F E A T U R E S T O R I E S
CNR Students Bike To
Albany Carrying Green Torch
On October 26, 2007, six students from The College of
New Rochelle joined students from Bard and Vassar as part of a
three-college Green Torch Relay team that walked, ran and biked to
Albany, as part of Focus The
Nation,
an educational initiative on global
warming solutions for
America. m o r e
Family Weekend 2007
The
College of New Rochelle hosted its annual Family Weekend in early
November. The autumn tradition for
CNR students and their families provided opportunities to experience
campus life, attend an Honors Convocation, and to dine and socialize
with other CNR families. m
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Little Shop of Horrors Presented
The College of New Rochelle’s theater club, CNR
Drama, presented their fall production, the
hit musical Little Shop of Horrors
in November.
Laurie Peterson Castaldo directed the production,
which was choreographed by CNR graduate student Jessica Bittner
(who also starred as Audrey II). Other CNR students involved in the
production were cast members Cristine Locke (Crystal), Darianna Parra
(Ronette) and Sherna-Lee Wedderburn (Chiffon); monster plant puppeteers
Janine Napierkowski, Sakina Laksimi and Mattie Jalonack; and stage
manager Arielle Ares. Erin Churchill served as production stage
manager and JoAnna Marchetti as costumer designer. Ms. Castaldo,
Ms. Churchill and Ms. Marchetti are all CNR alumnae.
CNR Founder’s Day Celebrated
On October 25, 2007, The College of New Rochelle began its Founder’s
Day
celebration with a Liturgy of the Eucharist in Holy Family
Chapel.
Following the liturgy, a luncheon was held in the Student Campus
Center. m o r e
Students Recognized for Service
Students from the School of Nursing, School of Arts & Sciences,
School
of New Resources, and the Graduate School were recognized for their
commitment to service by receiving the Ursuline
Institute Serviam Awards
for 2007. Flanking President Stephen J. Sweeny are the 2007 Serviam Award winners (left to
right):
Ruth Collura, School of Nursing; Allison Ipoliti, School of Arts &
Sciences;
Willette Fletcher, Graduate School; and Tamisha Hurley, School of New
Resources. m o r e
Reception for Sweetness in the Rhythm of Jazz:
Herbert Gentry’s Inner Dance held at Gordon Parks Gallery
Sweetness in the Rhythm of Jazz:
Herbert
Gentry’s Inner Dance, an exhibit featuring the works of the late
artist
Herbert Gentry, opened
in
October at the Gordon Parks Gallery and Cultural Arts
Center
located on the School of New Resources’ John Cardinal O’Connor
Campus. The exhibit also featured “Personal Anthology,” works by
Aiki.
Pictured above,
Robert Tate, School of New Resources instructional staff member, and
his
wife, Tina Atterbury, enjoy one of Herbert Gentry’s paintings.
For more
on
the exhibit click here.
Wellness Center Nears Completion
The new Wellness Center is approximately 85 percent complete.
Approximately
70 tradesmen are on site working on the project. New color glass
windows—three feet high and ten feet long--have been
installed on the south façade of the Wellness Center. These
windows
have a laminated plastic film of green and blue between two clear
layers of glass. This creates the color windows. These green and blue
hues are also repeated throughout the facility. m o r
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The Shroud of Turin
& Other Mysteries
presented by Ursuline Institute
On October 11, 2007, The
Shroud
of Turin & Other Mysteries was the Fall 2007 topic of The
Ursuline Institute
lecture held on the main
campus.
Mary
Virginia Orna, O.S.U., Scientist-in-Residence at the College, discussed
how
applying
methods of archaeological chemistry scientists and non-scientists alike
can
gain a better understanding of the past. In her talk she showed how
analysis
of the techniques used to produce objects in the past can support or
undermine
the claims to authenticity of such famous artifacts as the Shroud of
Turin.
Pearl Sullivan, Coordinator of Retention of the School of New Resources
at Co-Op City Campus, (l.) introduced Sr. Mary Virginia Orna.
Iraqi Photojournalist and Fulbright Scholar
Speaks on Main Campus 
On November 1, 2007, photojournalist and Fulbright Scholar Haider Abdul
Razak
spoke on the main campus to students in the SAS International Studies
Program.
A guest of Dr. Anne McKernan, Associate Professor of History in the
School
of Arts & Sciences, Haider Abdul Razak is currently studying at The
New
School for Social Research in New York City. Born in Germany, Haider
Abdul Razak grew up in Tanzania, Kenya,
Ethiopia,
Bulgaria, Spain, Turkey and Portugal before attending high school and
college
in Iraq. After college, he joined the U.S. military as an embedded
journalist
to cover the war in Iraq for the U.S. and international media
organizations.
Winners of 14th Annual High School Women
Artists Exhibit
On November 11, 2007, more than 150 people attended the award ceremony
for
The College of New Rochelle's 14th Annual High School Women Artists
Exhibition. In announcing the winners, Dr. Dick Thompson, Dean of the
CNR’s School of Arts & Sciences, said, “Art is central to the life
of the College and it is central to our everyday lives. The creative
work you have shared with us contributes to that vision and to our
greater appreciation of the ordinary and extraordinary in life.”
