Challenge - Winter 2007/2008 - Tiffin University

w h a t ’ s h a p p e n i n g > C a m p u s S c e n e
“Dinner in the City”
Artist Marsha Monroe Pippenger described
her narrative exhibition, Dinner in the City,
as a visual re-telling of the stories of two
remarkable women, Christine de Pisan
and Judy Chicago, across five centuries
of art and culture during the November
Diane Kidd Gallery art exhibit opening.
Pippenger’s title for her exhibition
combines elements of both artists’ groundb
r e a k i n g
work to
bring the
accomplishments
of
women into
the mainstream
of
W e s t e r n
history and
c u l t u r e .
Pippinger Empress Eheodora ... C h r i s t i n e
Advocate for Women de Pisan
(ca. 1364-
1430) has been called France’s first
professional woman of letters, made
famous by writing The Book of the City
of Ladies. Judy Chicago, born in 1939, is
a contemporary visual artist who created
the art installation “The Dinner Party.”
In The Book of the City of Ladies,
Christine de Pisan tells how in a
waking dream she is visited by three graces:
Ladies Reason, Rectitude, and Justice.
They charge Christine with establishing
a new written
tradition
of women.
“To do this,
C h r i s t i n e
constructs
an allegorical
city built
by both
m y t h o -
logical and
Pippinger Dinner In The City h i s t o r i c a l
women of accomplishment, to be inhabited
solely by them and other women of
note,” Pippenger says
Whirlpool-Maytag
Integration
Tom Toth, Division Vice President of Clyde
Whirlpool Corporation presented Clyde
Division Whirlpool-Maytag Integration
during November’s Good Morning World
breakfast lecture series. Toth was named
Division Vice President for the Clyde
Division in 2006. Prior to joining the Clyde
Division, Toth held positions of increasing
responsibility at Whirlpool’s Tulsa
Division, corporate offices and several
Tom Toth
manufacturing
locations
in the United
States.
Throughout
his
career,
a
commitment
to
he has demonstrated
leadership
activities
in the
community,
and to his family. Whirlpool Corporation
is the world’s leading manufacturer and
marketer of major home appliances, with
annual sales of over $18 billion, 73,000
employees, and nearly 70 manufacturing
and technology research centers around
the globe. The company markets Whirlpool,
Maytag, Amana, Admiral, KitchenAid,
Inglis, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Consul and
other major brand names to consumers in
more than 170 countries.
TU’s ‘Olympic Academic
Experience’
The world’s most elite athletes will be in
Beijing, China in August of 2008, striving
to win a coveted Olympic medal and the
opportunity to stand proudly while their
national anthem is played.
A delegation
from Tiffin University will also be in
Beijing for what Dr. Bonnie Tiell describes
as “an up-close, experience of a lifetime.”
TU students Leigh Zajac, Devin Rudolf,
and Beth Clark will join 14 other students
from universities across the country
on the journey. In total, 10 universities
will be represented as part of the “Tiffin
University Olympic Academic Experience,”
according to Tiell, Chair of the Marketing
and Sports Management Department at
Tiffin University.
The TU professor is teaming with Dr.
Marcia Mackey to guide the students on
the 12-day study of the organization,
supervision, and management of international
sport venues and elite competition.
Mackey, an Associate Professor of
Sports Management at Central Michigan
University, has extensive travel experience
in Asia and will share her background in
international world class sports facilities
operations.
“Our networking efforts will provide the
necessary expertise in teaching the scope
of coordinating governing entities at the
local and international level to produce
the world’s largest sporting event,” Tiell
remarks.
“While we’re there, the sports management
majors from our contingency of
10 large, midsize, and small universities
in the United States will be studying
Chinese culture and olympic games
organization,” Tiell says.
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