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CNR Hosts “Madonnas At The Metropolitan
Museum of Art” Lecture
Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., president emeritus of Georgetown
University and a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of
America, spoke on “Madonnas At the Met: A Beloved Theme at a
Beloved
Institution” on the Main Campus of CNR on December 8, 2009. The lecture
was a continuation of Father Leo’s four-part lecture series last year,
“Finding God in All the Galleries.” According to Dr. Joan Bailey, Vice
President of Mission and Identity, Father Leo’s lecture, “once again
explored the relationships between art and faith and the role of visual
art in the endless project of human self-understanding.”
“As the Advent Season
celebrates the mystery of the Birth of Jesus, so
art over the centuries has imagined and re-imagined that story, its
forms, and its meaning,” said Father Leo as he began his talk.
Beginning with Mary as Byzantine Empress with her son and then seeing
her as Medieval Queen, a noble young woman of the Renaissance, a mother
with her child in ordinary late 19th century life and more, the lecture
considered how the image of the Madonna both shows the values of a
culture and in turn shapes those values.
Following the lecture, Father
Leo spoke to students from the School of New Resources who attended the
evening lecture in Romita Auditorium.
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CNR Celebrates Lighting of Christmas Tree
& Blessing of Crèche
On December 3, 2009, the
College Community gathered on Chidwick Walk
for the traditional blessing of the crèche and the lighting of
the
tree. CNR President Stephen J. Sweeny, Campus Ministry Director Helen
Wolf, and Chaplain Fr. Joseph Flynn, OFM Cap, led the students,
faculty, and staff in this annual Christmas Season event. In his
remarks at this joyful College event, Father Joe recounted the origin
of the crèche/manger, saying, “It began on Christmas Eve in the
small
city of Assisi in the year 1223 when St. Francis of Assisi desired to
celebrate the wondrous event of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ in a
memorable way. He gathered the people of Assisi, as well as a number of
animals, to create a living crèche. This began a wondrous
tradition for
the church so each Christmas people of faith gather around a
crèche to
be reminded of this awesome moment in the history of salvation by our
God.”
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Campus Ministry Hold Theological Reflection
The Office of Campus Ministry held a theological reflection over a
“thanksgiving lunch” on November 23, 2009. The special luncheon took
place on the Main Campus. According to Helen Wolf, Director of Campus
Ministry, “a theological reflection is a dialogue about God’s abiding
presence that can lead one to personal and social transformation.”
Participants who served as liturgical minister and/or community service
volunteer during the fall semester reflected on faith and its impact on
their ministry and service. Pictured here are the students, staff,and
faculty who offered insights from their various faith traditions.
Sister Clare Nolan Speaks on Human
Trafficking
On the evening of November 19, 2009, Sr. Clare Nolan, a member of the
Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, highlighted the
global issue of human trafficking before an audience of more than 100
students, faculty, and staff in Romita Auditorium on the Main
Campus. “Stuck in Traffick: A Human Trafficking Event" was part
of the Fall Social Justice Series facilitated by the Office of Campus
Ministry. Assisting Campus Ministry in this advocacy effort was the
Office of Government Relations, headed by Terri Eberle. The talk was
broadcasted live on streaming video, and students at the School of New
Resources campuses in New York City were able to log on and participate
from their classrooms. Campus Ministry also presented a slide show that
detailed the global crime of human trafficking, and students and
faculty and staff were then encouraged to write to their congressional
representatives and urge them to help eradicate this modern-day form of
human slavery.
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Roses In December Mass Held in Holy Family
Chapel
Sr. Mary Sullivan, Provincial Superior of the Ursulines of the Eastern
Province of the United States, offered a special reflection at a midday
Mass in honor of the four women martyrs of El Salvador on December 2,
2009, in Holy Family Chapel on the New Rochelle Campus. This annual
College event honors the lives of Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, lay
missioner Jean Donovan, and Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura
Clarke. These four American churchwomen were martyred in 1980 while
working with the poor in El Salvador. The special liturgy was sponsored
by the Office of Campus Ministry.
