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<strong>Campus</strong><br />

<strong>Campus</strong> Connection<br />

October 2011<br />

Connection<br />

What’s Inside<br />

2<br />

Events Calendar<br />

3<br />

Around the Fort<br />

4<br />

SMCC Hosts Japanese<br />

Delegation<br />

SMCC Art Department<br />

Sends a Message of Hope<br />

and Healing<br />

5<br />

SMCC Celebrates the<br />

Grand Opening of the<br />

Sustainability and Energy<br />

Alternatives Center<br />

SMCC Announces New<br />

Energy Auditor and<br />

Weatherization Scholarships<br />

6<br />

SMCC Open House Fall<br />

2011<br />

Bob Weimont honored as<br />

Educator of the Year<br />

SMCC Announces 2011<br />

Athletic Hall of Fame Class<br />

7<br />

Remembering 9/11/01<br />

8<br />

Peter A. McKernan Hospitality<br />

Center Students and Staff<br />

Create a New Signature Dish<br />

SMCC Business Club Travels<br />

to Boston<br />

SMCC Hosts Forum on <strong>Maine</strong> Labor Skills<br />

and Higher Education<br />

SMCC hosted a forum<br />

on September 14, on higher<br />

education and economic<br />

development with local and<br />

national experts. The event<br />

included comments from U.S.<br />

Deputy Assistant Secretary for<br />

<strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong>s, Frank<br />

Chong, a panel discussion with<br />

regional workforce experts, and<br />

the presentation of a detailed<br />

new study on <strong>Maine</strong>’s looming<br />

education and workforce<br />

skills gaps.<br />

Titled “Closing the Gap,”<br />

the new report identifies and<br />

examines 26,000 new highwage<br />

and growth jobs that are<br />

expected to be created in <strong>Maine</strong><br />

over ten years and contrasts<br />

this demand with the supply of<br />

skilled workers and qualified<br />

college graduates that <strong>Maine</strong><br />

will produce over the same<br />

period. The report forecasts<br />

some significant skills gaps in <strong>Maine</strong>, most notably a shortage of 1,567 associate<br />

degree workers needed to fill jobs in information and computer technology. If the<br />

skills gap is left unaddressed, as many as 4,000 high-wage jobs could go unfilled.<br />

We hope this study will be the beginning of a conversation in <strong>Maine</strong> about<br />

focusing more investment in higher education that is designed to drive economic<br />

growth and close these gaps,” said President of SMCC, Dr. Ronald Cantor. “The<br />

benefits are great: for every 1,000 of these jobs that <strong>Maine</strong> fills, we will see an<br />

economic ripple effect that creates 2,100 new jobs and generates $430 million in<br />

new sales and incomes.”<br />

Author of “Closing the Gap,” Chuck Lawton wrote, “If the current supplydemand<br />

imbalance persists, <strong>Maine</strong> will suffer a severe shortage of workers in<br />

computer, information and related support services and in precision production<br />

occupations. If <strong>Maine</strong> does not reallocate education and training resources to<br />

Continued on pg. 10<br />

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Events Calendar<br />

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Columbus Day - No Classes<br />

WHEN: Monday, October 10<br />

WHERE: USA<br />

Visit from Greg Darnieder<br />

WHEN: Thursday, October 6<br />

8:30 am - 4:00 pm<br />

WHERE: McKernan Center/Jewett Auditorium<br />

Celebrate Diversity Week<br />

WHEN: Tuesday, October 11- Friday, October 14<br />

WHERE: SMCC<br />

Fall Open House<br />

WHEN: Saturday, October 15<br />

11:00 am - 3:30 pm<br />

WHERE: SMCC (South Portland <strong>Campus</strong>)<br />

Athletic Hall of Fame Induction<br />

Ceremony<br />

WHEN: Saturday, October 15, 5:00 pm<br />

WHERE: SMCC<br />

Save the Date!<br />

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SMCC hosts Chamber of Commerce<br />

