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Flathead Valley Community College will host a reunion for its Mountainette and Mountaineer track teams next month. The event will take place at the FVCC Kalispell campus July 25 and 26.

The event will honor those who competed on the teams from 1969 through 1980. Activities planned include a reception on the evening of July 25 followed by the Mountainette/Mountaineer Mile and Family barbeque July 26.

Track members who have not received invitations to the event should contact FVCC Alumni Specialist Tara Roth at (406) 756-3912 or at troth@fvcc.edu.

Six Flathead Valley Community College students have been named summer 2008 recipients of Community Pride Scholarships sponsored by the Whitefish Credit Union. The following students will receive scholarships ranging from $200 to $400 in awards totaling $1,800 for the summer 2008 semester at FVCC.

From Bigfork—Shawdee Dillon, pursuing an Associate of Arts transfer degree with an emphasis in education;

From Kalispell—Krista Andrews, pursuing studies in practical nursing with career plans to become a registered nurse; Natalia Korchmar, pursuing general studies coursework toward an Associate of Arts degree with an emphasis in elementary education; and Karen Middleton, pursuing a Certificate of Applied Science in Medical Coding;

From Lakeside—Carrie Potter, pursuing an Associate of Applied Science degree in Accounting; and

From Libby—Cassie Roberts, pursuing studies toward her career goal of becoming an environmental attorney.

This is the thirteenth year Community Pride Scholarships have been awarded to permanent residents of Flathead, Lake and Lincoln Counties.  Throughout this successful program, Whitefish Credit Union has awarded $60,945 in scholarships to 195 FVCC students.

Community Pride scholarship criteria include financial need, potential for academic and career success and letters of recommendation from non-family members such as a teachers, counselors or employers. The award amount of each scholarship varies. Funds are intended to support tuition, fees and book expenses, although tutoring and child care costs also are considered.

For more information, contact the FVCC Financial Aid Office at 756-3849.

Flathead Valley Community College's will hold a graduation ceremony for its General Education Development (GED) recipients June 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the large community meeting room in the Arts and Technology Building on the college’s Kalispell campus.

Graduates, family and friends are welcome. If you graduated within the last year and have not received an invitation, or for more information, please call the FVCC GED Program at 756-3884.

Attorney Michael Dahlem will present an education, labor and employment law workshop at Flathead Valley Community College June 24. The workshop will focus on the laws contained in Montana’s Collective Bargaining Act for Public Employees.

Ideal for attorneys, educators, elected officials and county employees who work with unions, the workshop will take place from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Arts and Technology Building on the college’s Kalispell campus. The workshop has been approved for five education renewal units and 5.0 continuing legal education credits.

Dahlem has represented a number of Montana school districts in contested cases and has extensive experience in the field of labor relations. At the workshop, Dahlem will address recent cases and offer practical advice from a public employer perspective.

The cost to attend the workshop is $100, and pre-registration is required. To register or for more information, contact the FVCC Continuing Education Center at 756-3832.

Exhibit to Open June 11

Kalispell native Ted Lee Crail has lived quite the life. At age five, he celebrated Christmas in September since his doctor had told his family he was terminally ill and “would be dead before Christmas.” After proving his physician wrong, he graduated from Flathead High School in 1946 and aspired to be a pop artist like Andy Warhol. While touring Mexico’s many wondrous murals, he realized neither he, nor Warhol, could paint to that caliber, so he felt qualified to branch out into Warhol territory.

Crail since has made a career out of photographing countless A-list celebrities—Zsa-Zsa Gabor, Woody Allen, Don Rickles, Micky Spillane, Greer Garson—the list goes on and on. He served as city editor, managing editor, columnist and head photographer for several daily newspapers including The Miami Beach Daily Herald in its prime. He took over as editor of The Miamian Magazine, a major regional publication, during a time when he served as Jackie Gleason’s press representative and ghostwriter.

Throughout his career, Crail composed articles for TV Guide, the Saturday Evening Post and other publications, and later spanned the earth as a strategist and documentary film maker for animal crusades. His 90-minute filmed history of the great animal campaigns, “The Ninth Crusade,” narrated by Beau Bridges, appeared widely on television and aided in the ceasing of baby seal clubbing and the tuna fleet’s “accidental” massacre of porpoises.

Now having returned to Kalispell, Crail, 79, has revisited his lifetime career of artworks through digital manipulation. His work will be on display in an exhibit titled, “How I Deserted the Wild Horses and Adopted Pop Art,” June 11 through July 23 in the FVCC Student Art Gallery at Flathead Valley Community College in the Arts and Technology Building on the college’s Kalispell campus. Free and open to the public, the exhibit is comprised of story board panels of Crail’s digitally-manipulated work.

“Each panel has a story to tell,” said Crail. “I wanted to make it fun for people to walk around and read through them.”

FVCC Art Instructor John Rawlings calls Crail’s works “enormously remarkable and unlike any photos I have ever seen.” He describes the exhibit as “a giant magazine spread out over a couple of hundred feet of wall.”

“In this exhibit, Crail still plays the role of photo editor,” said Rawlings. “The panels are a series of page layouts. They are not just a series of photos, but photos with stories.”

Rawlings recommends planning for at least one hour to peruse the exhibit.

“After the exhibit arrived on campus, I found myself looking through the panels wanting to read everything.”

The public is invited to a free exhibit opening June 11 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the FVCC Student Art Gallery. Crail will be in attendance, and refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Rawlings at 756-3896.

Space Remains Available to Enroll

Flathead Valley Community College will offer two “Geology of Northwest Montana” classes this summer beginning June 16 and July 7. The week-long intensive classes will involve a combination of lectures and field trips and are designed to acquaint students with the geologic history, rock types, structural and glacial features, landforms and natural resources of northwest Montana.

Taught by Geology/Geography Instructor Anita Ho, Ph.D., students will spend approximately one-third of class time in the classroom exploring the fundamentals of plate tectonics and some of the significant geological events that have occurred in the area such as the flood basalt volcanism, mountain building, ice ages and the Missoula floods. The other two-thirds of the class time will be utilized conducting field observations throughout the Flathead and Mission Valleys and Glacier National Park. Trips will include studying the geology along Going-to-the Sun Road in Glacier National Park and examining evidence of the Missoula floods in various areas west and south of Kalispell.

The first class will meet June 16-20, and the second class will be offered July 7-11. Each class will take place Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Spaces remain available for enrollment in both classes. For registration information, call 756-3852, or visit www.fvcc.edu.