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F E A T U R E S T O R I E S
69th Annual Alumnae/I
College
Weekend

CNR celebrated its 69th annual
Alumnae/i
College Reunion over the June 8-10 weekend. Graduates of The
College
of New Rochelle returned to campus for a weekend of fun and
remembrances. List of
2007 Awardees

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W E L
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S C E N T E R U P D A T E
Wellness Center
construction continues on
schedule.
This
photo shows the
Wellness Center’s futuristic six-lane NCAA competition
swimming pool under construction.
One of its many unique features is the six panels of windows above the
pool,
creating for the swimmers an ‘outdoor’ atmosphere inside the
state-of-the-art
facility. m o r e
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Q U A
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Spring 2007
The alumnae/i
magazine of
The College of New Rochelle
is now accessible
online!
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CNR Offers Summer Art
Workshop for High School Students

For the fourth
consecutive year, The College of New Rochelle’s School of Arts
& Sciences’ Art Department offered an intense Summer Art
Portfolio Workshop, designed for high school students (sophomores,
juniors, seniors and recent graduates) who want to develop a strong
college admissions portfolio. press release
Empire State Officials Stay
On Campus

The College hosted 90 adult volunteers for the New York State Empire
Games in late July. The Empire State Games is a multi-sport event for
amateur athletes and is patterned after the Olympic program.
Approximately 6,000 athletes participated in the games. Here, Meghan
Toomey, Assistant Director for Student Development &
Programs,
checks guests into Ursula Hall. The volunteers stayed in Ursula
Hall for the week and had breakfast at the Student Campus
Center
each morning before heading off to their various assignments in
Westchester County.
Freshman Summer Orientation
Held on Main Campus

Summer Orientation
2007 for new CNR students starting this fall in the School of Arts
& Sciences and School of Nursing was held over the summer on the
main campus in New Rochelle. Students attending the two-day sessions
registered for classes, completed health forms, finished their housing
application forms, and most of all, met faculty, staff, and other new
students.

C N R S T U D E N T N E W S
CNR Graduate Students Awarded Thesis Awards

The Westchester Art Therapy
Association has awarded three graduate
art therapy students the Thesis Award for 2007. The awardees are Alexandra Dziedzic, Shannon Flatley, and Lauren Rega. The students
presented their innovative thesis research at an Awards Events on June
13, 2007 in the Student Campus Center on the main
campus. Photographed here are Jane
DeSourza, President of the
Westchester Art Therapy Association and Art Therapist at St. Vincent’s
Hospital; Dr. John Patton,
Assistant Dean of the Art and Communication
Studies Division of the Graduate School of CNR; Dr. Patricia St. John,
Associate Professor of Art Therapy & Art Education in the Graduate
School of CNR; graduate students: Lauren Rega, Alexandria Dziedzic,
Shannon Flatley; and Dr. Guy Lometti,
dean of the Graduate School.
Arts & Sciences students
traveled to Quebec on cross cultural trip

In the last week of May 2007, students in the Department of
Modern and Classical Languages traveled with Dr. André
Beauzethier to visit Montréal and Québec. Among many educational and sightseeing
trips, the
undergraduates in Montréal
visited Basilique Notre-Dame, attended Mass at the Cathedral, and
walked
through various ethnic communities in the city. In Québec
they stopped at a Huron Native American village, talked to
a representative of the Students’ Parliament at the Joseph-François Perrault School, and toured the
La Maison de L’Auberivière, a
charity organization.
Shonda Gaylord SAS ’08, a
double major in Biology and Environmental
Studies, has received a fellowship from the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) and is spending the summer at Woods Hole
where she will be involved in the development of a detection system for
identifying haddock and humpback whales. This coming fall, Shonda will
be studying at Mediterranean Center for Arts and Sciences (MCAS) in
Sicily. She received a full-tuition scholarship from MCAS, the only
student to receive a full-tuition scholarship.