“After Hours” event<br />

WHEN: Thursday, November 3<br />

WHERE: McKernan Center<br />

Veteran’s Day - No Classes<br />

WHEN: Friday, November 11<br />

WHERE: USA<br />

Spring 2012 Registration Begins<br />

WHEN: Monday, November 14, 8:00 am<br />

WHERE: SMCC<br />

Athletics<br />

Women’s Soccer<br />

Oct. 5 Eastern <strong>Maine</strong> CC Home 3:45 pm<br />

Oct. 8 U-<strong>Maine</strong>-Machias * Away 1:00 pm<br />

Oct. 10 Central <strong>Maine</strong> CC * Home 1:00 pm<br />

Oct. 15 Unity <strong>College</strong> * Home 12:00 pm<br />

Men’s Soccer<br />

Oct. 5 Eastern <strong>Maine</strong> CC Home 3:45 pm<br />

Oct. 8 U-<strong>Maine</strong>-Machias * Away 3:00 pm<br />

Oct. 10 Central <strong>Maine</strong> CC * Home 3:00 pm<br />

Oct. 15 Unity <strong>College</strong> * Home 2:00 pm<br />

Golf<br />

Oct. 9 USCAA National Championship TBA<br />

Oct. 10 USCAA National Championship TBA<br />

Men’s Basketball<br />

Oct. 22 Holland<br />

Home 1:00 pm<br />

Oct. 29 CAN-AM Tournament CMCC TBA<br />

Oct. 30 CAN-AM Tournament CMCC TBA<br />

Women’s Basketball<br />

Oct. 29 CAN-AM Tournament CMCC TBA<br />

Oct. 30 CAN-AM Tournament CMCC TBA<br />

Triva Question<br />

Answer the question correctly and enter to win a $10<br />

Gas Card. Email your answer to amullen@smccME.edu<br />

What pigment causes leaves to<br />

turn bright red & purple?<br />

Last month’s winner: Bruce Daigle<br />

Last month’s question: Where and when was the<br />

first Labor Day celebrated?<br />

Last month’s answer: The first Labor Day holiday<br />

was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882,<br />

in New York City.<br />

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Thanksgiving Recess Begins<br />

WHEN: Wednesday, November 23, 3:00 pm<br />

WHERE: SMCC<br />

New Student Spring 2012<br />

Registration Begins<br />

WHEN: Monday, November 28<br />

WHERE: SMCC<br />

Introducing the President’s Blog<br />

SMCC launches the President’s Blog<br />

connecting students, faculty, staff,<br />

alumni, and the community with the<br />

<strong>College</strong>. Check it out at<br />

www.smccME.edu/presidents-blog<br />

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Around the Fort<br />

Promotions, new employees, announcements, news & other<br />

hubbub.<br />

Welcome<br />

Frances Tracy-Dunn - Financial Aid Counselor<br />

Samantha Brown - Accounting Assistant II<br />

Brenda Beaulieu - Business Relations Manager<br />

News<br />

The <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maine</strong> Daylily and Hosta Society in<br />

conjunction with the Horticulture Department will be hosting<br />

a guest speaker, Ransom Lydell from Dunkirk, NY, on Saturday,<br />

October 8 at 11:00 am in Jewett Auditorium. He is the owner of<br />

Eagle Bay Gardens where he hybridizes daylilies and Hostas. Lydell<br />

specializes in blooms and slug resistant foliage in Hostas. He has<br />

been a professional landscape developer and horticulturalist for<br />

over 50 years.<br />

Elizabeth Bieber,<br />

photography Instructor<br />

at SMCC<br />

enjoyed a field trip with<br />

her Photo I students<br />

from the Midcoast<br />

<strong>Campus</strong> to the<br />

U-<strong>Maine</strong> Museum of<br />

Art in Bangor on September<br />

19. They viewed<br />

exhibits including<br />

Thomas Hager’s Cyanotypes,<br />

and the Photo<br />

National 2011: A Survey of Contemporary Photography - a survey<br />

of 76 works by 34 artists nationally, including many from <strong>Maine</strong>.<br />

