The community is invited to attend a "Bob-B-Que" and scholarship benefit Wednesday, September 9, from 5-7:30 pm to recognize Dr. Robert Harrison's appointment as the College's ninth president and raise scholarship dollars for LMC students. The event will be held at the Napier Avenue Campus apple orchard.
Tickets are $7.25 per person; $4 for LMC students. Families are welcome, children's games will be provided and College logo wear and other items will be on sale. Duke Tumatoe and the Power Trio will be the musical entertainment. 
To purchase tickets, or make a donation email Kim Cobb or call (269) 927-8172.

Lee LeVanway's passion for the local agricultural industry has helped LMC's Mendel Center create a new menu of local choices for people coming to the Center for events. LeVanway, who is the Market Master for the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, and Quinn Tabbert, LMC's Food and Beverage Manager, have teamed up to go directly to local farmers and processors to select the finest fruits and vegetables from the region. Quinn and her staff have already processed and frozen more than a ton of food so that locally grown produce can be available on the Mendel Center menu year-round. See just how much has been processed so far.

LMC Music program director, Elfie Schults-Berndt has died after a long battle with breast cancer.  Elfie's enthusiasm, love of music and her students were instrumental in building one of the best community college music programs in the country.   During her 20-year tenure with the College, enrollment nearly doubled to 600 students. She also led the "Music Matters" fund-raising program which generated nearly one-half million dollars in support for music student scholarships, new pianos and other instruments. After the campaign, LMC was recognized as the first All Steinway Institution in Michigan. Elfie was the first LMC instructor to be honored as Michigan Professor of the year awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Lake Michigan College community extends its sympathies to her family, students and the many friends she left behind.

Thanks in part to a $150,000 federal grant secured by Congressman Fred Upton, LMC will expand the scope of its career training program from nuclear energy to also include wind energy and utility worker training. The measure, which is expected to be considered by the Senate in September, will support the College's new Wind Energy Concentration and Utility Worker program. At the announcement of the grant, Upton commended LMC for its leadership in creating the innovative Energy Production Technology degree program which will ensure southwest Michigan's place at the forefront in the development of diverse energies that will power our region for generations to come.

During its August meeting, the LMC Foundation Board of Directors elected Jeff Noel,   Vice President Communications and Public Affairs  Whirlpool Corporation, and President and CEO, Whirlpool Foundation; Jim Marohn, President, Doubleday Office Products, Inc; and Eileen Willits, Vice President Patient Care Services & Chief Executive Nurse, Lakeland Regional Health System to three-year terms to the Foundation Board.