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Erie Students Enjoy Field Trip of a Lifetime at Mercyhurst in the Spotlight Weekly news from Mercyhurst College Vol. 24, No. 17 January 29,2007 . Erie students enjoy field trip of a lifetime at Mercyhurst About 450 Sister Michelle said the visit was designed to expose the youngsters to elementary and college life. "It's important to plant the seeds early, especially in middle middle school school. Often their grades start to slip at this age and they begin having students from Erie difficulties in school. They need to see what studying hard and succeeding in visited Mercyhurst school can do for them." last week, touring Said Steck, "We hope these students will learn about positive options after the campus and high school, as well as see that a great college such as Mercyhurst is right in interacting with their neighborhood." college students The students - from Diehl, Emerson-Gridley, Harding, Irving, McKinley, who encouraged them to Pfeiffer-Burleigh, Wayne and Wilson schools - arrived in groups of 75 and dream big as they consider their post-high school futures. then split into smaller groups to rotate through four activities. The youngsters are all part of the Erie School District's C.H.A.M.RS. Each group toured campus with a member of the Ambassador Club and program, which stands for "Creating Healthy Active Members Planning enjoyed a lunch of pizza, pop and cookies at the Laker Inn. to Succeed." The after-school program provides academic enhancement, In a more hands-on mode, the kids visited Mercyhurst Student personal development, prevention of high-risk behaviors and fun-filled Government chambers to make bookmarks with service learning students activities. and played basketball in the Rec Center with members of the men's and Admissions counselor Emily Steck and service learning director Sister women's basketball teams. While they were putting the finishing touches on Michelle Marie Schroeck '88 coordinated their Mercyhurst visits last Tuesday their snowflake-covered bookmarks, a video describing Mercyhurst played through Thursday. softly in the background. (com on page3) In the spotlight - Frank Rizzone, career services One summer weekend in 1993, Frank Rizzone was camping with In those pre-tape days, he points out, the 16mm film had to be in his family in a remote area of the Allegheny National Forest near Kinzua the darkroom developing by 4 o'clock if it was going to make the 7 p.m. Dam when a park ranger came calling. He had a message from Rizzone's broadcast, a far cry from today's live reports. daughter: Tyrone Moore wanted to interview Rizzone the next morning for The stories he recalls most proudly are those where he was able to a job at Mercyhurst. make a real difference for someone, like the east county family whose He packed up and headed back to Erie, aced the interview and started homestead lay in the path work that fall in the career services office. Ibday, as associate director, he of construction for 1-86. spends about 80 percent of his time placing and supervising students in "PennDOT had settled with internships and the rest counseling students during their job searches. them, but the check got An Oil City native and Notre Dame grad, Rizzone's first job was as a held up in the Harrisburg radio personality in Binghamton, N.Y. One of the public service programs bureaucracy, Without the he produced there dealt with railroading, which led him into a hobby of money, they couldn't move chasing and photographing trains. Train photos still dominate his office - but the bulldozers were decor. already tearing up their An audition tape he sent to WICU TV-Channel 12 led to a 20-year career flower gardens when I got with Erie's NBC affiliate, first on the street as a reporter and eventually as a there," Rizzone explains. news anchor. He was paired on the evening news for years with Erie news After his story on their legend Hyle Richmond, while still reporting as well. plight aired, the check "We could do both back then, and I really enjoyed it," he recalls. "We was delivered the next were the reporters. We were the producers. We shot the film, and then we day. (com on page 3) Fra kRha edited it. We did it all." " "^you r • • Worle>t or WICU-TV. News from the West and North East campuses of Mercyhurst College January 29,2007 AH PUS directions Mercyhurst North East sets another applications record Mercyhurst North East is well on its way to a record-setting year for This latest announcement follows the applications record set for the fall applications, with the announcement that it has broken the applications 2006 term, when more than 1,358 applications were received, surpassing the record for the spring term. previous record of 1,303. The winter term was also a record-breaker, with At press time, the office had received 284 applications for the spring 2007 111 applications received and 45 students confirmed, 42 of them full-time. term, compared to 136 received at this time last year, and easily surpassing Looking ahead, fall applications are already up about 11 percent from the previous record of 189 set in spring 2004. last year, and 23 students have already confirmed, as compared to seven "The part-time nursing program has driven a lot of that application confirmations at this time last year. growth," said Travis Lindahl '00, director of admissions at MNE. "But at the "This will definitely end up being a record year," said Lindahl. same time, non-nursing applications are up, as well." Lindahl attributes the surge in applications to a variety of factors, The new part-time nursing program, which allows students to take classes including an increase in electronic communication and word of mouth. part-time on evening and weekends, has brought in 110 applications. An "Mercyhurst North East is getting a reputation as being a great place to get a additional 70 applications have been received for the LPN program, and quality, two-year education," he said. 91 applications have come in for non-nursing programs, compared to 64 Lindahl and his admissions staff are planning even more recruitment received last year. efforts, with an open house planned on Feb. 8 from 6-7:30 p.m., as well as And the applications continue to come in. "I wouldn't be surprised if we others in March and May, and a Center for Public Safety Open House in April. receive at least 50 more by the beginning of the term," said Lindahl. All will be held in the Michele and Tom Ridge Health and Safety Building. * o *> » * * • * • * * » * * t> * * *«4*»»«*£ + ****« + * *> * « * * In the spotlight - Frances Cortez O'Connor Frances Cortez O'Connor has had more experiences and lived more She moved to Japan for a year and places in her young life than many people do in a lifetime, She taught a half, teaching English and helping underprivileged children in Ecuador, helped open a school in Japan, and to open a school, and then returned attended graduate school in Ireland. She has taught high school students in to New York, teaching high school the Bronx, worked at a shelter in New York and is fluent in three languages. and eighth grade in the Bronx and Now, she is bringing her worldly experiences to Mercyhurst, as an instructor Chinatown. of English at Mercyhurst West. After that, she decided to pursue a "I liked every place I've been and every job I've had, but I'm very happy master's degree in Irish literature at where I am right now," she said. the National University of Ireland in O'Connor moved to Erie about a year ago when her then-fiance, now- Dublin, which she completed in 2002. husband Scott Waldman, took a job as a reporter at the Erie Times-News. At She returned to New York, where she began working in publishing, first at the time she had a good job as a project editor at Scholastic Publishing in Doubleday, and then at Scholastic, writing and editing educational materials. New York City. But never one to turn down a new adventure, she made the Now in Erie, she continues to write freelance for Scholastic. Her latest move and quickly found the position at West as one of the school's first faculty book was published in conjunction with an anti-obesity campaign, and will be members. distributed to families through pediatric offices throughout the country. She "West is a very unique environment with a unique group of students," also writes e-books for Rosen Publishing on health and wellness, targeted at O'Connor said. "I really enjoy the diversity of the age of the students. To have teenagers. several generations of students in one class is really fascinating." "I really enjoy the autonomy of freelance," she said. "And being at West I get O'Connor's life is nothing short of fascinating, as well. to be back in the classroom. I missed that for so many years." She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., grew up in Long Island, and stayed in New Now O'Connor is preparing for an entirely new adventure: motherhood. York to earn her undergraduate degree in English from Fordham University. She found out she is expecting the same day her husband found out he'd be After graduating, she traveled to Ecuador as part of a volunteer program spending two weeks in Iraq on a reporting assignment. where she taught "shoeshine children," boys and girls who make a living by "There was a news crew coming to our house that day to interview Scott shining shoes on the streets.
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