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| | Free Personal Estate Planning Kit Available Online | Save time, protect assets and avoid distress with a well-planned estate.
This comprehensive estate planning kit available on the MMC website includes: 23-Page Lesson Book (PDF) - Learn about the six documents everyone should own, wills, trusts, federal tax laws, and more
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Check out some of this month's fine arts events and activities.
Mount Marty College
Vespers
Sunday, December 8
4:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Broadcast Christmas Eve
on radio KYNT 1450AM
at 5:00 pm
and
on South Dakota Public TV
at 7:00 pm
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The winter athletic season
is just starting!
Check out a home game or meet or attend one near you!
Men's Basketball
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Have you served or do you currently serve in the military?
Mount Marty College is seeking names of our alumni and students who have ties to various areas of the U.S. Military. We want to collect this information in our database so we can share information with you about upcoming events that celebrate or honor your service.
Please send your information to:
call 605.668.1542
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| | Share Your MMC Family History |
Sister Aidan Bourke and several staff members are working on Mount Marty's Family History. If you had grandparents, parents, brothers and/or sisters who attended any of the schools - High School, College, Sacred Heart School of Nursing/Anesthesia, please send us the names and the school attended. Be sure and include full names. Send the information to Sr. Aidan at abourke@mtmc.edu or mail it to: Mount Marty College, Office of Advancement, 1105 W. 8th Street, Yankton, SD 57078.
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Greetings to all Mount Marty Alumni,
 As the season of Advent begins, we are reminded that this holy time represents anticipation and excitement that builds as we go through the holy season in preparation for the birth of the Christ Child. It is a time of reflection and preparation for the future. Through our individual educational experiences at Sacred Heart School of Nursing (SHSN), Mount Marty High School (MMHS) and/or Mount Marty College (MMC), each of us has benefited through personal growth and preparation for our own futures. Graduation was anticipated long before we walked across the stage to receive our diploma. As we prepare for the joyous birth of the promised Savior, let us remember to reflect on the many gifts each of us has received by virtue of our education received at SHSN/MMHS/MMC. One of the most important gifts we can give to our future generations is by remembering to "pay it forward". Do you know that currently, there are more than eight thousand, eight hundred alumni from SHSN, MMHS, and/or MMC? Our graduates have contributed to advancements and accomplishments at the highest levels of science, medicine, nursing, education, business, law, the arts, sports and music. To keep this gift of a strong foundation of secondary and post-secondary education going, please consider a tax-deductible contribution to our future by giving a gift to MMC. Do you realize that if every current alum donated $125 it would raise over one million dollars in just one year! One million dollars can pay for a lot of infrastructure to enable MMC to continue to be competitive in recruiting and retaining future MMC students. Please remember MMC as you plan your Christmas giving. We each have the power to change the future for others because someone helped change our past and helped us into careers and life opportunities because of our education. We are Mount Marty College, then, now, and for the future. May the peace and joy of Christmas be with you, now and throughout the year. Please feel free to contact me at anytime.
Dave
David Dickes '76, Director of Alumni Relations
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Mount Marty College Vespers to be Broadcast
 The Benedictine Sisters of Sacred Heart Monastery and the Mount Marty College Music Department will present their annual Vespers performance, which this year is, "The Rose of Christmastide", Sunday, December 8th. "It's a wonderful opportunity to showcase our students and to showcase our chapel - the beautiful space we have on our campus that we're able to utilize everyday at Mount Marty College," said Kenneth Tice, MMC director of choral activities. The performers of this year's Mount Marty College Vespers will be singing out to their largest audience yet. The sold out performances are at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm in the Bishop Marty Memorial Chapel, however, the concert will be broadcast on South Dakota Public Television at 7:00 pm December 24th and the radio broadcast can be heard at 5:00 pm on December 24th on KYNT 1450AM or online at www.kynt1450.com.
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Alumni in the News
 Albert Fernandez, the head softball coach at Mount Marty College, is the 2013-14 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Coach-of-Character winner. Fernandez will be the GPAC nominee to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Convention in Kansas City next April.
Fernandez has been the softball coach at his alma mater for nine seasons. He is a 1997 graduate of Mount Marty where he played baseball and basketball for the Lancers. (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
Fran Hassler Receives Nebraska State College System Award
The Nebraska State College System has named Fran Hassler the eighth NSCS
Counseling Excellence Award recipient. Hassler, who has been the guidance
counselor at Ponca High School since 1995, served as a home economic teacher at PHS prior to becoming a guidance counselor. She graduated from Mount Marty in 1986 with an education and home economics major and also worked as an admissions representative for the College. The Counseling Excellence Award was created to honor high school guidance counselors for exemplary service and commitment to students. Students at Chadron, Peru and Wayne State Colleges have the opportunity to nominate high school counselors for the award. (Chadron State College)
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December/January Alumni Events
MMC Livin' Large Basketball Event, December 11, '13
Morningside vs. MMC Women (6pm) and Men (8pm) w/Sacred Heart School 3rd Grade at Lancer Landing
MMC Omaha/Lincoln Alumni Event, January 23, '14
A New Year "Cheers" Celebration
Nebraska Brewing Company | 5:30 - 8:00pm
Shadow Lake Towne Center
7474 Towne Center Parkway, Suite 101
Papillion, NE 68046
(402) 934-7100
Join us for beer tasting, brewery tour (provided by MMC Alumni), update by President Joseph Benoit, and just a great time with alumni and friends!
