Some Enchanted Evening: piano: Joel Flowers l-r: Jason Pogozelski, Meredith Grant, Lourdessa Hunt, Laure Mantia, Lou Medina
The Office of Institutional Advancement:
(845) 341-4725
Morrison Hall
Orange County Community College
115 South Street Middletown, NY 10940
publicity@sunyorange.edu
Contact:
Vinnie Cazzetta, VP, Institutional Advancement
Phone: (845) 341-4725 • Fax: (845) 341-4730
Orange County Community College’s March award celebrates diversity, achievement.
Orange County Community College Center For Youth Development celebrate NFA Day event
Insurance Information Night at the Newburgh Extension Center
Orange County Community College Center For Youth Development begins CollegeCounts
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MIDDLETOWN- Orange County Community College is proud to sponsor the Sojourner Truth Awards Program, an award program for elementary-age students to promote positive consideration of college. This program is named for Sojourner Truth in honor of this distinguished woman, who lived in the mid-Hudson Valley region after escaping from slavery. Ms. Truth is hailed as one of the most distinguished and highly-regarded women of the nineteenth century.
The
college is currently accepting nominations from school districts. Students
from grade six through 12 who have demonstrated skills in areas like language
arts, mathematics, sciences, performing & media arts, athletics, citizenship
and perseverance/effort will be recognized at an awards ceremony on Friday,
March 7, 2003, at 7:00 p.m. In the event of snow the program will be held
on Saturday, March 8, 2003 at 1:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Middletown
campus.
The keynote speaker will be Ms. Dora Irizarry. Judge Irizarry is the first Hispanic woman in New York to be appointed a Court of Claims Judge. Currently Ms. Irizarry is a practicing attorney in New York City; last fall, she ran for the office of New York State Attorney General. Throughout her career, Judge Irizarry has devoted herself to working with New York City’s youth, frequently participating in activities with a wide range of educational and community organizations.
Corporate funding support comes from Orange & Rockland Utilities. Additional financial support is provided by the Orange County Community College Alumni Association and the Educational Foundation of Orange County Community College.
To learn more about this program, please call the Office of Student Development at 341-4000 or e-mail bmedina@sunyorange.edu
MIDDLETOWN-
Flo Hannes, MS, OTR/L, and professor and chair of the Orange County Community
College OTA Program has been chosen to receive Orange County United Way Marion
S Murphy Outstanding Individual Achievement Award.
The award honors individuals whose value of and concern for people are demonstrated through their vision, leadership, service and commitment to the people in the Orange County community.
Flo initiated “Weaving the Community Together,” a community-quilting project using the power of occupation, to help the residents of Orange County to express their feelings about the September 11th World Trade Center tragedy. The project offered members of the Orange County community, home to a large population of NYC Firemen and Policemen, a way to grieve for their seventy-two lost neighbors, and to heal through community togetherness.
Kits with pre-cut squares, instruction sheets and templates to complete 9” squares were distributed by the SUNY Orange OTA students throughout the community. The response to the project was overwhelming. Over 1,600 quilt squares, completed by individuals, groups, health care institutions and schools throughout the County, were assembled into 34 quilts by dedicated community volunteers.
“The project provided all who participated with a sense of healing through occupation,” says Flo.
Flo will be honored on March 20th at a gala affair at Anthony’s Pier
9 in Newburgh, sponsored by the community and the thirty-eight Orange County
United Way Participating Agencies. The highlight of this honor for Flo, she
says, is the opportunity to promote the occupational therapy profession and
the OTA Program at SUNY Orange when she receives her award in the presence
of 500-600 community members and leaders
NEWBURGH- On March 13th, ninth graders enrolled in the Orange County Community College Liberty Partnership’s Ninth Hour Program will participate in their annual NFA Day event, where the students will spend the day with a sophomore mentor.
This program, which meets every Thursday from 2:30-4:00 p.m. at the college’s extension center in Newburgh, is geared toward helping ninth grade students transition from junior high to high school. Students have had workshops on teamwork, communication skills, career exploration, study skills, NFA academies and personal development. Upcoming workshops will cover: NFA graduation requirements, leadership activities, college preparatory activities, a college tour and the annual NFA Day event, where students spend the day with a sophomore mentor at Newburgh Free Academy.
The Liberty Partnership Program provides various support services to students
in grades 7-12 who attend North, South and Heritage Jr. High Schools and Newburgh
Free Academy. The program's mission is to help students successfully complete
high school and be prepared for post secondary education or the workforce.
For more information about the Liberty Partnership Program please call Khadijah
Ward at 562-2469.
Rodgers and Hammerstein are synonymous with the American Musical Theatre – The King And I, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Sound Of Music, South Pacific, and many more. This unparalleled songwriting duo have given us some of the most beautiful and romantic songs for this, or any age.
