WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue faculty, staff, students and collaborators can learn about what’s needed to launch a company at the university’s third annual Company Fund Raising Boot Camp on Oct. 13-14 in Discovery Park.

Michael Birck, chairman and founder of telecommunication giant Tellabs Inc. and a Purdue trustee, is the keynote speaker for the event at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. Birck’s talk, “Founding and Growing a Company,” is at noon Oct. 13.

The workshop, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, however, and preference will be given to Purdue faculty and staff, said event organizer Julie Goonewardene, director of business development for the Purdue Research Foundation and Discovery Park.

Key topics include company formation, tips for selecting a chief executive officer, selling your idea, advice on starting a company, sources of capital, company valuation and investment presentation skills, Goonewardene said.

Presenters include: Jeff Warren, a lawyer, investor and Julie Goonewardene, Purdue alumnus; Mike Pellegrino, president of Indianapolis-based technology appraisal firm Pellegrino and Associates LLC; Mark Reiff, Midwest managing partner for the Indiana office of Lonergan Partners in Zionsville; and Steve Brown of consulting firm Innovate4Growth in Boston.

During the event, participants can work with coaches to refine a 15-minute presentation that will be reviewed by an outside panel on Jan. 30. Winners will earn a trip, sponsored by Lonergan Partners, where they will present to Silicon Valley investors the week of May 18.

Sponsors for the Company Fund Raising Boot Camp are Lonergan Partners, the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Purdue Research Foundation. To register, go online to: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bdm/bootcamp/.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Motorists are asked to use extra caution when traveling the roadways in and around Fort Quiatenon on Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 28, 2008. The 2008 Feast of the Hunters’ Moon will be held at that location and there will be a significant increase in motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the area.

The event is open to the public from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM on Saturday and 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM on Sunday. The traffic pattern will remain the same as in years past with a one way traffic pattern in effect on C.R. 300 West (Newman Road), Division Road, and C.R. 350 West from 8:00 AM to close each day. (Download PDF of the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon Local Traffic Route)

Free parking is available at Purdue University Lot L – M north of Ross-Ade Stadium at the corner of Northwestern and Cherry Lane in West Lafayette. Shuttle buses will run from the Stadium to the Feast from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday and 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — St. Elizabeth Regional Health announces the following organizational appointments:

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Sister M. Ann Kathleen Magiera has been appointed vice president of Mission Integration at St. Elizabeth Regional Health.

Sister Ann Kathleen previously served as treasurer and vice president of Education for SSFHS, where she divided her time between the finance and education offices of SSFHS and the finance office of the Congregation.

Sister Ann Kathleen spent 26 years in teaching and administration at the elementary and secondary levels in schools in Indiana, Missouri and Illinois, including teaching at St. Boniface School in the late 1970s and serving as principal at Central Catholic from 1986 to 1990.

Sister Ann Kathleen received her bachelor’s degree in 1974 and master’s degree in secondary education in 1980, both from the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne. She completed her school administrative training at Xavier University in Cincinnati. In 1997, Sister Ann Kathleen completed an MBA at Loyola University in Chicago.

Sister Ann Kathleen serves on the boards of SSFHS’ Northern Indiana Region, Hills Ltd., and Hills Inc. Sister Ann Kathleen also serves on the board of the University of St. Francis, Midwestern University/OPTI’s governing board and the board of the Congregation. She is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Society for Training and Development.

Sister Lethia Marie Leveille has been appointed to Mission Integration at St. Elizabeth Regional Health.

Prior to her arrival to Lafayette, she served in the Finance Department for the Sisters of St. Francis Health Services’ Corporate Offices in Mishawaka. While there, she worked on CBISA (Community Benefit Inventory Social Accountability) and numerous other projects in the finance area. She holds the responsibility as CBISA Resource within the SSFHS system.

Sister Lethia Marie received her associate of science from Bay De Noc Community College, a bachelor’s of art from Michigan Technological University, a bachelor’s of science from Northern Michigan University, and a master’s degree from Northern Michigan University.

•Sister Mary Michael has been assigned to the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing to complete her nursing degree.

