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Gifts on the Way to Afghanistan |
Health and Physical Education faculty and students Greg Kane, Kristin Fallo (student),
Nanette Tummers (who spearheaded the project), Dan Switchenko, and Bob Horrocks pose with a Christmas gift box to Sport-Leisure Management major Bart Mazur of Plainville, who is serving in the military in Afghanistan. The gifts were provided by students, faculty, and the Student Government Association.
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 December graduates and their parents heard Imna Arroyo, Eastern’s distinguished professor for 2006–07, encourage the graduates to “find your own voice and join the great human chorus.” Alumni Association President Umesh Vig encouraged the new graduates to discover ways to give back to Eastern: “Stay in touch,” he told them. Executive Vice President Michael Pernal and Academic Affairs Vice President Dimitrios Pachis also had words of encouragement for the graduates.
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Teddy Bears Get a Home |
  
This year’s Fifth Annual Teddy Bear Drive collected 434 stuffed toys for the Holy Family Home and Shelter, bringing the cumulative total to 1,071 in five years. This year’s total more than doubled the previous high of 203 collected in 2004. This year’s collection of stuffed animals ranged from bears, dogs, cats, and dolls, to elephants, monkeys, tigers, penguins, and reindeer. There was even a unicorn and an eagle! Christine Thomas would like to offer special thanks to the University Police Department for offering extra raffle tickets to students donating bears at COPS Open Rec Night and to the second shift custodians who donated bears in lieu of exchanging gifts at their holiday party.
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Political Science Students Inducted into Honor Society |
 Six students were inducted into the Alpha Beta Gamma chapter of the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society on Nov. 30. The induction ceremony, held in the Connecticut Room of Gelsi-Young Hall, featured a keynote address by State Rep. Denise Merrill of the 54th District. Merrill described the November 2006 election as a “great example of where one issue, Iraq, had a galvanizing influence. It struck the nation’s nerve.” She encouraged students considering public life to think of where they could have the greatest impact, and warned them that politics can be tough on one’s personal life and privacy.
Adam Brzozowski, Rosanne Carlo, Jennifer Doughty, Nicole Oppelt, Daniel Routhier, and Elisa Wilson were inducted based on their academic performance, character, and intellectual interest in making the world a better place. Eastern’s Alpha Beta Gamma chapter is three years old, joining a national organization established in 1920; Pi Sigma Alpha inducts 7,000 students nationally each year. |
- Chimamanda “Amanda” Ngozi Adichie ’01 was featured in the Nov. 26 edition of the Hartford Courant.
- Dave Mariasi, drummer for Farmer Rick’s Band, which has toured the United States for the Cure for Autism campaign, also was featured in the Nov. 26 edition of the Hartford Courant.
- On Nov. 30 a group of Eastern students dressed in costume and visited the New Haven Green to volunteer at the annual tree lighting. Ch. 8 TV covered the event.
- The latest public art project of professor June Bisantz, located at The Lot, an outdoor arts space in New Haven, was featured in the Nov. 20 issue of the Hartford Courant.
- A visit by Deputy Consul General Kuang Weilin of the People’s Republic of China on Nov. 30–Dec. 1 was featured in The China Press.
- Assistant professor of history Jamel Ostwald’s book, Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession, was recently published by Brill.
- Eastern students have produced a video featuring local Willimantic businesses in hopes of encouraging students to take greater advantage of Windham businesses. The video was shown on Charter Cable TV, Channel 22 on Dec. 19.
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