SUNY Orange students gather between classes, Fall semester, 2002.
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 Professor to deliver keynote address at children's literature conference
SUNY Orange Career Services to offer public Job Workshops in local libaries
SUNY Orange to hold Admissions Open House
Crisis Team Training Offered at SUNY Orange
SUNY Orange’s Sugar attracts Ulster Savings Bank
Denny’s Restaurant to Sell American Flag Pins to Benefit Mastodon Restoration for SUNY Orange
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.
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MIDDLETOWN – Job seekers can take advantage of Orange County Community College’s Career Services workshops throughout the fall at libraries in Goshen, Washingtonville and Port Jervis. Topics will include “Dressing for Success”, “Interviewing Skills” and “Cover Letters.”
“Although our workshops are open to the public all the time, we wanted to reach a broader segment of the county,” says Carole Wentzel, Career Services coordinator. “Lots of folks are working full-time jobs and they can’t get in during the day, and it’s difficult for them to avail themselves of our service. You can write your own resume, and answering interview questions isn’t as hard as it seems.”
From September through December, Wentzel and Linda Newman, the assistant coordinator, will be hosted by the Goshen Public Library, the Moffat Library in Washingtonville, and the Port Jervis Library. (see complete listing of libary visits.)
The Career Services staff will be offering the same information presented to students and alumni who seek out the assistance of Career Services to help with resumes and to locate employment. Because of the current economy and the resulting large number of people looking for work, the staff hopes to offer area residents an opportunity to compete for the limited number of available jobs.
By taking it to the local libraries, Wentzel hopes that more people can take advantage of the help offered by the SUNY Orange Career Services Office. For more information, please call Career Services at (845) 341-4444.
Goshen Public Library - Tuesday, Sept. 23 - 7:30 p.m. - "Interviewing Skills"
Moffat Library, Washingtonville - Tuesday, Oct. 28 - 7:00 p.m. - "Cover
Letters and Resumes"
Moffat Library, Washingtonville - Thursday, Oct. 30 - 7:00 p.m. - "Interviewing
Skills"
Port Jervis Library - Thursday, Oct. 9 - 2:00 p.m. - "Cover Letters and Resumes"
Port Jervis Library - Thursday, Nov. 13 - 2:00 p.m. - "Dressing for Success"
Port Jervis Library - Thursday, Dec. 11 - 2:00 p.m. - "Interview Skills"
For additional on-campus workshops in both Middletown and Newburgh, please visit http://www.sunyorange.edu/careers/workshops.shtml These workshops are free and open to the public.
MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College will hold its annual Fall Admissions Open House on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the College Commons at the 37-acre Middletown campus at 115 South Street.
The Open House will feature campus tours, display tables from each academic department with some interactive demonstrations, distribution of admissions information and more. Prospective students and parents can meet with professors to talk about over 35 academic programs, including new programs in E-Business, Information Technology and Industrial Laboratory Technology.
Scholarships and career services information are available, and representatives from Athletics will be on hand to discuss the many opportunities for sports that are available to students.
Refreshments will be available, including free Blueberry Mountain ice cream.
MIDDLETOWN – The campaign of SUNY Orange students to restore Sugar, the college's 10,000-year-old mastodon skeleton, received a $250 boost from Ulster Savings Bank.
The gift, presented by Ulster Savings President and CEO Clifford Miller, will be used to match the money now being raised by the college's Agassiz Society. To date the students who make up the society have raised over $800 in bake sales to hire a conservator to assess what it will take to restore the biology department's collection of mammals and birds, which includes the mastodon skeleton exhumed 30 years ago in Orange County.
According to Dr. Melody Festa, chairperson of the biology department, Ulster Savings Bank's gift brings the students to two-thirds of their immediate goal of $3,200.
Much of the specimen collection, including Sugar, may be viewed by the public in the lobby of the BioTech Building at SUNY Orange's Middletown campus.
MIDDLETOWN – If you can keep your head in a crisis, and remember some fundamentals, you can get through almost any situation – at least that’s the mission of the training that Dan Bracchia is offering at Orange County Community College this Oct. 2, 9, and 16 at the Newburgh Extension Center.
Bracchia, a former New York City Police Officer and Federal Air Marshall, is now director of training for Crisis Team Training, an independent company that works with the federal government, colleges and private corporations to help them prevent problems from occurring and to help employees learn how to act and react during extreme and emergency situations.
“You can control the crisis instead of having the crisis control you,” Bracchia says. Companies often lose weeks and even months of productivity when a crisis happens. By training a team, a company can devote 10 percent of its workforce to the problem and leave 90 percent to running the company. What usually happens when things go wrong, he says, is that 90 percent of the people react or overreact, and the company loses time, money and energy.
Even better, Bracchia says: the training can help prevent a problem from turning into a crisis. “Most crises start out as a problem that’s been mishandled,” he says. His program teaches people awareness, so that they can learn to deal with problems earlier and solve them before they become bigger.
The classes will meet from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in room 221 at the Newburgh
Extension Center. The cost is $165 per person. For more information, or to
register, please contact Petra Wege-Beers at (845) 562-2454 or via e-mail
at pwegebee@sunyorange.edu.
Contact: Paul A. Newman, A.T.M./General Manager; 845-343-4841
MIDDLETOWN – Denny’s Restaurant in Middletown has taken
up the cause of the Orange County Community College students who are trying
to raise the funds to restore Sugar, the college’s 10,000-year-old mastodon
skeleton.
Paul A. Newman, A.T.M./General Manager of Denny’s Restaurant, came up
with the idea of selling American flag pins to help the college.
The pins will be on sale beginning Sept. 11.
Newman said that he wanted to do something positive on the second anniversary of America’s Twin Towers tragedy by helping the students of the college’s Agassiz Society, the biology club. The students have been holding bake sales to restore the college’s collection of mammals and birds, including the Orange County mastodon skeleton “Sugar,” on display at the school’s Middletown campus.
Newman said that the pins will be on sale for two weeks at Denny’s Restaurant at 411 Route 211 East in Middletown. Net proceeds of the sale of the pins will go toward the restoration project.
Denny’s Restaurant is open 24 hours a day.
Denny’s joins Ulster Savings Bank, which donated $250 this month to the Agassiz Society, and Stewart’s Shops, which to date has donated $1,000 to the project.
NEWBURGH– Orange County Community College's Center For Youth Development is now accepting applications for the Liberty Partnerships Program. The program provides various academic and support services to youth in grades 7 through 12 who are enrolled in North Jr. High School, South Jr. High School, Heritage Jr. High School and Newburgh Free Academy. Some of the components of the program include: homework assistance, personal development workshops, career/college exploration, workforce preparation, community service opportunities, cultural enrichment activities and more.
Applications for the Liberty Partnerships Program are available at The Center
For Youth Development, 54 Grand Street, 2nd floor, Newburgh, NY. Applications
will be accepted until October 31, 2003. For more information about the Liberty
Partnerships Program or the Center For Youth Development please call 562-2469.