The Student Government Association (SGA) honored students, administrators, faculty and staff for the work they do everyday to enhance the St. Francis College community, hosting the Annual Student Awards Gala at the Waterfront Crab House, in Long Island City, on May 2. The SGA is proud to celebrate the hard work of these people and thanks them for their contributions to the College.

During the annual Charter Day celebration for St. Francis College Friday, April 25, outgoing President Frank J. Macchiarola '62 announced that portions of the recent $1 million gift from John '51 and Mary McCarthy will be used to complete and fully endow scholarships named for four Franciscan Brothers. A fifth scholarship will also be replenished. The McCarthy's were at the ceremony to accept the St. Clare Medal of Service.

St. Francis College hosted its annual Yom Hashoah remembrance event, May 1, with a lecture by noted professor Kitty Millet who spoke about, "The Obligation of Hope."

A rapt crowd of St. Francis College student-athletes and their classmates shared a long conversation Thursday, April 24 at St. Francis College, with Anucha Browne Sanders, the former New York Knicks executive who recently won a sexual discrimination suit against the team.

With just two victories this coming weekend at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships, the St. Francis College Women's Water Polo team can extend their already most successful season ever with a trip to the NCAA Division I Women's Water Polo Championship.

Everyday, the campus of St. Francis College reflects the amazing diversity of the city it calls home. To celebrate the coming together of people from dozens of countries and countless cultures, the College hosted its annual multicultural interchange, Community Day, April 13, where members of the college community shared aspects of their cultures with and among each other.

Iraqi Judge Raid Juhi Al-Saedi says his role in presiding over the investigation of former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein for war crimes was more important than concerns for his own life. "We need to teach our society how to respect the rule of law in Iraq," Juhi told a packed theater Thursday, April 10 in a talk sponsored by the St. Francis College Department of International Culture Studies.

Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus of AllianceBernstein, L.P. and Chairman Emeritus of the Manhattan Institute, was so moved by the testimonials about St. Francis College's retiring President Frank J. Macchiarola '62, that Hertog committed $1 million to the College in honor of Macchiarola's life's work before the 47th Annual Charter Award Dinner was even over.

St. Francis College Alumnus and former CEO of Deloitte, Bill Parrett '67 shared some of his 40 years of accounting and workplace skills with a group of current St. Francis accounting and management students Monday, April 7. He focused on dos and don'ts for the first five years on the job.

A first of its kind one-day conference on women's poetry drew dozens of scholars and educators from across the area and as far away as New Orleans, Ohio and Maine to St. Francis College on April 5 to answer the question, Why Study Women's Poetry?