Sister Mary Michael joined the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 2004 and professed her first vows in 2007. She completed two years of nursing education at Indiana University – South Bend. She recently moved to Lafayette from the Motherhouse in Mishawaka.

•Laura Aschenberg, R.N., CIC, has been appointed the regional coordinator of Infection Control for the Western Indiana Region of the Sisters of St. Francis Health Services.

Aschenberg will be responsible for the operation of the Infection Control programs and initiatives at St. Elizabeth Regional Health and St. Clare Medical Center facilities. She has been with St. Elizabeth Regional Health since 1996. She worked as a staff nurse on 3 East from 1996 to 2004, as a patient care coordinator from 2000 to 2004, and as an infection control nurse from 2004 to 2008.

Aschenberg is a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the VHA Infection Control Council, and the SSFHS Infection Control Council. She has received her Certification in Infection Control (CIC) and is currently serving her third year as the Regional Director of APIC.

Michael Parvis has been appointed executive chef at St. Elizabeth Regional Health.

Parvis received his culinary degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He worked at Eight Mice Café and Apple Annie’s before joining Charter Hospital in Lafayette while finishing his restaurant and hospitality management degree from Purdue University in 1990.

Parvis worked as an assistant food service director with Aramark at Rosary College and as a production manager at Loyola University in Chicago. He also worked with Marriott Management Services as a production manager at Tulane University and as a production manager/chef at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Parvis worked for Sweet Tomatoes Restaurant as a service manager in Florida as a production manager and general manager in Chicago. He has also worked in Indianapolis’ Clauddaugh Irish Pub as a chef and O’Charleys as a service manager, and with Chartwells at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis as retail director and executive chef.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Tippecanoe Cultural Planning Steering Committee will seek input from the community in a public forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, as an important next step for assessing the contributions as well as short- and long-term needs for Lafayette-West Lafayette’s arts and cultural community.

Marc Goldring, associate principal of Massachusetts consulting firm WolfBrown, will moderate the forum, which will take place at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation building, 638 North St., in downtown Lafayette. Leading members of the Cultural Planning Steering Committee, which is working with broad-based support from TAF and local arts and cultural groups, also will be on hand.

The format will be similar to the initial public forum held June 26 to a full house at TAF’s offices.

“This second public forum is the next important step for this discussion about the arts and local culture with the entire Lafayette-West Lafayette community,” Goldring said. “The discussion from the first session was lively and instructive. And we invite more from throughout the community to come forward to help us continue setting short- and long-term priorities for the types of events, types of facilities, and types of education and outreach programs we would place on a wish-list for the arts/cultural community.”

The Cultural Planning Steering Committee has met for several months with support from TAF, representatives of the arts and cultural organizations, the Lafayette-West Lafayette Development Corp., local government and other groups to chart what steps are needed to engage a consultant to help develop a plan to ensure local arts/cultural organizations are healthy, vibrant and sustainable for the future.

The committee is using $75,000 generated with support from the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, arts and cultural organizations and the Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette to hire WolfBrown and launch the formal arts assessment process.

WolfBrown will lead, will conduct surveys, host communitywide meetings, examine funding options, and determine how the local arts venues, programs and events compare with communities similar in size to Lafayette-West Lafayette, said cultural planning committee co-chair Jim Bodenmiller.

“The arts play an important role in attracting knowledge-based businesses and industry to our community, and this assessment process through this second public forum, will help us determine our future community development,” Bodenmiller said.

Building on nearly 500 cultural events held in Lafayette-West Lafayette, the local arts community contributes more than $11 million each year to the economy, drawing visitors from throughout the region to performances and events as well as restaurants and retail outlets.

In addition, nearly 1,000 people are employed by the estimated 165 arts-related organizations and businesses in Lafayette-West Lafayette.