A L U M N A E / I S P O T L I G H
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David F. Zawatson
Certification in
Education Administration
Graduate School
The College of New Rochelle
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“As a working professional with limited time, I
found the CNR
certification program in education administration both convenient and
of high quality with great instructors who are working professionals.
The program also gave me the opportunity to meet other professionals in
my field and to make some wonderful new contacts. I first heard about
the program from my wife, who is a school principal on Long Island, and
also attended the CNR program. The College of New Rochelle educational
opportunity was a great benefit to both of us.”
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David F. Zawatson
received his certification in education
administration from the CNR Graduate School, a Master of Science in
physical education from Hofstra University, and a Bachelor of Arts in
history from the University of California-Berkeley.
On July 1, 2007, he was
appointed district director of athletics,
recreation, and physical education in Great Neck, Long Island. Zawatson
had previously been the director of physical education, health, and
athletics in Oceanside, New York.. He began his career as a sports
professional by playing football for the Chicago Bears, New York Jets,
and Atlanta Falcons from 1989-92. He also served as assistant football
coach at the University of California-Berkeley in 1993-94.
In his director's role
in Oceanside, Zawatson was responsible for
the hiring, supervision, and evaluation of the district's physical
education and health programs, 76 interscholastic athletic teams,
intramural programs, and more than 125 staff positions. He was
chairperson of the district-wide Safe and Drug Free School Committee,
co-chair of the Superintendent's Task Force on guidance practices, and
a member of the Nutrition Committee and Safety Planning Committee. He
coordinated the district's AED/Public Access to Defibrillation program.
From 1997-2000, Mr. Zawatson taught physical education in the Oceanside
Public Schools and coached various athletic teams, including football,
track and field (with three County championships), wrestling, and girls
basketball.
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F A C U L T Y / S T A F F F O C U S
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"Individuality is valued at The College of New
Rochelle and this is
clear from the fact that CNR’s community is rich in diversity. At CNR,
diversity and individual differences are appreciated."
Meghan Toomey
Assistant Director of
Student Development and Programs
The College of New Rochelle
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Dr. Ruth Zealand,
Chair of the Education Department of the School of
Arts & Sciences, and Dr. Judith
Gordon, Associate Professor of
Social Work of the School of Arts & Sciences, took seven students
to
Puerto Rico at the end of May. The students and faculty members visited
historical sites, went to museums and volunteered one afternoon at La
Fundita de Jesus, an organization for the homeless. They also traveled
to Vieques and spent time with the noted activist, Robert Rabin, who
was a key figure in removing the U.S. Navy from Vieques. The students
stayed at the University of Puerto Rico, where they attended lectures
by
noted professors and researches from the university, including Emilio
Pantojas, Fernando Pico, Beatriz Rivera-Cruz and Edgardo Melandez.
Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts
& Sciences Dr.
Nick Smart presented a paper at the June 2007 Virginia Woolf
Society
Annual Meeting at the University of Miami, Ohio. His paper, “I,
Bernard: Voices from the Feminist Classroom,” is about his teaching at
CNR. In March 2007 he presented the paper “Nothing But Affection for
All Those Who’ve Sailed With Me: Bob Dylan from Place to Place” at the
Weissman Museum on the University of Minnesota campus, in conjunction
with the Organization of American Historians annual meeting and the
exhibition “Bob Dylan’s American Journey.”
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the School
of Arts &
Sciences Dr. Elisabeth Brinkmann was
a session moderator at the June
2007 Catholic Theological Society of America Convention in Los Angeles.
Dr. Nilda Hernandez,
Associate Professor of Social Work, and Dorothy
Valle, Assistant for Enrollment Management, in the School of Arts &
Sciences, had papers publisheded in Network:
A Journal of Faculty
Development, based on presentations they made at a Faculty
Resource
Network Conference in November 2006 in Puerto Rico.
As part of the Faculty Resource Network, Dr. Nilda Hernandez, Associate
Professor of Social Work, and Linda
LoPresti, Associate Professor of
Business, in the School of Arts & Sciences, participated in a
one-week intensive course on “Teaching Business Ethics” in early June
at
The Stern School of Business, New York University.
Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Arts
& Sciences Dr. Stephen O’Rourke
will have a chapter published this summer in the
new edited text Mating Intelligence:
Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s
Reproductive System. The chapter that he co-authored is on
“Mating
Intelligence: An Integrative Model and Future Research Directions.” The
book will be released in July 2007.
School of Arts & Sciences Associate Professor of
Education Dr.
Diane Quandt and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Faith Kostel-Hughes
will attend the 2007 Summer Institute for Sustainability Education, a
one-week conference sponsored by the Children's Environmental Literacy
Foundation. They are attending this conference with support from a
Faculty Fund Grant to develop a cognate or sub-specialty in
Environmental Science for pre-service teachers in the Education
Program. Dr. Quandt will also be attending the 6th Annual LiveText
Collaboration Conference in Chicago this July.
Associate Professor of Modern Language in the School of
Arts &
Sciences Dr. Mireya Perez-Bustillo started
her marriage ministry as an
ordained Interfaith Minister and celebrated two marriages. A short
narrative by Dr. Perez-Bustillo was published in Rogue Scholar’s
Press, and she read her paper “Con passion/compassion” at the
Center
for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in April.
Dr. Amy Bass,
Associate Professor of History in the School of Arts
& Sciences and Director of the Honors Program, will publish, in
conjunction with Temple
University Press, the
second book in the series she is editing on sports. The book by Grant
Farred is entitled Long Distance
Love: A Passion for Football.

I N M E M O R I A M
Sr. Elizabeth Monaghan,
O.S.U. (formerly Mother Francis Borgia) passed
away on June 23, 2007 at the age of 93. Having
joined the
Ursulines in 1932, she spent many decades as faculty member, as
Director of Music, and Chapel organist at the College. She
touched
many lives, illuminated many occasions and maintained a treasury of
life-long friendships. We are grateful to God for the gift of
this
devoted Ursuline.

“where legends
played.... ...be part of the legend”
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Tuesday,
September 25, 2007
At The Newly Renovated, Coore/Crenshaw Course Of
Wykagyl Country Club
New Rochelle, NY
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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
or go to the CNR
Golf & Tennis Outing website
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Transfer &
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Thursday,
August 23, 2007
Transfer students in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of
Nursing (SN) and SN Second Degree students must complete advisement and
registration by appointment over the summer.
All Transfer students and SN Second Degree students must attend the
Summer Orientation Day on Thursday, August 23. Parents and other adult
family members are encouraged to attend.
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2007
For more
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T H
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Magic Memorabilia
From The
Collection Of
Nelson Nicholson
September 9
- November 11, 2007
Castle Gallery
CNR Main Campus
Opening Reception:
Sunday,
September 13, 2007
2 - 4 p.m.
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The
Sixth
Annual
C N R G
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T E
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Tuesday,
September 25, 2007
Wykagyl Country Club
New Rochelle, New York
For more information,
contact
Linda Grande
at 914.654.5288
or visit the
CNR Golf & Tennis
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