SUMMER Issue Number 3 • July 2, 2007
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SUMMER Issue Number 3 • July 2, 2007 State University of NewBulletin York College at Cortland A publication for the campus community Alumni Reunion Weekend Set for July 13-15 $50,000 State Grant Nearly 700 alumni and friends are Saturday’s events include campus tours Awarded to Study expected to enjoy class get-togethers, parties for members of the Half Century Club, Passenger Rail Service and other activities on campus during the anyone who graduated more than 50 years 2007 Alumni Reunion Weekend July 13-15. ago; the Classes of 1942, 1947, 1952, Imagine taking a ride in a passenger train “We are excited to host the first-ever 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, along the Tioughnioga and Chenango rivers Alpha Delta Delta sorority reunion during 1987, 1992 and 1997; and the Alpha between Cortland and Binghamton, N.Y. Alumni Reunion Weekend 2007,” said Delta Delta sorority. SUNY Cortland’s Recreation and Erin Boylan, alumni affairs. “In addition Memorial Library will be open and Leisure Studies Department will launch to celebrating Alpha Delta Delta, we will the College Archives will be available for a $50,000 study in September to explore reunite members of 12 reunion classes.” perusal from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Saturday. whether reviving passenger service along Reunion Weekend opens Friday after- Guided campus tours will be given by a 44-mile stretch of the New York Susque- noon with an 18-hole golf tournament orientation student leaders at 10:30 a.m. hanna and Western (NYS&W) rail at Walden Oaks Golf Course. Also on The Alumni Luncheon begins Saturday corridor in Central New York would be Friday afternoon, the Alumni Association, at noon in the Corey Union Function economically viable. the Cortland College Foundation and Room. The event honors reunion classes The passenger rail study was funded President Erik J. Bitterbaum will host a and this year’s two Distinguished Alumni by a grant from State Senator Thomas W. reception for the Reunion Class Planning Award recipients: Louis E. LaGrand ’57, Libous, a Republican from Binghamton Committee and Reunion Gift Committee an international authority on after-death who chairs the Senate Transportation members in the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery. communication, and Christopher Committee. The funding includes money The Class of 1957 dinner will be held in the Leadbeater ’67, executive director and for conducting the study and marketing Alumni House. Friday’s activities culminate head of the technology faculty at Newham occasional train excursions between with a reunion party in the Corey Union College in England. Continued on page 4 Binghamton and Cortland. Function Room. “It would be good for tourism, good for upstate and good for business,” said Bijoy College Receives Grant to Establish Economic Datta, a spokesman for Senator Libous’ Education Center at Main Street SUNY Cortland Binghamton office. Built in 1854, the railroad was an SUNY Cortland will use a $122,000 skills of the Cortland County workforce. important carrier of Pennsylvania coal, federal grant from the Appalachian An analysis of the county’s non-profit products manufactured in Syracuse, Regional Commission to improve the agencies and for-profit companies conducted Cortland and Binghamton as well as economic education and workforce skills in 2006 showed that their greatest needs regional agricultural goods. By the 1920s, of residents in Cortland County, the were workers with skills in communica- an average of 230,000 passengers and northernmost county in Appalachia. tions, management, technology, business The grant will create the Cortland planning and grant writing. 46,000 carloads of freight were transported on the line annually. Center for Economic Education to help The grant will pay for trainers, including Continued on page 6 area teachers educating students in eco- members of the College faculty and repre- nomics and financial literacy. The center sentatives from the local business commu- will open at Main Street SUNY Cortland, nity, to conduct eight workshops during 9 Main St., beginning next fall. the next 18 months at Main Street SUNY Inside This Issue “Our goal is to enhance the economic Cortland. Topics for the workshops will 2 Summer Session II Begins July 5 and financial literacy of local students and range from value stream mapping, which the local workforce so we can improve the analyzes the efficiency of business practices, 3 ASC Announces Plan for skill base of the current and future labor to the use of software applications. Dragon's Den and Colloquium force,” said Tim Phillips, economics, who For more information, contact Phillips 5 Faculty/Staff Activities is co-directing the project. at ext. 2437 or Project Co-director A major focus of the grant will be funding Kathleen Burke, economics, at ext. 2434. 6 Coming Events programs and workshops to strengthen the See the complete story online at www.cortland.edu/news. 2 Issue Number 3 Summer Session II Classes Begin July 5 on Campus Fall Opening Meeting The first day of classes for Summer Session II Clinicians will see patients from 9-11 a.m. Planned for Aug. 23 is Thursday, July 5. