Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., accepted her appointment as the dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University at Stark on Feb. 1, 2016. She previously served as the interim dean for Kent State Stark, a position she began on July 1, 2014. The Stark Campus is Kent State University’s largest regional campus and the only public university in Stark County.
Prior to coming to Kent State Stark, Seachrist was the director of Kent State University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, a position she held since 2008. She previously served as interim associate provost, interim dean for Academic and Student Services for the Regional Campuses, and interim assistant dean of Kent State University at Trumbull.
Seachrist, who holds the rank of professor, has been recognized for her stellar career as a faculty member and administrator. She is the recipient of the Communal Studies Association Distinguished Service Award and the Heidelberg University Career Excellence Award. She is also a member of the inaugural class of the Crestview Local School District Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.
Active in the Stark County community, Seachrist currently holds board positions with the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Greater Stark County, and Women’s Impact. She previously served on the boards of the Canton Symphony and ArtsinStark.
A specialist in the music of both historical and living German religious communities in Pennsylvania, Seachrist served as the president of the Communal Studies Association. She is a past member of the editorial advisory board of American Music (University of Illinois Press), the editorial board for a Pennsylvania-German History and Culture book series (Penn State Press), and the past series editor of the World Musics series (Kent State University Press).
Seachrist is the author of Snow Hill: In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister (2010) and The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh (2003), both published by the Kent State University Press.
Seachrist, who lives in Jackson Township, received her Ph.D. in musicology-ethnomusicology from Kent State University and a master of music degree in vocal performance from Youngstown State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in music from Heidelberg University.
Interact is our Club's Rotary affiliate at McKinley High School. Our Interact Chairperson, Jennie George, showed a short video last Friday that these Interact students produced, in which they ask for donations of candy that they can sell at the school to raise money for t-shirts for their members.
If you wish to help, you may either buy candy and bring it to our meetings for Jenny to forward to the Interact folks, or you may make a cash donation to provide funds so the Interacters can purchase their own candy to resell. You can bring cash to our meetings to give to Jenny, or you may make a donation through our website: click the "Make A Payment" button on the home page, fill out that form and make sure to enter "Interact candy donation" in the comments section.
Interact is Rotary's attempt to reach out to high school age young people, with the intent of instilling the principals of Rotary and to teach these young people the value of giving back to the community, as well as working together as a team to achieve a goal. It's a great way to introduce them to Rotary, as well as help them with their personal development.
More info on the success of our local Interact Club will be coming in the near future, In the meantime, please support our Interact's candy fundraiser. Thanks!
As I sit here and type this week's Rotogram message, I'm looking out the window at the beautiful snowfall we received today. Not only was it nice to see some old fashioned snow, but, as I sat in the house looking out the window, I saw neighbors helping neighbors, and read a number of posts on social media where those great Ohioans were all helping one another.
It occurs to me that we get so caught up in the news of today that promotes "if it bleeds it leads" that we forget there are wonderful people everywhere doing beautiful things all the time.
Sometimes we just have to open our eyes a bit wider and look for it. As a member of the Canton Rotary, I never have to cast my gaze too far, as you are always the same type of people I see when I look out my window.
At our regular weekly meeting on Friday January 14, 2022, President Mark (via Zoom) and President-Elect Lynn Hamilton, welcomed 34 members, some in-person, some via Zoom. After our usual Club business, President Mark gave a 'State-of the Club' update, and some insight into what the next 6 months of the Rotary year holds.
Secretary Paula Mastroianni presented the following information:
On This Date in History:
1693 - In Hartford, Connecticut, the first constitution in the American colonies, the “Fundamental Orders,” is adopted.
1784 – US Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwards it to Great Britain 1954 – Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio wed. 1974 – The American television series Happy Days, a nostalgic comedy set during the 1950s and '60s, premiered on ABC. 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Internet-based encyclopedia that operates under an open-source management style, debuted.
Weird Fact::
In 2019 a spinning disk of ice 300m wide, resembling the moon, forms in the Presumpscot River, Westbrook, Maine.
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