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Art by John Fennell on Display in Bookmark Cafe
Missouri School of Journalism Associate Professor John Fennell has been a painter as long as he’s been a journalist. In 25 years as a writer and editor, Fennell has worked in almost every variety of print media: a wire service, newspapers and magazines. He is also the editor of a book on typography and the author of a biography. He joined the MU magazine faculty in August 2005 and holds the Meredith Chair for Service Journalism. He teaches writing and magazine publishing.
During his 13-year tenure as editor of Milwaukee Magazine, the publication was nominated for the National Magazine award, the Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial reporting (twice) and won more than 160 national and local awards. Under his leadership, the magazine was also honored by the Society of Publication Design, the Society of Illustrators and won more awards than anytime in the history of the magazine, including two gold awards for general excellence.
He has exhibited his paintings in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and in Columbia at PS Gallery. There is a current exhibition of his abstract work, “The Geometry of Light,” in the School of Journalism’s Strategic Communication office in Walter Williams Hall.
He can be reached on campus at 321A Lee Hills Hall, 882-8966.
Ellis Library is closed Sunday – Monday, January 15-16.
LibX 2.0 now available
Note: LibX 2.0 was written for Firefox and Chrome.
It’s Your Fault! Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the New Madrid Earthquakes
MU Celebrates MLK Jr, 2012 with Larry Wilmore – A FREE EVENT!
Designing the Imperative: Libraries, Technology & Leadership
Lisa Carlucci Thomas, who is nationally recognized for her leadership, innovation and research on evolving mobile and social technologies, will give a talk entitled “Designing the Imperative: Libraries, Technology & Leadership” on Wednesday, January 25 at 7 p.m. in Ellis Auditorium.
Thomas is a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, a 2009 ALA Emerging Leader, and a MLIS graduate of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. She is currently the director of design think do, a library technology and innovation consultancy. She was formerly digital services librarian at Southern Connecticut State University, responsible for exploring, developing and coordinating library technologies, systems and digital initiatives. Thomas’s previous experience also includes project and services management in Access Services, Manuscripts & Archives, and Electronic Collections at the Yale University Library.
Sponsored by the Library and Information Science Graduate Student Association.
Science Translational Medicine now available online 2009-date
MU Libraries has started a subscription to Science Translational Medicine in response to user requests. Issues from 2009-date are now available online.
Yule smile
Just as we have left behind the Thanksgiving festivities and a Christmas dinner is not far away, we might think of table manners. Most know which fork is used for salad, which for dessert, what glass to use for champagne and what for hot mulled wine, and our children have been instructed what is done at the table and what is not… But it is interesting to see how much in common we have with the mediaeval children who were taught how to behave at the table, or rather how not to misbehave, because learning good manners was considered “better than playing the fiddle, thought that’s no harm”.
Before meals:
Wash your face and hands
Be dressed properly
Make a low curtsy or bow to your parents and wish the food may do them good
Let your betters sit before you
Say Grace before the meal, then wait a while before eating
See others served first
Take salt with your knife
Cut your bread, keep your knife sharp
At the table:
Keep your fingers and nails clean
Wipe your mouth before drinking
Behave properly
Sit upright
Remember: silence hurts no one, and is fitted for a child at table
Don’t:
Pick your teeth, or spit
Don’t fill your spoon too full
Don’t smack your lips, or gnaw the bones
Don’t scratch yourself at the table
Don’t clean your mouth or nose with the tablecloth
Don’t put your elbows on the table
Don’t belch as if you had a bean in your throat
Don’t jabber or stuff yourself
Don’t speak with your mouth full
Don’t laugh too much
After the meal don’t leave your seat before others
Adapted from:
The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, or Edyllys Be; from The Schoole of Vertue, and Booke of Good Nourture for Children by F. Seager; from The Young Children’s Book, printed from the Ashmolean MS 61 (Bodleian Library) about 1500 AD, and from The Boke of Curtasye, from Sloane MS (The British Museum), about 1460 AD.
Image from Richard Pynson’s 1526 edition of The Canterbury Tales.