ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP Echoing Green—2010 Fellows

Appetizers with AmeriCorps 11/16 1,750 City Year AmeriCorps Members

CEO Patrick Corvington Honored as Outstanding American Geneva Public Library Activities

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Neighborhood Tour and Celebration 10/16

Service Jam Oct. 10-12 Community Read Partnership

COMMUNITY SERVICE Days Of Service 10/23/10

Boys and Girls Club Volunteers Needed Volunteer for Junior Achievement Week!

Empty Bowl Event 10/14 HWS Annual Halloween Blood Drive 10/28

Civic Leadership...Leading to a life of Engaged Citizenship.

Volunteers Needed every Thursday in October For The Community Lunch Program

Contact Dan Boysen or call CCESL ext: 3825 DanielBoysen@hws.edu

RECAP

Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL)

Trinity Hall 2nd floor room 203

Geneva Heroes Coordinator needed for Spring 2011

Building Bridges Program Developer Needed $7.65/hr, 2-3hrs/week

Fourth Annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser Thursday, October 14, 2010

Our Lady of Peace Parish Center Center Street, Geneva NY

5pm-7pm $10/ticket for HWS students with ID

$10 tickets for HWS students with student ID

Service Jam is an online con-versation about service and social innovation tak-

ing place October 10 - 12. The Jam will bring to-

gether non-profit organizations, corporations, aca-

demic institutions, and government agencies to discuss solutions to our world's largest challenges.

During the event, registered participants will have

the rare opportunity to converse with distinguished

global leaders. Featured guests include: Former

President George H.W. Bush; Ray Chambers, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy

for Malaria; Senator Harris Wofford, Pennsylvania;

Jean Case, CEO, The Case Foundation; and Mayor

Michael Nutter, City of Philadelphia.

Participation is free. However, space is limited and will be allotted on a first come, first served basis. Visit https://www.collaborationjam.com/minijam3/service/registration/ to register. 

October 10-12, 2010 Online

Civic Engagement

                Community Read Comes to Geneva 

 

Through the partnership of Geneva Reads, the Geneva Public Library, Writers & Books, Rochester-area libraries, and our GHS Library, the Big Read/Community Read is coming to the Geneva community in October!  The Community Read is The Things

They Carried, by Tim O'Brien. A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the Na-tional Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien

who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.  Local - and free! - events will include a book dis-cussion, a film series, a nearby presentation by the author, and also programming next month in the GHS Library Media Center when our GHS stu-dents will have a chance to meet and have dis-cussion with Vietnam vets as we examine the book's themes and motifs.

On October 1, 2010, at Opening Day ceremonies across America, 1,750 diverse young leaders of City Year will pledge to give a demanding year of full-time service and sacrifice to help students and schools succeed. The 2010-2011 corps, the largest in the organization's 22-year history, were selected from a record number of 8,400 applicants from across the United States to serve in City Year's 20 U.S. locations. City Year corps members serve full-time in high-poverty schools from the before the first bell - energetically greeting students each morning at the school house steps - providing high-impact tutor-ing and positive school climate activities throughout the day, and operating homework help and academic-based after-school programs that extend the learning day. For more information on the ceremonies, please visit www.cityyear.org/openingday.aspx

Engaged Citizenship

Film: Saturday, October 9th 3 - 5:30 pm Geneva Public Library Community Room War on Film Series: We Were Soldiers We Were Soldiers (2002) starring Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinear, and Sam Elliott. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway, this film tells the story of some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965. They were immedi-ately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany con-stituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. Discussion: Thursday, October 14th 6:30 - 7:30 pm Geneva Public Library Community Room Nancy Lynch, author of Vietnam Mailbag: Voices from the War, 1968-1972, will read selected war let-ters from her book, stirring narratives filled with our troops’ hopes and fears, humor and tears. Following her presentation she will be available to autograph and personalize her book. Film: Saturday, October 16th 3 - 5:30 pm Geneva Public Library Community Room War on Film Series: The Deer Hunter The Deer Hunter (1978), starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep will be screened on October 16th. Winner of 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter depicts the story of three young Pennsylvania steelworkers who are devastated by the experi-ence of the Vietnam War. Book Discussion: Saturday, October 23 12:30 - 2 pm Geneva Public Library Reading Room Book discussion of The Things They Carried. The first 10 people to register for the book discussion will receive a complimentary copy of the book. Refreshments will be served. Film: Saturday, October 30th 3 - 5:30 pm Geneva Public Library Community Room War on Film Series: Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick ‘s Full Metal Jacket (1987), starring Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey, will wrap up the “War on Film” series on October 30th. The film tells the story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker, from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involve-ment in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Author Presentation: Thursday, November 4th 7 pm University of Rochester Hubbell Auditorium "The Things They Carried": A Presentation by Tim O'Brien Free and open to the public. For information call (585) 275-4092