Centennial
Event Photos 
The College of New Rochelle
Celebrates CNR’s One Hundred Years of Academic Excellence
With A Year-Long Array of Centennial Events.
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Once Upon A Time:
Visions by Alumnae/i Artists
As part of
the closing events of The College of New
Rochelle's Centennial Year
Celebration,
the Castle Gallery opens its space for Once Upon A Time: Visions by
Alumnae/i
Artists,
a juried
exhibition
spotlighting the diverse imagery and talent of the College's alumnae/i
artists.
The Artists Reception was held on Sunday, September 12, 2004
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For The Second
Century, Why Catholic?
The final Academic
Convocation in celebration of the Centennial Year
took place on
Saturday, June 5, 2004, on the main campus of The College of New
Rochelle.
This convocation, held in conjunction with the Centennial Alumnae/i
College Weekend,
was held under a large tent on Maura Lawn.
Elizabeth A. Johnson,
CSJ, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University,
addressed
a topic entitled, “For the Second Century, Why Catholic?”
An honorary degree was conferred on Sister Elizabeth,
and she received
the special Centennial Medal
from President Sweeny, along with two
former CNR Presidents,
Elizabeth O'Brien, OSU (l.) and Dorothy Ann Kelly, OSU (r.)
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Centennial Alumnae/i
College
Welcome back!
The Centennial Alumnae/i College was held June 4-6, 2004.
Above: Members of the Class of 1974 pose in front of the Student Campus
Center.
Centennial
Commencement
The College of New Rochelle’s
Centennial Commencement
was
held on May 27, 2004, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Over 1600 students
graduated from the School of Arts & Sciences,
School of Nursing,
School of
New Resources, and Graduate School.
In his address, President Sweeny told the graduates to
follow the example
of the honorary degree recipients in forging a
unique path.
“I know that each
of you has a unique story,” Dr. Sweeny said. “And you
cannot
and should not be made anonymous.”
Honorary
degrees were given to Sister Jean-Baptiste Nicholson, OSU,
the
immediate past Chair
of the College’s Board of Trustees and
principal
of the Ursuline School in New
Rochelle; Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU,
an Ursuline missionary and human
rights
advocate; and Earl Graves,
Publisher and Chairman of Black
Enterprise Magazine.
Above:
The honorees pose with President Sweeny and
new Board
of Trustees Chair
Michael Ambler (right).
In her Commencement Address, Sister Jean-Baptiste Nicholson,
OSU,
encouraged graduates to follow in the footsteps of Mother Irene
Gill,
who
challenged conventional wisdom in 1904 when she founded CNR
as the
first
Catholic college for women in New York State.
While an Ursuline missionary, Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU, was
abducted
from
a retreat center and brutally tortured by members of the
Guatemalan security force.
She returned to America
and established Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition
International. In accepting her Doctor of Humane Letters degree, Sister
Dianna said, “This honor
will pass through my hands, and into the hands
of victims of torture.”
Centennial
Strawberry Festival
A day of fun-filled
activities, appropriate
for families of all ages!
Sunday, May 2, 2004, 12 noon - 5 p.m.
Maura Lawn, Main Campus
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End of Life
Expressions
In celebration of the Centennial year, the School
of Nursing presented
“End of Life Expressions,” a conference featuring a variety of
aesthetic and personal
expressions of end of life experiences.
Presenters shared encounters of working with
individuals and their
families at the end of life. Above: Dr. Joan Arnold, a professor in
the School of Nursing
spoke on “Facilitating Grieving: A Nursing Imperative.”
An overflowing crowd of faculty, staff and students filled the second
floor
of the Student Campus
Center on
the main campus of CNR on Tuesday, April 27.
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The Westchester
Biennial 2004
The Westchester Biennial 2004:
A juried
all-media art exhibition featuring
innovative
works by Westchester County artists
April 25 - June 27, 2004
CNR Centennial
Trustee Gala
In celebration of The College of New Rochelle’s 100th
anniversary and its commitment to
educating and empowering women and
men, the College hosted a black tie gala
on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at
Cipriani 42nd
Street
and paid tribute to
Indra K. Nooyi, President & CFO, PepsiCo, and
alumna
Sandra Priest Rose,
Reading Reform Foundation of New York.
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Education for Service
CNR continued its
Centennial celebration with a special Academic Convocation,
“Education
for
Service,” on Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
Speaking at the
Convocation was Patricia A. Cruise, S.C.,
President of Covenant House.
An honorary
degree was
conferred on Sister Patricia, and she received
the special Centennial
Medal from
President Sweeny.
