A Dunkirk native will be honored when the Educational Development Program (EDP) at SUNY Fredonia hold its 25th annual awards ceremony Wednesday, March 14 at 4 p.m. in Café G of the Williams Center. Ana Brignoni, at right, a graduate of both Dunkirk High School and SUNY Fredonia, will receive the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award. 
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Ethos New Music Society presents new compositions by students at its “Fanfares and Dances” concert on Saturday, March 10 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.   Two unique musical genres will be explored as composers premiere new music. The composers featured on this concert are Katie Thompson, Adam Shanley, Andrew Smith, D.J. Brady, Jamie Sampson, Scott Farkas, Chris Sobolewski, Ryan Brewer, Alex Northrup and Joel Hunt.  Admission is free and open to the public.

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Helen Myers directs the dance program at Fredonia.

The Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia announces the inaugural concert of the Fredonia Dance Ensemble. Performances will be staged at the historic 1891 Fredonia Opera House in the village hall in Fredonia March 8 through 11. Featured will be new and remounted dances choreographed by Professor Helen Myers and a celebrated group of faculty and international guest artists.


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Michael Marletta, '73

The year 2007 continues to be a banner year for Fredonia graduate Mike Marletta, a distinguished professor at UC Berkeley.   Mike is receiving two national awards this year: the Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, which will be presented in Boston in July; and the Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest, which he will accept at Harvard University in April.


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This coming year’s (2007) People of Color Concerns Conference (POCC) weekend provides a perfect forum for us to celebrate the legacy of black achievement at SUNY Fredonia. Doubling as the Black Student Union Alumni Reunion, the weekend begins on Friday, April 20, with an opening ceremony and dinner. From the 21st to the 22nd, some 65 active members of BSU will interact with their alumni at conference panels, the Gospel Explosion concert, and the Fashion Show—the latter which will include an alumni scene. During that weekend, the BSU alumni will unveil The Nabta Fund, an annual scholarship that will provide financial assistance to an exceptional student who is an active member of the Black Student Union.

As BSU alumni, we have a chance to secure our legacy at Fredonia by providing financial assistance to those that come after us. A Yoruba proverbs sum up our responsibility beautifully. “If the elephant cannot find enough to eat, the shame belongs to the forest.” The alumni constitute the forest, and the future BSU students are the majestic elephants. If they are unable to eat (complete their education) due to lack of vegetation (financial aid), the shame is on us. Similarly, another Yoruba proverb states: “One does not see the king’s child without seeing the mark of the king about him or her.” Let us make sure our mark can be seen about our future princes and princesses. If you would like to make a donation to the Nabta Scholarship Fund, please contact BSU alumna Zoe Bogan or Karen West at the Fredonia College Foundation. 

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Vacancies current exist for the University Judicial Board. All interested students are invited to apply for a position and can obtain an application o...
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In issuing its first podcast, SUNY Fredonia will be giving the campus community a different kind of access to a panel discussion that will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 21. “The Paperless University: Myth or Reality,” will take place at 4 p.m. in the Japanese Garden area of the Reed Library, and can be downloaded as a podcast from the university website on Feb. 23.  Interested audience members can either attend the discussion or download it later...or both!




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College Tutoring Services, comprising the Learning Center, the Full Opportunity Program, Disability Support Services for Students, and the Educational Development Program, is now hiring students to join its tutoring staff for the 2007/2008 academic year. The deadline to apply is Friday, March 16. Application forms are available in the EDP office, the Learning Center, and on-line at the Learning Center website. 
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One of Canada’s most notable guitarists, Steven Thachuk, will perform in Rosch Recital Hall Thursday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. The concert is free, and will feature the award-winning classical guitarist performing music by Aaron Copland, Frank Zappa, Enrique Granados, John Lennon, and Radiohead.

A member of the Meyer-Thachuk Guitar Duo with American guitarist Ken Meyer (graduate of the Fredonia School of Music), Mr. Thachuk was a top finalist in the Freschen International Competition in Koln. He received the esteemed Chalmers Performing Arts Training Grant in 1994. Classical Guitar Magazine has called his performances “perfectly and sensitively done.” The concert is approved for enrolled students as a MUS 120 event.


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The Fredonia School of Music will present a “Baroque Festival with a Fresh Perspective” in two concerts on Wednesday, Feb. 28, and Thursday, March 8, featuring two of the world’s leading period ensembles, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and the Leipzig Baroque Soloists. Both artistic groups will also be in-residence on campus that week and will present performances, special lectures, master classes, coaching and educational outreach to area high schools.

The Baroque Festival concerts on Wednesday and Thursday begin at 8 p.m. in the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall in Mason Hall. Each concert will feature an informative pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. and will conclude with a post-concert reception. Tickets are available through the Central Ticket Office (673-3501) at the Williams Center on the Fredonia campus.
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The Musical Journeys Program of the Fredonia School of Music has launched a new series of free concerts designed to appeal to very young children. Selected student ensembles from the Fredonia School of Music will perform four, half-hour Children’s Concerts on Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m. continuing on February 17 in the multi-purpose room of the Chautauqua County Home, 10836 Temple Road in Dunkirk.
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“Proof”, an exciting contemporary play by David Auburn, will be performed by the Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia in the Bartlett Theatre in the Rockefeller Arts Center from Feb. 23 through March 3. This highly acclaimed, award-winning show is the third production of the 2006/07 Walter Gloor Mainstage Season.

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The Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders at SUNY Fredonia is offering support group meetings for stroke and head injury survivors and family members. The group meets the first and third Tuesday of the month at 3 p.m. in room W127 Thompson Hall.
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SUNY Fredonia will hold a tribute to the late Dr. Franklin B. Krohn of Brocton on Monday, Feb. 19 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Williams Center Room G-138. The Department of Business Administration, where he taught for 29 years, is organizing the event. A scholarship is being established in his memory, announced Mojtaba Seyedian, chairperson of the department.
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Creative works by Fredonia students that expose injustice are being sought for the 18th Annual Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition. The Center for Multicultural Affairs at Fredonia is sponsoring the competition and accepting entries until March 2. Three equal prizes of $350 will be awarded at an the annual Rosa Parks Scholarship Awards Ceremony at Thursday, April 5, at 5 p.m., when the winners will present or perform their works.


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Joshua Jeffery will be graduating from SUNY Fredonia this spring with a BFA degree in Theatre Design and Production/ Scenic Design. He won’t be on hand to accept his diploma, however, because he’ll be in Orlando, Florida, finishing out a six-month professional internship in "imagineering" at Walt Disney World that is truly his dream come true. "The office setting I'm in is wonderful and very creative," he said. "The days are a bit long and very busy, but never boring.  I love coming to work."

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In tracking the source of the smell of something burning, a residence hall director at the State University of New York at Fredonia has created a chain of events that sent a popular product for student dorm rooms to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for investigation.

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The Western New York Chamber Orchestra will perform works by Ravel, Beethoven, and Copland in the concert, "Heroes and Legends," on Sunday, Feb. 11, at 4 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
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The Latin Jazz Ensemble of the SUNY Fredonia School of Music performed at New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s inauguration celebration held in Albany on January 1. The ensemble was one of only three musical groups representing Western New York at the inauguration’s festivities. Since the students were home on winter break at the time, they traveled from Arkansas, Florida and other parts of the country to be able to perform at the event.
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