College of Saint Elizabeth Displays International Creche Exhibition

This holiday season, the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J. 07960, is showcasing a display of international crèches, The World Celebrates Christmas, from December 1 to 17, at the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery in CSE Annunciation Center on campus.


Donated by Eileen Canty, Ph.D., of New York City, in honor of her friend and CSE alumna Colette Conroy, ’55, of New Rochelle, New York, the total collection of 200 crèches captures the culture of countries worldwide. A sample from this large collection is currently on view. The exhibition ids free and open to the public, exhibit hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 1 to 7 p.m.; Friday, Saturday and Monday, 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Sundays. For information, contact the Maloney Art Gallery at (973) 290-4315 or at artgallery@cse.edu.



Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

World Renowned Cellist Stephen Framil to Appear at College of Saint Elizabeth

Internationally acclaimed musician Dr. Stephen Framil, who has the distinction of being the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi since end of the Vietnam War, will appear on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 7 p.m., in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, at the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J.

Dr. Framil will perform a varied program for cello and piano including pieces by Bach, sonatas by Schubert, Shostakovich, and shorter virtuoso pieces by Paganini and Cassado. This program is a preview of a recital Dr. Framil will be performing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, November 21. For more information, call 973-290-4379 or email events@cse.edu.

Dr. Framil has performed as concert soloist, chamber musician and conductor at concert halls around the world: including Carnegie, Weill, and Avery-Fisher halls in New York; Hong Kong City Hall, with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Hungary; Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia; Manila Philharmonic Orchestra in the Philippines; Viêt Nam National Symphony Orchestra; and the Bombay and Bangalore Chamber Orchestras in India. He is the music director/conductor of CAMERATA PHILADELPHIA and artistic director of the Port City Music Festival in North Carolina.

As a versatile and dedicated educator, Dr. Framil, who holds a doctorate in music from Indiana University, has given cello and chamber music master classes at many prestigious music institutions worldwide, including the Shanghai Conservatory, China; DePaul University, Chicago; Longy School of Music, Boston; Blair School of Music, Nashville, Tenn.; and Volgograd Conservatory, Russia. He has been an adjudicator for the Hong Kong Schools of Music Festival, and the Schadt String Competition in Allentown, Pa.

An advocate of inner-city music education, Dr. Framil is the director of the Philadelphia Community Conservatory and the Philadelphia Youth Ensemble, programs that provide music lessons and orchestral experience to underserved youth. Dr. Framil has held professorships at the University of Delaware, Andrews University, Michigan; and Towson University Maryland.
Dr. Framil has recorded the complete J.S. Bach Suites for Solo Cello, as well as the works for Solo Cello by Zoltán Kodály and Gaspar Cassadó. for Radio 4 Hong Kong. He has also recorded the two Haydn cello concertos with Paul Freeman and Czech National Symphony Orchestra for Centaur Records.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

Photojournallist Harry Benson to Speak at the College of Saint Eizabeth Tuesday, November 16

Photojournalist Harry Benson, who traveled to the United States with the Beatles in 1964, will present a slide lecture on his 60 years in photography on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 7 p.m., in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J. During his presentation, Benson will show his images and answer questions about the photographs. Following his presentation, Mr. Benson will sign copies of his books.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the American Society of Media Photographers of New Jersey and sponsored by the Canon-Explorers of Light program and the CSE Culture and Humanities Area and the CSE Art Program. For more information, visit asmp-nj.org or the events page at maloneyartgallery.org.

Aside from creating some of the Beatles’ most famous images, Benson has been a witness to several major historic events. He was standing next to Robert F. Kennedy when the presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968. He marched with Martin Luther Jr. during the Civil Rights movement and stood next to Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral. He was in the room with Richard Nixon when the president resigned in 1974. He was there when the Berlin Wall went up … and when it came down. He has photographed 11 American presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.

