Northfield School of the Liberal Arts Presents: Midwinter Week 2010

with Special Guest Jack Knipe, Covenant Christian School, Pendleton, SC

“Language: Understanding, Using, Losing, Restoring It”

“Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.”
—Genesis 11:1

March 8-12

Friday

8-9:00 AM—Bill Coleman: “Speechless/Limiting Language”

9:00-9:30—Daily Deals

9:30-10:30—Mary Irwin: “Music Speaks/From Bach to Schoenberg”

10:30-11:30—Garrett Jeter: “’Get Thee to a Punnery’/Language Laughs with Richard Lederer”

11:30-12:30—LUNCH

12:30-1:30—Jack Knipe: “Wrap Up or Rap Up?”

1:30-2:30—Drum Circle/NFS Sings

2:30-3:30—Final Wrap Up

Help Us with Midwinter Food
This year we are continuing the tradition of serving food to the student body. Because we try to ensure that there is no direct cost to the students, we are asking for your help. As always, we will accept monetary donations or food items. (Click here for more information, including a downloadable shopping list). Please do not purchase anything until consulting with Mr. Burchfield to prevent duplication of items.

Welcome to our guests:

Jack Knipe

Jack Knipe is the youngest of 5 children from the Greenville, SC area. He graduated from Bob Jones University, is completing his Masters in Teaching from Covenant College in Chattanooga and teaches Latin and Spanish at New Covenant Christian School in Pendleton, SC. Jack says “I love sushi, accents and chocolate. I can sing with my mouth shut, and I aspire to be Jason Bourne (Bourne Identity) in another life.” Jack speaks seven languages fluently.

Nancy Nelson Love

Aunt Nancy Nelson Love, with her husband, Bob Love, founded Northfield School in 1993. She received her Masters in Audiology and Speech Pathology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She has homeschooled all the Love Children (all Northfield graduates), and is now helping to raise her grandchildren and several others. She has partially translated her great-grandfather’s diary from Swedish to English.

Harold Kruger

Harold Kruger was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, worked with African tribes in the French speaking Belgian Congo (1955-62), and then helped found Wichita Collegiate School in 1963, where he taught until 1990. He is currently trying to retire, unsuccessfully, in Hesston, KS, with his wife of 52 years, Sue.

Chris Atherton

Chris Atherton is James Atherton’s father. He has a life-long love affair with his family and his drums. He has apprenticed under Arthur Hull, the founder of Village Music Circles. Chris facilitates Drum Circles in Old Towne during the warmer months of the year. He works at Regal Plastics when not drumming.

George Elder

George Elder ’R US. He is a graduate of Northfield , Class ’03, Clemson University, Class ’07, taught Latin at New Covenant Christian School in Pendleton, SC, and the Roman/Christian Paradigm Class at NFS. He is currently attending The School of Hard Knocks as he pursues a vision of local community, excellence in the arts and survival of male choruses. He is doing a winter apprenticeship with John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture and Theodore Roosevelt.

Michael Langlois

Michael Langois is Taylor’s father and Mrs. Langois’ husband. He works, nationally and freelance, with electronics of all sorts. He was born in Anchorage, AK. Michael moved through Irondequiot (“Where the waters and the land meet”), Buffalo, and Syracuse, NY, ending up in Wichita in 1971, married Lisa in 1992, and is currently working with Associated Imaging Services repairing and maintaining ultra sound and nuclear cameras. He has done sound for Bill Clinton, B.B. King, Parent-Teachers Association National, and video security for the US government post 9-11 in weapons vault and ammunition bunkers.

Mary Irwin

Mary Irwin is current adjunct faculty in violin performance at Wichita State University. She travels to WSU from her position in the Columbus (OH) Symphony where she has been for 12 years. Prior to that she was 18 years in the Wichita and Knoxville (TN) Symphonies. Her Masters is from Northwestern University (IN). She is the presiding president of the Columbus Music Teachers Association, performs regularly with multiple string ensembles in the US and abroad, teaches at the Masterworks String Academy in Brevard, NC, and instructs her own 30 string students in Columbus and Wichita.

Janet Janzen

Janet Janzen, a native Kansan from Manhattan, has been composing music since she was young and more seriously the last 25 years. Her undergraduate work in music includes St.Olaf’s College(Northfield, MN) and Bethel College in Lindsborg. She is of Swedish ancestry and has been associated with her father’s efforts to preserve and maintain the Swedish language in and around the Wichita area. Janet’s Masters is in Christian Ministry with an emphasis in church music from Friends University. Her accomplishments, familiar to Northfield, include “The Prayer of St. Francis,” “Come To the Water” and an arrangement of a traditional Swedish hymn, “Day by Day/Children of the Heavenly Father.”