MusiKids CT will present "Kathy Brier & Friends" at Wagner College's Main Stage Theater on Sunday, May 6 at 7 p.m. The concert will star Emmy-nominated actress and Wagner alum Kathy Brier (also of Broadway’s “Hairspray”). The evening will also feature Kate Pazakis (“Newsical,” “The Sexless Years’), Bistro Award-winner Anne Steele, Colin Sheehan (“Les Miserables,” “The Rosie O’Donnell Show”), and the Wagner College Student Ensemble.
MusiKids CT Inc. is a nonprofit children’s arts-in-education organization that was established in 2003 by Colin Sheehan. MusiKids CT’s goal is to support the nurturing of musically talented students in the fourth through twelfth grades by providing musical instruments, private lessons, camps, etc. to disadvantaged and diversely talented children with special needs. Another key component to the MusiKids CT program is bringing performing arts events to the community to further stimulate and enrich children’s lives. All of the money raised from the May 6 event at Wagner College will go directly to MusiKids CT Inc., a nonprofit (501)(c)(3) charity.
Text messaging could be a life saver on campuses
Since Virginia massacre, schools are
abandoning emergency e-mails for phone alerts
By YOAV GONEN, Staff Writer
Staten Island Advance, Sunday, April 29, 2007
Wagner College gave the following awards at its annual Undergraduate Honors Dinner, held Friday night, April 27 in the Main Dining Room:
Derek Blauser, a sophomore from Barnegat, N.J., won the Resident Assistant Award for leadership within the Residence Life community.
Victoria M. Brown, a junior from Sayville, won the Verrazano Memorial Prize for outstanding academic achievement in Government and Politics.
Wagner College’s Habitat for Humanity chapter has compiled a half-hour DVD with still photos and video footage showing what they’ve done since their founding in 2005. Included are images from:
The goal of Habitat for Humanity is the elimination of poverty housing worldwide, and Wagner’s campus chapter has been cited as the most active by far in the metropolitan New York City area.
Wagner students talk college
safety with elected officials in Albany
By ROB HART, Staff Writer
Staten Island Advance, Thursday, April 26, 2007
ALBANY — A contingent of students from Wagner College spent a second day at the state Capitol yesterday to meet with elected officials and address a number of issues with lawmakers — including school safety.
Wagner College students won four awards at the 61st annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference on Saturday, April 21. The conference was hosted by the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, the Bronx.
A busload of Wagner College students, faculty, and interested others attended the conference, in which approximately 20 colleges and universities participated.
Wagner College undergraduates and graduate students gave eight poster presentations and nine oral presentations. In addition, three full-length research papers by Wagner College students were submitted for judging. Our students won four awards for excellence in presentation.
On Thursday, April 26, Wagner College hosted its first Civic Engagement Recognition Awards program, something the college hopes will become an annual event.
The awards are given to honor exceptional individuals and community partners who exemplify a sense of caring and responsibility for others that connects citizens and works to address community problems. The awards are given in four categories: Wagner faculty, Wagner staff, a Wagner community partner, and a Wagner student.
Wagner College takes steps to ‘go green’
By Glenn Nyback, Staff Writer
Staten Island Advance, April 22, 2007
Automatic motion-detector sensors turn off the lights when people leave a room. A composting program removes some 100 pounds of daily food waste to produce naturally fertilized soil that gets recycled as plant mulch. Recycling bins keep cans, bottles and paper from regular trash.
Feminine mistake
‘Slut!’ author discusses double standard for women
and sexual inequality between the genders
By TEVAH PLATT, Staff Writer
Staten Island Advance, Sunday, April 29, 2007
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Allison developed early.
For Robert Loggia, it all worked out OK
By JAY PRICE, Staten Island Advance, April 17, 2007
Actor reflects warmly on his experiences playing football
for Wagner College and his roles on stage, TV and film
The guys from the ’48 team were busy trading war stories over coffee and cake in the Hall of Fame Room at Wagner College’s Spiro Center when Walt Hameline, the football coach, showed up with a freshly painted game ball — the kind they usually give the kid who just scored the winning touchdown at Homecoming — for Bob Loggia, the actor.
“See if you can punt it without getting it blocked,” Jim Gilmartin said, which set off another round of storytelling about the days when they were all playing ball on the hill for Jim Lee Howell, the part-time coach who graduated a few years later to his own version of Broadway, coaching the Giants to three conference titles and an NFL championship.
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go for Loggia, a one-time Advance paperboy from Grant City: Swapping lies with old teammates on the back nine of an acting career that stretches from “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” the 1956 bio of boxer Rocky Graziano, to “The Sopranos.”
Turns out he had to play football at Wagner to find out he wanted to be an actor.
He was the smart one, the athlete Elizabeth Smith and Sol Feinberg, his teachers at New Dorp High School, had figured for more than just another neighborhood jock.
“They had it all mapped out for me,” Loggia was saying on the way to a surprise screening of “Beautiful on the Hill,” a 1940s Wagner recruiting video that is surely his first film role.
“The way they figured it, I would go to the University of Missouri to study journalism.
“Then I’d go to the New York Giants.”
Not that he didn’t have other offers.
