10/14/08 - "International Relations Council Annual Banquet"
At the gala IRC banquet in the downtown KC Marriott, Katie, Kaitlin, Michaela and Deanna graced the USM table.
Strobe Talbot, President of the Brookings Institute and keynote speaker for the evening signs his book for Katie Murray.
[ Back to the Top ] 11/06/08 – "Digesting Africa," Luncheon Talk on South Africa
USM Alum Doug Lathrop, Africa Specialist at Fort Leavenworth’s Command and General Staff College, takes interesting field trips.
One of Doug’s excellent slides at the lunchtime Brown Bag.
[ Back to the Top ] 11/11/08 – SIFE LECTURE
"What It Takes To Be Successful in
International Business"
Dan Ward, CEO of the firm Western Forms in Kansas City tells the members of the International Business class how to be a successful entrepreneur.
Alan DePonceau, Vice President of Foreign Exchange at Kansas City’s Commerce Bank gives "a history of money" in international business.
The Business Department’s Students In Free Enterprise partnered with GSI to bring noted Kansas City businessmen to campus for an evening lecture on the intricacies and pitfalls of manufacturing and trading abroad. "The rules can be dangerously different," said Dan Ward, whose firm Western Forms is a 30-year success story in spite of increasing global trade problems. Alan DePonceau, a "money man" at Commerce Bank in Kansas City, gave insight into what it takes to lend and profit from international enterprises. The evening was another example of the vitality of SIFE and its leaders Mary Youngblood and Cori Collis.
GSI also supported a day-long "Import-Export Simulation" for Professor Carlton Philpot’s class in International Business. Members of the Kansas City International Trade Council acted as mediators. GSI bought the pizza!
[ Back to the Top ] 01/28/09 –"Know Your World: Ireland"; Luncheon Talk on the Republic of Ireland
Commandant Mark Hearns, an Irish officer studying at Fort Leavenworth’s CGSC presents "Know Your World: Ireland" at Saint Mary.
Commandant Hearns gave a talk full of surprises, discussing how immigration may be changing the character of Ireland, the crunch in energy resources and the recent sharp decline in prosperity, and shocking turmoil in the Irish Catholic Church.
Sister Mary Lenore Martin, former Chair of the History Department (and "Irish to the bone") gives Commandant Hearns the real "skinny" on the Emerald Isle.
No matter what changes occur in Ireland "the PUBS REMAIN THE SAME!," says Commandant Hearns.
Kerrie Hustings tells a GSI audience two days before Christmas about the year she spent working among the poor in Fondwa, Haiti. The creature on the screen behind Kerrie was one of the occupational hazards of working on the island – a giant tarantula!
Kerrie tells the largely Mother House crowd that in spite of the tarantulas, she felt safer in Fondwa than she often does in Washington, D.C., when visiting her two sisters who are social workers there. Kerrie is currently getting her Masters Degree in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
MAJ Naeem of the Command and General Staff College, presents "Know Your World" Pakistan.
MAJ Naeem presents a fascinating slide show on Pakistani culture.
This slide from MAJ Naeem's presentation, sheds some light on common Western misperceptions of Pakistan and its peoples culture.
MAJ Naeem laughs with the audience as he describes his homeland, Pakistan.
[ Back to the Top ] 10/22/08 - Inside Turkey: Pistachios, Dervishes, Head scarves & Tea
Reverend Machrina Blasdell and her husband, the Very Reverend Michael Munro visited Turkey last summer as part of an educational trip supported by the Institute of Interfaith Dialogue to study the effects of a unique combination of religion, modernity and traditional values on today's lifestyle.
"Pistachios, Dervishes, Head scarves and Tea: The first GSI Lecture of the Year. Reverend Machrina Blasdell discusses cultural challenges for women today in Turkey.
Dr. Sandra Vanhoose, Dr. George Steger, Reverend Blasdell and Very Reverend Munro pose for a picture with their guide, who led them to the many places on their journey.
The tales of Turkey left the audience wanting more.
[ Back to the Top ] 10/21/08 -
Brown Bag on the trip to Jamaica
Sharon and Tony Albers discuss the Food-for-the-Poor initiative, which visits Jamaica regularly and helps fight poverty throughout the country.
On display was a "mud cookie" which is a mixture of salt and mud and is given to children to supplement their diet when very little food is available.
Tony Albers shows off a package of "Pudgy Nutty," which is a peanut treat that contains additional vitamins that can replace meals in times of hardship.
Sharon and Tony Albers are supporting the Starr Scholar Program and were the inspiration for making trips available to students to travel to Jamaica with Food-for-the-Poor.
"Money,
Money, Money….."
(They were all $1 dollar bills
but it looked like a lot.)
"Let
the Games Begin!"
Masters
of Ceremonies Ken Mulliken of the History and Political Science
Department Points to a Winner."
"Ladies
and Gentlemen, the First Question is From the Category of
World Leaders."
"Conferring
with Confreres."
"Here
Come da Judge—s.": Noel My hand of Booz, Allen,
Hamilton,, Keith Hustings of the International Trade Council,
GSI’s Matt Budreau, and Lt. Brad Thomas of the U.S.
Army.
"The
Answers, Please!"
"That
Can't Be the Answer!"
"We
Demand a Recount!"
The
Non-Student Winning Team, “The Salad Bar": S. Susie
Rieke, Shirley Rockwell, Dr. Bob Schimoler, and S. Rosalie
Curtin.
Third
Place Student Winners, “The Football Scholar/Athletes":
Rocky Rosales, Noah Wooten, Tai Murray, Greg Kaplan.
Second
Place Winners, “Ramrod Shortbus": SGA Pres. Kate
Schebaum, Eric Defoe, Jaime Spruk, Mike Stuart.
First
Place Winners, “The Blue Barracudas": SGA VP Michaela
Forge, Katie Murrray, Kaitlin Peterson, Danny Blank.
