Current News HeadlinesProject Pericles campaign essay contest entries due Oct. 15 Project Pericles is sponsoring a student essay contest during this presidential election season. New photo exhibition open through Nov. 7“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. Founders Day convocation marks 125th anniversary, Oct. 15An 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: Leading NYC historian gives Kaufman-Repage Lecture Oct. 15 Wagner College’s third annual Kaufman-Repage Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 2. 'Italian Idol' contest, photo exhibition opens, Oct. 16Two 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. Lectures on Oct. 21, 23 focus on November electionTwo 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. Lee Manchester wins special award for regional history book![]() 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. Jake Browne is Wagner's new alumni directorJake 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. |