The 2007 Family Weekend will be held November 2-4. A full listing of events for the weekend is available online at www.ithaca.edu/sacl/familyweekend/.
Our parent keynote address features Loretta A. Preska, U.S. district judge for the southern district of New York (Saturday, 9:00 a.m., Park School auditorium). Judge Preska is the mother of junior TV-R major, Matthew.
The student performance showcase (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Emerson Suites) will feature Ithacappella, the IC Dance Team, Cheerleading Club, Muevete Dance Company, and many more organizations.
Two faculty keynote addresses will featuring Jason Hamilton's talk, "A Quest for a Sustainable World: What We Know, What We Can Do," and Scott Erickson lecture, "Competitive Intelligence: Spy Versus Spy in the Business World" (Friday, 4:30 p.m., Clark Lounge and Klingenstein lounges respectively).
The Department of Theatre Arts will be presenting special showings of The Full Monty for our families.
The School of Music will present three concerts in Ford Hall. Friday night will feature the Concert Band and Vocal Jazz Ensemble at 8:15 p.m.; Saturday night will showcase the Symphonic Band and Jazz Workshop, also at 8:15 p.m.; and the Choral Ensembles will close the weekend's musical performances at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to attend throughout the weekend. The families of our students are looking forward to meeting the people their students interact with at the College.
The full schedule of events is available at www.ithaca.edu/sacl/familyweekend/. Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend as many of the non-ticketed events as you would like. Bring your family as well. (Ticketed events have limited seating reserved for students' families, although seats may be available at showtime.)
Students whose parents are unable to attend are also welcome to attend any non-ticketed events. Students who would like to attend ticketed events can stop by the registration area in the North Foyer of Phillips Hall beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Friday to check on ticket availability.
The Family Weekend luncheon will be on Saturday, November 3, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Terrace Dining Hall. We welcome and strongly encourage faculty and staff to attend this luncheon; there is no cost to IC faculty and staff who wish to attend. You will be treated to marvelous music provided by the the jazz trio of Tyler Flanders '08, Zack Avhalomov '09, and Brian Berg '08, as well as by the faculty and staff choir, IC VoICes. You will also have the opportunity to meet the parents of many of our students.
Faculty and staff should RSVP to Suzanne Smith at [mailto:sdsmith@ithaca.edu] or 274-3374 before 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31, if you will be attending the luncheon. Tickets will be available for you at the check-in table in the Terraces lobby on Saturday.
Our students' families look forward to your participation throughout Family Weekend 2007.
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