Centennial Service Day
On April 15, 2004. as part of CNR's Centennial Year
celebration,
faculty, staff,
and students
performed
a day of volunteer service at a variety of
locations in Westchester and New York City.
Human Rights
Symposium
On Thursday, April 1,
2004, the School of Arts & Sciences presented
the Human Rights
Symposium"HIV/AIDS and its Impact on Children Worldwide"
in the Student Campus
Center.
The event was organized under the direction of
Dr. Anne McKernan,
Associate
Professor of History in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Dr. Rose Marie Hurrell, Dean of the School of Arts &
Sciences introduced
the panelists (l.-r.:) Kathleen Cravero Kristoffersson SAS'76, Deputy
Executive
Director, Joint UN Programs HIV/AIDS; James Cairns, Director, Program
on
Children for the World Conference of Religions for Peace, Hope for
African
Children
Initiative; and Carol Levine, Director, Families and Healthcare
at the United
Hospital Fund, The Orphan Project.
Kathleen Cravero Kristoffersson delivered the Keynote Address
“A Generation
at Risk:
The Impact on HIV/AIDS on Children.”
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In Celebration
of Women's Colleges
CNR continued its Centennial celebration with a special
Academic
Convocation, “In Celebration for Women’s Colleges,” on Tuesday,
March 23, 2004.
Speaking at the Convocation was Patricia A. McGuire, President of
Trinity College in Washington, D.C. McGuire congratulated CNR on the
occasion of our Centennial, saying, “May this celebratory year be
a
strong foundation for your second century.”
In his introduction, Dr. Sweeny called Patricia McGuire “a national
model of
leadership.” An honorary degree was conferred on President
McGuire,
and she received the special Centennial Medal from President Sweeny.
A Celebration of Women’s Colleges Colloquy took place on
March 24, 2004, in the Student Campus Center. An overflow
crowd of students, faculty, and guests filled the second floor rooms of
the Student Campus Center to hear three distinguished college
presidents talk about the future of women’s
colleges.
Barbara McManus, Professor Emerita of Classics at CNR, (l),
moderated the panel discussion on the future of women’s colleges in
the U.S. Noted panelists were: Daniel S. Cheever, Jr., President,
Simmons College; Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President, Wells College; and
Mary Pat Seurkamp, President, The College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
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The Plunge
Twenty students from the School of Arts
&
Sciences and School of Nursing
participated in an annual CNR
tradition – performing community service
during spring break (March 8-12,
2004). Their work – part of the Centennial Service
Project coordinated
by Campus Ministry – benefited Project Vida Digna (Matamoros, Mexico),
El Salon De Las Ursulinas (Brownsville, Texas), and Hale House (New
York
City).
Literature as a
Lens on Lifelong Learning
Noted poet Sonia Sanchez
was the guest speaker
at the School of New Resources
presentation “Literature as a Lens on
Lifelong
Learning” on the evening of March 3, 2004
at the Co-op City Campus. The
author of Shake Loose My Skin: New
and Selected Poems
addressed
an enthusiastic audience of over 500 students, faculty, staff and
alumnae/i.
Pictured left to right are Dr. Joan Bailey, Senior VP for Academic
Affairs;
Dr. Kristine Southard,
Co-op City Campus Director; Elza Dinwiddie-Boyd,
Dean, School of New Resources;
Sonia Sanchez; and Dr. Stephen J.
Sweeny,
President of the College.
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At Our
Heart: Diversity
As part of
the College’s Centennial Academic Convocation At Our Heart: Diversity,
Cornel West of Princeton
University spoke to an overflowing crowd in
Holy Family Chapel on
February 19, 2004.
Prior to the
Academic Convocation, there was a reception held in Gill Library
for
the unveiling of a painting in the Library Alumnae Reading Room.
Commisioned for the CNR Centennial, the painting, entitled
CNR,
Love One Another, is a
celebration
of the College's diversity (detail at right.)
President
Stephen J. Sweeny and artist Laura James pose in front of painting.
The
Feast of St. Angela
CNR Campus
Ministry celebrated St. Angela Merici’s feast day by
inviting
students, staff and faculty to a traditional festival of food,
music,
photos and video from Angela’s region of birth, Desenzano,
Italy.
Above: St. Angela herself, wonderfully portrayed by peer
minister
Kathryn Tyranski SAS '06, greeted guests at their tables
and
even posed for Polaroids with them.
The
Feast of The Epiphany
On Sunday,
January 4, 2004, the College Community gathered
for the celebration
of the Feast of the Epiphany.
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Nativity
Scenes From
Around The World
Dr. Eileen Maxwell Canty ’55 and President Sweeny admire one of the
many
beautiful nativity scenes from the Castle Gallery’s winter exhibit,
“Return of the Crèche:
Nativity Scenes from Around the World.”
