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Monday, January 31, 2011
March of Dimes March for Babies
Everyone should have recieved an invitation to walk with the Kern-Coleman team in the March for Babies on April 30th. There is no sign up fee, you are walking for donations and can donate yourself. If you raise $200.00, you get a t'shirt from the March of Dimes. All individual donations also count toward the team goal. Kern-Coleman has a goal of $500.00, which should be no problem. Thanks to Beth for signing up! If you want to sign up to walk, or just donate, please visit the team website here: http://www.marchforbabies.org/s_team_page.asp?seid=1509737 .
Customer Service Quote of the Week
Don’t try to tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer!Gene Buckley, Sikorsky Aircraft
KCC Profiles: Sherry
Sherry graciously accepted the role of first female KCC profile. Thanks for being a good sport!
Who is Sherry:
I was born in Fairfield Alabama, a small community near Birmingham. I Lived on the University of Alabama Campus , go Crimson Tide, while my father finished school, we moved to Savannah when I was two. My father was a biology professor at Armstrong before he went to work at CDC in Atlanta. While at CDC he lived in Atlanta and Central America researching diseases carried by Mosquito’s. My mother was a housewife and Bookkeeper. I am one of five children, two brothers and two sisters, both of my sisters currently live in Savannah, one of my brother’s lives in Richmond Hill and the other brother lives in Spokane, Washington. I have several nieces and nephews.
Professionally I worked for a short time at an office supply store, when one day Johnny Mercer visited the store. One of my coworkers said he liked his hat, about a week later, a hat just like the one he was wearing arrived in the mail for my co-worker. After that I worked for a Shipping Company based in London, I was the import manager. It was interesting meeting people from all over the world. The owner lived in London and Switzerland, and was Romanian, ran the Free Romanian Press and later ran for President of Romania. His wife was the heir to Pilkington Glass, a large glass mfg. in England.
I left the shipping company one week before my son was born and stayed home for 5 years to raise my son. That was the most rewarding time of my life, I loved raising my son.
When my son started school I went back to work, this time in the construction industry. I started with a small company that merged with J.T. Turner Construction, while there I had several different jobs including being Mr. Turners assistant to several years in the field as project manager. I left J.T. Turner to work at, what was at that time, JSK Engineering.
I am married to John Kern, and have a son from a previous marriage. Our son currently lives in Dallas Texas and works for a corporation known as ADP. He is an implementation Consultant II, Dallas Team.
Hobbies and Interest:
At different times of my life I have had different interest. I used to love the beach, I would go in March and sit between the sand dunes so that I would have a tan by St. Patrick’s Day. I was a Huge University of Alabama Football fan when coach Bear Bryant was there and I went to the Heisman Trophy Award Ceremony in New York when he was a speaker. Then I became an avid FSU fan and would go to games in Tallahassee.
For six years I crewed on a sailboat and we raced in several races including the Calibogue Cup at Hilton Head. The first boat was a 25’ C and C and the second boat was a 32’ Morgan. We would almost always come in second or third in these races, the Ocean Queen, owned by Colonial Oil almost always won. It was a little unfair since they had every new gadget available, even their own sail-maker on board. During this time the movie gator was being filmed here and I was asked to crew on one of the boats that they wanted for background. When I arrived the owner of the boat had assembled an all girl crew and I was the only one that could sail. Needless to say, I’ve never worked so hard while the other girls got to sit there and be pretty. But I did get to hang out with Burt Reynolds during the time we weren’t sailing.
When my son was young he competed on a swim team and I was very involved with that for several years, first as a Mother, then a Timer, then a Stroke and Turn judge.
Then I met John Kern, he is an avid golfer. One night we were on a date and he took me to his house and there sat a set of women’s golf clubs with bag. I didn’t have to be brilliant to figure out I was going to take up golf, in fact he had a tee time the next day with us and another couple, talk about being thrown into a sport. Since then we have been playing regularly and I have a hole in one that I got in a Georgia Power Tournament at Henderson. This also happened to be closest to the hole pin, and it allowed us to win the tournament. That was an exciting day.