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. President Erik J. Bitterbaum has announced For more information, call ext. 4811. Walk-in Registration and Drop/Add that the opening meeting of the Fall 2007 Walk-in registration and drop/add will be Summer Session Office Information semester will be held on Thursday, Aug. 23. It held from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Thursday, The Summer Session Office is located in will begin with light refreshments at 8:30 a.m. July 5. Undergraduate registration will Brockway Hall, Room 216. Office hours are in the Corey Union Function Room take place in the Registrar’s Office, Miller 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. Detailed information including an agenda Building, Room 223. Graduate student Director of Graduate Studies and Summer/ and response form will be sent via e-mail by registration will be held in the Graduate Winter Programs Yvonne Murnane or Mary July 23. Studies Office, Brockway Hall, Room 216. Cervoni, program assistant, may be reached All classified, United University Professions Students must be prepared to pay all at ext. 4800. (UUP) and Management/Confidential members fees in the Bursar/Student Accounts Office, Questions about undergraduate summer of the campus community are invited to Miller Building, Room 336, immediately session registration should be addressed to attend. For more information, refer to the following registration. the Registrar’s Office at ext. 4702. Questions e-mail for details or call the President’s Office Students who have registered and paid for about graduate or summer session registration at ext. 2201. their courses should not attend registration should be addressed to the Graduate Studies unless they wish to change their schedules. Office at ext. 4800. Procedures for Course Cancellations If a summer course is canceled for any Ten Physical Education Students Receive reason, College staff members will make every effort to contact enrolled students in Alway/Tesori Awards For Student Teaching advance of the first class meeting. SUNY Cortland recently honored 10 • Lindsay Robinson of Putnam Valley, In the case of a canceled course, students physical education majors with Lenore K. N.Y., at Peekskill (N.Y.) City School District. should complete a drop form to obtain Alway/Anthony P. Tesori Awards for their a full refund. To take another course, Tesori Awards: outstanding work in student teaching in New students should complete a drop/add form • Nick Washburn of Sodus Point, N.Y., immediately. Summer session courses are York State Schools during the spring semester. The students who received awards were at Cortland City School District and short, so additional courses must be added Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District immediately so that classes are not missed. selected by the Physical Education Department from among 100 seniors who completed their in Manlius, N.Y. Student Health Service Hours student teaching. The honorees received a • Trevor Sousa of Fairport, N.Y., at The Student Health Service, located certificate at graduation last month. Rochester (N.Y.) City School District and in Van Hoesen Hall, Room B-26, will be The Alway award, given to women, rec- Victor (N.Y.) Central School District open during both summer sessions. Office ognizes Lenore K. Alway, the late pioneering • Eric Laine II of New Paltz, N.Y., at hours are 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. head of women’s physical education at the Chenango Valley Central School District in College from 1941 to 1965. The men’s award Binghamton, N.Y., and Harpursville (N.Y.) Central School District SUMMER honors Anthony P. Tesori, a 1939 graduate Continued from page 1 who gave the College many years of leader- • Thomas Chickery of Lagrangeville, Bulletin ship in athletics and administration. N.Y., at Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) City School The Alway/Tesori Award honorees and District and Spackenkill Union Free School The Summer Bulletin is published by the Publications the schools or school districts where they District in Poughkeepsie and Electronic Media Office at State University of • Michael Viola of Nesconset, N.Y., at New York College at Cortland and distributed to completed their student teaching for Spring faculty, staff and students. The Summer Bulletin 2007 are: Sachem Central School District in Holtsville, contains official College announcements, news N.Y., and Copiague (N.Y.) Union Free Alway Awards: reports and notices of campus events. School District The Summer Bulletin may be viewed online at • Rose Graham of Central Islip, N.Y., at • Sean Florczyk of Rome, N.Y., at Rome www.cortland.edu/images/bulletin.pdf. Information Syracuse (N.Y.) City School District for the Summer Bulletin should be sent to Wendy City School District Brooks, editor, Publications and Electronic Media • Brienna Phillips of Fairport, N.Y., at For more information, contact the Office, Brockway Hall, Room 207-F, P.O.