Part of The
College of New Rochelle’s Kate Canty Crèche Collection,
the works displayed in the exhibit
were collected by
Drs. Eileen and Jim Canty as they traveled around the world.
Unique examples of nativity scenes from countries including India,
Indonesia,
Peru, Hungary, Mexico, and the United States were included in the
exhibit.
Indra Nooyi, President and Chief
Financial
Officer, PepsiCo
speaks to members of the College Community at a Centennial
Academic Convocation held on December 3, 2003 in Holy Family
Chapel. Speaking on “The Primacy of the Liberal Arts,”
Ms. Nooyi, who majored in chemistry, physics and math and
has a business degree in finance from Yale University said,
“it dawned on me that my future as a corporate executive
was critically dependent on acquiring a set of skills
that you probably know well—skills that are acquired
by those who study the liberals arts.”
The College Community gathered in the Student Campus Center
on the main campus on the afternoon of December 4
for a colloquy on the role of the liberal arts in American
higher education within the Catholic intellectual tradition.
The colloquy concluded two days of events entitled
“The Primacy of the Liberal Arts” designed to spotlight
the leading issues in Catholic higher education today.
CNR President Sweeny (left) joins Colloquy panelists Jean
Morse,
Executive Director, Middle States Commission on Higher Education;
Moderator Bridget Puzon, OSU, Academic Editor, Liberal Education,
Association of American Colleges and Universities; Dorothy Brown,
Professor of History Emerita, Georgetown University; Reverend James L.
Heft, SM, University Professor of Faith and Culture and Chancellor,
University
of Dayton. Joan E. Bailey, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs,
The College
of New Rochelle, (right) introduced the panel.
Founder's
Day
A highlight of this year's Founder's Day celebration was the
dedication of
the College’s new seven-foot-high bronze statue of St.
Angela Merici,
who founded the Order of St. Ursula in 1535. Above: President
Stephen J. Sweeny,
along with former CNR President Sr. Dorothy Ann Kelly, OSU, unveiled
the statue.
At the Founder’s Day Presidential Luncheon, four students were honored
with
The Ursuline Institute's Serviam Award for their outstanding commitment
to community service. (Left to right): Kari Black (Graduate School),
Julie Rivera
(School of Nursing), Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny, Maya Georgieva (School of
Arts & Sciences),
and Rebecca Johnson (School of New Resources).
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Opening
of The
Centennial Year
The first Academic Convocation of the CNR Centennial Year was
held
on September 15, 2003. Offering their greetings and
congratulations
to CNR were distinguished guests The Honorable Mary O’Connor Donohue
’68,
Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York; Saul B. Cohen,
Regent-at-Large
and Chair, Higher and Professional Education Committee, The Board of
Regents of The University of the State of New York; Patricia
Keegan Abels ’73,
District Administrator, 18th Congressional District of New York,
representing
The Honorable Nita M. Lowey; and the Honorable Timothy C. Idoni,
Mayor of the City of New Rochelle.
The Convocation Address was delivered by Mary E. Lyons,
President of the University of San Diego.
Left to right: The Honorable Timothy C. Idoni, Mayor of the City
of New Rochelle;
The Honorable Mary O’Connor Donohue ’68, Lieutenant Governor of
the State of New York;
Stephen J. Sweeny, CNR President; Honorary Degree recipients Avery
Cardinal Dulles, S.J.,
Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, Fordham
University;
Mary E. Lyons, President of the University of San Diego; and
Antonia Coello Novello,
New York State Health Commissioner; Sr. Jean Baptiste Nicholson,
O.S.U., CNR Board Chairperson.
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Opening
of The
Centennial Year
The CNR Centennial Year began with a Eucharistic Liturgy in Holy Family
Chapel
on Sunday, September 14, 2003. Presiding was Most Reverend Joseph
Pittau, S.J.,
Secretary, Congregation for Catholic Education.
An overflowing congregation was welcomed to the Opening by
President Stephen J. Sweeny and Executive Vice President Ellen Curry
Damato
on this Feast of the Exaltation of The Holy Cross.
Stephen J. Sweeny, President presents to Most Reverend Joseph Pittau,
S.J.
the first Centennial Medal.
Following the Eucharistic Liturgy, a reception was held in Maura
Ballroom.
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Ursuline
Artists:
Expressing the Creative Vision
The first art exhibition of the Centennial Year Ursuline Artists: Expressing the Creative
Vision
featuring a unique collection of thirty artists of the Ursuline
Order
opened on Sunday afternoon, September 14, 2004 in the Castle Gallery.