“Our local arts organizations are critical players in education, economic development and our quality of life,” said Sonya Margerum, co-chair of the committee and former mayor of West Lafayette. “But we need a model that’s sustainable for keeping our organizations and programs fresh and progressive.”
A total of 8,905 arts-related businesses were surveyed in Indiana last year and employed an estimated 53,924 Hoosiers, the Americans for the Arts reported. That represents an increase of 986 arts-related Indiana businesses from 2006 to 2007, and a growth of 4,650 full-time jobs during that same period.
With offices in Cambridge, Mass., San Francisco and Washington, D.C., WolfBrown has worked in the field of arts education and cultural planning for decades. Clients have included national service organizations, local coordinating agencies and individual arts education providers. Services include comprehensive research (including parent and student surveys), program design and the development of community wide systems for service provision involving scores of organizations and agencies.
A recent Money magazine ranking put Lafayette-West Lafayette as No. 2 small city in which to live in the Midwest in its annual listing of best places to live. Lafayette-West Lafayette scored highly on 37 “livability” factors such as clean water, good pubic schools and low property taxes. According to Money’s research, the area also excelled in categories such as low crime, the economy and quality of life.

The Tippecanoe Arts Federation, which was launched in 1976, is the nonprofit service and advocacy agency for more than 100 local member arts organizations.
Working from its offices in the Wells Center in downtown Lafayette, TAF also is the re-granting agency for state funds to a 14-county area (Region IV) through the Regional Partnership Initiative of the Indiana Arts Commission and regularly hosts, co-sponsors and participates in community events including its annual fundraiser, The Taste of Tippecanoe, a festival of food and fun for the arts held in downtown Lafayette.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Kory Sheets broke loose for a 46-yard touchdown run with a minute left in the game to lift Purdue to a 32-25 victory over Central Michigan on Saturday.

Central Michigan (2-2) appeared set to pull off an upset after taking a 25-24 lead with 1:18 to go on a 6-yard touchdown pass by Dan LeFevour followed by a 2-point conversion pass to Antonio Brown.

But the Boilermakers (2-1) got a 39-yard kickoff return from Desmond Tardy and the Chippewas were hit with a 15-yard facemask penalty. On first down, Sheets took a handoff from Curtis Painter, made a cut that faked out several defenders and raced into the end zone. Painter followed with a 2-point conversion pass to Greg Orton.

Purdue’s Dwight Mclean intercepted a pass by LeFevour with 27.7 seconds left to clinch the win for Purdue against a pesky Mid-American Conference opponent.

After LeFevour’s 6-yard TD pass to Ontario Sneed brought Central Michigan within a point at 24-23, Chippewas coach Butch Jones opted to go for two points. The 2-point pass completion to Brown was reviewed before officials ruled it a catch, rather than a trap.

Sheets’ game-winning TD gave him the school record for career touchdowns. His total of 43 surpassed Mike Alstott, who scored 42 from 1992-1995. Sheets finished with 91 yards on 17 carries.

The win also gave Purdue coach Joe Tiller the school record for career wins. His 85 victories tops the previous mark of 84 set by Jack Mollenkopf from 1956-1969.

It was the third meeting between the teams in 13 months. Purdue won 45-22 last September, then won again 51-48 in the Motor City Bowl.

Painter, who threw for a school record 546 yards in the Motor City Bowl win, passed for 261 yards and a touchdown Saturday. LeFevour passed for 291 yards and two touchdowns and ran 24 times for 112 yards and another score.

With the score tied at 10 in the third quarter, Purdue’s Mike Neal hit LeFevour as he threw and forced the ball to pop into the air. Frank Duong intercepted the wobbly pass and raced 58 yards for a touchdown to give the Boilermakers a 17-10 lead.

LeFevour scored on a 13-yard run early in the fourth quarter to tie the score at 17.

Painter came up big on Purdue’s next possession. On a third-and-10, he found Aaron Valentin on a slant pattern, and he broke away for a 57-yard gain. Painter found Tardy for a 2-yard touchdown with 7:34 left, and the Boilermakers took a 24-17 lead.

Purdue could have put the ball away, but on a third-and-1 at the Purdue 49, Painter fumbled the snap, recovered and tried to drive for the first down. Central Michigan’s LaVarus Williams stripped Painter, and Sean Murnane recovered to give the Chippewas another chance. That led to Sneed’s touchdown.