Go New Ro 2010

At the recent Iona College Center for Campus Ministries special program - Go New Ro 2010 - over the course of a long weekend, a group of incoming freshmen learned they can be agents of change. Highlights of the mission included the students preparing and distributing sandwiches and clothing to the homeless in Manhattan, partnering with the Westchester County Parks Department for a clean up of Nature Study Woods in New Rochelle and visiting the New Rochelle Parks Department Summer School drop-in program. The mission concluded with a celebration dinner and a breakfast meeting with New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bransom and members of the City Council.

Top row (l to r) are: Tiffany DiNome, Coordinator, Iona in Mission Center for Campus Ministries; students Dennis Brennan, Jonathan Figueroa and Joseph Chabot; Councilman James Stowe; Jon Ivec, VP for Finance, Iona College; Dr. Warren Rosenberg, Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs; Charlie Carlson, Vice Provost for Student Development; Councilman Barry Fertel; Mayor Bramson; students Thomas Savidge, Michele Sampson, Director of Off-Campus Housing, Andrew Mezzano and Noelle Shalijian; Councilwoman Marieanne Sussman and Carl Procario-Foley, Director for Campus Ministries. Bottom row (l-r) are students Fawaz Hadi Abdulkarim, Toni Saia, Kate Ann Gonta, Tatiana Campbell; Jeanne McDermott, Campus Minister; students Areini Arzu, Rosie Garlan, Tyler Black, Colleen Ciriello, Brianna Hines and Louise Russo.

This initiative was co-sponsored by the offices of Campus Ministries and Off-Campus Housing.

Founded in 1940, Iona College is a four-year private, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers and American Catholic higher education. It is a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence and the values of justice, peace and service. Iona offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous advanced certificate programs.

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