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Archive - Oct 2007October 26thOctober 23rdEllis Island Gala Kicks Off $50 Million Campaign More than 300 members of the Wagner College family gathered at Ellis Island, on the evening of October 20, to celebrate the kickoff of the school's most ambitious capital campaign to date. President Richard Guarasci urged those assembled to join him in supporting Wagner in order to take it to the next level of achievement.
“Putting Wagner First: The Campaign for Wagner College” will provide the financial resources to make major investments in students, through increased scholarships and tuition assistance; in faculty, through the establishment of distinguished chairs and funding for research, scholarship, and professional development; and in the college itself, through upgrades to facilities and campus infrastructure. Innocence Project presentation gives students perspective on death penaltySTORY OF INNOCENCE: October 22ndAuthor speaks on childhood experience as Jewish refugee Oct. 22 Lore Segal, author of “Other People’s Houses: A Jewish Refugee Child’s Experiences,” will speak at Wagner College on Monday, Oct. 22 at 1:30 p.m. in Main Hall, Room 22. The public is invited to attend. Segal, a novelist, translator, essayist and writer of children’s books, fled her native Vienna at the age of 10, taking refuge with a series of foster families in England. After earning her undergraduate degree in London in 1948, Segal went to the Dominican Republic, where she waited for three years until U.S. immigration quotas allowed her to enter this country. Documentary on Argentine Jewry screens Oct. 23
Astrophysicist Bernard Haisch speaks on “The God Theory
Bhutan Buddhist leader speaks at Wagner Oct. 28 ‘Viva Italia!’ concert Oct. 28 concludes Italian Heritage Month
Historian to tell tale of ‘Dry Manhattan’ Oct. 30
Historian lectures on Italian Americans during WW2, Nov. 6On Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in Spiro 4, historian Salvatore J. LaGumina will deliver a lecture, “World War II: Dealing with a Dilemma,” as part of Wagner College and the DaVinci Society's observance of Italian Culture & Heritage Month. This lecture was originally scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 11. |
Filmmaker Beth Toni Kruvant will screen her documentary, “Born in Buenos Aires,” in the Screening Room of the Jewish Community Center’s Bernikow Building, 1466 Manor Rd., Staten Island, on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. The public is invited. 
Astrophysicist and author Bernard Haisch will speak on “The God Theory” at Wagner College on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 2. The public is invited to attend. 
Wagner College, in cooperation with the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, will host a campus visit by His Holiness Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche, a Bhutanese Buddhist scholar and meditation master, on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. for a public teaching on “Four Noble Truths and Ten Virtues to Live Our Life By.” The rinpoche’s presentation will be made in Spiro Hall, Room 2. The public is cordially invited to attend. Free parking is available at Wagner College’s Seahawk Stadium, across Howard Avenue from the main campus. 
On Sunday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m., Wagner College’s DaVinci Society and the college Music Department will present the final event of Italian Culture & Heritage Month, the “Viva Italia!” concert. The program, led by conductor Roger Wesby, will be given in the Campus Hall Performance Center. The public is invited to attend. 
Historian Michael A. Lerner will speak at Wagner College on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 1:30 p.m. about his newest book, “Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City” (Harvard University Press, March 2007). The lecture will be given in Spiro Hall, Room 2. The public is invited to attend.