Congratulations<br />

Congratulations to the 2011 Graduating Class in Paramedicine<br />

for acheiving a 100% pass rate on the national registry<br />

exam. This achievement is due to hard work of our students<br />

in the classroom and clinical setting along with dedication and<br />

guidance from our instructors.<br />

Vacancies visit www.jobsinme.com<br />

Adjunct Instructor - Electrician Tech Program<br />

DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL AID<br />

CUSTODIAN II - FULL TIME DAYS<br />

MASTER CARPENTER - FULL TIME<br />

From L to R: Sophia Powell, Somer Welch, Callie<br />

Forest, and Eva Wagner.<br />

Got news?<br />

PRESIDENTIAL FORUM<br />

Wrap Up<br />

At the first President’s Forum on<br />

September 15, President Cantor spoke<br />

about the launch of the Journal Innovation<br />

& Transformation at the SMCC Forum on<br />

Education & Economic Development<br />

which included the release of a new report,<br />

“Closing the Gap,” on <strong>Maine</strong> education<br />

and workforce skills gaps and the economic<br />

impacts of higher education. (see Forum<br />

article on page 1)<br />

President Cantor addressed the recent<br />

graffiti incident and said that the campus has<br />

never been the target of hateful graffiti like<br />

this in the past. He spoke with concerned<br />

local people and commented on the press the<br />

<strong>College</strong> received on the subject. Anne Jordan<br />

mentioned that other local schools have<br />

had similar problems recently. Herb Adams<br />

suggested that we work with the media to<br />

highlight these important issues.<br />

President Cantor answered a question<br />

about the possibility of a smoke-free campus.<br />

A survey was done recently about whether to<br />

go smoke-free or not, but it was brought to<br />

the attention of the forum attendees that the<br />

results were not accurate. The consensus was<br />

that the best solution would be to enforce<br />

the 30-foot rule – no smoking within 30 feet<br />

of a building entrance.<br />

The President will schedule future<br />

forums as needed to discuss emerging<br />

<strong>College</strong> topics and every effort will be<br />

made to schedule forums during the<br />

activity period or at times that enable as<br />

many people to participate as possible.<br />

Send your news, views and<br />

reviews to amullen@smccME.edu<br />

to share with your community.<br />

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SMCC Hosts Japanese<br />

Delegation<br />

SMCC hosted a Japanese delegation from <strong>Maine</strong>’s sister<br />

state Aomori Prefecture at its South Portland campus<br />

on September 7. The delegation, including government<br />

officials, business leaders and university faculty visited<br />

the McKernan Center and toured the <strong>College</strong>’s new<br />

Sustainability Center.<br />

The visit, on September 6-10, was organized by<br />

the <strong>Maine</strong>-Aomori Sister State Advisory Council<br />

(MASSAC) and was indended to develop cultural,<br />

educational and commercial opportunities between<br />

<strong>Maine</strong> and Aomori focusing on energy as well as the<br />

fishery and food products industries.<br />

<strong>Maine</strong>’s relationship with the Aomori Prefecture<br />

traces its origins to 1889. That year, the 1,500-ton<br />

Cheseborough ship, sailing from Bath, wrecked off<br />

the coast of Aomori. Local citizens from the village of<br />

Shariki rescued four survivors and buried those who<br />

died. Amidst the Cheseborough wreckage that drifted<br />

ashore, the people of Shariki discovered <strong>Maine</strong> pears,<br />

and planted pear trees of their own. An annual service is<br />

held in Shariki for the sailors who lost their lives in 1889<br />

and pears are left on the graves of the sailors who died.<br />

SMCC Art Department<br />

Sends a Message of Hope<br />

and Healing<br />

On Saturday,<br />

September 10, Jeff<br />

Badger, Chairman<br />

of the SMCC<br />

Art Department,<br />

presented 1,000<br />

paper cranes to<br />

Yukio Yageta,<br />

Deputy Director<br />

General, Bureau<br />

of Strategic<br />

Tourism and<br />

International<br />

Affairs, Aomori<br />

Prefectural<br />

Government at<br />

the Thanks <strong>Maine</strong><br />

Reception held at<br />

the Winter Street<br />

Church, Bath, <strong>Maine</strong>.<br />

The cranes were created by SMCC students earlier<br />

this year after the devastating earthquake in Japan in<br />

March. The Japanese believe that the crane lives 1,000<br />

years and the gift of paper cranes symbolizes this<br />

belief, offering a wish of healing heard and answered.<br />

Jeff Badger, Chairman of SMCC Art Department<br />

with Yukio Yageta, Deputy Director General,<br />

Stragetic Tourism and International Affiars,<br />

Aomori Prefectural Government<br />

Members from <strong>Maine</strong>’s sister state Aomori Prefecture tour SMCC’s<br />

sustainability center and meet SMCC’s new President, Dr. Ronald Cantor<br />

SMCC student creates paper cranes after the devesating earthquake in Japan.<br />

