Huge Celebration Set for Saturday’s Women’s Basketball Game

by browkaa | Feb 5, 2020 | Faculty

When you check your campus mailbox this week, you’ll find four tickets for Saturday’s women’s basketball game versus Fairfield. Tip-off is slated for 2:00 p.m. It’s Faculty-Staff Day for the women’s team and everyone on campus is invited to the game at no charge.

It’s also Play4Kay Day with the first 150 women receiving a complimentary pink knit cap, courtesy of New Era. So, arrive early if you would like to receive one of these stylish caps. Everyone is encouraged to wear pink to the game. Doors open at 1:00 p.m.

The Athletic Department will also be saluting its all-sesquicentennial team Saturday afternoon. The team will be introduced at halftime. Listed below are the 16 women named to the team:

Mary Achramovitch, Patricia Aronson, Amanda Cavo Bevilacqua, Gina Castelli, Heather Fiore DiBiase, Karen Freeman, Shauna Geronzin Green, Caren Jachimiak, Mimi Lamagna O’Connell, Deb Laux, Lori Pasceri Asher, Kara Haun Rehbaum, Brittane Russell, Jenel Stevens, Cindy Ulreich Reinhard, Becky Zak Kelly

Click here to add this event to your calendar.

For more information, visit www.GoGriffs.com.

Submitted by: John Maddock, Athletics

Hockey Home for Two vs. Air Force

by browkaa | Feb 5, 2020 | Faculty

Over the past five years, Canisius and Air Force have won more conference games than any team in Atlantic Hockey except for Robert Morris. This weekend, the two titans meet at HarborCenter for conference points that are becoming more valuable each week, as the regular season starts to wind down.

This weekend’s games commence a stretch of five consecutive home contests that will be vital to the Griffs’ playoff positioning for next month’s championship.

Game time on Friday, February 7 is set for 7:35 p.m. while Saturday’s contest (great if you have children) faces off at 4:05 p.m. There will also be an autograph table following the game on Saturday.

For reduced price faculty and staff tickets, please call 888-2885. For more game information, visit www.GoGrifs.com

Submitted by: John Maddock, athletics

Mission & Identity Reading Group

by browkaa | Feb 5, 2020 | Faculty

The Mission and Identity Reading Group will meet next Wednesday, February 12 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in the Loyola Hall Great Room. Wine and cheese will be provided.

This month’s topic is “Soul Education: An Ignatian Priority,” written by Rev. Howard Gray, SJ, and found on pp. 195-208 of A Jesuit Education Reader.  The group will also discuss Father Gray’s video “Catholic & Jesuit Identity: Appropriation & Mission.”  Click here to watch the video.

Father Gray was a beloved Jesuit who served in various capacities at Georgetown University up until his passing in May 2018.

Please contact Rev. Patrick J. Lynch, SJ, at lynchp@canisius.edu, by Tuesday, February 11 at 5:00 p.m. to receive the links to the material and the discussion questions and to indicate interest in attending the session.

Submitted by: Rev. Patrick J. Lynch, SJ, Jesuit associate, Mission & Identity

Discarded Ancestors: At the Intersection of Art and Ancestry

by browkaa | Feb 5, 2020 | Faculty

In collaboration with City of Light Publishing, the spring 2020 Archives Speaker Series presents “Discarded Ancestors: At the Intersection of Art and Ancestry” on Friday, February 28, from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in the Canisius College Andrew L. Bouwhuis, SJ, Library.

The presentation and subsequent book launch will feature mixed-media artist Elizabeth Leader, who is drawn to places and objects most people would pass by on a street without ever giving a glance. When she found a photo album, curbside, on Buffalo’s East Side, Leader wondered how she might find clues to the lives of people found in the pictures? Whose faces are those lost in another time?

Out of these artifacts, Leader first created art, bringing stories to new life. Then, a chance meeting with two Canisius College librarians changed everything. The hunt for “Eleanor” was on!

Elizabeth Leader, along with librarians Lisa Sullivan and Kathleen DeLaney, will share how “finding Eleanor” led to personal stories of Buffalo’s rich immigrant history, the workplaces and urban landscapes filled with treasured legacies and secrets sometimes living among rubble that make for more mysteries to be solved.

Leader’s new book, Discarded Ancestors, is her debut as a non-fiction writer and features the artwork inspired by the photo album.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.  Books will also be available for purchase.

For more information, contact Kathleen DeLaney, archivist/special collections librarian at Ext. 8421 or at kdelaney@canisius.edu.

Submitted by: Kathleen Delaney, archivist/special collections librarian, Andrew L. Bouwhuis, SJ, Library

Ignite Awards Luncheon 2020

by browkaa | Feb 5, 2020 | Faculty