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New Hires at Ivy Tech Community College

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Japhia Leach has accepted the position of Health Care Support Instructor at Ivy Tech Community College.  Leach holds an associate’s degree in Nursing from the Medical Careers Institute, a certificate in Massage Therapy from Ivy Tech, a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Purdue University, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Nursing from Excelsior College.

 

Janet Peterson has accepted the position of Director of Business Affairs at Ivy Tech Community College.  Peterson holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Indiana State University.  She was previously employed as Director of Finance for Precision Dynamics Corporation and the St. John Companies in Valencia, California. Peterson is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

Richard Ray has accepted the position of Welding Instructor at Ivy Tech Community College. Ray holds an associate’s degree in Manufacturing and Industrial Technology from Ivy Tech Community College. He was previously employed with the College as an Adjunct Instructor.

 

Tim Roberts has accepted the position of Automotive Instructor at Ivy Tech Community College. Roberts holds as associate’s degree in Automotive and Diesel Technology from Nashville Automotive and Diesel College. He was previously employed with the College as an Adjunct Instructor.

 

Lemarceo Shemwell has accepted the position of College Connection Coach at Ivy Tech Community College. Shemwell holds a bachelor’s degree in Corporate Communication and a master’s degree in Public Administration both from Western Kentucky University. He was previously employed as SICAN College Career Coordinator/Student Support Advisor at the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC). Shemwell is the Head Freshman Football Coach at North High School and Basketball Coach at Lincoln Elementary School. He also plays percussion at Memorial Baptist Church.

 

David Wagner has accepted the position of Automotive Instructor at Ivy Tech Community College. Wagner holds an associate’s degree in Automotive from Ivy Tech Community College. He is a GM World Class Technician. He was previously employed with the College as an Adjunct Instructor.

 

Tracey Williams has accepted the position of College Connection Coach at Ivy Tech Community College. Williams holds bachelor’s degrees in both Nursing and Accounting from Indiana University Northwest. She was previously employed as SICAN/EVSC Mentoring Program Manager. Williams is involved with the Evansville Bar Association, Relay for Life, the Evansville Rescue Mission, the Evansville Christian Life Center, United Way, and Leadership Evansville.

 

Tiffany Phillips has accepted the position of Academic Advisor at Ivy Tech Community College. Phillips holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Communications from Columbia College Chicago. She was previously employed as an Admission Counselor at the University of Evansville. Phillips is involved with the Multicultural Professionals Network.

Nikole Hale has accepted the position of Academic Advisor at Ivy Tech Community College. Hale holds a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the University of Southern Indiana. She was previously employed as an Associate Director of Academic Initiatives at the Eastern Kentucky University.

 

Sarah Donohue has accepted the position of Academic Advisor at Ivy Tech Community College. Donohue holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Hanover College and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Louisville. She was previously employed as Assistant Registrar at Henderson Community College.

 

USI men’s runners return to action Saturday

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The No. 6 University of Southern Indiana men’s cross country team returns to action Saturday at 11 a.m. when it competes at the University of Evansville Invitational at Angel Mounds.

 

Saturday’s meet is the final tune-up before the Screaming Eagles compete at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships October 24 in Somers, Wisconsin. It also is the Eagles’ last chance to compete at Angel Mounds prior to the NCAA II Midwest Region Championships November 7.

 

Senior Johnnie Guy (Palmyra, Indiana) continues to excel this season for the Eagles. One of the favorites to win the national championship this year, Guy was named the Division II National Runner of the Week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association following his efforts at the Greater Louisville Classic two weeks ago.

 

Guy finished eighth out of 214 runners in the Gold Race, crossing the finish line with an eight-kilometer time of 24 minutes, 6.72 seconds. His effort propelled the Eagles to a 10th-place finish in the 24 team field that included several nationally-ranked Division I programs as well as NCAA Division II No. 1 Grand Valley State University. He was the top Division II finisher in the field.

 

USI also got a strong effort out of junior Noah Lutz (Evansville, Indiana) at the Greater Louisville Classic. Lutz finished 62nd in the field and was less than seven seconds off the pace of Grand Valley State’s No. 2 finisher.

Eagles look to continue improvement Saturday

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The No. 11 University of Southern Indiana women’s cross country team looks to continue its improvement it showed two weeks ago when it toes the line at the University of Evansville Invitational at Angel Mounds Saturday at 11 a.m.

