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Iona College Observes Women's History Week March
3 - 8, 2002
Events Focus on Voices and Visions of Women New Rochelle, NY, February 22, 2002 -In celebration of Women's History Week, March 3-8, 2002, Iona will host a series of events that focus on the voices and vision of women. All events take place on the College's New Rochelle campus, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle. The scheduled events begin on Sunday, March 3, as Peggy Clarke of Iona's Campus Ministries will offer Reflections at a Community Liturgy at 7 pm in Arrigoni Center. On Monday, March 4, at 1 pm, author Roberta Silman will read and discuss her story "Tightrope" in the Faculty Reception Room. Ms. Silman, a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, is the author of Blood Relations, a story collection, novels Dream Dredger, Beginning the World Again and Boundaries, and Somebody Else's Child, a work for children. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, McCall's, Redbook and Virginia Quarterly Review. She has recently completed a new novel A Country of Their Own. That evening at 6 pm, Dr. Michelle P. Maidenberg of Iona's Social Work Department will present "Rape and Incest Trauma Assessment and Intervention," in Cornelia Hall, Room 008. These events are free and open to the public. On Tuesday, March 5, at 9 am and 10 am, Sister Barbara Srozenski of the Religious Studies Department will offer "Status of Women in Monotheistic Religions." At 11 am, in Joyce Auditorium, all are welcome to view the award winning documentary The Last Days, sponsored by the Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies, the Iona Council on the Arts, the Center for Campus Ministries and The Shoah Foundation. At 5:30 pm an outstanding Iona woman will be honored at the Woman of Achievement Dinner in Spellman Lounge. Previous honorees have included professors Gai Berlage, PhD of Iona's Sociology Department, J. L. Yranski-Nasuti, PhD of the Hagan School of Business and Sr. Kathleen Deignan, CND, PhD of the Religious Studies Department and Iona's Spirituality Institute. For the cost of the dinner, please contact Dr. Penelope Moore at (914) 633-2471. On Wednesday, March 6, at 9 am, students will present projects on "Prominent French Women" with Dr. Donald Malango in Doorley Hall, Room113 and on "Italian and Italian-American Women," with Dr. Salvia Amico-Stubbs in Doorley Hall, Room 226. Both professors are with Iona's Modern Foreign Languages Department. "Italian and Italian-American Women will be presented again from 10 - 11 am in Ryan Library Auditorium. These presentations are open to the public. Also on March 6, at 12 noon, the keynote address for Women's History Week will be delivered in Spellman Lounge. From 1 - 3 pm, additional student presentations, discussions and debates emphasizing the contributions of women from politics, science, history and the arts, will take place in Ryan Library, under the auspices of the Modern Foreign Language Department. These events are open to the public. "Women in Science" with Sister Lucy Murphy of Iona's Education Department will take place from 1-2 pm in Murphy Science and Technology Center. At 3:30 pm on March 6 in Joyce Auditorium, Bonnie Samotin, manager of Programs for the Education Department of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, will facilitate a film discussion on So Generations Never Forget What So Few Lived to Tell. The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation was founded by film director Steven Spielberg to record and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. This film discussion is sponsored by Iona's Brother John G. Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies, the Iona College Council on the Arts and the College's Program of Peace and Justice Studies. On Thursday, March 7 at 12 noon, in Joyce Auditorium, all are welcome to Art at Noon with two dancers from the New York City Ballet performing pieces from the New York City Ballet repertory. Art at Noon is sponsored by the Iona College Council on the Arts, funded by the Baron Lambert Fund for the Arts through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Murphy. From 2 - 3 pm Professor Reka Seigel of the Mass Communication Department will offer "Women Graphic Designers" in Murphy Science and Technology Center, Room 325. At 8 pm in Ryan Library Auditorium, one woman performances by Michele LaRue will include "Someone Must Do The Dishes," an Anti-Suffrageonologue written by Marie Jenney Howe and "Eve's Diary," based on materials by Mark Twain. On Friday, March 8, the student scholars luncheon will take place from 11:30 am - 1 pm in the Faculty Reception Room. Related events include the following on Wednesday, March 20: On Friday, March 22 Iona will observe Making Women Visible Day. At 10 am all are welcome to view the film "Still Killing Us Softly: Images of Women in Advertising," with Dr. Susan Toliver of the Sociology Department in Ryan Library Lecture Hall. For more information on Women's History Week at Iona, please contact Penelope Moore, Department of Social Work at (914) 633-2471.
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