W.E. B. Du Bois Lecture Held At CNR
Dr. Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History and SAS Honors Program
Director, spoke on December 15, 2009, on her new book, Those About Him Remained Silent: The
Battle over W.E. B. Du Bois. Sponsored by the Office of Mission
& Identity, Bass’
lecture focused on the collision of racism, patriotism, and global
politics that she explores in the book. Du Bois - author, civil rights
activist, pan-Africanist, historian - was born in the small
Massachusetts town of Great Barrington. Residents of the town
recognized his talent, funded his education, and - much later - after
his death in 1963, proposed the creation of a memorial park in his
name. Debate over this proposal bitterly divided the community and
brought to light the complex intersection of global politics, racism,
and cold war patriotism. In her evening lecture Bass demonstrated how
debates over the legacy of Du Bois are increasingly relevant in
contemporary American politics.
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Senator Suzi Oppenheimer Speaks on Main
Campus
New York State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer discussed “Women and Society
Being and Becoming” on December 9, 2009, on the Main Campus of the
College. A guest of CNR Office of Government Relations and School
of Arts & Sciences Women’s Studies Program, Senator Oppenheimer
discussed her own political career and how woman must take risks and
seek opportunities. Ms. Oppenheimer, who has been a member of the
New York Senate since 1985, received her undergraduate degree from a
women's college and was one of the first women to earn a master’s
degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. In
his introduction, SAS Dean Dr. Richard Thompson said, “Senator Suzi
Oppenheimer has been an energetic and vocal advocate for education,
environmental protection, child care, health care, fiscal reform, the
arts, and the rights of women. Her record of community service, local
government experience, and leadership on statewide issues has enabled
her to work in a bipartisan manner to address the concerns of
constituents.”
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“The College of
New Rochelle provided me with a solid foundation in
biology, chemistry, and mathematics, thus empowering me to continue to
medical school, and go on to an internship and residency. For me, one
of the great facets of education at CNR was the ability to interact in
intimate classroom settings, coupled with the ability to engage the
professors in great in-depth discussions. I must say CNR provided me a
path to greater knowledge and confidence for life.”
Kathy Reilly Fallon,
MD, SAS’90
Foot and Ankle
Specialist
Midtown Manhattan
Health Center
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Dr. Kathy Reilly
Fallon is a Board Certified Wound Care Specialist
and Foot and Ankle Specialist in New York City. She served two
consecutive terms on the Medical Executive Board of St. Vincent's
Midtown Hospital in Manhattan, the Credentials Committee, and was
Clinical Supervisor of Interns & Residents in the Department of
Surgery. She presently works as a foot and ankle surgeon for the
Midtown Manhattan Health Center.
She is also the Founder and Chairwoman of Heavenly
Productions
Foundation, a 501c-not for profit whose mission is to help children in
distress. She has produced and sung on two projects to help children.
Her Foundation's first project was the "Heavenly Lullabies" CD,
dedicated to the orphans of 9-11-01. The second project was the release
of a four-time award-winning book, entitled Heavenly Skies &
Lullabies Illustrated Song Book/CD, which helped children
affected by
Hurricane Katrina. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors
of the March of Dimes.
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S P O R T S A T C N R
CNR Student Selected
HVWAC Basketball Rookie of the Week
Elizabeth
Johnston SAS’13 (c.) has
been selected as HVWAC Basketball Rookie of the
Week for the fourth time this season. The freshman center/forward
accounted for 40.1% of the Blue Angels points averaging a double-double
(10.5 points, 12.0 rebounds) over a two-game stretch where the Blue
Angels went 0-2. Johnston also demonstrated her endurance, sitting down
for only two minutes of play the entire week.
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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“At CNR, I feel a
genuine sense of community, of a college community,
and it's both felt and observed on different levels. Everywhere I go I
see close-knit groups of people who, even though they either have been
here forever or they seem like they have been here forever, never make
me feel excluded.”
Ian Kreisburg
School of New Resources
New Rochelle Campus
Class of 2011
White Plains, New York
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CNR Gospel Choir Hold
Annual Banquet Night
The CNR Gospel Choir held its annual Banquet Night on Saturday
evening, November 21, 2009 in Maura Ballroom on the Main Campus of CNR.
According to Helen Wolf, Director of Campus Ministry, “this night was
an opportunity for the choir, as well as individual members and guests,
to praise God in music, dance, poetry, and fellowship.” Under the
direction of Scott Patterson, the Gospel Choir is in its seventh year
at CNR. Mr. Patterson studied classical piano performance at The
Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and at the Manhattan School of
Music. Currently, he is also the Music Director of St. Mark, the
Evangelist Church in Central Harlem. Here, Scott Patterson plays a
little classical music of his own.
