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Spotlight I:
The Faculty Exhibition Comes to a Close
Colorful images every way you turn, soft music playing overhead, people looking around eagerly, talking and laughing. These were the sights and sounds of the closing ceremony of Iona College's Faculty Art Exhibition Gallery. The Exhibition, which opened on Sunday, October 18, bid its farewell on the afternoon of Thursday, December 3. More...
Classical Music: Westchester Chamber Orchestra
Saturday, December 12, 8:00 pm - The Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium
In addition to featuring a selection of Baroque music, the WCO, under the direction of Barry Charles Hoffman, will perform works by JS Bach. Violinist Alex Abayev is featured in JS Bach's Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BWV 1050, in D major. $40 general admission; $35 senior citizens; free to Iona College community.
Gallery Exhibition: "Dreamscapes"
Sunday, January 24 - Thursday, February 25
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 24, 1:00 -3:00 pm
Meet the Artist Gallery Tour: Thursday, January 28, noon
Art and Dessert Closing Reception: Thursday, February 25, noon -3:00 pm
Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Arts Center
Ard Berge, a skilled portraitist, playfully and sardonically populates his canvases with a great American bison, an African peddler on the moon, a fairground on a desolate landscape, an Apache hero engulfed in the stars and stripes, and the White House on a camouflaged lawn. Free admission.
Special events
Community Interest
Spotlight II:
Alumni Enjoy the Spirit of Christmas
On Sunday, December 6, alumni gathered with their families in the Hynes Athletics Center to enjoy a day filled with Christmas spirit. The College shared an early Christmas with the alumni by presenting them with a beautiful Mass, a delicious brunch and plenty of fun for their children. More...
Support Success One Year at a Time
In this season of giving, please make a gift to the 2009 – 2010 Iona College Annual Fund and help to "Support Success One Year at a Time."
The Annual Fund closes the budget gap between tuition dollars and the actual cost of an Iona College education. It also offers employees another opportunity to invest in the success of our students. Â Read their "Success Stories."
Every gift, no matter the size, helps to support the success of each of our students.
*NEW: Make a gift to the Annual Fund today and you could win lunch for you and three friends catered by a private chef in the Faculty Dining Room. Gifts or pledges made before December 31, 2009 are eligible. Visit www.iona.edu/giving for more information.
Sunday Advent Mass
Sunday, December 13, 7:00 pm -Arrigoni Center
The Iona community is invited to celebrate the third Sunday of Advent Mass. Immediately following the Mass, student clubs and organizations will host refreshments.
Books to Soldiers!
Help us brighten a soldier's day by donating new and gently used books to be shipped to our military bases overseas. Ryan Libray and CELTIC are collecting novels and popular topics paperback and hardback books for Christmas delivery. Ardsley High School freshman Jamie Stein has imagined and developed this amazing and valuable project. Please help! Bring your books to the Help Desk in Ryan Library or the CELTIC office. For more information, contact Diana Breen at ext. 2626.
LAMPcafe Outreach
Malissa Scheuring-Leipold, PhD, Education, invites students and faculty to serve the less fortunate through the LAMPcafe - a mobile canteen street outreach - sponsored by LAMP Ministries, a Catholic lay missionary association. It brings simple food to the homeless on the streets of the Bronx. The LAMPcafe serves on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10:30 am -1:00 pm and Saturday from 10:15 am - 12:30 pm. Volunteers are specifically needed on the first, third and fifth Saturday of every month. Contact Dr. Scheuring-Leipold at ext. 2553 if you are interested or would like to serve by donating snack foods or sandwiches.
Faculty 2010 Trip
Costa Rica trip planned for January 4-11, 2010. $1,099 per person double occupancy (does not include airfare). Includes 4-star hotels, breakfasts, tabacon hot springs with dinner, arenal volcano tour, Monteverde Rain Forest tour with zip-lining over tree tops, Tamarindo Beach Resort on the Pacific Coast. All transfers and tours with a naturalist guide. Contact George Bournoutian, PhD, History, for more information. This is not an Iona affiliated trip.
Book Drive
Are you overrun by books you no longer need? Don't throw them away! Bring them to the big bin in the English department. Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, is collecting books for the charity, Books for Africa. Your used books will be used for a great cause! Books will be collected through the end of the semester.
