From the Quad-Cities Online:
To complete its fifty-seventh season, the award-winning Knox-Galesburg Symphony (KGS) under the direction of Bruce Polay will present three 2009 subscription concerts in the Orpheum Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, March 28 and April 25. Two non-subscription events will be performed on Feb. 7 and May 9.
From the Register-Mail:
Monmouth College President Mauri Ditzler and Knox College President Roger Taylor presented frozen turkeys to FISH of Galesburg food pantry this week as the result of a friendly wager made prior to this year’s Bronze Turkey football game between the two schools.
Ditzler bet that the combined score of the game would be 71 points or more, while Taylor bet it would be fewer than 71. The loser agreed to donate one turkey to the food bank in each town for each point of difference.
From the Motley Fool:
As the holidays set in, and the season of giving begins to brush elbows with the cabal of commercialism, we’re presented with — to borrow from the classic education vernacular — an ideal “teaching moment.”
So exactly how do you convince those in a material world to love giving as much as getting? Easy: Explain how one begets the other.
Giving makes you happier
Behaving charitably really is good for you — and not just in an “eat your peas” way. Research has shown that the benefits of generosity are twofold.First, we get a psychological lift from helping others. According to Knox College psychology professor Timothy Kasser, people who focus on generosity are happier (and healthier!) than those mired in materialism.
From WGIL radio:
Dr. D. Wayne Green is the recipient of the 2008 Galesburg-Area Chamber of Commerce’s Thomas B. Herring Community Service Award. It was given out at a luncheon in Galesburg Monday. Green currently serves on the Carl Sandburg College Board of Trustees and worked on the Education Technology Center along with the Galesburg School District, CSC, and Knox College. His nomination letter says Green was also instrumental in the advent of the Gale Scholars program, which gives economically disadvantaged students the opportunity to attend college at no cost to them. Green was also a professor of physics at Knox College until 1989 and is currently a professor emeritus at the school.
From the Register-Mail:
A man who began his academic career 54 years ago is the recipient of the 2008 Thomas B. Herring Community Service Award. The first hint that Dr. D. Wayne Green is unique was when, although he taught physics at Knox College for 35 years, he said, “I myself have become really interested in the learning process.”
He said his interest in learning came about after he retired from teaching, although he thought he had a thirst for knowledge while still teaching. Green said he wished he would have realized this earlier in life.
Green, who was presented the award at the Galesburg Area Chamber of Commerce’s 30th Annual Community Thanksgiving Luncheon on Monday at Best Western Prairie Inn, told those in attendance that “I have been privileged indeed to participate in a learning institution even though I’m retired. That’s the best of all worlds.”
From the Washington Post:
To fully understand how John Podesta is managing the complex Democratic takeover of the federal government, you have to be familiar with Skippy, the evil twin.
Anyone who has worked for Podesta in the past decade knows Skippy, who first appeared during Podesta’s eventful years as chief of staff in the Clinton White House. As scandal rocked the end of that presidency, staffers knew they had better come prepared to meetings. Otherwise, nurturing mentor John would be replaced by Skippy — Podesta’s quick-tempered, edgy and sarcastic alter ego…..
Podesta grew up in blue-collar northwest Chicago. His father dropped out of high school after a year to help support his family and worked in factories his entire life. Podesta writes in “The Power of Progress” that he was able to attend Knox College and Georgetown Law School by working nights and receiving federal loans and scholarships. His well-traveled Washington career took him from the Justice Department to Capitol Hill to, eventually, the Clinton White House, where he was the “staff secretary” — and where he became the go-to guy to manage every scandal.
From the Register-Mail:
Mike Keith is like a growing number of Americans. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 2000. And like an increasing number of Americans, he couldn’t afford the cost of medication.
He stopped taking the insulin pills doctors prescribed for him just months after the initial diagnosis. Five years later, surgeons started taking pieces of Mike’s lower left leg….
Other members of the community have reached out to help Mike Keith. Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service fraternity at Knox College, raised $1,000 and located a ramp the group wants to attach to the Keith’s home.
The gesture gave Keith some sense of hope — something hard to find when confined to a bed during the times doctors aren’t subtracting from his body to add to his life span.
“I have a wheelchair and I get around,” Keith said. “And chances are good they can save my right leg. That’s the hope I have right now — that they won’t have to cut off any more pieces of me.”