Benson was the most published photographer in Life magazine and he is currently under contract to Vanity Fair magazine. His photographs have appeared in Architectural Digest, Newsweek and many other major magazines. In 2009, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington. He has had 40 gallery solo exhibitions and has published 14 books of his photographs.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

College of Saint Elizabeth Opens Week of Holocaust Remembrance with Cultural Program

The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company (CDDC) will perform as part of An Evening of Remembrance Through the Arts, launching the 20th Annual College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) Week of Holocaust Remembrance on Monday, November 8, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J. The evening, which also includes art and music, commemorates the anniversary of Kristallnacht. It is free and open to the public. Reservations are suggested, but not required. For more information, call 973-290-4378 or email events@cse.edu.



Performance Commemorates the Anniversary of Kristallnacht



Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, took place in Germany and Austria November 9-10, 1938, when Jews were attacked and their homes, businesses, and synagogues were destroyed. The activities of that night signaled the beginning of the Holocaust. The CSE Holocaust Education and Resource Center (HERC) is co-sponsoring this event with the Holocaust Council of MetroWest, the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, the CSE Lectures and Concerts Committee, and Yolanda, Mazza Kunz (CSE, ’68) and Raymond Kunz.



CDDC will perform two selections, Excerpts of The Klezmer Sketch, from the full evening work Mayne Mentshn (My People) and Cat’s Cradle, works choreographed by Carolyn Dorfman.
The selections are part of the Legacy Project, a body of work that reflects her experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors as well as acknowledges her Eastern European Jewish heritage and Jewish history. In the Klezmer Sketch, Dorfman shares the exuberant, joyful, yet soulful quality of explores Jewish gesture, expression, ritual, character and values. In essence, it is the LIFE that was interrupted. Cat’s Cradle, which incorporates music and lyrics by Theresienstadt inmate Ilse Weber, was inspired by Dorfman’s mother and aunts who knitted as they told their stories. “The yarn is both a metaphor for the extraordinary stories of my family and the reality of my mother and her two sisters who knitted while telling their tales and thus knitted the family together across generations,” explains Dorfman. “It is, in the end, a piece about connection and memory … past, present, and future.”



Between dance performances, Dorfman will speak to the audience about her experiences growing up a child of Holocaust survivors.



Pamela Stein, soprano, and Nancy Vanderslice, clarinetist, both members of the CSE music faculty, will perform I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a song cycle based on poetry written by the children of Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, most of whom did not survive. Lori Laitman, who composed the music, remarks, “One cannot help but be touched by the hope and innocence that these children put into their poetry, despite their terrible surroundings.”
Stein, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, has performed contemporary music and traditional repertoire nationally and internationally. She has premiered works by composers Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan, Jacob Cooper, Daniel Felsenfeld, Jenny Beck, Eun-Jung Kim, Kevin Clark, Malina Rauschenfels, Paul Swartzel, Lauren Buchter, and many others. A composer herself, Stein is the recipient of The Ruth and Raymond Young Award for new music and has had several of her compositions premiered by musicians and chamber ensembles throughout New Jersey.



Vanderslice began her professional training on oboe at the N.C. School of the Arts and has performed with the Madison Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and the Dubuque Symphony, New Jersey Concert Opera, Garden State Opera Company, and The Garden State Concert Band. For the past two years, she has been principal oboe with the Baroque Orchestra of North Jersey. She is also an adjunct professor of oboe at the College of Saint Elizabeth, the County College of Morris, and Rutgers University - Newark.



Art Exhibition Open Through November 23, 2010



Shards: Documenting Genocide, an art exhibition, which runs from October 21 through November 23, 2010, will be open before and after the Kristallnacht program. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is located in the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Annunciation Center on campus. The hours are Tuesday through Thursday, from 1 to 7 p.m., and Friday, Saturday, and Monday from 1 to 5 p.m, closed Sunday, major holidays, and college vacations. For more information about the gallery and its exhibitions, call 973-290-4314 or click on http://maloneyartgallery.cse.edu/.



The exhibition features the work of 7 Grani, Italy; Aliza Augustine, West New York, N.J.; Gordon Baldwin, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Ula Einstein, New York; Harold A. Kuskin, Bernardsville, N.J.; Stephen Mead, Albany, N.Y.; Leonard Merlo, South Plainfield, N.J.; Neal Korn, Union, N.J.; Jeremy Newman, Mt. Laurel, N.J.; Carol Rosen, Califon, N.J.; Eva Schuster, South Lee, Mass.; Katherine D. Singh, New York; Ariela Steif, Ann Arbor, Mass.; Ani K. Volkan, Johnson City, Tenn.; and Florence Weisz, South Orange, N.J.