Probably the last passion is gardening, I have always enjoyed this hobby, not to mention that it is great exercise.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Another Upcoming Event
Symposium Title: The Spirituality of Place
Feb. 17-19, 2011
Directed by Thomas Gensheimer and Jeff Eley
Savannah College of Art and Design's Architectural History Department
Feb. 17-19, 2011
Directed by Thomas Gensheimer and Jeff Eley
Savannah College of Art and Design's Architectural History Department
The 2011 symposium will explore the role of spirituality as it relates to the development and shaping of architectural and urban forms. Paper sessions will focus on the broadest context of spirituality as a significant factor in the study of the built environment globally, nationally and locally. Of particular interest are essays that provide a critical evaluation of the relationship or co-existence of sacred and secular spirituality in regards to the constructed world.
2011 Keynote Speakers
Kenneth Foote is a professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has taught since 2000. He is the vice president of the Association of American Geographers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Geography Education Foundation. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his principle areas of research in cultural geography focus on issues of how events of violence and tragedy are marked on the landscape and the development of national commemorative traditions in Europe and the United States. Dr. Foote has published numerous articles and essays in the areas of American and European landscape history, geographic information science and the learning and teaching geography in higher education. He has received the Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education by the Association of American Geographers in 2005. His books include "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy" (1997) which received numerous awards including the J.B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers in 1998.
Louis Nelson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Early American Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 2001. Nelson serves on the Board of Directors for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Falmouth (Jamaica) Heritage Renewal, which is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic structures in the community. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Delaware, with principal research on Anglican architecture and early landscape representations of South Carolina.
Dr. Nelson has made notable contributions to the study of architecture and historic preservation. He has served as a consultant on projects including the Wren Building in Williamsburg, Virginia, as an adviser to the Digital Archaeological Archives of Comparative Slavery, as a visiting scholar to the museum of Early American Southern Decorative Arts and the Nevis Heritage Project, and as a member of the Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee. He has authored numerous articles and essays, including "The Architectures of Identity: Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South," "The Diversity of Countries: Anglican Architecture in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica," "Placing the Sacred: Reflections on Contemporary American Church Architecture" and "Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Material Religion in Early South Carolina." The last essay received the 2009 Southeast Society of Architectural Historians "Article of the Year" Award. His books include "The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina" (2009) and "Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America," a collection of essays co-edited with Maurie McInnis (in production).
http://www2.scad.edu/architectural-history/symposium/2011/ for more information.
For more information, e-mail architectural history.
Learn more about architectural history at SCAD.
2011 Keynote Speakers
Kenneth Foote is a professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has taught since 2000. He is the vice president of the Association of American Geographers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Geography Education Foundation. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his principle areas of research in cultural geography focus on issues of how events of violence and tragedy are marked on the landscape and the development of national commemorative traditions in Europe and the United States. Dr. Foote has published numerous articles and essays in the areas of American and European landscape history, geographic information science and the learning and teaching geography in higher education. He has received the Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education by the Association of American Geographers in 2005. His books include "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy" (1997) which received numerous awards including the J.B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers in 1998.
Louis Nelson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Early American Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 2001. Nelson serves on the Board of Directors for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Falmouth (Jamaica) Heritage Renewal, which is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic structures in the community. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Delaware, with principal research on Anglican architecture and early landscape representations of South Carolina.
Dr. Nelson has made notable contributions to the study of architecture and historic preservation. He has served as a consultant on projects including the Wren Building in Williamsburg, Virginia, as an adviser to the Digital Archaeological Archives of Comparative Slavery, as a visiting scholar to the museum of Early American Southern Decorative Arts and the Nevis Heritage Project, and as a member of the Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee. He has authored numerous articles and essays, including "The Architectures of Identity: Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South," "The Diversity of Countries: Anglican Architecture in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica," "Placing the Sacred: Reflections on Contemporary American Church Architecture" and "Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Material Religion in Early South Carolina." The last essay received the 2009 Southeast Society of Architectural Historians "Article of the Year" Award. His books include "The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina" (2009) and "Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America," a collection of essays co-edited with Maurie McInnis (in production).
http://www2.scad.edu/architectural-history/symposium/2011/ for more information.
