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Street Painting Festival honors Scarboro 85, raises funds for Roane State scholarships

Posted at 11:01 am October 27, 2021
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The theme for the 2021 Street Painting Festival, “Honoring Scarboro 85,” recognized the first Black students from the former Scarboro School who integrated Oak Ridge High School and Robertsville Junior High on Sept. 6, 1955. The Honoring Scarboro 85 award went to the team of Dawn and Her Guys. (Photo courtesy Roane State)

The 2021 Street Painting Festival, hosted by the Noon Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, is in the books having raised more than $14,000 to help fund scholarships for Roane State Community College students in Anderson County.

Held in Oak Ridge’s Historic Jackson Square each October, the festival blends art, history, and community for a fun event in support of local students. Nearly $300,000 in scholarships issued by the nonprofit Roane State Foundation have been provided since the start of the festival in 1999, a press release said.

Festival sponsors make a tax-exempt donation to the Foundation, with levels ranging from $5,000 for Platinum down to $100 for Individual. Sponsors’ names are assigned to sidewalk squares upon which the artists then paint pictures with chalk. Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc. once again sponsored the event at the Platinum Level. 2021 marked the 20th consecutive year of festival sponsorship for the company.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Arts, College, Community, Education, Education, Entertainment, Festivals, Front Page News, Slider Tagged With: Dawn and Her Guys, Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., ORNL Federal Credit Union, Roane State Community College, Roane State Foundation, Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, Ruby Melton, Scarboro 85, Scarboro School, street painting festival, UCOR, William Wensell, Zoie Ruble

MCLinc gives OR schools history book to assisted living facilities, nursing homes

Posted at 5:24 pm December 30, 2018
By Jessica Steed Leave a Comment

Pictured above at the Alexander Guest House are, from left, LuAnn Hanchett, community relations and activity director; MCLinc President Barry Stephenson; resident Muriel Bogardus; and Executive Director Amy Duncan. (Submitted photo)

Pictured above at the Alexander Guest House are, from left, LuAnn Hanchett, community relations and activity director; MCLinc President Barry Stephenson; resident Muriel Bogardus; and Executive Director Amy Duncan. (Submitted photo)

 

This holiday season, Oak Ridge’s assisted living facilities and nursing homes received a special gift to help residents remember the history of Oak Ridge schools, a press release said. Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc. (MCLinc) provided the facilities with collector’s edition copies of the book “Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence in the Oak Ridge Schools 1944-2018,” which includes the history of the Oak Ridge school system, photographs, and memories from 1944 through the present.

The book was developed by the Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, and it includes anchor authors from each of the 75 classes who shared their memories and helped collect those of their classmates.

MCLinc donated more than 20 books to six facilities in Oak Ridge, including Brookdale, Canterfield, Alexander Guest House, Greenfield, The Courtyards, and NHC, the press release said.

“Each year MCLinc looks for ways that we can give back to the community where we live and work, and what better way to support our schools and provide cherished memories to residents than to make these books available,” said Barry Stephenson, president and chief executive officer of MCLinc. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Community, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Oak Ridge, Top Stories Tagged With: Barry Burks, Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence in Oak Ridge Schools, Jessica Steed, Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., MCLinc, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, Oak Ridge school system, ORPSEF

MCLinc sponsors ADFAC, Bow Tie Event

Posted at 2:53 pm November 11, 2017
By Annie Cacheiro Leave a Comment

Pictured above from left, ADFAC representatives Annie Cacheiro and Louise Mixon accept a corporate contribution from McLinc representatives Barry Stephenson and Michele Sanders. (Submitted photo)

Pictured above from left, ADFAC representatives Annie Cacheiro and Louise Mixon accept a corporate contribution from McLinc representatives Barry Stephenson and Michele Sanders. (Submitted photo)

 

Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., or MCLinc, is a sponsor for ADFAC’s 2017 Corporate Membership Campaign, and the company is also a sponsor for this year’s Bill Wilcox Bow Tie Event, which will be held Saturday, November 11, a press release said.

MCLinc’s President and Chief Executive Officer Barry Stephenson and Laboratory Manager Michele Sanders met recently with ADFAC representatives to celebrate their corporate support for the local agency.