Week Includes These Additional Programs



On Wednesday, November 10, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., HERC will present The Holocaust in a Catholic Educational Setting: Post-Vatican II Church Teachings and Implementation. Sister Kathleen Flanagan, SC, co-director of HERC and CSE professor of theology, and Sister Joseph Spring, SCC, president of Assumption College of Sisters, will lead the discussion in Dolan Performance Hall. Sister Spring is also the former assistant superintendent of the Paterson diocesan schools.



Throughout the week, various members of the CSE faculty will tailor their in-class lessons to topics relevant to the themes of the week and to their disciplines. These sessions will include survivor testimony, films, and discussions. The public is invited to attend these classes and information about the topics is available by emailing holocaustcenter@cse.edu or visiting www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.



Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

College of Saint Elizabeth Hosts Expo for Adult Students October 30

More than 35 colleges are expected to be represented at the Adult and Graduate Student Expo hosted by the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), in partnership with The Star-Ledger, on Saturday, October 30, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Expo takes place in the Annunciation Center on campus at 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J.

“The Expo will bring together top colleges and universities from all over the tri-state area,” said Tom Billings, assistant director of recruitment at CSE. “Students of all ages who are considering going back to school can do some one-stop shopping for the institution that is right for them.” For more information, contact Tom Billings, assistant director of recruitment, at 973-290-4191 or tbillings@cse.edu.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

College of Saint Elizabeth Hosts Adult Open House October 12, 2010

On Tuesday, October 12, 2010, the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., will host an Open House from 6 to 8 p.m. for adult students interested in graduate and undergraduate programs.

The college offers more than 35 programs for adult learners, including new offerings for this academic year:

• M.S. in Management/public administration track, designed for New Jersey municipal, county and state employees looking for professional advancement.

• M.A. in Theology/low residency program, which combines a sequence of one-week residences on campus with periods of directed reading and research. It offers flexibility for students who live a long distance from campus.

• Professional certificates in weight management and counseling, pastoral care, forensic psychology, and nursing education.

“We have several new and innovative programs for this academic year,” says Vice President of Academic Affairs James Dlugos. “By attending our open house, potential students can obtain further information on these and other programs that will expand their career potential.”

Members of the faculty, program advisors and admissions counselors will be on site for each of the programs. The session will be held in the Annunciation Center on campus. Doors for the event will open 5 p.m., with sessions beginning at 6 p.m.

For more information about the Open House, call (800) 210-7900 or log on at www.cse.edu.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls approximately 2,000 full and part-time students in 27 undergraduate programs, nine graduate degree programs, and one doctoral program. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.

The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina will be commemorated at the College of Saint Elizabeth on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, with the appearance of poet Patricia Smith whose recent collection, Blood Dazzler, chronicles the human, emotional, and physical toll exacted by that catastrophe. The book was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and was one of the National Public Radio’s (NPR) Top Books of 2008. Smith will read from this latest book along with her other works and will follow with a book signing. The event, which will take place at 7 p.m.in the Dolan Performance Hall in Annunciation Center on campus, is free and open to the public.

Smith’s appearance is sponsored by the CSE Poets and Writers Fund and the Lectures and Concerts Committee. For more information, call 973-290-4413.

In a review, South Carolina poet laureate Marjory Wentworth wrote, “Blood Dazzler is the narrative of a shameful tragedy, but it is lyrical and beautiful, like a hymn we want to sing over and over until it lives in our collective memory.”

Smith’s previous book, Teahouse of the Almighty, was a National Poetry Series selection and winner of the first Hurston/Wright Award in Poetry. Her other poetry books are Close to Death, Life According to Motown, and Big Towns, Big Talk. Her work has been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and other literary journals/anthologies, and performed around the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Sorbonne in Paris.

Smith is a winner of four National Poetry Slam individual championships, the most in the competition’s history. She has been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. She currently teaches in the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Southern Maine and is a professor of creative writing at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.