For more information, e-mail architectural history.
Learn more about architectural history at SCAD.
Happy Birthday to Sarah!
Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Sarah,
happy birthday to you .....
who has worked at Kern-Coleman for nearly 8 years
and has managed to only be in one picture
(a nice, non-incriminating one too!).
We hope that you have a fantastic day today!
Upcoming Events
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“LEED v3 – Back to the Basics”(05:45AM)
“LEED v3 – Back to the Basics”
5:45AM on Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Where: Wild Wing Cafe in City Market
USGBC –GA Savannah Branch
$00
http://%20www.usgbcga.org/
“LEED v3 – Back to the Basics” at the USGBC-GA Savannah Branch January meeting, presented by Honor Hutton
(Savannah)- Honor Hutton will speak at the January USGBC –GA Savannah Branch, January meeting about changes to the LEED TM 2009 program and LEED basics. Those attending the meeting will take away:
• Changes to the LEED program
• Steps in becoming a LEED Green Associate or Accredited Professional (AP)
• How to maintain your credentials
• 2011 Savannah Branch continuing education opportunities
LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the Contact:
Beth Ann Jackson
(912)604-8923
bethannjackson@gmail.com
The Public Arena in Florence: The Piazza della Signoria(12:00PM)
5:45AM on Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Where: Wild Wing Cafe in City Market
USGBC –GA Savannah Branch
$00
http://%20www.usgbcga.org/
(Savannah)- Honor Hutton will speak at the January USGBC –GA Savannah Branch, January meeting about changes to the LEED TM 2009 program and LEED basics. Those attending the meeting will take away:
• Changes to the LEED program
• Steps in becoming a LEED Green Associate or Accredited Professional (AP)
• How to maintain your credentials
• 2011 Savannah Branch continuing education opportunities
LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the Contact:
Beth Ann Jackson
(912)604-8923
bethannjackson@gmail.com
The Public Arena in Florence: The Piazza della Signoria(12:00PM)
The Public Arena in Florence: The Piazza della Signoria
12:00PM on Wed, Jan 26, 2011
3025 Bull Street
The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc.
$5 for Learning Center members; $10 for visitors. Add an additional $5 for lunch, if desired.
http://www.seniorcitizens-inc.org/
Lecturer: Michael Morford
Offered 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 26
The piazza in front of the seat of government, the Palazzo Vecchio, is perhaps the most propagandistic setting for public sculpture anywhere, with each work displaying the power either of the Medici family or of the Republic of Florence. Two sculptures in particular stand out as representative of the battle, not only between these two factions of government, but also between the republican and loyalist artists who created these works: Michelangelo and Bandinelli. Their David and Hercules and Cacus are perfect examples of fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuries political propaganda.
Michael Morford teaches art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He earned B.F.A. and M.A. degrees from Texas Christian University and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. His published biographies and catalogue entries appear in a corpus on sixteenth-century Italian drawing.
12:00PM on Wed, Jan 26, 2011
3025 Bull Street
The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc.
$5 for Learning Center members; $10 for visitors. Add an additional $5 for lunch, if desired.
http://www.seniorcitizens-inc.org/
Offered 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 26
The piazza in front of the seat of government, the Palazzo Vecchio, is perhaps the most propagandistic setting for public sculpture anywhere, with each work displaying the power either of the Medici family or of the Republic of Florence. Two sculptures in particular stand out as representative of the battle, not only between these two factions of government, but also between the republican and loyalist artists who created these works: Michelangelo and Bandinelli. Their David and Hercules and Cacus are perfect examples of fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuries political propaganda.
