Orchestra conductor Hilarie Clark Moore, left, and pianist George Courtsunis, right, rehearse for the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra Concert, which will take place on Saturday, May 8. Mr. Courtsunis was one of two finalists from a county-wide competition for soloists to perform in the concert.
Photo by Christa Damaris
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) 341-4730Spring Open House at SUNY Orange
SUNY Orange’s Arts and Communications presents the Community Orchestra Concert
SUNY Orange’s Pryluck Distinguished Lecture
SUNY Orange’s Arts and Communications Department Events this April and May
MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College will hold a Spring Admissions Open House on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the College Commons at 115 South Street in Middletown.
Prospective students are invited to tour the campus and meet with professors representing over 30 academic majors including new programs in Information Technology and Industrial Laboratory Technology.
Admissions counselors will be available to discuss admissions requirements, transfer options and career possibilities, as well as scholarship and financial aid opportunities. Representatives from Student Life and Athletics will be available to discuss the many extracurricular clubs and organizations at SUNY Orange.
Visitors are also invited for tours of the historic campus and facilties.
Refreshments will be provided by Blueberry Mountain Ice Cream and the BG Café.
MIDDLETOWN
– The SUNY Orange Community Orchestra features violinist Radhika Shah
and pianist George Courtsunis in their Saturday, May 8, 2004 concert in Orange
Theater at the Middletown campus on South Street.
Ms. Shaw and Mr. Courtsunis were the finalists chosen in the Arts and Communication department’s Second Annual Concerto/Aria Contest, held in January.
Ms. Shah, a Warwick Valley High School senior, will perform Corelli’s
La Folia and Mr. Courtsunis, a junior at Newburgh Free Academy, will perform
the first movement of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in C minor.
Under the direction of Dr. Hilarie Clark Moore, the orchestra will also perform
Rossini’s La gazza ladra (Thieving Magpie) Overture and Gershwin’s
American in Paris. In order to complete Gershwin’s instrumentation, this
community-based orchestra swells to over 60 musicians from throughout Orange
County.
The
orchestra offers SUNY Orange students and community members the opportunity
of performing orchestra literature while bringing classical music to the county
with three concerts annually. This spring concert is free. Voluntary donations
will be collected at the door to support the orchestra’s percussion fund.
For information concerning the May 8 concert or the orchestra in general,
please contact the Arts and Communication Department at (845) 341-4787.
Captions: Top:Violinist Radhika Shah. Ms. Shah, a Warwick Valley High School senior, will perform Corelli’s La Folia on Saturday, May 8 at the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra Concert. Ms. Shah was one of two finalists from a county-wide competition for soloists to perform in the concert.
Below: Pianist George Courtsunis. Mr. Courtsunis, a junior at Newburgh Free Academy, will perform the first movement of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in C minor at the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra Concert on Saturday, May 8. Mr. Courtsunis was one of two finalists from a county-wide competition for soloists to perform in the concert.
Photos by Christa Damaris
MIDDLETOWN
– Diana Mason, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing,
will be SUNY Orange’s Pryluck Distinguished Lecturer at 7 p.m. on Monday,
April 26, 2004, at Orange Hall Theater at the Middletown Campus.
Mason, who has won numerous awards in her combination nursing and journalism career, will lecture on the issue of the Dissemination of Health Care Research. The topic is familiar to one anyone who has picked up a newspaper or magazine in the last few years. Should women use of estrogen to treat menopause? Should heart attack victims take aspirin?
Should you eat carbs?
All these questions, says Mason, get raised as a result of research – but which questions get asked is a question in itself. “Funding … determines what questions get supported and asked,” says Mason.
The funding sources themselves are something the public should question, Mason suggests.
“Research shows that if a study is funded by a pharmaceutical company,”
Mason says, “it’s less likely to show negative results.”
Because of this, Mason says, studies published and supported by pharmaceutical
companies tend to be taken less seriously by the medical profession and by
journalists.
Furthermore, Mason says, there’s the issue of what gets picked up in the media. The women and estrogen issue is a good example: only one type of estrogen therapy was studied, she says, which doesn’t paint an entire picture. “The media picked up that everybody should stop taking estrogen, when it should have been a more nuanced approach,” says Mason. “The media doesn’t always capture the nuance of research.”
Mason refers to the debate over oat bran and whether or not it helps cholesterol levels. Some studies over time have argued that it does; others have indicated that it doesn’t. “You have to look at the body of research,” she says. “Nurses – and the public – need to be more discriminating, and ask themselves: is this something I should change my life for?”
