, is a not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by the members who use its products and services. The credit union offers a full range of business and consumer financial services with approximately 1,000 employees and 30 branches across Iowa and eastern Nebraska, including one in Council Bluffs and four more in the greater Omaha area. For more information, visit veridiancu.org or call (800) 235-3228.
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Happy Birthday Daddy Timberlake! Mr. Murray Timberlake, Sr. Celebrated his 100th birthday on November 15, 2022. He is pictured here with “some” of his daughters that were present at the birthday celebration held at The Venue at Highlander. Happy Birthday Daddy Timberlake!
Grow with Wanda Ewing
Dr. Kimberley Meisinger named dean of nursing at Nebraska Methodist College Dr. Kimberley Meisinger is the new dean of the Nebraska Methodist College (NMC) Division of Nursing. Meisinger, who has served as interim dean since September, assumed her new role in early November. “Dr. Meisinger brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and student-centered determination to Nebraska Methodist College,” said Vice President of Academic Affairs Amy Clark. “She has occupied many leadership roles and is uniquely positioned to navigate our nursing programs through the challenges we have faced in the post-COVID learning environment. “Our student population is dynamic, highly sought after and ever-changing. Ensuring that our faculty are provided with the tools needed to thrive in their classrooms and
By: Jessica Lee Freeman
Growing Up Black Growing Up Wanda is the latest art exhibition at The Union for Contemporary Art – a collection of work from the late Omaha artist and educator, Wanda Ewing. This exhibition feels like a celebration. When you walk into the gallery you’re greeted with a soundtrack of Wanda’s favorite 80s music and her powerful block prints. Originally conceptualized as a book for her senior thesis project in 1997 at the San Francisco Institute of Art, the works are now hung, for the first time, side by side in diptychs. The alternating full color and black-and-white prints are a marriage of pop-art-esque illustrations and text. The content explores Ewing’s coming-of-age experiences as an outsider in the Midwest. The personal, intimate narratives about growing up Black in the Midwest that Ewing created in 1997 remain deeply relevant stories today. If you’ve ever felt a little unsteady in this world, in your Blackness, in your body, in your gender – I believe you too can find a friend in Wanda Ewing. Her work speaks to the deep insecurities and rage so many of us have felt. Covering issues ranging from dating politics to body image, it feels as if Ewing is saying what everyone’s thinking. She speaks truth to these heavy feelings, but with a sense of humor and defiance. In the juxtaposition between text and images, Ewing paves the way for transcendence.
continue educating our exceptional students are core values of NMC that are in the capable hands of Dr. Meisinger.” Meisinger has over 23 years of experience as a professional nurse and over 15 years of experience in teaching and higher education administration. “I am extremely humbled and excited to lead the Division of Nursing at Nebraska Methodist College. The Division of Nursing has a rich history of being a leader of nursing education excellence,” Meisinger said. “The nursing profession faces multiple complex Dr. Meisinger continued on page 7
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For example, one of my favorite pieces, I Have Big Lips, Ewing confesses in text to a childhood desire to make herself small – to hide her mouth and voice for fear of “big lips.” But the adjacent self-portrait’s undeniable focal point is the biggest, brightest, red-lipped, full toothed smile. The illustration is at once an unapologetic celebration of the beauty she’d once been made to feel ashamed about and furthermore an accurate depiction of the vibrancy of her real-life smile. It’s a smile you can see for yourself in Wanda Ewing’s photograph, permanently displayed just across the gallery. The gallery was named in Ewing’s honor when The Union moved into the historic Blue Lion building in 2017. I didn’t have the privilege to know Wanda Ewing in life, but in getting to know her legacy I have discovered a vibrant spiritual ancestor who has given me so much. The work holds truth and hope simultaneously. It radiates deeply relatable moments of shared humanity. In the company of this work, I feel less alone. I invite you to come witness the magnificence of Wanda Ewing (on view now through December 17th), not on behalf of The Union where I work, not as a fanatic of contemporary art, but as the awkward, artsy little girl growing up uncomfortable in my own skin who finds in Wanda Ewing a dear friend. Come grow with Wanda.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.. ~Unknown
By Terri D. Sanders
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