Michael Morford teaches art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He earned B.F.A. and M.A. degrees from Texas Christian University and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. His published biographies and catalogue entries appear in a corpus on sixteenth-century Italian drawing.
Savannah International Animation Festival 2011(09:00AM)
posted by Nancy Miles
Savannah International Animation Festival 2011
9:00AM on Fri, Feb 04, 2011
Coastal Georgia Center 305 Fahm Street Savannah, GA 31401
Hal Miles Imagimation Studio
$15- $35
http://www.savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com/
The Savannah International Animation Festival, SIAF, founded by Hal Miles Imagimation Studios president Hal Miles, is the premiere animation festival of the southeastern United States located in the beautiful jewel of the south Savannah, Georgia. The Savannah International Animation Festival 2011 will be held at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street, Savannah, GA 31401 on February 4th and 5th 2011.
We are proud to showcase the world's best and most magical independent, professional and student animation in the arts and fields of animation. Additionally, the Savannah International Animation Festival allows local students and the general public of all ages to share in international culture, creativity, and art and ideas; and to meet and talk to internationally renowned animation professionals.
Featured over the two day period will be 7 blocks of animation, consisting of juried films from around the world and 7 workshops and panels. The submission categories for the SIAF 2011 are Stop Motion Animation, Computer Animation, Traditional Animation, Experimental Animation, Anime, Television Series Animation, Television Commercials Animation, Web Animation, Gaming Animation, and Student Film.
The Panels, Workshops, and Presentations for this year’s festival will be wonderful mix of professionals and historians from the fields of animation, visual effects, and gaming. Additionally there will be a very special guest presentation by one of the animation worlds leading creators. SIAF’s festival judges will decide 11 special awards that represent the best in each competition category and also the best in show award. Additionally there will be a special audience given award that will be judged by our audience members that attend the animation block screenings at the festival.
The prize given for Best in the show and Audience award in the Savannah International Animation Festival 2011 is the custom made “Reynaud” trophy, which is named in honor of the Praxinoscope's French inventor Charles Emile Reynaud. Any additional prizes for each category will announced in the future.
See our website http://www.savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com/ for more information—it is being updated daily by our webmaster
9:00AM on Fri, Feb 04, 2011
Coastal Georgia Center 305 Fahm Street Savannah, GA 31401
Hal Miles Imagimation Studio
$15- $35
http://www.savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com/
We are proud to showcase the world's best and most magical independent, professional and student animation in the arts and fields of animation. Additionally, the Savannah International Animation Festival allows local students and the general public of all ages to share in international culture, creativity, and art and ideas; and to meet and talk to internationally renowned animation professionals.
Featured over the two day period will be 7 blocks of animation, consisting of juried films from around the world and 7 workshops and panels. The submission categories for the SIAF 2011 are Stop Motion Animation, Computer Animation, Traditional Animation, Experimental Animation, Anime, Television Series Animation, Television Commercials Animation, Web Animation, Gaming Animation, and Student Film.
The Panels, Workshops, and Presentations for this year’s festival will be wonderful mix of professionals and historians from the fields of animation, visual effects, and gaming. Additionally there will be a very special guest presentation by one of the animation worlds leading creators. SIAF’s festival judges will decide 11 special awards that represent the best in each competition category and also the best in show award. Additionally there will be a special audience given award that will be judged by our audience members that attend the animation block screenings at the festival.
The prize given for Best in the show and Audience award in the Savannah International Animation Festival 2011 is the custom made “Reynaud” trophy, which is named in honor of the Praxinoscope's French inventor Charles Emile Reynaud. Any additional prizes for each category will announced in the future.
See our website http://www.savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com/ for more information—it is being updated daily by our webmaster
Customer Service Quote of the Week
Last Friday a long time client mentioned that when he calls, we ask for his contact information. Let's all use our excellent public contact system in Outlook to make our customers feel known and appreciated. See John Speilberger if you are unsure of how to use the system.
Customer Service Quote of the Week:
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect.
They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
- DONALD PORTER
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