• The annual International Dinner, held in the Phoenix Room, drew a nice crowd with fun food and after-dinner entertainment — singing by operatic vocalists Tessa Wegenke and Melanie Riley, the Sri Lankan sensation Shiyanke Goonetilleke and a Bollywood-style number by Aparajita Bhattacharya; lovely playing by pianist Jiyoung You; and dances from Latin America, Japan, Khazikstan, South Africa and more ...

• "The Sleeper" in the Jean Weidner Theatre continued its run (and got a nice review, see below).

• Renowned young organist Paul Jacobs seemed to use every one of the Wood Family Organ's 3,700 pipes in a Bach extravaganza that had a crowd of 600 or so on its feet for standing ovations, and had the Juilliard professor, in turn, praising Cofrin Family Hall, its acoustics, and the organ. "When I tour, I don't have the luxury of bringing my own instrument with me," Jacobs addressed the crowd. "Some times, you're at the mercy of your venue. Here, this is an absolute delight. This is a magnificent instrument that deserves to be played, deserves to be heard." Jacobs' concert was booked as part of the Brown County Civic Music series, and sponsored in part by the Green Bay Packers in tribute to team historian Lee Remmel, for many years active with the classical music organization.

Friday, May 9   •   1 to 4:30 p.m.   •   The Riopelle Bridge Conference Room (MAC-B334)

If interested in participating in the training, please contact Brian Stahlkopf at (465-2380, stahlkob@uwgb.edu) at least one day before the desired training date.

• The College Student Bereavement and Grief project surveyed the entire UW-Green Bay campus last fall about students' grief experiences and how they fared at college as a result of their bereavement. With more than 1,000 hits for the online instrument, Noppe found that 53% of students has suffered a significant loss within the past two years, a number confirmed by stats from other campuses. Working on this project with Noppe were students Michael Wisneski (graduated last May) and Human Development major Erika Linzmeier, who won a scholarship to attend the conference, and Prof. Ryan Martin.

• Noppe created a Teaching That Matters Symposium at the conference and was granted a $1000 Teaching Enhancement Grant for this symposium.

• She will present the findings from her adolescent grief study that gave adolescents Palm Pilots to measure their daily mood fluctuations over a one-week period. Wisneski and Prof. Lloyd Noppe also worked on the project.

• Illene Noppe will also be part of a panel discussion on publishing in thanatology.

In addition, as organizer of Camp Lloyd at UW-Green Bay, she has created a Grief Camp significant interest group, and will be meeting members at the conference who are running grief camps, for the purpose of sharing ideas. There's more, but we'll catch it in our next issue.