What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the ultimate romantic day, than to bring your special someone to SummerStar Theatre’s SOME ENCHANTED EVENING which will be performed on February 14, 15 and 16. You will not only enjoy this wonderful production, but you will also be giving the gift of applause to the SummerStar workshop students, actors, technicians and musicians that will be with us this summer. The featured performers for SOME ENCHANTED EVENING are Meredith Grant, Lourdessa Hunt, Laure Mantia, Lou Medina and Jason Pogozelski. Director Candice O’Connor, Musical Director Joel Flowers, and Choreographer David Mossey round out the creative team behind this musical Valentine to the community.
Tickets for the February 14 and 16 performances of SOME ENCHANTED EVENING are $15.00 general admission, and $10.00 senior/students. The performance on Saturday the 15th will be a benefit performance. For the price of $25, you are invited to join us at 7PM in the beautiful Morrison Mansion on the campus of SUNY Orange for champagne and a light cuisine, prepared by many of the finest restaurants in Orange County. The performance of SOME ENCHANTED EVENING will follow in the intimate Orange Hall Theater, which has sponsored hundreds of theatrical, musical and dance presentations.
Performances for SOME ENCHANTED EVENING are February 14, 15 at 8:00 PM and February 16 at 3:00 PM. Group rates, subscriptions and memberships are available. Call (845) 341-4789 or go to www.summerstartheatre.org for more information about SummerStar’s fundraiser! Help us bring the best in summer theater to our area. What are you waiting for? Circle Valentine’s Day weekend on your calendar now!
February 14-15-16
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
Music and Lyrics/Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
Musical Direction/Joel Flowers
Director/Candice O’Connor
WHO SummerStar Theatre
WHAT SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, A Musical Revue
WHERE Orange County Community College, Middletown-NY
WHEN February 14, 15 at 8PM
February 16 at 3 PM
TELEPHONE (845) 341-4789 for reservations
TICKETS General Admission $15.00
Seniors/Students $ 10.00
Fundraiser February 15-All tickets $25 includes
Valentine lite cuisine at 6PM followed by performance at 8PM
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NEWBURGH- No health insurance too often means poor health. That simply wasn't acceptable for Mary Mulrooney-Kenny, the director of health services at Orange County Community College, who's also a per diem ER nurse at St. Luke's in Newburgh.
"Too often you see the 'self-pay' box checked on the [hospital] form, and you know that means 'no pay,' and what that ultimately means, unfortunately, is that people who are sick or hurt are going to feel that they have no options to follow up with their care," says Mulrooney-Kenny.
To combat this mistaken notion, she's combined forces with the Family Health Center of Newburgh to offer a Free Informational Evening at the SUNY Orange Newburgh Extension Center on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the 2nd floor Assembly Room. (The snow date will be Wednesday, Feb. 12.)
The Family Health Center will conduct workshops in both English and Spanish for community members and students to show the many various programs that citizens and non-citizens are eligible to participate in to receive healthcare, for adults and children.
For more information, please call the Family Health Center of Newburgh. The phone numbers to call for more information in English: 563-8069. In Spanish: 563-8027 or 563-8071.
(Coincidentally, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is sponsoring a weeklong media blitz to expose the plight of the over 4.1 million uninsured people in America from March 10-16, 2003. That web site is available at http://coveringtheuninsured.org/ The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
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MIDDLETOWN- The six-hour defensive driving course that offers participants
a 10% discount on their auto insurance liability and collision premiums for
36 months and also removes up to 4 points from driving records is offered
each month at Orange County Community College in Middletown.
The classes are on Saturdays. The next available dates are Feb. 8, and March 8, 18, and 20. The cost is $40.
The five-hour pre-licensing course mandated for New York State permit holders is offered each month at Orange County Community College in Middletown. Completion of the course results in the issuance of the MV-278 form needed to make the road test appointment. Cost is $25.
The classes are on Saturdays. The next available dates are on Feb. 15, and on March 4 and 15.
For more information on these courses please call 341-4892 or visit www.sunyorange.edu/cape.
[to top]NEWBURGH- The Orange County Community College Center For Youth Development will begin a new program entitled CollegeCounts on Feb. 6, 2003 at the college’s Extension Center located at One Washington Center in Newburgh.
The program is designed to introduce students in grades 9 through 11 to the various steps high school students need to take to prepare for college. CollegeCounts will provide students the opportunity to: learn the college selection process and entry requirements, search for colleges, prepare for the PSAT, SAT and ACT tests, learn about scholarships and the financial aid process, attend college fairs and visit college campuses. CollegeCounts is for students who are willing to work hard and who have the desire and motivation to further their education.
The Center For Youth Development provides services for youth attending the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. The Liberty Partnerships Program, funded through the New York State Education Department, offers academic support services, counseling, workforce preparation, mentoring, cultural enrichment and parental involvement activities to junior and high school youth. For more information about CollegeCounts or the Center For Youth Development, please call 562-2469.
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