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SMCC Celebrates the<br />

Grand Opening of the<br />

SMCC Sustainability and<br />

Energy Alternatives Center<br />

SMCC celebrated the grand opening of its<br />

Sustainability and Energy Alternatives (SEA)<br />

Center on its South Portland campus on<br />

Thursday, September 29.<br />

Developed through federal and state grants,<br />

the SEA Center is the centerpiece of SMCC’s<br />

new initiatives to drive sustainability, including<br />

the development of new college courses and<br />

workforce training in renewable energy, energy<br />

auditing and weatherization. Equipped with<br />

state of the art equipment, the SEA Center lab<br />

offers students the chance to work with a broad<br />

array of renewable energy systems, including<br />

solar photovoltaic and solar hot water systems,<br />

as well as fully functional pressurized test house<br />

that is used to train energy auditors. The Center<br />

will also serve as a forum for community events,<br />

educational programs, and other activities<br />

relating to sustainability and energy efficiency.<br />

The event featured comments from<br />

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and President<br />

Ronald Cantor. SEA Center Director John<br />

Brautigam demonstrated. some of the unique tools<br />

used in the Center, including the “pressure house.”<br />

1.<br />

2.<br />

SMCC Announces New<br />

Energy Auditor and<br />

Weatherization Scholarships<br />

In an effort to support <strong>Maine</strong>’s growing green<br />

economy and workforce, SMCC is announcing new<br />

scholarships designed to help <strong>Maine</strong>rs interested<br />

in taking key training courses in residential<br />

weatherization and energy auditing.<br />

Offered in partnership with Efficiency <strong>Maine</strong>,<br />

the scholarships will provide partial and full<br />

tuition. Graduates of the courses will be certified<br />

as <strong>Maine</strong> Weatherization Technicians and prepared<br />

for national certification as energy auditors and<br />

building analysts. These trainings are part of a<br />

3.<br />

3.<br />

1. Dr. Ronald Cantor gives opening remarks at the grand opening of SMCC’s Sustainability<br />

and Energy Alternatives (SEA) Center on Thursday, September 29. 2. U.S. Representative<br />

Chelie Pingree shares her thoughts on sustainability in <strong>Maine</strong> with guests at the SEA grand<br />

opening. 3. Guests at the SEA grand opening demo various sustainable system. 4.U.S. Rep.<br />

Chellie Pingree and SMCC President Ronald Cantor plug a light bulb into energy supplied by<br />

photovoltaic panels on the south side of the community college’s new SEA Center.<br />

4.<br />

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comprehensive set of new courses at SMCC that are<br />

