Friday, March 19, 2004

Quote of the Day
"Without a gentle contempt for education, no man's education is complete."
- G. K. Chesterton

Topics of the Day
1. Miss Philadelphia Pageant to Be Held at Drexel
2. Dr. Lacovara to Present Patagonia Findings at New York City's Famed Explorers Club
3. Public Health Grand Rounds: “Seen Any Public Health Lately?”
4. Transplant Recipient of the Year

 
Miss Philadelphia Pageant to Be Held at Drexel

Eighteen college-age women will be competing for more than $12,000 in scholarships as Drexel hosts the 83rd annual Miss Philadelphia Pageant on Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 8 p.m. in Mandell Theater (33rd and Chestnut Streets). Drexel student Amber Knauss (above), a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is among the contestants.

Drexel alumnus and KYW-3 meteorologist Tom Lamaine '86 will emcee the pageant. Judges include Dann Cuellar, WPVI reporter; Barbara Grant from the communications office of Mayor John Street; Darlene Deeley Malone, Miss Pennsylvania 1986; Jeff Gordon, PECO Energy marketing director; Claudette Jolin, traveling companion to Miss New Hampshire; Gerald Odom, Miss Kentucky Scholarship Pageant; and Charles Potash, Esq.

Organized in collaboration with the Office of Government and Community Relations, the pageant is a preliminary to the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant in June and Miss America Pageant. Miss Philadelphia winners from 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 will present a group performance. Margaret Mulherin, R.N., from St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, will receive this year's Miss Philadelphia Community Service Award.

Tickets are $20. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the Philadelphia Theater Ticket Office at 215-545-1527.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
Dr. Lacovara to Present Patagonia Findings
at New York City’s Famed Explorers Club

Dr. Kenneth Lacovara (above), associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering and director of Drexel’s geology program, will present the findings from his recent expedition to Patagonia, Argentina this Saturday, March 20 at the Explorers Club 100th Anniversary Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria.

For a full recount of Dr. Lacovara’s trip, visit http://www.drexel.edu/coe/news/articles/LacovaraspeaksatEC3-20.htm.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

The School of Public Health will hold the grand rounds lecture "Seen Any Public Health Lately?" on Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. in New College Building lecture hall B (15th and Vine Streets).

Dr. Kristine M. Gebbie (above), Elizabeth Standish Gill Associate Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University School of Nursing, is the guest speaker. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.drexel.edu/pubhealth/html/grand.htm or call 215-762-4110.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
Transplant Recipient of the Year

The American Liver Foundation is honoring Andrea Boswell as its "Transplant Recipient of the Year." Her transplant team includes Drs. Burckhardt Ringe (above back left), Michael Moritz (above front left), and Gillian Zeldin (above front right), faculty members of the Drexel University College of Medicine and physicians with Drexel's Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Center at Hahnemann University Hospital. Boswell became the program's first liver transplant recipient in April 2002. She will be honored at this year's Recognition Gala on March 27, 2004.

Physicians and staff at the Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Center treat patients from the onset of their liver disease and throughout the medical management of the disease, including complex surgeries, transplantation and beyond. For more information on the Center or to schedule an appointment, call 215-762-3900.

For more information or to purchase tickets for the gala, contact Deborah Johnson at 610-668-0152 or email djohnson@liverfoundation.org

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

Drexel Daily Digest Publication Update

The Drexel Daily Digest will suspend publication from Monday, March 22 through Friday, March 26, 2004. The Digest will resume publication on Monday, March 29, 2004.

Women's History Month Calendar of Events

For information on Drexel's Women's History Month celebration, visit http://www.drexel.edu/women.

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