December 12, 2007                                                     Vol 9. No. 8

Canisius Receives Habitat Award, 38 Glendale Place to be Dedicated  

Pictured left to right: Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director, campus ministry; Mark Tortelli ’10, Canisius Habitat chapter treasurer;  Ben Lafko ’09, chapter president; Matt Lindenberg ’10, chapter vice president; Jake Nichols ’10, chapter secretary; Ron Talboys, president, Habitat for Humanity Buffalo; Dean Becker, mechanical trades manager, facilities management and Tom Strausser, construction supervisor, Habitat for Humanity Buffalo.

 
Canisius College was recognized by Habitat for Humanity Buffalo with its Key of Hope Award at a reception at the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery on December 6. Representatives from the college’s Habitat for Humanity chapter, John J. Hurley, executive vice president and vice president for college relations, Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director of campus ministry and Dean Becker, mechanical trades manager for facilities management, were on hand for the event.

Canisius has donated two houses in two years to Habitat for Humanity Buffalo.  Seventy Eastwood Place is home to the Burton family. 38 Glendale Place, which will be dedicated on Sunday, December 16 at 3:30 p.m., will soon to home to a family of seven. At the ceremony, the family will receive the house keys and a bible from Habitat. Canisius faculty, staff and students have spent many hours on the home renovations, which are nearly complete. Pictured right, Staci Carney Studesville, director of the college’s sport administration program, stains one of the home’s doors on Saturday, December 8.

Courtney is New Creative Services Director
Andalyn Courtney is the new director of creative services in the Department of Public Relations. Courtney is responsible for management of the creative services team, which creates printed materials for college marketing, fund raising, recruitment and promotion.  

Prior to Canisius, she was a creative supervisor at Eric Mower and Associates. Courtney has also served as an adjunct lecturer at Canisius College and Buffalo State College. She earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Buffalo State College in 2000. 

Lenhardt Receives Unsung Hero Award
Ann Marie C. Lenhardt, PhD, professor of counseling and human services, received an award from the AM Lockport Toastmasters for being an unsung hero in the Western New York community. Lenhardt recently finished a long-term national study that examined the social roots of school shooters. She looked at the behaviors and patterns of 15 school shooters who were involved in pre-meditated and targeted shootings between 1996-2005. Lenhardt also established the Canisius Youth Connection, which researches issues related to youth at risk, and provides prevention-intervention services and training to local agencies, families and students; and instituted Student Assistance Programs (SAP). 

Newest Public Safety Officer Sworn In

Kenneth C. Kruly (right), director of government relations, swears in Michael J. Acquino (left), the college’s newest public safety officer, on Tuesday, November 13 in Lyons Hall. Acquino, who is assigned to the night shift, holds an associate degree in criminal justice and previously worked as a security officer at various locations around the city of Buffalo.