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    Project Pericles is sponsoring a student essay contest during this presidential election season.
    The topic: “Which candidate would be the best president for the United States, and why?”
    Entries must be between 750 and 1,000 words in length.
    Each entry must address at least two of the following issues:

“This is What Time Does: A Year of Walking Richmond Road,” an exhibition mounted by Staten Island photographer and sculptor Debby Davis, will be shown in the Wagner Gallery from Oct. 9 through Nov. 7.

An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Sunday, Oct. 12 from 2 to 5 p.m.

The Wagner Gallery is located off the atrium in the Wagner Union building on the campus of Wagner College, Howard Avenue at Campus Road, on Grymes Hill, Staten Island. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

An all-college convocation will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Main Hall auditorium to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of Wagner College on that day in 1883. (To see the entire program for the convocation, CLICK HERE.) Highlights of the convocation will include:

    Wagner College’s third annual Kaufman-Repage Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 2.
    This year’s lecturer is historian Kenneth T. Jackson, who will speak on “The Empire City: New York and Staten Island through the Centuries.”

Two events will take place next Thursday, Oct. 16 as part of the Wagner College DaVinci Society’s annual Italian Heritage Month program.

At 2:40 p.m. in the Campus Hall Performance Space, Wagner College students are invited to compete in the annual “Italian Idol” singing contest. Winners will perform in the “Viva Italia!” finale concert, scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 26.

Two lectures on campus will highlight issues in the 2008 presidential campaign.

The first lecture, “A Foreign Policy in Shambles: Crises that Will Haunt the Next President,” will be delivered by Bruce Cronin, professor of international relations at the City College of New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 2:45 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Rm. 4.

Rochester, N.Y., July 18, 2008

Lee Manchester’s book, “The Plains of Abraham: A History of North Elba and Lake Placid,” published last August, won the first Special Appreciation Award ever given at the Adirondack Literary Awards program. The annual awards program was held on Sunday, June 8, in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.

Manchester is media relations director for Wagner College. He joined the administrative staff in February 2007. 

One of the judges, Bibi Wein (author of “The Way Home: A Wilderness Journey”), explained that the unique award was being given because of the long-term importance to Adirondack literature of Manchester’s book, a compilation and comprehensive editing of four decades of research by the late public historian Mary MacKenzie, who died in 2003.

Effective June 2, Jacob Browne will be Wagner College’s new alumni director. He takes the place of Gail Kelley ’97, who left the college this spring to start a new business.

Jake Browne ’05 M’08 has been at Wagner College since August 2001, when he arrived on campus as a first-year student hailing from Logan Township, New Jersey.During his student tenure at Wagner, he served as a resident assistant, a student ambassador for the Office of Admissions, and a student caller for the Wagner College Annual Fund.He graduated in May 2005 with a bachelor of arts degree in history with a French minor.