Mason has been editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing for five years, during which the magazine has won two Clarion Awards from the Association for Women Communications, including one for Best Overall External Magazine.
“It’s important to the nursing industry to have a publication at the level of the JAMA [the Journal of the American Medical Association],” says Mason. “The public is reading JAMA. They should be reading the American Journal of Nursing. If I have congestive heart failure, this magazine is a great place to learn about it; what to do, how it’s treated. It’s benefiting the public.”
Mason has wanted to be a nurse ever since she was a small child, when at about four years old she had her tonsils out and her appendix out two years in a row. She never forgot the nurses who took care of her.
“They really made a difference in my recovery,” she says.
Mason’s journalism background began in1986; she has been one of the producers and moderators of “Healthstyles”, a weekly, live radio program in New York City on personal health, health care, and health policy. The program has received media awards from the State of New York, Public Health Association of New York City, American Academy of Nursing, and the National Association of Childbirthing Centers. She is also the co-editor of the award-winning book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care; now in its fourth edition.
Mason is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; the Legislative Award from the New York State Nurses Association; and the Health Policy and Distinguished Alumnae Award from New York University’s Division of Nursing. She is a graduate of West Virginia University School of Nursing (BSN), St. Louis University (MSN), and New York University (PhD).
The Pryluck Distinguished Lecture was established in 1999 by Shep and Edna Pryluck, retired owners of Pryluck’s Pharmacy in Middletown, whose committment to the community inspired them to endow the annual Lecture series as well as a scholarship designed to benefit students demonstrating financial need and studying in the College’s nursing program.
MIDDLETOWN – The Orange County Community College Concert Band, under the direction of SUNY Orange band director, Joseph Abramo, will perform in concert on Friday, April 30 at 8:00 pm in Orange Hall Theater.
This program will include selections such as Irish Tune from County Derry, Quartet in Eb, Mvt 1, Gymnopedie, Gnossinne, Come Sweet Death, and Toccata for Band.
This event is sponsored by the Arts and Communication Department and admission is free to the public.
A performance by the SUNY Orange Jazz Ensemble will take place on Saturday, May 1 at 8:00pm. Under the direction of music professor and recording artist Chris Parker, the Jazz Ensemble will feature Bemsha Swing, Equinox, Straight No Chaser, Memphis Underground, Sister Sadie, and Lullaby of Birdland.
The performance is also open to the public and will be held in Orange Hall Theater. Admission is by donation to the Department's Music Scholarships.
The Orange County Community College Arts and Communication Department presents a day of music and art on Thursday, April 29 from 11:00am to 1:00pm in the gardens by Hudson Hall on the Middletown campus. The Arts Festival will include a Jazz Band concert from 11:00 to 12:00 followed by a performance at 12:00 by the SUNY Orange Madrigal singers.
The Arts Festival highlighting the work of SUNY Orange students is open to the public free of charge. Bring your lunch and spend an afternoon celebrating the arts.
For further information on all events, please call 341-4787.
MIDDLETOWN – The Orange County Community College Mother’s Day Choral Concert, featuring the SUNY Orange College Choir and the Madrigal Singers will perform a program of choral classics on Sunday, May 9 at 3 p.m. in Orange Hall Theater at the Middletown Campus at 115 South Street.
The concert is open to the public and is free of charge.
The College Choir and the Madrigal Singers are directed by SUNY Orange choral instructor Christa Damaris. The concert features Annie’s Song, Fly Me to the Moon, Agnus Dei, I Believe, Begin the Beguine, and Sound the Trumpet in Zion.
The concert is sponsored by the Arts and Communication Department. For more information please call (845) 341-4787.
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 at the main campus in Middletown on Saturdays from 9 a.m to 3:30 p.m. in the Bio-Tech Building, Room 201. There will be a half-hour break for lunch for all one-day Saturday Defensive Driving classes. Students must attend both 2-session classes in order to receive certificate of completion.The cost is $40.
The upcoming dates are April 24, and May 15.
The course is offered in a 2-session program, as well: on Tuesday, May 25 & Thursday, May 27 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. each night in the Bio-Tech Building, Room 203.
The five-hour pre-licensing course mandated for New York State permit holders is also 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. The cost is $25.
The following Saturday classes will be available at the main campus in Middletown during the spring semester, on May 1, and May 22, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Bio-Tech Building, Room 201.
There will be one Tuesday class, from 4:30 to 9:30 pm on May 11, in the Bio-Tech Building, Room 203.
For more information on these courses please call 341-4892 or visit www.sunyorange.edu/cape.