SUNY Orange faculty gather behind Morrison Hall.
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) 341-4730SUNY Orange to hold Fall Blood Drive
SUNY Orange to offer free Latin American dance lessons at Newburgh Extension Center
SUNY Orange professor to deliver keynote address at fifth annual “Fall Into Books”
SUNY Orange IBIG coordinator to present at Continuing Education conference
SUNY Orange Massage Therapy instructor wins Distinguished Service Award
Financial Aid Workshops available to students and the public at SUNY Orange
MIDDLETOWN – The Arts and Communication Department of Orange County Community College will present a Student Music Recital on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 11:00 a.m. in Orange Hall Theater at the Middletown campus at 115 South Street.
Admission is free. For further information, please call the department at (845) 341-4787.
MIDDLETOWN – On Tuesday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Orange County Community College will hold its Fall Blood Drive in the Fireplace Lounge of the College Commons at the Middletown campus at 115 South Street.
The event is sponsored by the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. For more information about this event, please contact Mary Mulrooney-Kenny, director of Health Services at (845) 341-4870.
This event is one in a series the college’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter is scheduled to host during the next six months. Others include a “Safe Halloween” on October 31st, in support of Orange County Safe Homes, as well as a smoke out and a sculpture exhibit.
Phi Theta Kappa is a prestigious, international honor society for two-year
colleges, based on rigorous academic performance and community service. The
SUNY Orange chapter, with a five-star rating, ranks at the top among community
colleges within the State University of New York system.
NEWBURGH – Orange County Community College will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with free dancing lessons on Friday, Oct. 10th from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Newburgh Extension Center at the Key Bank Building at One Washington Center.
Erica Colon, a full-time student at SUNY Orange, will offer a selection of dances including Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and Punta. She's looking forward to the opportunity to show interested people how much you can enjoy dancing to a variety of traditional Latin songs, she says. She is of Hispanic descent and says she has a strong appreciation of her culture and is happy to share it with others.
The event is open to the public.
MIDDLETOWN – Chris Godwin, professor of English at Orange County Community College, will deliver the keynote address at the Fifth Annual “Fall Into Books: Children’s and Young Adult Literature Conference” on Oct. 16, 2003 at the Mt. Alphonsus Retreat Center in Esopus, N.Y. The conference, which for the past two years has been hosted at SUNY Orange, is sponsored by seven library systems in Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan and Rockland counties. Over 150 participants are expected to attend from the New York metro area, Westchester, Long Island, the Albany area, Binghamton as well as from local counties.
The afternoon keynote address will be delivered by well-known children’s book author Robert Sabuda.
Godwin has developed and teaches a popular children’s literature course at SUNY Orange, and will give a talk called “Children’s Literature: Opening the Gates.” She has been the coordinator for the past two years for the Fall Into Books conference at the college. “Those were invigorating days for us,” she says. “In addition to learning so much from the participants, our students and faculty served as hosts, including the members of the children’s literature class.” These, she says, are some of the topics she’ll explore in her address.
Fall Into Books’ aim, says conference planner and Ramapo-Catskill children’s services librarian Randy Enos, is to encourage the participants to focus on and share good literature for children and young adults.
For more information, please contact Randy Enos at renos@rlcs.org.
MIDDLETOWN – Joan Howard, coordinator of the Institute for Business, Industry and Government (IBIG) of Orange County Community College, will be a presenter at the 40th Anniversary Conference of the Continuing Education Association’s National Conference in Geneva, N.Y. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003. The theme of the conference is Continuing Excellence in Continuing Education.
Howard was chosen as a presenter for her leadership role in the Hudson Valley Worker Alliance, a five-year-old regional collaborative effort that has brought together business, labor and education providers to provide training and other services to regional workers. Organizations like Teamsters Local 445 and the region’s four community colleges in Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and Dutchess county meet regularly to discuss training needs and how they can be addressed.
The Alliance was created to more effectively address the need to upgrade the skills of incumbent workers and new hires. By working together the Alliance partners have been able to pool their expertise, apply for grant money and act as a resource for local businesses.
The joint effort means that businesses get the best resources of all the local colleges, says Howard, while colleges are able to train more people in their best respective areas.
“We’re collaborators instead of competitors,” Howard says. “More training is getting done. The colleges are contracting with each other, and we’re not reinventing the wheel. Everybody benefits from collaboration: all of us are serving more customers with more quality.”
Past programs have included a CDL program for Wakefern and other distribution centers, management training and communication workshops for Domco Tarkett Inc. and Akima Corporation. Several companies have benefited from extensive safety training.
The four colleges are continuously partnering in new and creative ways to provide their services and programs throughout the region, says Howard. They have recently submitted an application a SUNY Workforce grant in conjunction with the Council of Industry of South East.
MIDDLETOWN
– Mary Gallipeau, a New York State licensed massage therapist
and adjunct massage therapy instructor at Orange County Community College,
has a mission: to educate the public about her profession.
“I never miss a chance to pick up a microphone in front of an organization,” Gallipeau says.
It’s a commitment that earned her the 2003 Distinguished Service Award,
presented by the New York State Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association.
She was honored with the prestigious award after her patients began a letter-writing
campaign on her behalf; the letters were posted on a board during the convention
in Richmond, Va.
Gallipeau, who is certified by Sloan-Kettering in medical massage for cancer
patients, has been a featured speaker at various locations throughout Orange
County, including the Senior Games, the Small Business Showcase, the Rotary
Club and the Senior Council. She has also been a volunteer instructor for
Encore classes at SUNY Orange.
Teaching has been one way for Gallipeau to fulfill her goal. “I guess
I decided to teach because I have a concern about the caliber of person who
was coming into the profession,” she says. The program at SUNY Orange
is a good one, according to Gallipeau. “The education that the students
are getting is extremely well-rounded and clinical.”
Gallipeau is a graduate of the Swedish Institute in New York City. She has
an associate’s degree from SUNY Orange in exercise science, her bachelor’s
degree in health and wellness from SUNY Empire State College and is presently
pursuing her master’s degree in Social Policy with a concentration in
health care, also from Empire State College.
Gallipeau also maintains a private practice in Middletown, at Therapeutic
Motions Massage Therapy on Route 17M. She lives in Thompson Ridge.
MIDDLETOWN - Orange County Community College will offer two financial aid workshops in October for college-bound students in Middletown and Newburgh.
On Oct. 8, 2003, at 6 p.m. at the Student Succes Center in the College Commons at the Middletown campus, the Financial Aid office will offer a workshop to assist college-bound individuals in filling out financial aid forms. The workshop will begin promptly, since it may run up to two hours, depending on the number attending.
On Oct. 14, 2003, at 5 p.m. at the Newburgh Extension Center at the Key Bank Building at One Washington Center, the college will offer another workshop.
Attendees must bring photocopies of their or their parents' 2002 income tax returns, W-2 forms, and any other taxed or untaxed income information.
For more information about these workshops, please call (845) 341-4190.