AIDS Walk On Campus
Campus Ministry co-sponsored an AIDS Walk on December 7, 2009,
with the Junior Class. Students walked the track in The Wellness Center
to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. Funds raised benefited “Keep A Child
Alive,” a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing
life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care, and support services to
children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in
Africa and India. Information was also shared about The Lord’s Pantry,
a meal delivery service for people suffering from AIDS in Westchester.
Campus Ministry partners with The Lord’s Pantry twice a month by
delivering meals on Thursday evenings to families in New Rochelle.
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“CNR is a small
College and a tight-knit community. This allows me to
get to know and help my students and our graduates develop long term
strategies to be successful in their careers.”
Mary White
Assistant Vice President
for Student Services
The College of New Rochelle
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Dr. Amy Bass,
Associate Professor of
History and SAS Honors Program Director, gave a lecture at the
University of Nebraska. Her talk,“'They Loved My Grandfather’: An
Olympic Legacy of Race, Memory, and Germany," was part of the three-day
Caroll Pauley Memorial Endowed History Symposium. She was also recently
interviewed on Northeast Public Radio, a member of NPR, about her new
book, Those About Him Remained
Silent: the Battle over W.E.B. Du Bois.
Dr. Bass has been doing several public readings, including a recent
event at the Du Bois Center in Great Barrington, MA. The book has been
featured in newspapers such as The
Berkshire Eagle and The
Bennington
Banner.
Dr. Susan Conte,
Associate Professor of Guidance & Counseling in
the Graduate School, gave a lecture on “Understanding Self-injury Among
Adolescents and Young Adults” in November at Fordham University
Graduate School of Social Services. Her presentation was
entitled,
“Understanding Self-injury Among Adolescents and Young Adults.”
Dr. Kenneth J. Doka,
Professor of Gerontology in the Graduate School,
has just published “An Internet Tool to Normalize Grief” along with
co-authors with S. Dominick, A. Irvine. N. Beauchamp, J. Seeley, S.
Nolen-Hoeksema, and G. Bonanno in Omega:
Journal of Death and Dying. A
chapter entitled “Illness, grief, and loss” was included in M. Kerman's
edited book, Clinical Pearls of
Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer
Their Key Insights published by W.W. Norton.
Dr. Faith Kostel-Hughes,
Associate Professor of Biology, and Dr. Diane
Quandt, Associate Professor of Education, both in the School of Arts
& Sciences, made a presentation on November 13, 2009, at the 6th
Annual Meeting of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley
Colleges & Universities held at Vassar College. The conference
theme was “Teaching and Learning the Hudson Valley: Building
Capacity
for Place-Based Education.” Drs. Quandt and Kostel-Hughes
presentation
was entitled, “Team-teaching to Enhance Teacher Education: A
Collaboration between CNR's Environmental Studies and Education
Programs.” The faculty members shared their experiences in teaching
“Environmental
Studies of the Hudson Valley,” a course they developed
to demonstrate to teacher education students the benefits of
interdisciplinary and experiential approaches to explore and
incorporate environmental topics into the classroom.
Dr. Cynthia Kraman,
Associate Professor of English in the School of
Arts & Sciences, has published a new volume of poetry, The Touch,
with Bowery Books. Dr. Kraman has done readings of poems from this
collecting at Hugo House in Seattle; Moe’s Books in San Francisco;
Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles; and at the Open City Series at KGB in
New York City. The collection of poems has also been nominated for the
Kingsley Tufts Award and The Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos
Williams Award. Her individual poem “My Own Private Iditarod” was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Dr. Kraman’s essay “The Wound of The
Infinite: Re-reading Levinas Through Rashi’s Commentary on the Song of
Songs” came out as well in 2009, in Levinas
and Medieval Thought,
edited by Ann W. Astell and J.A. Jackson and published by Duquesne
University Press. Supported by a Faculty Fund Award, her play Promised
Land, which is set in the aftermath of 9-11, played at the
Algonquin
Theatre in October.
Dr. William Maxwell,
Professor of Art in the School of Arts & Sciences,
on December 3, 2009, gave a Pecha Kucha presentation of his recent
digital artwork at The Center for Digital Art, Westchester Community
College, Peekskill Extension. Pecha Kucha draws its name from the
Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat” and rests on a presentation
format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a
format that makes presentations concise and keeps things moving at a
rapid pace.
