F E A T U R E  S T O R Y
School of Nursing Celebrates 30 Years of Nursing Education

Saturday, April 21, 2007, 4 p.m. Maura Ballroom, CNR Main Campus featuring keynote speaker Mary Healey-Sedutto, Ph.D. Founder & Executive Director, Hope For A Healthier Humanity Foundation & Pan American Catholic Health Care Network p r e s s  r e l e a s e

C N R  I N  T H E  N E W S

“Fitting in on Campus” appeared in the Real Estate section of  The New York Times on March 25, 2007. To read an excerpt of the article, click here.

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An Op-Ed article by CNR President Stephen J. Sweeny, Ph.D., entitled "New York's investment in higher education will pay off," appeared in the March 28, 2007 edition of the Journal News. To read the article, click here.

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CNR Students Return from Spring Break Urban and Rural Plunges
U R B A N  P L U N G E

The Urban Plunge, sponsored by the Office of Campus Ministry, took place during Spring Break, March 2007. The Urban Plunge is a service-learning experience during which four CNR students worked closely with professional educators at the Hale House Learning Center in Manhattan. The Learning Center serves children ages 6 weeks through 5 years, promoting intellectual, physical, social, emotional and language development. Pictured above are (l.-r.): Regina Burrus SN’10, Merrin George SAS’09, Erica Espinoza SAS’09 and Janette Fanio SN’07.

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R U R A L  P L U N G E

CNR students also attended another service-learning experience through Campus Ministry during Spring Break: the Rural Plunge. The Rural Plunge is an experience of service, simplicity, community, and reflection, completed in Naugatuck, West Virginia at the Big Laurel Learning Center. CNR volunteers provided day-care and tutored students, as well assisted with outdoor maintenance and environmental activities. The 2007 Rural Plungers are pictured here in front of a wood pile they chopped for the center [its main source of heat]. Left to right: Melissa Becker SAS’07, Kelly Quartironi SAS’09, Kelly Wilson SAS’07, and Laura Enright SN’08

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CNR Students Participate in 2007 Model United Nations Conference
A group of SAS students, who are members of CNR’s National Model United Nations club, participated in a national meeting held in New York City in March 2007. The CNR students represented the Republic of Rwanda. More than 4,000 students from around the world, including 38 states, attended the model UN conference. CNR students involved were: Kathy Yoon ’09; Jennifer Lanni ’07; Milena Tercheva ’08; Estella Ayuk ’09; Maria Loja ’09; Dymonique Colon ’09; and Melissa Lounsbury ’08.

A L U M N A E / I  S P O T L I G H T

	“As an all women’s college, CNR really helped me concentrate on my education. Through CNR’s internship contacts I was able to work in newsrooms and television stations to really understand the broadcasting industry.” Angela Cascarano School of Arts & Sciences ’01 The College of New Rochelle

Angela Cascarano is a segment producer at Fox 5 News. She currently produces consumer segments for “Shame, Shame, Shame.” Angela began her career at Fox 5 News in 2001 as an intern and worked her way up the ranks producing investigative and feature segments for the Ten O’clock News. In 2002 she co-produced an Emmy Award winning segment “Fake Rabbi.” Her investigative news team uncovered a man posing as a Rabbi who illegitimately married couples throughout the tri-state area. She was nominated again in 2003 for a business/consumer segment on a work-at-home job scam. This April, Angela won another Emmy Award for her team’s work on “Car Bucks.” The feature was about an illegal internet car-selling scam and was shown on “Shame, Shame, Shame,” the popular news segment hosted by reporter and consumer investigator Arnold Diaz (pictured with Angela at right). She has also field produced major news stories such as, The 9/11 Anniversary, the plane crash of New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle, and the NYC Subway strike. Angela holds a BA in Communication Arts from The College of New Rochelle.

F A C U L T Y / S T A F F  F O C U S

"Students who are committed to their intellectual, cultural, and social development are successful in the language department, which offers them the opportunity to become fluent in another language and literate in another culture.  Those who feel they lack oral proficiency can seek tutoring in French, Italian, or Spanish or enroll in Latin or ancient Greek, both of which are taught as literary not spoken languages." Dr. Ann Raia Professor Modern Foreign Languages School of Arts & Sciences The College of New Rochelle m o r e

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Professor Heather Herrera, Instructional Staff, Letters, at the Co-op City Campus of the School of New Resources, attended the National Council of English Teachers annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in New York City in March 2007 and presented a paper, entitled “Crime and Punishment: Concepts of Self Among Ethnolinguistically Diverse Female Students,” a case study that examines how ethnolinguistically diverse female students construct a sense of self in relation to a basic writing course.

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Katrina Rhein, Castle Gallery Manager, was featured in the recent Iona College art exhibition, “The Female Gaze: Women Artists Interpret The World.” Her two-dimensional work won 2nd place in its category. Other artists from CNR were Kelly Clark GS’05, and a member of the Castle Gallery Board. Kelly’s piece won 3rd place in the best two-dimensional work. Also featured was Sr. Anne Therese Dillen, OSU ’58. The curator of the show was Sheila Kriemelman, a former Graduate School art professor at CNR.

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Dr. Frank T. Rizza, Assistant Professor, Career Development, Mental Health Counseling in the Graduate School, is President-elect for the New York State Mental Health Counselor’s Association.

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Dr. Patricia St. John, Art Therapy Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Art Therapy & Art Education in the Graduate School, and Professor Robert Wolf, Professor of Studio Art and Art Therapy in the Graduate School, were both presenters at the 3rd Annual Educational Symposium of the New York Art Therapy Association on March 24, 2007. The symposium topic was: “Ethical Practices in Art Therapist: What Every Art Therapist Needs To Know.”