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) 341-4730Orange County Community College’s March award celebrates diversity, achievement.
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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 – Orange County Community College’s Extension Center is housing an exhibit of oils and acrylics by artist Lynne Digby throughout the month of March from Monday to Friday from noon to 3 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
The exhibit consists of 12 pieces, 10 oil paintings and 2 acrylics. Each piece is for sale. Lynne Digby, born in England, has studied in England, Canada, Switzerland and Mexico, and paints both realistic and abstract expressionist style works. She has won numerous awards, and is an exhibiting member of the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, N.Y., the Woodstock Artists’ Association, and is represented by M.G. Galleries in Chester, N.Y., Port of Call Gallery in Warwick and the Flying Pig Gallery in Sussex, N.J. She is also represented by Art South, Inc., in Philadelphia, and Artist’s Space, in Manhattan. Ms. Digby is listed in Who’s Who in American Art.
Her work can be viewed on the web at art4business.com or at garrisonartcenter.org/digby.htm
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.
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