2 SUNY Oneonta Alumni To Speak At Graduations Experts In Climate Change, Refugees; Also, 8 Professors, 4 Students Honored ONEONTA – In a new approach this year, two alumni, one an advocate for refugees, the other, a climate-change researcher, will be SUNY Oneonta’s commencement speakers at three ceremonies Saturday, May 11, in the Dewar Arena. • Crystal L. Williams, ’77, is a lawyer focused on helping refugees and asylum seekers, litigating employment-based immigration law cases, and helping to shape federal…
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SSPCA Benefactor Offers $250K Match For New Donations Public Share Would Put $2 Million ‘Shelter Us’ Target Within Reach Susquehanna SPCA benefactor and Staffworks President Anita Vitullo, Clinton, above center, poses with SSPCA board members after announcing a few minutes ago that, dollar-for-dollar, she will match forthcoming donations to the “Shelter Us” fund drive up to $250,000. If fully realized, Vitullo’s contribution will bring the $2 million drive to build a new animal shelter to $1.75 million, only $250,000 short…
ONEONTA’S NINJA Anthony Eardley Aims To Grip, Climb, Swing Into National Stardom Editor’s Note: “Oneonta’s Ninja” Anthony Eardley today – Monday, April 29 – began competition that could win him the title “American Ninja Warrior” on the hit TV shows. How the competition goes is a closely held secret until the show airs at the end of the month. By JENNIFER HILL • from Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Since infancy, Anthony Eardley hasn’t let the laws…
Cooperstown’s Bobby Walker Leads NY College Republicans COOPERSTOWN – Bobby Walker was elected president of the New York Federation of College Republicans at its annual convention over the weekend at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Albany. “The College Republicans will become a major fighting force in NY Politics,” the SUNY Albany undergrad from Cooperstown, who put together what he called the Restore NYFCR Campaign, declared after his victory. Walker’s Team Restore slate also carried all spots on the NYCFR…
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A CCS Grad Herself, Principal ‘Dynamo,’ Superintendent Says Kristin Butler Just What’s Needed At High School, Crankshaw Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In second grade, Kristin Butler already knew what she wanted to do. “I wanted to be just like Mrs. Kiser,” the new CCS junior-senior high school principal said in an interview this afternoon. Deborah Kiser “was one of the kindest, most compassionate people I’ve ever known.” Butler, CCS ’99, a SUNY Geneseo graduate,…
5 Division III-Bound Seniors To Be Celebrated At Signings COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown High School is planning an NCAA Celebratory Signing Day Friday, May 3, including a 3:15 p.m. event in the library for students heading off to college sports careers. They included Upstate Sportswriters’ “Player of the Year” Jack Lambert, co-captain of the school’s first-ever Class C state championship basketball team, who will attended the Division III University of Scranton. Other honorees, all headed to Division III teams, are Baileigh…
Cooperstown Central Names Kristin Butler High School Principal Veteran Teacher, Administrator Succeeds Lucy COOPERSTOWN – Kristin Butler, veteran Cooperstown Central School teacher and administrator, has been appointed junior-senior high school principal, effective July 1. She will succeed Donna Lucy, who resigned last summer. In the interim, Jim Brophy, retired Edmeston Central School principal, has filled the role. A 1999 CCS graduate, Butler has served the district for the past 13 years in both instructional and administrative roles, most recently as…
RETHINKING OH-FEST In Rapper Sean’s Wake, SUNY Students Seeking More Vigorous Vetting By JENNIFER HILL Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – While most SUNY Oneonta students were at OH-Fest festivities today, eight students, a faculty member and a staff member met gathered at 5 p.m. to discuss ways to avoid selecting musical performers that did not match “the values of SUNY Oneonta.” SUNY junior Eric Battista scheduled the meeting after he emailed students early about a resolution he drafted, proposing to…
