{"id":76,"date":"2012-04-27T13:40:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=76"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:08:09","slug":"happy-birthday-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/happy-birthday-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, K!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/FoundersDay.jpg\" alt=\"Zaide Pixley and Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran\" width=\"250\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/FoundersDay.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/FoundersDay-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaide Pixley, Dean of the First Year and Advising at Kalamazoo College, receives the Lux Esto Award of Excellence. College President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran presented the award. Photo Credit: Anthony Dugal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<strong>Elaine Ezekiel \u201913<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFounders Day 2012\u201d was the theme of the Week 4 (April 20)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/chapel\/reflection\/\">Community Reflection<\/a>\u00a0in Stetson Chapel. Sponsored by the Founders Day Committee, the event celebrated 179 years of community at Kalamazoo College by honoring members of its faculty and staff. After a welcome by Student Commission President\u00a0<strong>Meredith L. Quinlan \u201912,<\/strong>\u00a0President <strong>Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran\u00a0<\/strong>gave a brief history of K\u2019s early founders.\u00a0<strong>Kate Fodor \u201912<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Rachel Horness \u201913<\/strong>\u00a0sang a beautiful interpretation of Leo Delibes\u2019 <em>Dome epais (Lakme)<\/em>, accompanied by\u00a0<strong>Jack Brooks<\/strong>\u00a0on piano.<\/p>\n<p>Dean of Advising\u00a0<strong>Zaide Pixley\u00a0<\/strong>(pictured at right, with President Wilson-Oyelaran) read from her essay \u201cCelebrating 179 Years of Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKalamazoo College is a place where we can ask hard questions, questions that don\u2019t have easy answers, questions that can\u2019t be reduced to sound bites, slogans and attacks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After reciting the names of K employees celebrating five, ten, 15, 20 and 25 years of service, Wilson-Oyelaran announced recipients of three key annual employee honors. Professor of English\u00a0<strong>Bruce Mills<\/strong>\u00a0received the Outstanding Advisor Award. \u00a0<strong>Gail Griffin<\/strong>, the Ann V. and Donald R. Parfet Distinguished Professor of English,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>received the Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award, and Zaide Pixley was awarded the Lux Esto Award of Excellence which honors an employee of 25 or more years of service for a superlative record of stewardship and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>This year marked the first of an \u201cHonorable Mention\u201d category of the Lux Esto Award of Excellence. Honorable mention for their years of dedicated service to the College was made of nine of the eligible members of K\u2019s Facilities Management and Custodial Staff<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>John Charlier, Kolden Heldart, Doug Hilton, James Modderman, James Ringler, Michael Sawyer, Jeff Sherman, Jerry Vincent,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ken Wielinga<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Community Reflection offers a unique forum for discussion, worship, performance, and community expression each Friday at 10:50 AM (refreshments at 10:30) in Stetson Chapel. The entire campus community and general public are invited. The Week 5 (April 27) Reflection will be \u201cYom HaShoah\u2014Remembering the Holocaust Through Varied Perspectives,\u201d during which members of the Jewish Student Organization will reflect on the Holocaust and invite the community to consider how we can make the sacrifices of the past mean something for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Elaine Ezekiel \u201913 \u201cFounders Day 2012\u201d was the theme of the Week 4 (April 20)\u00a0Community Reflection\u00a0in Stetson Chapel. Sponsored by the Founders Day Committee, the event celebrated 179 years of community at Kalamazoo College by honoring members of its faculty and staff. After a welcome by Student Commission President\u00a0Meredith L. 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College President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran presented the award. Photo Credit: Anthony Dugal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<strong>Elaine Ezekiel \u201913<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFounders Day 2012\u201d was the theme of the Week 4 (April 20)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/chapel\/reflection\/\">Community Reflection<\/a>\u00a0in Stetson Chapel. Sponsored by the Founders Day Committee, the event celebrated 179 years of community at Kalamazoo College by honoring members of its faculty and staff. After a welcome by Student Commission President\u00a0<strong>Meredith L. Quinlan \u201912,<\/strong>\u00a0President <strong>Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran\u00a0<\/strong>gave a brief history of K\u2019s early founders.\u00a0<strong>Kate Fodor \u201912<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Rachel Horness \u201913<\/strong>\u00a0sang a beautiful interpretation of Leo Delibes\u2019 <em>Dome epais (Lakme)<\/em>, accompanied by\u00a0<strong>Jack Brooks<\/strong>\u00a0on piano.<\/p>\n<p>Dean of Advising\u00a0<strong>Zaide Pixley\u00a0<\/strong>(pictured at right, with President Wilson-Oyelaran) read from her essay \u201cCelebrating 179 Years of Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKalamazoo College is a place where we can ask hard questions, questions that don\u2019t have easy answers, questions that can\u2019t be reduced to sound bites, slogans and attacks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After reciting the names of K employees celebrating five, ten, 15, 20 and 25 years of service, Wilson-Oyelaran announced recipients of three key annual employee honors. Professor of English\u00a0<strong>Bruce Mills<\/strong>\u00a0received the Outstanding Advisor Award. \u00a0<strong>Gail Griffin<\/strong>, the Ann V. and Donald R. Parfet Distinguished Professor of English,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>received the Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award, and Zaide Pixley was awarded the Lux Esto Award of Excellence which honors an employee of 25 or more years of service for a superlative record of stewardship and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>This year marked the first of an \u201cHonorable Mention\u201d category of the Lux Esto Award of Excellence. Honorable mention for their years of dedicated service to the College was made of nine of the eligible members of K\u2019s Facilities Management and Custodial Staff<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>John Charlier, Kolden Heldart, Doug Hilton, James Modderman, James Ringler, Michael Sawyer, Jeff Sherman, Jerry Vincent,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ken Wielinga<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Community Reflection offers a unique forum for discussion, worship, performance, and community expression each Friday at 10:50 AM (refreshments at 10:30) in Stetson Chapel. The entire campus community and general public are invited. 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