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F E A T U R E S T O
R Y
CNR
Announces 2006 Honorary Degree Recipients
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Dr. Norman C. Francis
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Dr. Norman C. Francis, President
of
Xavier University of Louisiana,
will be the Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree recipient at the
99th Commencement exercises of The College of New Rochelle to be held
on
May 25 at Radio City Music Hall. Also receiving Honorary Degrees from
CNR will be Thomas E. Hales, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Union State Bank Financial Center, and Linda E. Kelly, Superintendent
of Schools, City School District of New Rochelle.
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A R O
U N D C N R
Dowell Lecture Features Film
Producer/Director
As part of CNR's Women's History Month programming, the 2006 Dowell
Lecture was given by producer/director Maryann
T. Manelski. After her remarks,"Does My Feminism Go With These Shoes?
Women, Power and Politics," there was a screening of her documentary on
women and politics entitled, Running
in High Heels. m o r e
CNR Drama Marks Centennial Year Season with
Two Plays
CNR Drama, the student run
drama group at The College of New
Rochelle, presented two American plays in repertory from March 30
through April 8. Oleanna by
David Mamet’s and Vanities by
Jack Heifner. m o r
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GORDON PARKS
1912-2006
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CNR Remembers
Gordon
Parks
It is
with great sorrow that The College of New Rochelle acknowledges the
death of
Gordon Parks. He was an extraordinarily
talented individual who achieved many milestones in his career.
His unprecedented work as a photojournalist,
filmmaker, author, and composer chronicled the Black experience in the United States
and helped set industry standards for artistic expression.
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“Multiple Intelligences: Integrating Howard Garner’s
Theory in
the Language Classroom” workshop for foreign language educators was
presented by Dr. André Beauzethier on Saturday, March 25. Dr.
Beauzethier is Chair of the Modern and Classical Languages Department
of the School of Arts & Sciences. Language teachers and language
students from seven institutions attended the workshops.
 The School of New
Resources and the Education Fund of
District Council
37 co-hosted a lecture and book signing of From Brotherhood to Manhood
by Dr. A. J. Franklin on March 29. Dr. Franklin is a former professor
of the School of New Recourses and his mother was one of the first
graduates of SNR’s New Rochelle Campus.
The author is pictured
here with School of New Resources Dean
Elza Dinwiddie-Boyd.
C N R S T U D E N T N E W S
SNR Students Celebrate
Women’s History Month
Students from the School of New Resources celebrated Women’s History
Month with Iron Jawed Angels,
a film about women’s struggle to get the vote, on March 22 in the
Angela Hall Living Room.
“Madam President” Panel
On March 27, 2006 a panel discussion entitled “Madam President?” was
held in Maura Ballroom on CNR’s Main Campus. The discussion focused
on the possibility of a female president in the United States and a
look at female leaders around the world. Panelists included,
(background l. - r.)
Dr. Daniel McCarthy, Associate Professor of Political Science; Dr.
Roblyn Rawlins, Assistant Professor of Sociology; and Dr. Amy Bass,
Assistant Professor of History. Posing with the faculty members were
(foreground l. - r.)
student organizer Kathryn Tyranski SAS ’06 and Terri Eberle Boyle,
Director of Government Relations for The College of New Rochelle, who
moderated the discussion.
SAS Students Celebrate
International Women’s Day
On March 8, in celebration of International Women’s
Day, students enrolled in Dr. Judith Gordon's course “Global
Perspectives
on Women’s Rights” acted out roles in a Mock Women’s Human Rights
Tribunal.
F A C U L T Y / S T A F F F O C U S
Cristina de Gennaro,
Associate Professor of Art in the School of
Arts & Sciences, has created a new site-specific installation
entitled “Memento (If These Walls Could Talk)” for the Wave Hill
Glyndor
Gallery's spring exhibition, Survive/Thrive/Alive.
The exhibition
is
open from March 4 through May 29. The reception for the artists will be
on Sunday, April 23 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. More information can be found
at www.wavehill.org/arts .
Michael Grabowski, Assistant
Professor, Department of
Communication Arts in the School of Arts & Sciences, is serving as
the Media Ecology Association Program Planner for the 2006 Eastern
Communication Association Convention, to be held in Philadelphia April
25-30. Grabowski has organized six panels of papers around the theme
"Transforming Communication and Community," bringing together scholars
from as far away as Switzerland and as close as Iona.
A L U M N A E / I N E W S
SAS ’70 graduate Vice Admiral Patricia Tracey, USN (Ret.), Chief
of
Staff, Quadrennial Defense Review Authorities Team, gave the keynote
address at the New Learning Technologies Conference in Orlando, Florida
on February 8, 2006. Admiral Tracey retired in 2004 as the highest
senior woman officer in the history of the U.S. Navy after a
distinguished 34-year career.
Lisa Hazell,
SNR ’04, took part in HOPE 2006, New York City’s fourth
annual homeless street count. Ms. Hazell volunteered to count the
number of unsheltered individuals living on New York City’s streets, in
subways, parks, and other public spaces. Assigned to a team in the
Morrissania area of the Bronx, she was in charge of the maps and
guiding her group through the snow on the night of February 27. Ms.
Hazell is the CEO of the Hazell Global Communications Corporation.
Katie
Gohdé-Haase, SAS ’84, is one of the
artists in the Westchester Biennial fifth juried all-media art
exhibition featuring innovative works by Westchester Country artists,
on exhibit through April 2-June 18, 2006 in the Castle Gallery of CNR.
Her work in the
show features middle aged or older women wearing bridal dresses in
"non-wedding" situations. The work was informed by interviews with the
subjects. Gohdé-Haase has exhibited locally since 1983 and has
received
over 30 awards for her writing, producing and directing.
Grace Powers Fraioli,
SAS ’77 and GS ’89, Adjunct faculty in the
School of Arts & Sciences and a graduate of CNR, is one of the
artists in
the Westchester Biennial 2006, the Castle Gallery's fifth juried
all-media art exhibition
featuring innovative works by Westchester Country artists. Her
totem artwork
symbolically tells the story of her own family while touching on a
universal notion of meaningful relationships. Able to be
separated or stacked, “[t]he spiral movement in the piece continues
upward in the direction of our universe and the relationship of
time.” A visual arts teacher for New Rochelle High School and
adjunct instructor for The College of New Rochelle, Powers Fraioli has
exhibited throughout New York, Arizona. and Norway.
Annette Swackhamer,
who has a Masters Degree from the School of Nursing,
received the 2006 Nurses’ Network of America Nursing Leadership Award
for her leadership “in the many possibilities of the profession of
nursing and as a leader in the practice of humanity.”
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