by Deirdre Ray
After nearly 20 years of singing and dancing, the Mighty Voices of Longview have gone silent.
The show choir is no longer being offered at MCC-Longview after director Cathy Hardy-Parcell, music department coordinator at Longview, said that “due to her own health issues” she would not be able to keep it going. Longview still has a chancel choir, which is a strictly singing group with no choreography. [...]
October 19, 2011
Tonga and her students in the lab (Shanblissia Carter/The Current)
What makes Lavon Tonga different from other professors?
“I use to dance Hula. I doubt any of your other science professors have done that,” she said.
Tonga, who hails from the South Pacific island of Tonga, a new professor at MCC- Longview, teaching general biology and microbiology. A graduate of Brigham Young University-Hawaii, she attended grad school at UMKC and was familiar with the Penn Valley and the MCC community and was looking for a small setting to teach in. Tonga has been with the MCC community for almost four years, first teaching at Blue River and now full-time at Longview.
April 11, 2011
Mary Rogers-Grantham, an English instructor at MCC-Penn Valley, can add another accolade to her resume. Rogers-Grantham has recently had her poem “You Crashed My Innocence” published by Rougarou, an online literary journal.
This is not the first time Rogers-Grantham has been published. Her poetry has been featured in the Kansas City Star, Present magazine, And/Or, and Kansas City Voices. She has self-published two poetry compilations titled “It’s Okay: Poetic Memoirs” and “Clear Velvet,” and currently is working on a third titled “Under a White Moon.” [...]
January 27, 2011
by Timothy Long
An MCC music instructor was honored with the first ever Ahmad Alaadeen Award for Excellence in Jazz Education.
Clarence Smith, Penn Valley Music Coordinator, accepted the award from Fanny Dunfee of Alaadeen Enterprises, Inc. late last semester. The award gets its name from a longtime fixture in Kansas City jazz, who contributed his knowledge of jazz for many decades as a saxophonist and educator.
“Alaadeen always admired Smith’s desire to teach and respected his phenomenal work with students,” said Dunfee, who is Ahmad Alaadeen’s widow.
Smith met Aladeen in his first year of teaching at Penn Valley, when Aladeen played at the jazz festival Smith presides over. [...]
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December 12, 2011
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