The deadline for submitting Excellence in Education nominations is fast approaching. Submit your Faculty nominations to Debbie Dewent (Provost’s Office — 1 Main); Submit your Staff nominations to Liz Timmer (418 College Park Plaza). All nominations are due by Noon on Friday, May 14, 2010.
Go to www.grcc.edu/awardsforexcellence for details and nomination forms
GRCC will be well represented this weekend during the 5/3rd Riverbank Run. If you have the opportunity, please cheer on your GRCC colleagues (the Post-Race Party is Saturday, May 8, 8:00 am – 1:30 pm Calder Plaza, downtown). Runners from GRCC include Mary Reed, Sue Hill, Steve Ender, Jim Fox, Mike Schavey, Andy Bowne, and Ric Underhile.
Ric Underhile is running as part of the fund-raising group for Gilda’s Club, an alliance of clubhouses where adults and children living with cancer, as well as their loved-ones, meet to learn how to live with cancer. If you would like to make a donation, you can click on this link to go directly to his web site.
Run, Walk, Roll, or Cheer (www.grcc.edu/runwalkrollcheer) is a wellness program at GRCC that encourages the participation of students, alumni, faculty, staff, and retirees in all aspects of community fitness events, including a) running, rolling, or walking in local events, b) joining local groups that support running, rolling, or walking, c) playing a supportive role in events (e.g., working at an aid station), and/or d) turning out to cheer on GRCC colleagues.
Five years, four colleges, two sports equal wild ride for Freedom Baptist grad Adam Slusher
By Dean Holzwarth | The Grand Rapids Press | May 07, 2010, 8:30AM
It has been a strange collegiate athletics trip for Adam Slusher. The former Freedom Baptist baseball standout experienced a five-year journey that took him to four colleges before ending at a Division III school in eastern Pennsylvania. […] The Defenders lost in the National Christian College Athletic Association II East Region semifinals, closing out Slusher’s topsy-turvy, injury-riddled career that began at Grand Rapids Community College after graduating as one of the state’s top high school pitchers. (More)
Muskegon Community College softball team splits doubleheader with Grand Rapids Community College
By Mike Mattson | Muskegon Chronicle | May 06, 2010, 11:18PM
MUSKEGON CC 3-3, GRAND RAPIDS CC 0-4: Ashley White won her 28th game of the season, pitching a two-hitter with 12 strikeouts. Ashley Melchert had a two-run single in the first inning and Olivia Morey drove in Abbey Collinge in the second. Collinge finished with three hits and Nicole Suchy had two hits for MCC. (More)
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