Calendar

December 10
ITV PeopleSoft Update
Leadership Luncheon Series
December 10-17
Ambassador's Holiday Penny Drive continues
December 10-18
UMC Bookstore "Holiday Savings Sale" continues
December 11
Holiday Open House
Home Women's Basketball vs. Northwestern University
Home Men's Basketball vs. University of Minnesota, Morris
December 11-13
UMC Music-Theater Department presents "Miracle on 34^th Street"
December 12
Home Women's Basketball vs. St. Cloud State University
Tour of Holiday Homes
December 15
Home Women's Basketball vs. University of Minnesota, Morris
December 16
Winter Convocation
Home Hockey vs. North Dakota State University
December 17
Leadership Luncheon Series
Marcoux Corner - Acappella Group
UMC Choir Christmas Concert
December 18 and 19
Home Hockey vs. Milwaukee School of Engineering
December 19
Home Women's Basketball vs. St. Scholastica
December 19-January 3
Winter Break
December 21
Home Men's Basketball vs. Moorhead State University
December 24 and 25
Christmas Holiday, campus offices closed
December 31 and January 1
New Year's Holiday, campus offices closed

News Items

Miracle on 34th Street
The UMC Music-Theater Department is presenting the 2-act play "Miracle on 34^th Street" Friday, Saturday and Sunday, December 11, 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. with an additional special matinee at 3 p.m. on Saturday. All performances will be in the Kiehle Auditorium.

This show will feature several area youngsters, and the role of Susan is being played by third grader Alyssa Sprague, who is the daughter of Julie Sprague. Kris Kringle is played by Eric Perkins, Fred Gayley by Ben Horgen, and Doris by Rachel Sundbom. Twenty other UMC students make up the remainder of the cast.

Tickets at the door are $5 for adults and $3 for children and students. A family of unlimited numbers of adults and children can see the show for $10 maximum. Reduced priced tickets are being sold by cast members, with some being sold as a fund raiser for the upcoming choir trip to Europe.
--George French

Holiday Penny Drive
The annual UMC Holiday Penny Drive is underway this week and UMC Student Ambassadors will be out in Sahlstrom Conference Center during the middle of the day collecting funds for the local Care and Share Center. One hundred percent of funds collected will be delivered to the Care and Share Center on December 18^th. Last year we collected $374 in coins. Any gift of any size is appreciated. The local Care and Share Center provides shelter, food and clothing for homeless persons in our area. It has been nationally recognized for its programs and support. Several past residents of the Care and Share Center have become successful UMC students who completed courses or earned degrees and made a new start in life.
--Laurie Wilson and Stacey Grunewald

Greenhouse Open House
Just a reminder that the Holiday Open House at the UMC Horticultural Greenhouse will be Friday, December 11, from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
--Barbara Heinze

UMC Hosts Satellite Teleconference on the Farm Crisis
The US Department of Agriculture will conduct a satellite teleconference on the farm crisis Wednesday, December 16, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Sahlstrom Conference Center A&B. The conference will include discussion of the farm financial crisis in the mid 1980's as well as the present crisis. The program is free and lunch will be provided. Please see the attachment to the bulletin for more information. To register call: Renee Mulcahy 281-8681.
--Barbara Muesing

Fall Quarter Grades are Posted
Students can check their grades in one of two ways:

1. Call the Golden Eagle Informer Line at 281-8636 anytime from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday. Have your ID number and password ready for the Student Access System.
2. Connect to the Student Access System using the World Wide Web at http://r2.micro.umn.edu/sai.run. Have your ID number and password ready for the Student Access System.

If you have never used Student Access, your password will be your 6-digit birthday (MMDDYY). For example, if you were born on December 5, 1980, your initial password would be set to 120580.
--Bob Nelson

Ag Activities Day
Thanks to everyone who helped make this year's Ag Activities Day a great success. When we have 1,000 or more students from close to 50 schools on campus having a good time in educational competition, UMC can't help but win. Such numbers do put a strain on our facilities and our schedules, though, and we appreciate your understanding, assistance and support. Because of the dedication of every faculty and staff member who worked the contests, the tremendous support from our student workers, and especially to Jane Sims' organizational skill and promotional talent, things went smoothly. I am certain that many of the young people who were on our campus last Friday will be attending UMC before long.
--Richard Nelson

Faculty and Staff Accolades

• Donald Cavalier's Career Development Program is listed as one of the country's exemplary programs in the National Career Development Guidelines K-Adult Handbook.
• Nancy Capistran and her husband Wayne received the 1998 Conservation Farmer Award for the West Polk Soil and Water Conservation District.
• Congratulations to Sharon Stewart who received her Ph.D. in education from the University of North Dakota.

UMC Insight
UMC Insight will be aired Saturday, December 12, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM 1260). Tune in this week to hear "Information Networking Management" with Connie Batten.

Attachments
(Attached to the paper copy of this edition of the bulletin)

• Student Support Services December 4, 1998 Newsletter
• Responding to the Stressed Economic Situation of Farms and Farm Families
• Seasonal Celebration Invitation

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