The 14th annual phonathon raised over $18,000 for the college with 21 students taking part in calling alumni in this annual fundraising event. The goal for the phonathon was $30,000, but only 61 percent of that figure was realized.
Despite the nearly 40 percent shortfall, Associate Director of Development and Alumni Relations Evan Smith was pleased with the students who participated in the event. “I enjoyed the students because they were very upbeat for the most part,” he said. “You get tired of calling and calling, and getting rejected, but they did very well. I have to give them a lot of credit. They were great.”
Read MoreWellness and Alternative Medicine (WAM) students participated in several events this semester to increase their knowledge and understanding of the human mind and body and what it means to be in a state of wellness.
Students attended the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York, were taught and led in a sweat lodge by Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, visited Kripalu Center For Yoga and Health, and experienced the alternative healing modalities of several established practitioners at the Awakening the Spirit Day.
By Nathan Burgess
Why do women, in the face of a male-dominated political arena, run for public office?
In the words of Vermont’s only woman governor, there’s three things that inspire a successful politician. First of all, you need a certain amount of restrained anger at wrongs that must be righted. Secondly, you must possess the imagination to see a better future and, most importantly, you must have the optimism to believe the system will respond.
It is with this attitude and her trademark blend of elegant grace and activist fire that Madeline Kunin addressed a crowd of mostly women at the Vermont Studio Center’s Lowe Lecture Hall in Johnson on Monday evening, April 28.
On Monday, April 28, JSC President Barbara Murphy spoke with a group of JSC faculty, students and staff about her recent sabbatical trip to South Africa to study post-apartheid higher education.
Speaking in the new 1867 room in Dewey with the aid of a PowerPoint slide show, Murphy began the presentation with an aerial photograph of the long meandering lines of South African voters in the country’s first democratic election in 1994. It was then, she said lightheartedly, that “Black South Africans learned how to vote and white South Africans learned how to wait.”
Commencement is just around the corner and senior Kyle Wheeler (aka K-MAN) will be the first to graduate with a BA in Musical Theater, one of the newest majors to be introduced to the JSC curriculum.
“Aw, man. I was shocked when I heard it,” Wheeler says. “I mean, I had a little bit of an inkling because the program is so new, but when I heard word from Russ [Longtin] that I was going to be the first one to get it, I was like, ‘Are you nuts? Is it really me?’ It’s like… wow.”
Although Wheeler feels he possesses a “big personality and a big heart,” acting hasn’t always been part of his plan.
Sophomore Frank Stellato has been elected the new Johnson State College Student Government Association (SGA) president.
Stellato decided to run for president to become more involved with the college. “I think it’s a great school,” he said. “But I feel the students need to start being more active with student government and I wanted to help bridge that gap.”