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    Manhattan College to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 with a Tribute – Sept. 7-11

    PRWeb – Tue, Aug 2, 2011

    Former Mayor Giuliani to speak at We Remember event on Sept. 9

    Riverdale, NY (PRWEB) August 02, 2011

    To mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Manhattan College is presenting a five-day We Remember series of events, Wednesday, Sept. 7 through Sunday, Sept. 11 to pay tribute to the victims of the tragic attacks. The events include: a memorial ceremony, a panel presentation by graduates of the College, a faculty teach-in, a campus-wide service day on Sept. 10 in honor of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an act signed by President Obama in 2009 officially designating Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service and Remembrance, and a memorial Mass. The College will also introduce an exhibition at the Mary Alice and Tom O’Malley Library during the week to commemorate the fallen Manhattan College alumni.

    “On Sept. 11, 2001, the College lost 20 graduates and scores of relatives and friends of our extended community; in honor of them, their families and all of the other victims, the College is hosting the We Remember series,” said Brennan O’Donnell, Ph.D., president of Manhattan College.

    On Sept. 7, the panel discussion and first We Remember event will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium with Francis Lombardi, the former chief engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, moderating the event. Michael Burton ’84, former executive deputy commissioner for the New York City Department of Design & Construction and current senior vice president and national operations manager for the LiRo Group; Eugene McGrath ’63, retired chairman and chief executive officer for Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.; George J. Tamaro ’59, former partner and current consultant for Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers; and Richard Tomasetti ’63, consultant for Thornton-Tomasetti; are among the featured panelists who assisted in the immediate constructive response in the aftermath of 9/11. The panelists will explain the challenges they and the city faced, and what that experience has meant to them over the past decade.

    “The panel will help to inform our students, who were 8-12 years old on 9/11, of how knowledge, expertise, and professional training--as well as strength of character and dedication--helped to put the city and the nation on a course of rebuilding,” added O’Donnell.

    The faculty teach-in on Sept. 8 will include Manhattan College faculty from multiple disciplines examining and presenting the impact of the events of 9/11 on certain aspects of American life from 4 to 5 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. Daniel Collins, Ph.D., director of the recently established Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and associate professor of English, will moderate the event, which will analyze how various authorities, from politicians to media pundits, claimed that American culture and politics would never be the same after 9/11. In addition, the faculty will address the questions: what has changed; what has taken place over the last ten years, in specific areas of life, through the lens of particular academic specialties; and what have we learned and how have we grown?

    The We Remember series continues with the commemorative service on Sept. 9 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers with The Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani ’65, former Mayor of New York City and chairman & chief executive officer for Giuliani Partners, as the featured speaker. In addition, two Manhattan College students will read from “The Guys,” an off-Broadway play by Anne Nelson about a writer working with a fire captain to draft eulogies for firefighters who perished in the World Trade Center. The names of the fallen Manhattan College alumni will also be read aloud.

    For the latest details on the Manhattan College We Remember series including confirmed event times, stay tuned to http://www.manhattan.edu/about/Sept11/. Media interested in covering the events, please contact Liz Connolly, assistant director of communications, by e-mail at public_relations(at)manhattan(dot)edu.

    About Manhattan College:


    Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway line No. 1. For directions to the campus, visit http://www.manhattan.edu.

    Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Lasallian Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit http://www.manhattan.edu.

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    Elizabeth Connolly
    Manhattan College
    (718) 862-7232
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