Albertus Celebrates 86th Commencement
Albertus Magnus College awarded 690 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 86th commencement exercises on a chilly and cloudy Sunday afternoon, May 17, in front of venerable Rosary Hall.
The College conferred honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees upon Sister Anne Kilbride, O.P., Dr. Margaret Badum Melady and The Honorable Thomas P. Melady.
Teacher, administrator, counselor and religious leader, Sister Anne, a native of New Haven, has led a life of service to her Church and her community. Deeply involved in congregational ministry and leadership, she most recently served as prioress of the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now known as the Dominican Sisters of Peace), the founding congregation of Albertus Magnus College. She has been a member of numerous boards and congregational committees.
Dr. Margaret Melady has had distinguished careers in university teaching and administration, corporate management and global communications. She served for six years as president of The American University of Rome. She is the author of four books on social and political commentary, international culture and communications, including “The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II: The Pastoral Visit as a New Vocabulary of the Sacred.”
Educator, diplomat and author, The Honorable Thomas P. Melady served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Uganda and the Holy See, and was senior adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. He was president of Sacred Heart University for 10 years; currently he is professor and senior diplomat in residence at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of national security and international affairs in Washington, D.C.
Bishop Theodore L. Brooks Sr., pastor of the Beulah Heights Pentecostal Church in New Haven-- a recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Albertus in 2003—delivered the charge to the graduates and the benediction. He recalled that President Barack Obama has said that “all Americans should strive to put themselves in the position of continual learning. No matter how old you are, you are never too old to learn.” This applies, Bishop Brooks pointed out, not only to the young, but to the middle-aged and the elderly. He urged the graduates to always seek new challenges and never become satisfied with the status quo.
“Some people want to forget where they came from, which I believe is a great mistake,” he said. “I have found out that it is very important for everyone of us to reflect back to where wecame from, and what we went through, so that we might stay on the pathway to accomplishing those goals and objectives that are before us.
“…We must not put off for tomorrow those things that we can either do today or at least start the process today…Procrastination is a thief of not only time, but also of our dreams and goals….”
Albertus Magnus College, a liberal arts college founded in 1925, has an enrollment of 2,100 students in its undergraduate and graduate programs.
All-Student Production of “The Tempest” a Hit
The Albertus Magnus College English Club presented three performances of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” on the lawn of Sansbury Hall April 23, 24 and 25. More than 300 people attended the performances, which were free and open to the entire College community.
English Club President Carolyn “Charlie” O’Brien, who graduates this May, had the idea for the production. “I thought it was a shame that there are so many young people who are turned off to Shakespeare, simply because they don’t understand it and have never seen it performed,” she says. “I wanted to give students the opportunity to become involved in something, with the hopes that it would inspire people, including community members, to become passionate about the arts and the beauty of Shakespeare.”
In addition to her responsibilities as president of the English Club, Charlie served as producer and director, stage production manager, prop master, costume and set design manager; and she played the role of Caliban, Alex Cannon was assistant director and Victoria Gravina, assistant stage production manager. They will be running the English Club next year and putting on another Shakespeare play. Photo Gallery: "The Tempest".
The Department of Business Administration & Management announces a new concentration: Sport Management
This new concentration will prepare students for a variety of exciting careers within the expanding Sport Management field. For further information, please contact Tim Raynor, Assistant Professor, at traynor@albertus.edu or 203-773-8582
Magazine Features Art Therapy Graduate Program
Read about the College’s Master of Arts in Art Therapy program—the only one of its kind in Connecticut— in the January issue of New Haven Magazine.
Academic Center Dedicated
The College on December 18 dedicated the Mary A. and Louis F. Tagliatela Academic Center. Support from these caring philanthropists also made possible the Tagliatela School of Business and Leadership. Three generations of the Tagliatela family attended the dedication ceremony, along with members of the faculty, administration and staff. The Academic Center, with its soaring St. Albert the Great Atrium, opened in 2005. It houses biology and chemistry labs, classrooms, the Kops Forum teaching amphitheater, MIS suite and a studio for communications majors.
GNAC Announces Academic All-Conference Honorees
The Great Northeast Athletic Conference has announced the names of scholar-athletes with the highest 2008 GPA achievements in member schools. Six of the 11 top students are from Albertus: Dave Dziezynski, communications major, 4.00 GPA, soccer team; Katherine Gustafson, English, 3.98, tennis; Gia Paturzo, accounting, 3.97, basketball and soccer; Ryan Mihalyak criminal justice, 3.97, soccer; Jess Zanghi, psychology, 3.97, softball and volleyball; Jessica Neubig, biology, 3.97, softball. Honored for the top GPA in baseball at Albertus was Stephen Harding, management, 3.88.
MAAT Student Wins National Scholarship
Crystal Schrade, a student in the College’s Master of Arts in Art Therapy program, has won the Myra Levick Scholarship from the American Art Therapy Association. She is one of five students in the nation to receive this prestigious award. In November, she has been invited to attend the Association’s annual conference--this year in Cleveland-- to receive the award. The Albertus graduate program in art therapy is the only one in Connecticut.
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