focused on sustainability and energy efficiency.<br />

“SMCC is committed to driving economic<br />

development and advancing sustainability in our<br />

community and in our state,” said President Cantor.<br />

“These new scholarships will expand access to training<br />

for <strong>Maine</strong> workers and help us to meet the incredible<br />

challenge of weatherizing one of the oldest housing<br />

stocks in the country.”<br />

SMCC will offer the Energy Auditing and Building<br />

Analyst course starting on September 14th. This<br />

80-hour course, developed by SMCC to be the first<br />

on-line/in person hybrid energy auditor course in<br />

the Northeast, prepares students to take the Building<br />

Performance Institutes’ exam for home energy auditor<br />

certification.<br />

SMCC’s Weatherization Technician course, starting<br />

on October 11th, prepares students for entry level<br />

jobs in the growing home energy services sector,<br />

covering basic theories of building science as well<br />

as practical aspects of home energy improvements,<br />

including the latest techniques and materials. The<br />

Weatherization Technician course is 40 hours, and<br />

successful completion will earn classroom certification<br />

for working in <strong>Maine</strong> State Housing Authority<br />

weatherization programs.<br />

The housing stock in <strong>Maine</strong> is among the oldest in the<br />

nation, and <strong>Maine</strong> homeowners use more imported oil<br />

for heating than in any other state. <strong>Maine</strong> has embarked<br />

on an ambitious plan to weatherize all homes by the year<br />

2030.<br />

Interested students can obtain more information<br />

about the course and apply for scholarships by emailing<br />

sustainability@smccME.edu.<br />

Funding for the scholarships is provided through<br />

Efficiency <strong>Maine</strong> and the American Recovery and<br />

Reinvestment Act of 2009.<br />

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Remembering 9/11/01<br />

On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks<br />

SMCC held a brief ceremony to pay tribute to the<br />

fallen heroes and victims. Students, faculty, staff,<br />

and local emergency responders came together as a<br />

community at the South Portland campus to reflect<br />

on this important day in history.<br />

The event was led by President Cantor with<br />

remarks from South Portland Fire Chief, Kevin<br />

Guimond, and a SMCC fire science student,<br />

Ashley Wax.<br />

“We gathered as a family and a community as we<br />

did on 9/11 to honor the people who gave their lives<br />

trying to save others and the innocent victims of that<br />

tragic day that left us heart-broken,” said Cantor. “As<br />

dark a day as that was, our country came together<br />

to create good will that continues to empower us in<br />

challenging times.”<br />

The <strong>College</strong> has a close relationship with firefighters<br />

and first responders across the state. SMCC awarded<br />

78 Public Safety degrees last spring including Fire<br />

Science Technology, Paramedicine and Criminal<br />

Justice. The <strong>Maine</strong> Fire Service Institute, a department<br />

of SMCC, has statewide responsibility for firefighter<br />

training and certification.<br />

Bob Weimont Honored as<br />

Educator of the Year<br />

The board of directors for the <strong>Southern</strong> Midcoast<br />

<strong>Maine</strong> Chamber presented<br />

SMCC’s Bob Weimont<br />

with “Educator of the<br />

Year” Award at the 2011<br />

Awards Gala on Sept. 14<br />

at Sebasco Harbor Resort<br />

in Phippsburg. “Each<br />

year awards are presented<br />

to deserving businesses<br />

and individuals that help<br />

make the Mid-coast area<br />

the best place in <strong>Maine</strong><br />

to live, work and play,”<br />

chamber president Steven<br />

Wallace said in a news release. Nominations come<br />

from individuals in the chamber’s 16-community<br />

service area and final award selection comes from<br />

a panel of previous honorees. Awards are given<br />

under two broad categories, business excellence and<br />

individual contributions. Bob has run the Bath Center<br />

for many years and has helped enrollment at the<br />

Bath Center grow to nearly 1,000 students this fall.<br />

Congratulations Bob!<br />

SMCC Announces 2011<br />

Athletic Hall of Fame Class<br />

SMCC is pleased to announce the 2011 Athletics<br />

Hall of Fame Class. Two inductees will be honored<br />

during a banquet on Saturday, October 15, 2011,<br />

at 5:00 pm in the HUB Athletics Center on the<br />

South Portland <strong>Campus</strong>. Tickets are $20 and can be<br />

purchased by contacting SMCC Athletics at 207-741-<br />

5927 or mrichards@smccME.edu.<br />

Anthony D’Alfonso (Baseball ‘07) may be the<br />

most prolific player to ever wear the SMCC baseball<br />

uniform. He is a two-time Yankee Small <strong>College</strong><br />

Conference Player of the Year and 2007 United<br />

States Collegiate Athletic Association All-American.<br />

He holds the SMCC all-time leader in career hits,<br />

runs, home runs, and RBI’s. After leaving SMCC,<br />

D’Alfonso continued two more seasons at the<br />

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University of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Maine</strong> where he was a twotime<br />

NCAA Division III All-American.<br />

D’Alfonso is the first SMCC baseball player to<br />

sign a professional contract. He has spent the last<br />

three years playing in the Frontier league, Golden<br />

Baseball League, and currently in the League de<br />

Norte in Mexico.<br />

Bob Doyle (Baseball ’71) will be inducted<br />

posthumously as he passed in 2005. Doyle was<br />

a standout pitcher during his two seasons at the<br />

<strong>College</strong>. Doyle was instrumental in leading the way<br />

to winning the State Technical <strong>College</strong> Series title<br />

in 1970 and 1971. He also pitched a shutout win<br />

in the 1970 Northern New England Small <strong>College</strong><br />

Conference (NNESCC) title game. Doyle was a<br />

two-time State Technical <strong>College</strong> Conference All<br />

Star and was a (NNESCC) Honor Squad recipient.<br />

Upon leaving SMCC, Doyle continued to be a<br />

fixture in the local baseball scene. He was a past<br />

president of <strong>Maine</strong> Babe Ruth, and had a 12-year<br />

coaching career at St. Josephs <strong>College</strong> in <strong>Maine</strong>. He<br />

