C N R ’  S  1 0 0 T H  C O M M E N C E M E N T  E X E R C I S E S

The 100th Commencement Exercises of The College of New Rochelle took place on May 24, 2007 at Radio City Music Hall.  The College conferred 1,395 baccalaureate and master’s degrees on CNR students who graduated from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Nursing, School of New Resources, and Graduate School.


The College conferred honorary degrees on Brother Rick Curry, S.J., Ph.D., Founder & Artistic Director of the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped, Pernessa C. Seele, Founder and CEO of The Balm in Gilead, Inc., and John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO.  Above: The honorees pose with CNR President Stephen Sweeny (far right) and Board of Trustees Chair Michael Ambler (far left).   m o r e

Click Here To View 2007 Commencement Videos - Greetings - Commencement Address - Conferral of Honorary Degrees

C L A S S  O F  2 0 0 7  P R A Y E R  S E R V I C E

In celebration of the graduating Class of 2007, the Office of Campus Ministry presented a special Prayer Service on May 3, 2007, at Holy Family Chapel. The CNR Gospel Choir sang at the evening service.

W E L L N E S S  C E N T E R  U P D A T E
Wellness Center construction continues on schedule.

On May 9, 2007, the concrete floor for the gymnasium was poured.

Helen Wolf, Director of Campus Ministry, just earned her Master of Arts in Religion and Religious Education from Fordham University and has been accepted as a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Education beginning in Fall ‘07. Her Masters’ thesis was about the International Service Plunge to Mexico and was entitled “Service Learning and Christian Religious Education: Breaking Down Barriers to Justice and Peace.” In July she will attend the annual conference of the Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities at the University of Portland, Oregon.  

Suzette Walker-Vega, Assistant Director of Campus Ministry, attended the 2007 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in February 2007 in Washington, DC. The workshop was entitled “Bringing Good News to a Broken World.”

Jennifer Zazo, Director of Castle Gallery, recently launched a traveling version of The Black Madonna exhibition, which was first exhibited at Castle Gallery in December 2004. The Black Madonna opened to the public on Mother’s Day, May 13, 2007, at The National Museum of Catholic Art and History in East Harlem, New York. It will run through August 5, 2007.

Associate Professor of Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences Richard D. Cassetta was honored recently by the American Chemical Society (ACS) New York section for years of outstanding service with their “Salute to Excellence Award.” Recently Professor Cassetta was faculty advisor and mentor for Michelle Permaul SAS’07, who presented her research paper: “Nylon-6 Capillary-Channeled Polymer Fibers as a Stationary Phase for Ion Exchange Chromatography Separations of Proteins” at the 55th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Manhattan College in May 2007.

Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences Dr. Roblyn Rawlins participated in a March 2007 Institute sponsored by the National Collegiate Honors Council in New Orleans on the topic “New Orleans: Discovery and Recovery.” Dr. Rawlins also published a paper “Situated Knowledge, or What I Saw at the New Orleans Faculty Institute” in a monograph of papers presented at that conference.

Professor of Classics in the School of Arts & Sciences Dr. Ann Raia is leaving imminently for Italy, where she will visit Rome and Venice with Professor Emerita Barbara McManus. They have planned a photo trip in order to take pictures of ancient Roman and Greek sites and artifacts for the VRoma image archive and Dr. Raia’s  Online Companion. Dr. Raia, with Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Dr. Nereida Segura-Rico will be spending the summer working on an SAS Faculty Development Grant project. They will be researching and developing a seminar on the languages and cultures of the European Mediterranean area for junior-senior language majors and minors.

Dr. Marie Ribarich, Assistant Dean of Human Services, and Dr. Nieli Langer, Associate Professor of Gerontology in the Graduate School, had an article published this past spring called “Aunts, Uncles - Nieces, Nephews: Kinship Relations Over the Lifespan.” It appeared in Educational Gerontology, volume 33.

Professor of Gerontology in the Graduate School Dr. Ken Doka was the keynote speaker on May 30, 2007, at a conference in Dublin, Ireland. He spoke on the topic, “New Understandings of Grief and Loss and Disenfranchised Grief.” Recently Dr. Doka gave the keynote at a conference on the MN Hospice Organization. He is also doing a series of trainings on grief for the Veterans Administration in Virginia and New York. This summer Dr. Doka will attend the International Work Group on Dying, Death and Bereavement Meeting in Brazil.

“where legends played....      ...be part of the legend”
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 At The Newly Renovated, Coore/Crenshaw Course Of Wykagyl Country Club New Rochelle, NY	10:00 am Registration 11:00 am Brunch 12:30 pm Shotgun Start 6:00 pm Cocktails/Dinner For more information, please contact Linda Grande at lgrande@cnr.edu or 914-654-5288

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