| October 17, 2007 | Vol 9. No. 5 |
Canisius College Hosts Family Business Forum
Canisius College will host the 2007 Family Business Forum on Thursday, October 18 from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Buffalo Niagara Marriott. The forum will feature four breakout sessions, as well as a panel of top local business owners, including Anthony Amigone, Amigone Funeral Home Inc.; Samuel Shatkin Jr., MD, Aesthetic Associate Center; Joseph Basil Sr., Basil Automotive Group; Laura Zaepfel, Uniland Development Company; and Michael Newman, NOCO Energy Corporation. Discount tickets for Canisius College faculty and staff are $95. Use promotional code griffin1007. For more information or to register, click here or call the Women's Business Center at Ext. 8280.
Canisius Sophomore Receives International Hero Award
Tracey K. Gonzales ’10, a Canisius College early childhood education major, will receive the 2007 Burl Osborne Pioneer Organ Replacement Hero Award on Friday, October 26 at 2 p.m. in the college’s Grupp Fireside Lounge. The event is free and open to the public.
The Osborne Award is given by the International Federation for Artificial Organs (IFAO) to a non-professional person who has contributed significantly to organ replacement in a heroic fashion. Gonzales will accept the award from Burl Osborne, former director and retired chairman of the board of The Associated Press, and the person for whom the award is named.
At the age of three, Tracey Gonzales became the first person in the world to survive a liver-small bowel transplant. Not expected to live past 10 years old, Gonzales is now 20 years old and living a normal, healthy life. For more information, contact the Office of Public Relations at Ext. 2790.
Raichle Lecture Addresses Presidential Power
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Best known for his work in the United States Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Yoo served as a key architect of the Bush administration's legal response to the terrorist threat. Specifically, Yoo was central to drafting the 2001 passage of the U.S. Patriot Act.
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African American Experience Underway
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The series continues on November 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Palisano Pavilion with a performance by Buffalo's Langston Hughes Institute. Accompanied by African drummers, the performers will teach authentic West African dances. A soul food dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., prior to the performance.
The fall 2007 series concludes on November 10 with Wilma King, PhD, the Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor in African American history and culture at the University of Missouri-Columbia. King will present a workshop, from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in Old Main Room 223, on slave children in the American south.
To read more on the African American Experience, visit www.canisius.edu/africana.
The Future of Health Care is Focus of Schreiner Lecture
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A 1971 alumnus of Canisius, Lema is chair of anesthesiology, pain medicine and critical care at RPCI, and medical director of the institute's surgical services. He is also a professor and chair of anesthesiology at SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
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College Collection Selections Studio Art Show
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| "Student Body" by LeRoi Johnson '71, acrylic on canvas |
The college's growing collection of original art returns to the gallery. New, old and restored works by world famous, local and alumni arts comprise the college's aesthetic treasures on view. For more information, contact Rev. Michael Tunney, S.J., professor of fine art and director of the Studio Art Program, at Ext. 3752.
Help Wanted: Faculty and Staff Volunteers
Faculty and staff volunteers are needed to serve a turkey dinner with all of the trimmings to students at the annual RHA Sit-Down Dinner on Wednesday, November 14 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in the Economu Dining Hall. Volunteers should arrive in the dining hall by 4:30 p.m. To sign up or for more information, contact John Goepfrich in the Office of Campus Programming and Leadership Development, at Ext. 8307 or send an E-mail to goepfrij@canisius.edu.
Or, come out and lend a hand for Canisius Community Day or the Thanksgiving Food Drive on Saturday, November 17. Help out at meal programs, food banks, homeless and refugee shelters or Habitat for Humanity. Or, join the Thanksgiving Food Drive and collect non-perishable food at local supermarkets. Community Day runs from 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Food drive times vary. Nearly 150 members of the campus community participated in the last Canisius Community Day on September 22. To sign up or for more information, contact Joe Van Volkenburg in The Office of Campus Ministry at Ext. 2875 or send an E-mail to vanvolk@canisius.edu.
Lorch Book Reception
I. Joan Lorch, PhD, professor emerita of biology, discusses an excerpt from her book. On screen: A photo of Lorch on her first day of school with a horn filled with candies to "sweeten" the experience of school; a traditional gift for all first-year students. According to Lorch, all German children likely had a photo like this taken when they started school at approximately age 6 or 7.
More than 30 members of the campus community, as well as family and friends of I. Joan Lorch, PhD, professor emerita of biology, gathered on the second floor of the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library to hear excerpts from and celebrate the publication of her memoir, "Chance and Choice: My First Thirty Years." Lorch's book lecture was the first event in the Archives Month Speaker Series.