MMC Livin' Large Basketball Event, January 29, '14
Northwestern vs. MMC Women (6pm) and Men (8pm) w/Sacred Heart
School Jr./Kindergarten at Lancer Landing
MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
MMC All Schools Reunion, June 27, 28, & 29, '14
SHSN/MMHS/MMC honored classes for those years ending in 4 and 9!
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Campus News
Mount Marty College of Watertown is moving forward with it's new building on
U.S. Highway 212. Dr. James Simmons, associate professor of English, said they are in transition between the old building near Lake Area Technical Institute and the new one. He said if all goes as planned, the use of the old building will be phased out and everything will be moved to the new 20,080 square foot facility in 2014 following construction of classrooms. The campus will also include administrative offices and an oratory for religious activities.
 President Joseph Benoit delivered his annual State of the College address Thursday, November 21. President Benoit delivered good financial news in that MMC's net assets grew $2 million over a one-year period. He credited strong returns on investments as fueling the increase. The net assets grew from $27 million on June 30, 2012 to $29 million on June 30, 2013. MMC enrolls about 1250 students on its Yankton campus, its Watertown campus, its graduate programs at the Sioux Falls campus (nurse anesthesia program) and the Yankton Federal Prison Camp. Overall, the enrollment figures have created a 4 percent budget shortfall for the current year. Since 2009, the undergraduate enrollment at Yankton has declined, while the enrollment has increased for the dual-credit program, the Watertown campus, and MMC has also seen growth in its graduate program numbers, fueled by the introduction of the masters degree in nursing in 2011. The first class will graduate this month from the program. With a shrinking pool of high school graduates in its traditional geographic base, "MMC may expand the reach of our recruiting efforts," President Benoit said. "We may need to cast our net nationally." (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
MMC 2013 Fall Commencement
Fall Commencement will be held Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 10:30 am in Marian Auditorium. The commencement address will be given by Dr. James Sullivan, Professor of English and we will be celebrating the graduation of our first class of Masters of Science in Nursing.
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U.S. Army to Retain ROTC Program
In a reversal of its decision, the U.S. Army will retain the ROTC program at the University of South Dakota and its affiliate, Mount Marty College. Army officials announced last month the elimination of Reserve Officer Training Corps programs at 13 schools nationwide - including USD/MMC - in spring 2015. For LTC Ross Nelson, the reversal came as a welcome surprise. Nelson serves as a USD military science instructor and works with the ROTC programs at both USD and MMC. "The 13 schools identified for closure were put on a 24 month probationary status," he said. "After one year, Army officials will look at the school. If there is improvement in one year, we will come off probation. If not, they will look at us after another year." MMC President Joseph Benoit said the Army decision means the college can continue offering a ROTC program, with its recent recognition as a military-friendly college. While relatively small at MMC, the ROTC program has remained important for the college, Benoit said. The program offers leadership training and ties in well with the college's liberal arts education. MMC has graduated seven commissioned officers since 1997, including one student last spring. "Currently, Alison Hoffman of MMC is one of our top cadets," Nelson said. "She was recently named the Distinguished Military Student for the local ROTC program." (Vermillion Plain Talk)
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America's 6 Top States for Business
Change of the Guard
 Last year's top name, Texas, falls to No. 2 in CNBC's annual ranking of states based on economic competitiveness. But who's the new No. 1?
There is a new champion! South Dakota has climbed to the top of CNBC's America's Top States for Business list in 2013. It is the best finish yet for the Mount Rushmore State, which has always been a quiet contender in the annual study, rarely finishing outside the Top 10. But even more impressive, South Dakota's point total this year - 1639 out of a possible 2,500 - is the highest logged by any state since CNBC began keeping score in 2007.
More information on all 50 states at MSN Money..
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I Believe in Mount Marty College
 Meet Anna Kollasch '15, a Pre-Professional Health and Biology major from Whittemore, Iowa. Anna is a determined and bright young woman who wants to use the values she has learned and the talents God has given her to make an impact on her community.
Please consider investing in a student like Anna by giving a gift to the Mount Marty Fund or the Annual Scholarship Fund. Both of these funds help students like Anna attend MMC and excel in so many ways. Join the MMC alumni and friends who believe in the College's mission and show your support today.
To learn more about why students like Anna believe in MMC, visit www.mtmc.edu/believe. |
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