The Creek Connections May newsletter can be found online. Read about how Creek Connections is a finalist for the Toyota 100 Cars for Good Program and needs your vote on July 20, as well as about our two successful student research symposia, envirothon, and our EPA grant partnering with ALLARM.

Summer hours at the Campus Center are: May 15-June 3, 6:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; June 4-August 24, 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Monday, May 28, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wednesday, July 4, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

Michael Miller, baritone, will perform a voice recital in Ford Memorial Chapel on Sunday, May 20, at 3:15 p.m. Michael is a graduating senior at Maplewood High School and has taken voice lessons from Vicki Jamison for four years. He also enrolled in music theory courses at Allegheny College this year. He has performed in PMEA choruses at the district, regional, state, All-Eastern, and national levels. Michael will major in voice performance at the University of Michigan next year. The recital will include art songs and arias in addition to two duets sung with Vicki Jamison and with his high school choir director, Jason Ashbaugh. Accompanist for the recital will be Ward Jamison.

Creek Connections is one of 500 finalists in the Toyota 100 Cars for Good Program. Help us win a new van by voting for us at 100carsforgood.com on July 20. On that day we are up against only four other nonprofits for a new vehicle. Voting for other programs starts today at 100carsforgood.com. Creek Connections has been without a vehicle for over a year now. A vehicle would help us reach the schools and their stream sites we visit throughout western Pennsylvania and beyond. Voting is through Facebook so even though our voting day is later in the summer, you can go on now and “Like” Creek Connections to get reminders. You can also view our video on YouTube and share all this with your friends, relatives and others. Thank you for your support!

The Office of Admissions invites members of the campus community to join us on Thursday, May 17, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. as we say farewell to John McGeoch. John has been a member of the Enrollment team since October 2010 and has been instrumental to our recruitment efforts. He will be leaving Allegheny to further pursue his interest in International Relations and government affairs. Come to the lobby of the 454 House and help us celebrate with John.

The College’s 2nd Annual Employee Walk-a-Thon will be held on May 21 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain date: May 22), with the starting point at Brooks Circle. Please email pshreve@allegheny.edu with your preferred time slot to walk for at least half an hour. For every dollar you donate you will receive a chance to win great giveaways and gift certificates. The more you donate the more chances you have to win. One hundred percent of the money donated will be given to the American Cancer Society. Walk to honor members of the Allegheny community who lost their lives to cancer or to celebrate those who are survivors of cancer. Memorial and survivor walls will be available for you to personalize. BYOWB (bring your own water bottle). This event is supported by AEC, AAC and SAC.

The Office of Community Service and Service-Learning, ACCEL, is in the process of doing service hours collection for the Spring 2012 semester. If your organization has participated in service to the greater community in the past semester, please fill out this form. The deadline for hours collection is Friday, May 18. The data collected is used in various reports across campus. Please contact Olivia Lang at olang@allegheny.edu with any questions. We appreciate the time and dedication this entire campus has made to the service movement and look forward to capturing another successful semester of work.

If you’re interested in volunteering for the DeHart Local Foods Dinner in September, please contact Scott Steiner at steiner@allegheny.edu.

Parkhurst Catering is looking for students to work school events in Fall 2012. A uniform is provided, and the job pays $10 an hour. Please contact Scott Steiner at steiner@allegheny.edu if you are interested.

The Gator Out-of-Stater program is seeking new mentors to help the Class of 2016 with their transition to Allegheny. If you hail from outside Western PA, and would like to connect with a new student from out of state, we need your help! Gator Out-of-Stater mentors will communicate with incoming students during the summer and answer questions about life at Allegheny as they prepare to make the transition to college. If you are interested in participating, complete this web form to apply. Please contact Ed Giles in the Learning Commons if you have any questions about the Gator Out-of-Stater program.

Allegheny’s instructional technologists will offer several website workshops in May. They will introduce two tools, Google Sites and Blogger, that can be used to create and manage your web presence. Please click here to register. All workshops will be held in the Pelletier Library classroom. Coffee will be provided in the morning. Lunch will be provided at noon for both morning and afternoon participants. Sorry, but we can accommodate only 10 registrants per session. Please contact an instructional technologist if you have questions.

As part of the USA Patriot Act, TIAA-CREF is now required to have a residential street address on file for every participant. There are Allegheny participants for whom TIAA has only a P.O. Box or business address on file. Therefore, TIAA-CREF will be writing to these participants asking them to provide their residential street address. Participants will have the chance to provide their residential street address online by logging into their account, calling TIAA-CREF, or by mailing or faxing in the Request for Residential Street Address form. This form and a postage-paid envelope will be enclosed with the letter. The request is for verification purposes only and will not change the mailing address on file, unless the participant chooses to do so at this time. There are no repercussions for not updating the residential street address at this time, but TIAA-CREF may send additional mailings and communications if a participant chooses not to respond. Please look for this correspondence from TIAA-CREF in the coming weeks.

Effective May 8, transcript requests for current students cannot be processed until spring semester grades are posted. If you have a deadline date before or near May 8, we recommend that you request your transcript prior to the transcript freeze. Students wishing to have spring semester grades posted will need to indicate “HOLD FOR GRADES” on the transcript release form, available in the Registrar’s Office. We anticipate that these transcripts will be processed and forwarded on May 18, 2012. SENIORS: Final transcripts for seniors with degree and major posted will also be available May 18, but you will need to indicate “HOLD FOR DEGREE POSTING” on the transcript release form. If you have questions or concerns, please see Pam McCurdy, Transcript Coordinator.

Starting May 2, the Wise Center will begin operating under the summer hours posted on the athletics website. The Wise Center will open as normal each day but will close at 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 4 p.m. on the weekends.

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