CELTIC Workshops
CELTIC is offering new hands-on workshops for faculty throughout the spring semester in Ryan Library's new Technology Classroom 201. Topics include: Test Drive Wimba; Faronics Insight Lab Control; APA and MLA Style Changes; What's New in Blackboard and iTunes U at Iona College. Visit the CELTIC site for more information.
Seeking Musicians
The Iona Players are looking for musicians; drums, bass, guitar and piano, for their spring musical theatre production of Grease. For further information, please contact Chantal Gagnon.
Weekday Mass
Weekday Mass is celebrated Monday through Thursday at noon in the Blessed Edmund Rice Chapel. The last Mass for the Fall Semester will be Tuesday, December 15.
Library Instruction Class
Would you like your students to know how to find quality information for research assignments and be more aware of library resources and services? Schedule a library instruction class! Classes may be taught for any discipline, undergraduate or graduate. Librarians will work with you to plan a class relevant to your students needs. Classes may be taught in the library or elsewhere at New Rochelle and Rockland campuses. To schedule a class please complete the online request form and contact Adrienne Franco at ext. 2348 for more information.
Learning in Retirement at Iona College (LIRIC) Offering Courses
LIRIC offers courses and social activities for people of retirement age. LIRIC meets Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at the Elks Lodge, 19 The Boulevard, New Rochelle. LIRIC meets at Iona College's New Rochelle campus on Fridays. For more information, contact LIRIC Director, Suzanne Page, PhD, director of LIRIC, or check out the LIRIC catalog.
Professional Activities
Teresa Delgado, PhD, Religious Studies and director of Peace and Justice Studies Program, has contributed a chapter entitled, "Freedom is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology," as well as a response to Dr. James H. Evans Jr.'s essay, "This Day in Paradise: The Search for Fulfillment in Toni Morrison's Paradise," in the volume Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression, published this month by Duke University Press.
Dr. Delgado will also participate in a convening of multifaith women leaders toward the development of vision and content for a progressive social agenda, sponsored by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, Jewish Theological Seminary, Auburn Theological Seminary and the Asma Society for Islamic Culture and Arts, in New Mexico, January 2010.
Bulletin Board
Saturday, December 12
Classical Music: Westchester Chamber Orchestra
8:00 pm - The Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium
Sunday, December 13
Community Mass
7:00 pm - Arrigoni Center
Tuesday, December 15
Graduate Information Session
5:00 pm - New Rochelle
Wednesday, December 16
President's Christmas Celebration
2:30 pm -Spellman Hall
Tuesday, December 17
Graduate Information Session
5:00 pm - Rockland
Friday, December 25
Merry Christmas!
Friday, January 1
Happy New Year!
Monday, January 4
Intersession Begins
Tuesday, January 12
Graduate Information Session
5:00 pm - New Rochelle
Thursday, January 14
Graduate Information Session
5:00 pm - Rockland
Monday, January 18
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Administrative Offices Closed
Tuesday, January 19
Spring Semester Begins
Wednesday, January 20
Young Alumni Board Meeting
6:30 -8:00 pm -Joyce Advancement House
Sunday, January 24 - Thursday, February 25
Gallery Exhibition: "Dreamscapes"
Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Arts Center
Sunday, January 24
Gallery Exhibition: "Dreamscapes" Opening Reception
1:00 -3:00 pm - Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Arts Center
Monday, January 25
Alumni Board Meeting
McGrath Room, Robert V. LaPenta Student Union
Thursday, January 28
Gallery Exhibition: "Dreamscapes" - Meet the Artist Gallery Tour
Noon - Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Arts Center
Tuesday, February 9
Spring Convocation
3:45 pm -The Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium
Thursday, February 11
MBA Alumni Chapter Event
Monday, February 15
Presidents Day
Administrative Offices Closed
Tuesday, February 16
Graduate Information Session
5:00 pm - New Rochelle
Thursday, February 18
Graduate Information Session
5:00 pm - Rockland
Thursday, February 25
Gallery Exhibition: "Dreamscapes" - Art and Dessert Closing Reception
Noon -3:00 pm - Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Arts Center
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