MCLinc is a commercial applied research company providing high-quality consulting and analytical testing for industrial forensics, materials characterization, environmental chemistry, and process optimization, the press release said.

“As MCLinc is an employee-owned company, all corporate charitable gifts are generously supported by the employees,” Stephenson said. “I am so pleased that our company and our employees are able and excited about supporting such a worthy cause as ADFAC. We are very much looking forward to the Bow Tie Award Event this year as we all celebrate local volunteer Tom Row.”

See previous story on the Bow Tie Award Event here. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Community, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge Tagged With: ADFAC, ADFAC McLinc Bow Tie, Annie Cacheiro, Barry Stephenson, Bear Stephenson, Bill Wilcox, Bill Wilcox Bow Tie Award, Bill Wilcox Bow Tie Event, Bow Tie Award Event, Cande Seay, Kathy Stimpson, Louise Mixon, Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., MCLinc, Michele Sanders, Ray Smith, Tim Myrick, Tom Row

ORAU, MCLinc donate services to Emory Valley Center Capital Campaign

Posted at 9:22 pm January 14, 2015
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

ORAU Survey Team

An environmental survey team from ORAU partnered with Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc. to provide sampling and laboratory analysis for Emory Valley Center, which is in the initial stages of demolishing an old building on its campus to make room for a new facility. The ORAU survey team consisting of Tim Vitkus, Adam Kirthlink, Jason Lee, Daniel Edds, Evan Harpeneau, and Mark Berkheimer donated their time and performed sampling to identify any contaminants that may be present at the site. (Submitted photo)

 

Oak Ridge Associated Universities and Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc. recently joined together to donate a total of $9,000 in services to Emory Valley Center in support of their Capital Campaign for a new facility.

The new building will incorporate many features to enhance the lives of people with disabilities being served, including a Job Training Center, Life Enrichment Classrooms, Adult Day Center, Medical Clinic, Speech, Physical and Occupational Services, Gym, and more, a press release said.

An environmental survey team from ORAU partnered with Oak Ridge-based Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., or MCLinc, to provide sampling and laboratory analysis for Emory Valley Center, which is in the initial stages of demolishing an old building on its campus to make room for the new facility. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Community, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Adam Kirthlink, Capital Campaign, Daniel Edds, Emory Valley Center, environmental survey, Evan Harpeneau, Janet Wood, Jason Lee, Jennifer Enderson, Mark Berkheimer, Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., MCLinc, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, ORAU, Tim Vitkus

Letter: ORPSEF thanks contributors to Dreams and Innovations

Posted at 12:02 am July 5, 2013
By Oak Ridge Today Letters Leave a Comment

Deirdre Barrett and ORPSEF Foundation

Deirdre Barrett, right, is pictured above with Alice Feldman, Linda Young, Anne Garcia Garland, and Margaret Gottshall. (Submitted photo)

To the Editor:

The Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation would like to extend its thanks to all who contributed to the Dreams and Innovation program honoring Oak Ridge teachers who received Foundation grants for the 2013-2014 school year.

Our thanks and appreciation goes to:

  • B&W Y-12, which provided the location, New Hope Center, for the celebration attended by more than 150 people. B&W Y-12 also provided assistance with sound and information technology for the event.
  • Aubrey’s Restaurant, one of Oak Ridge’s newest restaurants, for providing appetizers for the event.
  • Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc. (MCLinc), which provided booths for the event.
  • Deirdre Barrett, the ceremony’s keynote speaker, author, psychologist at Harvard Medical School, and graduate of Oak Ridge High School. She spoke on the theme of the event, describing how dreams contribute to innovation and problem solving, relating research from her book, “The Committee of Sleep.”
  • The Oak Ridge public schools teachers who provided demonstrations of materials and programs funded by past Education Foundation grant awards, showing how students have benefitted.
  • Oak Ridge JazzCats and Michelle Hairston, who provided entertainment during the event.
  • The ORPSEF board of directors, for their support for this event. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Letters Tagged With: Aubrey's, B&W Y-12, Deirdre Barrett, Dreams and Innovations, Lila Metcalf, Making the Critical Difference, Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc., MCLinc, Michelle Hairston, Oak Ridge JazzCats, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, ORPSEF

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