 

USI finished 20th out of 30 teams in the Gold Race of the Greater Louisville Classic two weeks ago. The Screaming Eagles defeated a pair of nationally-ranked Division II teams, including Great Lakes Valley Conference rival Bellarmine University.

 

Sophomore Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) led the Eagles at the Greater Louisville Classic, finishing 40th out of 260 runners. Roberts, who was named the GLVC Runner of the Week for her efforts, was fourth amongst a Division II field that featured competitors from No. 1 Hillsdale College and No. 3 Grand Valley State University.

 

Saturday’s meet is the final tune-up before the Eagles compete at the GLVC Championships October 24 in Somers, Wisconsin. It also is the Eagles’ last chance to compete at Angel Mounds prior to the NCAA II Midwest Region Championships November 7.

 

ARTSWIN October 2015 News

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         Into the Woods Play  Halloween on Franklin
                    NHPW Short Utopian Experiment 

 

Arts Council of Doom exhibition

The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana will be proudly hosting the new Arts Council of Doom exhibition Derelicte at our very own Bower-Surheinrich Foundation Gallery.
This exhibition will showcase the skills of a wide variety of artists who belong to the group, including Gary Logan Hobdy, Melissa Erwin, and Amanda Sibrel. Musical entertainment for the event will be Kid Collision. The event will take place on Friday October 23rd, between 7-9 pm.

Start of a New Traditions in North HS Football

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Start of a New Traditions in North HS Football

Oct. 16, 6:45 p.m.

Bundrant Stadium, North High School

 

Background:

North High School is honoring the late “Coach” Morris Riley before the North vs. Central football game at Bundrant Stadium on Friday, October 16th. This dedication will start at approximately 6:45 P.M., after the Green Brigade plays the National Anthem.

Morris Riley’s dedication to academics and athletics will be celebrated with the revealing of a symbolic stone. The Riley family, along with many of Morris’s friends, raised funds to honor the legacy of the first North football coach (1956-1975). Family and friends continue to raise funds through their annual golf outing and hope to provide their first scholarship in Morris’s name in 2016.

 

Husky Nation is excited to celebrate one of the true legends of North High School and start a new tradition that will live forever.

 

More background on Coach Riley:

  • Morris E. Riley, graduated from Reitz High School in 1941 where he was the Kiwanis winner in football.
  • He started his teaching and coaching career at Central High School and later     became the first varsity football coach at North High School, coaching from 1956 – 1975.
  • He taught Physical Education and Driver’s Education during his teaching career.
  • Morris ended his football coaching career at North with over 100 victories.
  • He also coached several other sports at North including wrestling, boy’s track, and girl’s golf (calling themselves “Riley’s Dollies”).
  • He was honored by being named to the University of Evansville Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977.
  • Named to the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1987.
  • Morris was a member of the Evansville Quarterback Club and the Huddleback Club. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Shrine, where he enjoyed his time as a Funster!
  • Memorial contributions may be made to “EVSC Foundation/Morris Riley Memorial”
  • Raised funds were used to construct the symbolic stone.
  • A golf scramble is held every summer at Oak Meadow to continue fundraising efforts.  The Riley fundraising committee hopes to award scholarships to North High School athletes in Morris’s memory starting in spring 2017.
  • The campaign is ongoing as the hope is to award annual scholarships.

 

Governor Pence to Join Toyota Executives, City of Columbus to Celebrate 25 Years in Indiana

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Governor Mike Pence will join executives from Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing and its Japanese parent company, Toyota Industries Corporation, to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary of its Columbus, Indiana, operations. Details below.

 

Thursday, October 15:

 

10:45 a.m. EDT – Governor Pence will visit Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary of its Columbus, Indiana, operations.

*Media are welcome to attend.

5559 Inwood Dr., Columbus, IN

Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland to present at Liberal Arts Colloquia

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Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland, assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana, will present “Racial Classification and the Eastern Shore: Records of Bastards Miscegenation, and Infanticide in Colonial Virginia,” based on her studies covering race in the Colonial South. The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, October 30, in Kleymeyer Hall (LA0101).

Shefveland will examine the indigenous intersections to the development of race in the Colonial South, through these examinations one will see the connections of racial classification as it emerged in Virginia and how Native people of the Eastern Shore encountered and processed those events. She will also discuss how communities existed throughout Eastern Shore of white, black and indigenous planters and laborers who lived, worked and had personal relationships with one another.

Shefveland will be the third speaker in the College of Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquia Series, individual public lectures featuring current faculty research.

