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STAYING INFORMED - students, past and presentTHE SPIRIT OF ST. MARGUERITE CHRISTENEDSister Denise dedicates the new boat on avery rainy day at the West Side Rowing Club.October 27, 2012 was a cold and drearymorning not quite fit for outdoor activity,but that did not dampen the excitementsurrounding the DYC Crew’s muchanticipatedinaugural boat dedication. As theLady Spartan rowers celebrate their tenthanniversary this year, the team welcomedsupporters down to the West Side RowingClub to share in their historic day.The sleek Hudson Hammerhead 4+glistened black in the teeming rain as itsat atop its stretchers on the front lawnof the rowing club, two crossed rosesadorned the bow in school colors. CoachJohn Dorn addressed the dedicated grouphuddled under the protection of the porchand thanked everyone for being part of theDYC rowing community. College presidentSister Denise Roche was then invited tocome up and say a few words about thenew boat’s namesake, St. Marguerited’Youville. After educating the crowdon St. Marguerite’s connection to DYC,Sister Denise dedicated the boat Spirit ofSt. Marguerite d’Youville by pouring waterfrom the Black Rock Canal over the bow.As the applause subsided, DYC CampusMinister Father Patrick O’Keefe blessedthe boat to complete the ceremony.The Spirit of St. Marguerite d’Youvillewent on to win its first race later thatmorning against longtime rival CazenoviaCollege. The Varsity 4+ lineup of cox:Meg Logan, Stroke: Lauren Ciurzynski, 3:Andrea Milleville, 2: Kaylee Martin, andBow: Lindsey Hurley completed the 2000meter course in a time of 7:31 finishing 1:37ahead of the Cazenovia crew.Without the generosity of those whocontributed during the fundraisingcampaign, as well as the support of theD’Youville administration and athleticdepartment, the boat purchase would nothave been possible.FORMER DYC SIFETEAM PRESIDENTAPPOINTEDAS MANAGERDenise Cotto ’03, was appointedprogram manager for the Niagara FallsEntrepreneurial Training Program lastSeptember.A past president of the D’Youville Studentsin Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team and amanagement and accounting major, shebrought her college and professionalexperience to the program.“I am very excited about the opportunityto be a part of this great program.… I am implementing many changes andpositive improvements to the program,”Denise told the Niagara Gazette.She plans to have participants build a virtualbusiness based on classroom knowledge.“It will better prepare the participants forthe mini business plan competition to takeplace at the culmination of the program.”Her program offers two separate businesseducation cohorts, one for those with limitedor no business knowledge and the second formore advanced students who will learn webdevelopment, bookkeeping, accountingmethods and business plan writing.The advanced session is presented byD’Youville’s SIFE team in collaborationwith the Niagara Falls Department ofEconomic Development. It is free to cityresidents.Peter Eimer, CEO at Brothers of Mercy,assistant professor of business, atD’Youville and faculty advisor for the SIFEProgram said, “Denise is an extremelyknowledgeable young lady. She is full ofenergy and has a passion for contributingto the betterment of her community.”Cotto, 32, worked with the InternalRevenue Service and is a CPA candidate.She has been involved in communityoutreach projects since high school andwas president of the Lafayette High SchoolZ Club and a member of the National HonorSociety. She started a financial literacyProgram for Cuban refugees that wastaught in their native Spanish language.Denise also managed a volunteer incometax assistance site for members of the WestSide community in Buffalo.18
DYC STUDENT EARNSSTIPEND FROM GOOGLED’Youville information technologystudent Devan Franchini successfullycompleted the Google Summer of Codeprogram and received a stipend of $5,000.He finished a “free and open-sourcesoftware coding project” during thesummer, with a mentor and co-mentor,working on a project to increase securityon Gentoo Linux servers using SELinux.Since its inception in 2005, the program hasbrought together more that 6,000 studentparticipants and more than 3,000 mentorsfrom over 100 countries, all for the love ofcode, according to Google. More than 1,100students took part in the 2012 program.“Students are paired with a mentor ormentors from the participating projects, thusgaining exposure to real-world softwaredevelopment scenarios and the opportunityfor employment in areas related to theiracademic pursuits,” the company states.“Best of all, more source code is createdand released for the use and benefit of all.”Franchini was mentored by Sven Vermeulen,an information & technology infrastructurearchitect at KBC Global Services, aninternational finance institution based inBelgium. Dr. Anthony Basile, coordinatorof the information technology program atD’Youville, was a co-mentor.The Summer of Code is a global programthat offers post-secondary studentdevelopers stipends to write code for variousopen source software projects. Students areselected to participate in this competitiveprogram by mentoring organizations.(l to r) Laura Littlejohn, bookstore assistant manager Corissa Tefft, Sister Denise and LauraCarballa, bookstore managerThe National Association of CollegeStores (NACS) hosts a National StudentDay Competition annually that is “allabout celebrating and promoting socialresponsibility by college students.”Corissa Tefft, a freshman physician assistantstudent at D’Youville College, was one ofseven students selected as a winners.Corrisa wrote an essay explaining how shestarted a Pajama Drive at Rosewood HeightsNursing Home in Syracuse, N.Y., where shehas been volunteering since 2006. Her ideastemmed from her sympathy towards thepatients at the home who did not have enoughpersonal funds to purchase clothes and werewearing only the home-provided gowns.The Central Square, N.Y. native said in hersubmission, “It was very sad seeing thesame people each week wearing the samehospital gowns, the single outfit they own.”She wrote to local newspapers each yearduring the holiday season asking for bothclothing and monetary donations. Corissa,a graduate of Paul V. Moore High School,collects these donations and even sortsthem for each resident, being careful thateveryone gets what they need, the citationsaid.NACS hosts this competition every year,and Laura Carballa, Barnes & NobleD’Youville Bookstore manager, hopesto award a D’Youville student a valuableprize next year. “We were all excited thatone of our students was selected,” she said.To learn more about Corissa’s submissionand the annual competition, visit www.nationalstudentday.com. You can “like” thebookstore Facebook page for your chanceto enter the competition in 2013.Corissa’s prize was a new iPad from Barnes& Noble.PHARMACY AND CHIROPRACTIC STUDENTS COLLABORATEIn a unique student collaboration, D’Youville College pharmacystudents spent a week with the college’s chiropractic studentsduring their clinical rotations. The pharmacy students had theopportunity to shadow the chiropractic interns at their clinic onMain Street in Buffalo where they treat members of the localcommunity. They were also at the college campus clinic andBuffalo Spine and Sports Institute in Williamsville, N.Y.“Pharmacy students observed chiropractic treatments providedto members of the community, reviewed patient cases and sharedtheir knowledge of medications commonly prescribed to patientswith back and neck pain,” said Jack Koford, assistant professorand director of the experiential education department within theSchool of Pharmacy. “For some of the pharmacy students it wastheir first experience with chiropractic.”D’YOUVILLE FRESHMAN WINS NATIONALCOMPETITION ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYThis collaboration provided both health professions, which aretaught at D’Youville, a chance to collaborate in the review ofpatient cases in an environment conducive to learning about eachother’s profession.“Both the department of chiropractic and the School of Pharmacyrecognize the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration tofoster improved communication and an understanding of other’sprofession,” said Dr. Lisa DeMarco, assistant professor in thechiropractic department. “We believe this will improve patientoutcomes while administering evidence-based quality care.”On schedule is another rotation for the spring semester where thechiropractic students will participate in the pharmacy rotations inthe community.alumni.dyouville.edu 19
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