Spring 2011 Issue - Lehman College

Homemade Cards Battle
Cancer in the Bronx
It didn’t take Brion Moss very long to come up
with a plan to fulfill one of his requirements in
the College’s President’s Service Corps.
As a charter member of the elite group of
seven students, he is responsible for increasing
student engagement through service
across the campus and within the community—and
for creating a project that exemplifies
his commitment to public service. “Giving back
to the people, that’s our goal,” says Moss, who
is studying for his master’s in nutrition.
Brion Moss (far right)
delivers the the funds
he raised to executives
at St. Barnabas (from
left) Arlene Allende,
Tom Murray, and
Grace Facciabene. His
designs are shown below.
Like millions of people around the world,
his family has been touched by the plight of
breast cancer—both his grandmother and aunt
died of the disease. “I decided to raise money
for the Breast Cancer Unit at St. Barnabas
Hospital here in the Bronx,” he says.
With that in mind, Moss drew nature scenes with pencil and
charcoal before converting the images into digital files and printing
them out on high-quality paper, creating eighty greeting cards for
any occasion. He then set up a table at various locales around
campus and sold the cards—a single one for $2 or three for $5—to
his fellow students and others in the Lehman community.
On the first day, he made $224 for his cause. By the time he was
done two weeks later, Moss had raised $640 and sold all but
twenty of the cards. Then, just before Thanksgiving, he personally
went over to St. Barnabas and hand-delivered a money order that
the hospital used to buy wigs for those who have lost their hair due
to chemotherapy and also to buy holiday gifts for cancer patients.
“It was honorable and humbling at the same time,” he says.
There was still plenty of time, however, for St. John Fisher’s
Colleen Maloney, the team’s high scorer for the day with 19 points,
to get more cracks at retaking the lead. But her attempts failed,
and ultimately she scored nothing more. Hayes was able to convert
two free throws for the final 63-60 margin.
The close game mirrored Lehman’s first two games of the tournament—overtime
wins over Farmingdale State and Brooklyn College.
Aside from the elation of winning the tournament, the victory
represented Coach Eric Harrison’s 200th career-coaching win, a
milestone achieved in his thirteenth year with the team. “It’s a nice
way to get it,” he said. “I didn’t want to be stuck at 199 over a whole
summer. Even better, I was able to win it with this group.”
Lehman Women Win ECAC Basketball
Championship
The Lehman women’s basketball team won its first-ever
ECAC Metro Championship this March with a heart-stopping
63-60 victory over St. John Fisher College in the Division III
championship game.
Trailing 60-56, Lehman cut its deficit to two on a basket by senior
Louvinia (Lou-Lou) Hayes. On the Lightning’s next possession,
Hayes drove to the basket and kicked out to a wide open Paula
Robinson, who buried the team’s biggest three-pointer of the
season from the top of the key to give Lehman a 61-60 lead with
1:59 remaining.
The team celebrates its victory.
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