MUSIC AND MORE ! represented Dana at St. John Lutheran Church in Council Bluffs on Sunday. Carla Clark, Katie Foote, Brooke Fencl, Angie Gordon, Shane Krepp, Chris Lunbeck and Clare Cowing provided music for the worship service.

Now is the time to make your plans for Dana's Homecoming 2007! Review the Homecoming schedule (click here) to see when you can mingle with Dana alumni Oct. 12-14.

Honorees at Friday night's Awards Dinner will be UNO Chancellor John Christensen '71, Maria Roesler '05, Ben Sandy '99, Angela (Sparacino '99) Sandy and Roger Howland '64. Tickets may still be reserved this week by contacting Julie in the Alumni Office x7235 or online (click here).

Acts — faculty, staff, current students or alumni — are still welcome to sign up to participate in "Viking Varieties" on Friday evening following the Awards Dinner. Contact Julie for more information.

Professor Frederick Hale of the United Kingdom will be on campus Oct. 4-5 as this year’s Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar. Hale has been a fellow at the University of Cambridge since 2003.

The public is invited to attend his free evening lecture, “Christianity and the Pandemic: The South African Churches and HIV/AIDS,” on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in Trinity Chapel in the Durham Center. At 2 p.m. that day, Hale will also be the featured speaker during regularly scheduled chapel services. During his time on campus, Hale will also visit several classes.

Join us for a Brown Bag Lunch at noon on Tuesday, October 9 in the Blue and Gold Room of the Dining Hall in the Campus Center for presentations about ‘online social networking’ such as Facebook and MySpace. Please note this change in location.

Dana staff will share their experiences as they use Facebook:
* To keep up on what students are thinking and saying about their college experience,
* To recruit students,
* To stay in touch with young alumni,
* To better understand the social networking of today’s students and young alumni, and
* New ways faculty and staff can utilize it to enhance their engagement with students.

The panel includes Brandi Sestak, Jessica Norton, Chrystal LeGrand, Tyler Mohr and Jackie Smith.

Come, learn something new about 21st century communication, and share your experiences with it.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. In honor of this Psychologically Speaking is bringing Michella Friesen from the Blair Crisis Center to campus on October 4 to speak about domestic violence. She will be presenting in The Forum at 7 p.m.

For more information, visit the Psychologically Speaking website: http://www.dana.edu/lmassa/psychspeaking/

Every February, a group of medical personnel travel to Nicaragua to run a clinic. Thousands come to take advantage of their services, however the need is often times too overwhelming to meet. How can YOU help?
By bringing in Prescription bottles…those little plastic, amber-colored things that you usually throw away. (Please remove the labels before donating them.) Help us collect pill bottles to send to Nicaragua! Collection boxes located at: Student Center, Library, Durham Center, Cooperman Atrium, and Science Hall. Effort sponsored by the Dana Business Club.

Staff Council is sponsoring a coat drive to benefit individuals who are less fortunate. Gently used coats, sweaters, hats, gloves, etc., can be brought to the Financial Aid office between now and Nov. 1. All sizes are welcomed, from infant through adult. The items will be donated to the Goldenrod Hills Community Action, where each year they open their doors to anyone in the community who is in need, at no cost to the recipient.

Eric Petersen joined the Dana Community this week as the Reference/Public Service Librarian today. Eric is coming to Blair from Leawood, Kan., and brings experience from Kansas City libraries – most recently at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Welcome, Eric!

The Dana College Chorale will present its annual Homecoming Concert Sunday, Oct. 14, in Trinity Chapel at 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.

The first production of the Dana College Theater season is the award-winning musical, “Little Women.” This delightful show is appropriate for all ages. It opens on Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lauritzen Theater on the Dana College campus. Additional performances are Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28 at 2 p.m., Nov. 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. Admission is $7.

The show is directed by Todd Brooks, who recently directed “Zanna Don’t” for SNAP, and choreography is by Michelle Garrity, whose work has been seen at the Omaha Community Playhouse, the Ralston Community Theater and many other local theatrical venues. This lighthearted musical retelling of the Louisa May Alcott classic tale showcases many of the talented students in the Dana College Musical Theater program. The music is wonderful and the romantic story will make you yearn for the beautiful simplicity of a bygone era. Bring your friends, your kids and your mom to this charming theatrical experience.

You are invited to hear Dana College organ student Shane Krepp in performance at the Orpheum Theater, 409 South 16th St., Omaha on Sunday, October 28 at 3 p.m. This is a presentation of the River City Theatre Organ Society, and Shane will be the first of several members of the organization to perform on the program.

The program is free, although RCTOS asks that you bring a donation of canned food or a monetary gift for the Omaha food bank

Dana students may attend all our MasterWorks and Chamber concerts at the Omaha Symphony for $10 cash, a student ID, and a completed voucher the day of the show. For more information, click here.