was recently inducted into the 2011 <strong>Maine</strong> Baseball<br />

Hall of Fame.<br />

“Both inductees had outstanding careers while at<br />

SMCC and also have made significant contributions<br />

and success upon leaving the college,” said SMCC<br />

Director of Athletics Matt Richards. “Induction into<br />

the Athletics Hall of Fame is very fitting for them<br />

as they exemplify what we hope our current student<br />

athletes will strive to become.”<br />

From L to R: Anthony D’Alfonso (Baseball ‘07) and Bob Doyle (Baseball ’71)<br />

Peter A. McKernan Hospitality<br />

Center Students and Staff<br />

Create a New Signature Dish<br />

Walking into the foyer of the McKernan Center,<br />

you are immediately aware of the handsome Mission<br />

Style architectural details: graceful curves, geometric<br />

patterning, beautifully grained wood and the lovely<br />

central timepiece. You are tempted to proceed directly<br />

into the lobby with its inviting grand staircase but there<br />

is a decorative detail in the periphery of your vision that<br />

piques on your curiosity. Turning to your right, you are<br />

greeted by a vision of texture and movement, structure<br />

and composition, color and luminosity, a challenge and<br />

response to creativity. Glass artist Sarah Pratt-Smith was<br />

commissioned to create the decorative windows and<br />

ceiling lighting<br />

to complement<br />

this interior<br />

when the<br />

building<br />

underwent<br />

extensive<br />

renovations.<br />

When Jill<br />

Hannaford first<br />

walked in to<br />

the McKernan<br />

Hospitality<br />

Center for an<br />

interview for<br />

the position of Chef, she was drawn to this window and<br />

recognized its potential to inspire a culinary creation.<br />

Once settled in the job and finding herself surrounded<br />

by enthusiastic and talented student staff in the<br />

kitchen, she initiated “Test Kitchen Mondays”, a time<br />

when students could drop by and work alongside Jill<br />

in the kitchen testing new recipes, plating and ideas.<br />

The development of a signature dessert based on the<br />

stained glass windows was at the top of the list of<br />

creative projects to pursue. Six students attended the<br />

first session and they discussed the design elements<br />

present in the window and the flavors that came<br />

to mind. They then studied in more details the<br />

windows and ceiling lights, sketching ideas, plating<br />

The stained glass window at McKernan Center that<br />

inspired the new signature dish<br />

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compositions, noting flavors and textures.<br />