Dr. Mary D. McGuinness,
Assistant Dean of
the School of Nursing, attended a nursing program in the Netherlands
from October 5-9, 2009 organized by the Hogesschool Zuyd in the
Netherlands. This program was a “knowledge exchange” experience for
faculties from the Greater New York Metropolitan area including Hunter
College, Downstate Medical, and CNR. The nurses attended lectures and
discussions and presented lectures to faculty, graduate and
undergraduate students. Dr. McGuinness also presented a paper on
“Dual
Diagnosis (Current Treatments for Alcohol and Bipolar Disorders)” at
Zuyd University and visited the Mondriaan Division of Addictions in
South Limburg, as well as other nursing and medical facilities.
Margie Neuhaus,
Associate Professor of Art in the School of Arts and
Sciences, exhibited a series of photographs from her Vacant House
series in the exhibition, Weather
Channel, at the Islip Art Museum,
East Islip, N.Y. Her work was mentioned in the review by Benjamin
Genocchio, “The Weather We Barely Notice,” which appeared in The New
York Times, Long Island
section.
Dr. Esta M. Rapoport,
Assistant Professor of Special Education in the
Graduate School, has done presentations based on her book, ADHD and
Social Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers and Parents, at
the
Pleasantville School District on October 21, 2009 and at the Byram
Hills School District on December 10, 2009.
Dr. Roblyn Rawlins,
Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of
Arts & Sciences, is co-investigator with faculty from Penn State
Lehigh Valley on a 3-year program evaluation of the 21st Century
Community Learning Center Initiative. The initiative is designed to
raise student achievement among high-risk students in K-5th grades
through structured, after-school activities provided in collaboration
between community organizations and school districts in the Lehigh
Valley, PA.
Dr. Frank T. Rizza,
Associate Professor
of Mental Health Counseling and Career Development in the Graduate
School, spoke at the Poinciana High School on two topics in two
separate presentations. “The effects of substance use on teens”
and
“Career planning and college choice” in November 2009.
Dr. Jennifer Scuro,
Assistant Professor
of Philosophy and Director of the SAS Women’s Studies Program, will be
presenting her paper, “Reviving a Global Ecological Feminism: An
Ecopolitics of Homeplace” for The Society of Social and Political
Philosophy (SSPP) at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern
Meeting held in New York City on December 30, 2009.
Dr. Nereida Segura-Rico,
Associate
Professor of Spanish in the School of Arts and Sciences, presented a
paper “Dying for a Dream: Marginalization and Violence in Recent
Dominican-American Fiction” at the conference “Undocumented Hispanic
Migration: On the Margins of a Dream” at Connecticut College on October
16, 2009.
Dr. Walter Sullivan,
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in
the Graduate School, received The Recognition Award at the New York
State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) on
November 13, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza hotel in White Plains for his
work to further the TESOL profession and facilitate the English
language acquisition of LEP students.
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CNR's
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Crèche: Collection
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Around the World
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H R I S T M A S E V E
Liturgy
Thursday
December 24, 2009
Holy Family Chapel
Christmas Carols
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Friday
December 25, 2009
Mass
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Feast of The
E P I P H A N Y
Sunday
January 3, 2010
Holy
Family Chapel
Mass
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M A P P I N
G M E M O R I E S
Installation Art
Takafumi Ide and Beili Liu
Organizer:
Katrina Rhein
through
February
21, 2010
Castle Gallery
Main Campus
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Wednesday
January 13, 2010
7 p.m.
Hunter College
Home Game
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Sunday
January 17, 2010
1 p.m.
Alfred University
Home Game
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Thursday
January 21, 2010
7 p.m.
@ Albany College of Pharmacy
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Saturday
January 23, 2010
3 p.m.
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Tuesday
January 26, 2010
7 p.m.
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Thursday
January 28, 2010
6 p.m.
@ Fairleigh Dickinson
- Florham
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Friday
January 29, 2010
7 p.m.
CCNY
Home Game
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Monday
February 1, 2010
7 p.m.
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Home Game
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Tuesday
February 2, 2010
7:30 p.m.
St. Joseph's - Brooklyn
Home Game
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Tuesday
February 9, 2010
7 p.m.
USMMA - King's Point
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Friday, February 12, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Home Game
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CNR is
hosting the
Hudson
Valley
Women's
Athletic
Conference
Basketball
Championship!
Saturday
February 20, 2010
6 p.m.
HVWAC
Basketball
Championship
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Sunday
February 21, 2010
2 - 8 p.m.
HVWAC
Basketball
Championship
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