International Food
Editor Alum Visits CNR
Karen
Willoughby SAS’86
spent the day sharing her expertise with School of Arts & Sciences
students on October 24, 2007. The Special Projects Editor for Reed
Elsevier and Editor of the trade publication Food International, Karen
taught herself to speak Dutch to land the job. In the morning, she
addressed nearly 100 communication arts and business students, along
with CNR faculty and staff, on how the web is watching you in the
business world.
That afternoon, Karen, who oversees both the print and
online versions of Food International,
offered design tips to students in
the Specialty Publications class and discussed the craft of writing and
editing in the Feature Writing class. Turns out that Karen got hooked
on writing by one of her high school teachers who instructed his
students to write about what they knew. And who was that teacher? The
prize-winning writer Frank McCourt of Angela's
Ashes fame, though unknown at the time.
C N R S T U D E N T N E W S
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CNR Student Profile
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"I considered
Virginia Union, Virginia State University and Spelman
College. I picked The College of New Rochelle because when I first
visited the campus everyone was so welcoming. Also,the laptop that they
gave me free had a lot to do with my coming here. It really cut down on
the cost of my education."
Araba
Adjeikoranteng
Class of 2008
Political Science
School of Arts & Sciences
The College of New Rochelle
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Students Sign up for
Polar Plunge in December
On December 8,
2007, CNR students, faculty and staff will participate in the National
Polar Bear Plunge at Hudson Park in New Rochelle. This event will help
raise awareness for the Focus the Nation's educational conference on
January 31, 2008, when CNR will join the more than
1,000 universities and colleges from all 50 states participating in
this unprecedented educational initiative on
global warming solutions for America. As the largest teach-in in U.S.
history, Focus The Nation is preparing hundreds of thousands of
students to become leaders in the largest civilizational challenge any
generation has faced. For more about Focus The Nation, click
here.
F A C U L T Y / S T A F F F O C U S
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"In the Art Department
Senior Exit Survey, graduating students most often mention the quality
of their
relationships with the professors and their one-on-one mentoring as one
of the
greatest strengths of our program. "
Cristina
de Gennaro
Associate
Professor of Art
School of Arts & Sciences
The College of New Rochelle
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Dr. Susan Conte,
Assistant Professor of
Guidance & Counseling in the Graduate School, gave three
presentations during the month of October. She spoke on October 11,
2007 at the Trinity House/Outpatient Treatment Center of St.
Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital on “Substance Abuse and Self-injury;” on
October 15, 2007, she discussed “Families Alive! Understanding Family
Relationships through Family Sculpture,” at Guidance Expo 2007 at the
Country Center in White Plains, New York; and on October 26, 2007, at
Four Winds Hospital, she addressed “Speaking for Themselves:
Understanding non-suicidal Self-injury in Adolescents and Young Adults.”
Dr. Kenneth J. Doka,
Professor of
Gerontology in the Graduate School, published “When a Friend is
Suffering” in the November 2007 issue of Catholic Digest. The August
2007 issue of Grief Matters: The
Australian Journal of Grief and
Bereavement was devoted to ‘disenfranchised grief,’ and in the
introduction, the editors wrote,“ The publication of Doka's landmark
text Disenfranchised Grief:
Recognizing Hidden Sorrow was an
acceleration toward this new social perspective.”
Sr. Martha Counihan,
Associate Professor
and Archivist of CNR, recently was a delegate to the Ursuline General
Chapter held in Rome. This General Chapter meeting of the Roman Union
of the Ursuline is held every six years for the purpose of electing new
leadership, deciding upon priorities, and receiving reports of all the
provinces of the Roman Union of the Ursulines. Sr. Martha was one of 82
delegates from around the world.
Associate Professor of Art in the School
of Arts & Sciences Cristina
DeGennaro has been invited back to Wave
Hill in the Bronx to do another site-specific installation as part of
the exhibition, “Ornamental Instincts,” opening on November 23, 2007
and on display through January 13, 2008. Her piece will explore aspects
of the Roman god Janus. The reception for the artists is on Sunday,
December 2, 2:00-4:00 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition, she
will present an adult art workshop on Collage Techniques on Friday,
December 14, 10:00 a.m. until 3:00pm. For more information about both
the
exhibition and the workshop click
here.
Dr. Mireya
Perez-Bustillo, Associate
Professor of Modern Languages in the School of Arts & Sciences, was
a panelist on November 2, 2007 at a symposium at Rutgers
University-Newark on
“The Book as Body, the Body as Book.” She is also listed in the
2007-2008 edition of Who's Who in
American Education. In September her
short story “safe” appeared in Rogue
Scholar on-line publication, and
on September 23, 2007 she was the featured poet at the Poet to Poet
series at
Back Fence, in Greenwich Village. On January 1, 2008, Dr.
Perez-Bustillo will be the guest poet at the Bowery Poetry Club’s New
York Poetry Marathon.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
in the School of Arts & Sciences Dr.
Michael Grabowski spoke on
“The Dog Ate My Lesson Plan: Great Teaching Mistakes” at the New York
State Communication Association meeting in October.
A L U M N A E / I S P O T L I G H
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“My entire
nursing career is a direct
reflection of what I learned at The College of New Rochelle. I was
thankful for the faculty who inspired me to work hard and advance the
profession of nursing.”
Mary Hesdorffer
SN’95
Nurse Practitioner
Medical Liaison
Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
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