The end process involved the testing of recipes<br />

for the different components of the dessert. The<br />

requirements for the final selection were:<br />

• the flavors had to work together yet please the palate<br />

• the components of the dessert had to be able to be<br />

made ahead of time<br />

• the dessert had to be easy to plate for groups of up<br />

to 100<br />

• and there had to be a visible link to the windows.<br />

The new signature dessert consists of a dense<br />

buttermilk cake with layers of raspberry jam and white<br />

and chocolate ganache. The icing is textured white<br />

chocolate ganache. The rectangular slice sits on a<br />

raspberry coulis. Beside the cake is a lemon curd mousse<br />

in a lemon shell, garnished with crystallized lemon zest.<br />

A curved band of chocolate completes the presentation.<br />

Culinary student, Dave Provencher did the honors<br />

of presenting this new dessert on September 14th, at a<br />

lunch hosted by Dr. Cantor at the Mckernan Center for<br />

a group of fire chiefs. Dr. Cantor, in a thank you email,<br />

said “...who knew that a piece of stained glass could be<br />

so delicious?”<br />

Now, the new dessert needs to be named. The<br />

window that the dessert was based on is titled,<br />

“Seaglass”. Suggestions have included, “Sweet Seaglass”,<br />

“Reflections”, and “A Taste of Hospitality.” Since the<br />

collaborative process was so successful in designing<br />

this new dessert, all are invited to to help name the<br />

new signature dessert! Please send your suggestions to<br />

MckernanCenter@smccME.edu. If your idea is selected,<br />

a special dessert will be delivered to your staff for an<br />

upcoming meeting!<br />

3<br />

Pot Stickers<br />

Culinary Corner<br />

Recipe from the SMCC “<strong>Campus</strong><br />

Collections” cookbook.<br />

Servings: 20<br />

INGREDIENTS<br />

1 package potsticker skins<br />

8 oz. cooked ground pork<br />

1 tsp. minced garlic<br />

2 cups diced celery<br />

2 cups shredded carrots<br />

1/4 cup fish sauce<br />

1 Tbs. maggi seasoning*<br />

1/4 tsp. white pepper<br />

2 Tbs. sugar<br />

DIRECTIONS<br />

1. Combine pork and remaining ingredients; cool,<br />

and wrap with skins. Add 1 heaping Tbs. of filling<br />

per skin; fold in half, bulging in the middle, and<br />

pinch the dough together in the middle.<br />

2. Poach 2 minutes. Pat dry.<br />

3. Sauté golden brown in peanut oil.<br />

*Maggi Seasoning is made in Switzerland and has quite a<br />

distinct flavor. If it is not available, substitute 1/2 Tbs.<br />

worcestershire sauce and 1/2 Tbs. mushroom soy sauce.<br />

The new McKernan Center signature dessert.<br />

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<strong>Campus</strong> Connection<br />

SMCC Business Club Travels<br />

to Boston<br />

SMCC students and faculty traveled to Boston<br />

last April for their annual spring Business<br />

Club trip. The group including: Sean Sabine,<br />

Caleb Berry, Chris Kraus, Mike Bowser, Arthur<br />

Kuznetsov, John Young, Nico Seiler, Kyle<br />

Capponcelli and John Chen, and faculty members<br />

Charlie Pearson and Steve Strand.<br />

On Thursday evening, April 28th, the Club<br />

took in a Red Sox game which was a first for<br />

many members. On Saturday, the Club toured<br />

the grounds of Harvard Univerity. The Club<br />

then traveled by subway to tour a liquid<br />

manufacturing company in suburban Boston.<br />

Students got a firsthand look at all that is<br />

involved in manufacturing, distribution and<br />

marketing. Later, the Club dined at world famous<br />

Union Oyster House.<br />

The Boston Bruins were in the middle of their<br />

Stanley Cup championship run, so Boston was<br />

abuzz with Bruins shirts, hats, sovineers and<br />

sports fever.<br />

The SMCC Biz Club is a student-run<br />

organization and is open to all those interested.<br />

The Club meets on Thursdays at 12:30pm on the<br />

1st floor of Hague in the Weisbein Business Club<br />

Lounge.<br />

Continued from pg. 1<br />

Forum on Labor Skills<br />

address this existing and potentially growing labor<br />

supply gap, the state’s economic prosperity will be<br />

threatened.”<br />

In a direct effort to overcome these skills gaps<br />

and meet the state’s job growth potential, SMCC is<br />

establishing a new Midcoast <strong>Campus</strong> at Brunswick<br />

Landing—the former Naval Air Station. Working with<br />

businesses at or coming to Brunswick Landing as well<br />

as with the University of <strong>Maine</strong> <strong>College</strong> of Engineering,<br />

SMCC will establish certificate and Associate degree<br />

programs and pathways to Bachelor’s and graduate<br />

programs specifically designed to overcome the skills<br />

gaps that now limit <strong>Maine</strong>’s economic prosperity.<br />

While the Midcoast <strong>Campus</strong> will serve that region<br />

of the state, its impact will be felt all across the state<br />

because it is targeting the industries most handicapped<br />

by current skills gaps and thus those where educational<br />

investment will have the greatest “bang for the buck”<br />

across the entire state.<br />

Small Business<br />

Owners Group<br />

Fall 2011 Schedule<br />

Member of SMCC’s Business Club touring Boston.<br />

Date<br />

October 5th<br />

October 12th<br />

October 19th<br />

October 26th<br />

November 2nd<br />

November 9th<br />

November 16th<br />

November 23rd<br />

November 30th<br />

December 7th<br />

December 14th<br />

Topic<br />

Guest Speaker: TBD<br />

Movie: The Call of the<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

Topic: Strategic Planning<br />

Group Member Coaching<br />

Guest Speaker: TBD<br />

ted.com video and<br />

discussion<br />

Topic: Financial<br />

Management for the<br />

Small Business Owner<br />

NO MEETING<br />

Group Member Coaching<br />

Guest Speaker: TBD<br />

4:00 - 6:00 pm<br />

Holiday Party<br />

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