Student Life Events
December 4-8
- December 4, Emilie Hall Christmas Party at 8 p.m.
- December 5, Villa Christmas Party at 8 p.m.
- Christmas Workshops all week.
Sign up in the Student Center with Student Life.
On a budget this year? Come make free Christmas gifts during workshops with UGF staff. Sessions include: knitting, cookie jars, wrapping the perfect present, and more. A complete list of available workshops is located in the Student Center. Participants must sign up to ensure supply availability. Call Student Life at 791.5215 with any questions.
December 10 (Sunday)
- Midnight Breakfast (Student Center) 11:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
- Student Center open until 2:00 a.m. for studying
December 11(Monday)
- Free chair massages (Student Center) 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Student Center open until midnight
December 12 (Tuesday)
- Fall Graduate Reception (Commons) starts at 12 p.m.
- Student Center open until midnight
December 13 (Wednesday)
- Student Center open until midnight
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UGF Students take on the Renaissance
Garbed in Renaissance costumes, UGF history students will present their final class projects on Friday, December 8, in Absolon Lounge in the UGF Student Center. The presentations are short skits and re-enactments of famous personalities of the Renaissance and Reformation. The program runs from noon to 3:00 p.m. with appropriate incidental music by the University Choir, the Madrigal Quartet and the Cottonwood Consort.
History students performing, all from Lana Furdell's Renaissance and Reformation class, include Fraser Bartell, Joanna Bowns, James Bryant, Jessica Carmona, Mark Fee, Jenny Funderburg, Eric Hinebauch, Paden Jenkins, Sara Mancilla, Chad Nally, Steve Schaefer and Katie Stevens. Their characters will include Michelangelo the Younger, Michelangelo as a seasoned citizen, Will Somers and the history of jestering, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Denmark, Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros of the Inquisition, and others. Audience members may come and go in "open house" style. Performances are free and open to the public.
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UGF Choir Performance
The University Choir, directed by Lana Furdell, will perform twice next week for University students, staff and faculty and community guests. Thursday, Dec. 7 at noon in the Commons, the Choir will present I LOVE CHRISTMAS, a medley of the popular songs of the holidays, including "Jingle Bell Rock," " Frosty," " I'll Be Home for Christmas" and other memorable selections.
At noon on Friday, Dec. 8, the Choir and Madrigal Quartet will present Renaissance carols in Absolon Lounge as incidental music for a series of skits by Renaissance and Reformation history students. The Choir will sing "Masters in this Hall," " Dona Nobis Pacem," "Cornish Wassail" and Come Follow Follow. The Madrigal Quartet,students Stephanie Nelson, Grace Davis, Alden Johnson and Trevor Fehr will sing "What Child is This," " Sleep of the Infant Jesus" and "Deck the Halls." Admission is free and open to the public.
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Clowns Play presented by the UGF Players
 The University of Great Falls University Players will be presenting CLOWNS’ PLAY, a play for children, by Reginald F. Bain. The one act play will be presented at the UGF Theatre on Saturday December 9 at 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Admission is 50¢, with tickets available at the door.
“Show Today” and “Jack in the Beanstalk” read the two signs placed at the proscenium on the otherwise bare stage. Clown ushers escort the young audience members to their seats in anticipation of a performance of the age-old classic. But when it’s time for the show, and the group that was supposed to present the play has phoned to say that their van has broken down and they are not going to make it, the clowns gather on stage to decide what to do. Should they send the audience home? No one wants to do that, but what can they do? With the help of the audience members, they decide to act out the story themselves using their clown characters as the basis for their improvisation of Jack in the Beanstalk. Utilizing what they can find backstage, asking for help from the audience when they get stuck, and capitalizing on the unique talents of each of the clowns, they play out the story, discovering thereby the meaning of being clowns.
Members of the clown company are Amber Rock, Gabrielle E. Neiffer, Kaylie Young, Megan L. Hauer, Megan Varner, Pepper Root, Sara Wood, and Taylor Varner. The play is directed by Wayne M. Reynolds, and produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company.
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Annual UGF Staff and Faculty Christmas Party
The University of Great Falls Board of Directors is once again hosting the Faculty and Staff Christmas party. The festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 14 in the Student Center Commons. There will be a children's room available in the Absolon Lounge. For more information contact Leah Jerome at 791-5300.
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Lady Argos Softball helping to sell Christmas Trees
Have you picked up your Christmas tree already? If not the Lady Argo Softball team will be helping out the Great Falls Uptown Optimist’s by selling Christmas trees from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. this weekend and next weekend at the Fairgrounds in the Beef Barn (Livestock Pavilion Area).
Happy Holidays from the Lady Argo Softball Team!
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