For more information, contact Dr. Shannon Pritchard, assistant professor of art history, at 812-465-1023 or snpritchar@usi.edu.

Daily Off Topic Forum October 15, 2015

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COA outlines approach to awarding attorney fees in estate challenges

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In a case in which the trial court awarded a woman and her children more than $170,000 in attorney fees even though two of the three claims raised were without just cause or good faith, the Indiana Court of Appeals specified the approach judges should follow when a party seeks attorney fees pursuant to I.C. 29-1-10-14.

Carol Pagano Foster and her children, Angela and Christopher, filed an action contesting the probate of the will of her father, Warren Stibbins. Stibbins had become frustrated with Foster’s inability to manager her finances, so he cut her out of his will and her deceased mother’s trust and instead purchased an annuity that would provide steady income for her. Although they lost the contest, the trial court granted the plaintiffs’ request for reimbursement of attorney fees under I.C. 29-1-10-14. The judge ruled the fraud action and incompetency claims were not brought in good faith, but the undue influence claim was brought with just cause. The judge held that the three claims were so interrelated that fees could not be divided.

The estate appealed the order it pay $171,360.64 in attorney fees to Foster’s attorneys in Scott Alan Stibbins, individually and as Personal Rep. of the Estate of Warren E. Stibbins, and Trustee of the Warren E. Stibbins Revocable Trust, et al. v. Carol (Stibbins) Pagano Foster, et al., 18A02-1410-PL-750.

The COA held that Foster and her children do not qualify as a “deivsee” under the statute because they were not beneficiaries to the two updates made to the will in 2005 and then 2008. The judges declined to extend the line of cases allowing someone who contests a previous will to be considered a devisee because in that case law, the parties challenging the will were devisees under the next will in line to be probated. In this case, Foster and her children were not devisees of the will being challenged or the next will in line. Opening the term devisee up as Foster suggests would create a slippery slope, allowing anyone once named in a will to be entitled to attorney fees if he or she challenged the will in place at the party’s death, Judge John Baker wrote.

“We acknowledge that the trial court was unable to separate the fees for the three claims, which is understandable given the process that was followed in this case. To avoid precisely this issue, we hold that a different process should be followed. First, the claimant seeking fees must prove that some or all of her claims were made in good faith and with just cause. The trial court must then make a preliminary determination as to which of the claims meet this standard. Then, the claimant is required to come forward with evidence showing the amount of attorney fees expended only for the claims that meet the statutory standard. In this way, the trial court and all parties can be assured that the claimant receives attorney fees only for those claims that were brought in good faith and with just cause, and the burden of proof remains on the claimant,” Baker wrote.

UE Earns First MVC Victory of the Season with 1-0 Road Win at Indiana State

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The University of Evansville women’s soccer team (3-9-2, 1-2-1 Missouri Valley Conference) utilized a 66th minute goal from junior midfielder Colleen Dierkes to claim a 1-0 road win Indiana State (5-9, 0-3 MVC). The victory is the first MVC win of the season for the Purple Aces and their first road result of the year.

“I’m really proud of our team tonight,” said Colleen Dierkes. “We fought hard to pull out a victory.”

Despite a few opportunities, neither team was able to score in the opening half. UE’s senior goalkeeper Simone Busby made three first half saves for the Purple Aces. Evansville’s only shot on goal in the first half came from junior defender Emily Richardson in the 44th minute but her shot from the right wing was saved by Indiana State.

UE snapped the scoreless draw in the 65th minute. Off a corner kick from Richardson, the ball curved inside the 18 yard box where it was headed by sophomore defender Olivia Shafer and senior forward Kayla Smith. The airborne ball then found Dierkes along the far side post for the goal. It was her second goal of the season and gave UE a 1-0 advantage.

Down by a goal, Indiana State attempted three shots the rest of the way but were unable to place any on goal in the 1-0 Purple Aces win.

“Hard fought, needed victory tonight,” said Evansville head women’s soccer coach Krista McKendree. “The girls stepped up the intensity in the second half to match the physicality of the game and it paid off.”

The victory for UE snaps a five game winless stretch. This is also only the second win for the Purple Aces at Indiana State (2-1 win on Oct. 12, 2007). The goal by Dierkes was the third of her career. The assists from Shafer and Smith were both their first of the season. Busby ended the evening with four saves for her second shutout of the season and 23rd of her Purple Aces career.

The Aces continue their three game roadtrip at Cincinnati (Oct. 18) and at Illinois State (Oct. 25). UE returns home to host Missouri State on Oct. 29.

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