Services Saturday for WNC Professor Marilee Swirczek; Celebration of Life July 28 at final photo exhibit
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 12:10pm
A celebration of life for Marilee Swirczek, a Western Nevada College English professor and founder of the nationally acclaimed “Always Lost: A Meditation on War” photo exhibition, will be held Thursday, July 28, 2016 at the WNC Art Gallery as part of the final exhibit reception.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2016, 9 a.m. at St. Teresa Of Avila on Lompa Lane.
With the final "Always Lost" exhibit already scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday, July 28, the WNC administration, faculty and family wishes to make it a community celebration of life for Marilee, the exhibition's founder and moral compass, said friend and colleague Major USMC (Ret.) Kevin Burns.
"We invite both the WNC and Carson City community to come and share anecdotes of how this most remarkable human being touched each of our lives," said Burns. "We will gather in the WNC Art Gallery and have a podium set up on the steps behind the gallery. Marilee touched so many of us in so many ways. Please come and share that with our community."
Marilee Swirczek died Sunday, July 17, 2016. She was 68.
Swirczek was the driving force behind “Always Lost: A Meditation on War” photo exhibition, which originated in her creative writing class and gained nationwide recognition with a national tour that began in 2010. Marilee was a former Carson City Supervisor from 1987 to 1989 and the wife of Ron Swirczek, a member of the Carson City School Board.
Professor Swirczek taught literature and writing at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu and California State University, Sacramento, before joining the faculty at Western Nevada College in 1989, where she served for six years as English/Foreign Languages Chair and Lead Faculty for Communication & Fine Arts.
She founded Lone Mountain Writers (1991) and was recognized as Humanities Scholar, Nevada Humanities Committee (2003); WNC Instructor of the Year (1990-91), UCCSN Outstanding Faculty (1995-98); and Distinguished Nevadan (2001).
Active in community affairs, she served on the Carson City Board of Supervisors (1987-89) and wrote an opinion column for the Nevada Appeal.
Marilee is survived by her husband Ron, three children, two stepchildren and nine grandchildren.
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