Wednesday
November 26, 2003
Vol 1, No 21
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1. Metro receives $2 million grant to link teachers to Library of Congress
2. BOT streamlines meetings
3. History honors society to sponsor Pearl Harbor re-enactment Dec. 3
4. Music faculty member honored by Music Teachers Association
5. Combined campaign pledge cards due Dec. 10
1. Metro receives $2 million grant to link teachers to Library of Congress
Metro State is the recipient of a $2 million federal grant to train teachers to integrate digital technology and the Library of Congress archives into their classroom curricula. To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol1/grant_twv1112603.htm
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2. BOT streamlines meetings
The Board of Trustees has added a consent agenda category to its regular agenda for routine items that trustees have reviewed prior to the meeting. Consent agenda items are grouped together on each agenda and voted on as one unit.The Board of Trustees will hold its last regularly scheduled monthly meeting of 2003 next Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 8 a.m. to noon in Tivoli room 320. A meeting agenda will be made available at
http://www.mscd.edu/welcomectr/trustees/boardmeetings.htm
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3. History honors society to sponsor Pearl Harbor re-enactment Dec. 3
A minute-by-minute dramatic interpretation of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the battleship U.S.S. Tennessee will be presented from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Tivoli 640. The performance is sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society, and History Professors Jennifer Wynot and Patricia Richard. To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol1/history_twv1112603.htm
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4. Music faculty member honored by Music Teachers Association
Assistant Professor of Music Cherise Leiter has been honored by the Colorado State Music Teachers Association (CSMTA) for an original piece of music she composed. To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol1/leiter_twv1112603.htm
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5. Combined campaign pledge cards due Dec. 10
Employee pledge cards for the 16th annual Colorado Combined Campaign of Charitable Giving are due Dec. 10. The campaign, an annual charitable solicitation for state employees, benefits 680 Colorado agencies.
Pledge cards can be sent by campus mail to Duncan Burgermeister, Campus Box 14. For more information contact Burgermeister at 6-6935.
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History
prof cites bounty of Thanksgiving myths Wrong, maintains History Professor Tom Altherr, an expert in the history of holidays. "The 'first' Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth in 1621 was hardly the first Thanksgiving and the pilgrims didn't eat turkey or cranberries, they ate corn," Altherr says. What's more, the Indians probably weren't invited to share in the feast. "The Wampanoag Indians felt invited to any sort of feast they heard about, so they probably just showed up," Altherr said. As to the "first"
Thanksgiving, Altherr points to indigenous tribes that celebrated
Thanksgiving well before 1621, and there was a group of Spanish
settlers who celebrated it in 1598 in today what is New Mexico.
Our modern-day Thanksgiving really dates back just to the Civil
War, Altherr says. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed
Thanksgiving a national holiday in response to a campaign organized
by magazine editor Sara Joseph Hale.
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