Region 11 New Jersey, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec   Regional Director Connie M. Castellano, CCEP Director of Campus and Corporate Events SUNY Institute of Technology At Utica/Rome 100 Seymour Road Utica, NY 13502 (315) 792-7819 Fax: (315) 792-7831 castelc@sunyit.edu Regional Director-Elect Walton (Walt) Martin, CCEP Assistant Director, Conference and Event Services Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Rd. Chamberlain Student Center Room 205 Glassboro, NJ 08028 856-256-5449 Fax: 856-256-5605 martinw@rowan.edu

Attendees at 2011 Region 11 Fall Summit Regional News Albright College, Reading, PA, dedicated their newly renovated Science Center on Friday October 14, 2011, with keynote speaker, Robert J. Full, University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D.  Professor Full is an instructor of Integrative Biology and also director of the Poly-P.E.D.A.L. Laboratory which studies the Performance, Energetics and Dynamics of Animal Locomotion (P.E.D.A.L.) in many-footed creatures. SUNYIT, Utica, NY, hosted a “Kids in Chaos” conference on Tuesday, October 11, 2011, featuring nationally-renowned public speaker, physician, and author, Gabor Mat̀e. Dr. Mat̀e addresses professional and lay audiences all over North America, and his four books are all Canadian bestsellers, published internationally in nearly twenty languages. His presentation at SUNYIT was an informative talk about how negative experiences during childhood may affect that individual in their adult life. The audience consisted of over 250 parents and professionals from a variety of organizations in central New York.   Lois Kubinak, CCEP, Albright College, PA, will present at the ACCED-I 32nd Annual Conference in Denver, CO, March 25-28, 2012. Her session proposal, Creating a Culture of Excellent Service with your Student Employees, will be an informative presentation for anyone who employs student workers!   On Friday, October 21 Harrisburg Area Community College inaugurated Dr. John J. "Ski" Sygielski.  Michael Baker, director of the C. Ted Lick Wildwood Conference Center, coordinated the logistics for all of the catering and outdoor activities including an outdoor reception under a big top tent.  The Wildwood Conference Center partnered with the Culinary School to cater the outdoor reception.  videos.pennlive.com/.../hacc_president_dr_john_sygiels.html   Lois Kubinak, CCEP, Albright College, PA, is the new Region 11 director-elect! We know that Lois will make a great regional leader for Region 11. The Region 11 Fall Summit took place at Georgian Court University on October 2-4, 2011. Thanks to Georgian Court University for a great experience! Here you can find feedback from the summit.   Click here to read past Region 11 news. Photos Region 11 members who attended the ACCED-I 31st Annual Conference in Orlando, FL in March 2011 Region 11 members at ACCED-I 29th Annual Conference in Boston, MA Region 11 members at ACCED-I 30th Annual Conference in Louisville, KY

2010 Fall Summit

Thank you for participating in the ACCED-I Region 11 Fall Summit!  We hope you had a great time, and that your experience was educational and fun!  Please help us to wrap up the conference by taking a short survey!

Conference Session Handouts:  Below, please find the power point presentations from Dr. Hisker and Kathleen Pantalone’s presentations.  Everyone was asking for Dr. Hisker’s “dead horse” quotes, and they are included in the power point, but were not included in Monday’s handouts.  Roundtable discussion notes are also attached.  To watch the promotional video that Dave Safin created for The Conference Center, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKl4J_IErg. 

Managing Student Workforce presented by Kathleen Pantalone

The Role of Humor in the Workplace presented by William J. Hisker, Ph.D.

Service Project:  Fr. Vincent Zidek, O.S.B. asked me to pass along his sincere gratitude to our group for helping our Campus Ministry to wrap up a successful peanut butter drive and for all the fleece that was donated.  Our students have already begun to make pillows for future hospital visits!

Fall Summit Photos:  If anyone has photos to share of the Fall Summit, please email them to events@stvincent.edu.  We will be posting the photos that we took as well as any others we collect to our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/SVCConferenceCenter.  Check back with us in the next week or so to see our photos! Or, click here to see some of the photos.

2011 Region 11 Fall Summit RFPs:  RFP’s for the 2011 ACCED-I Region 11 Fall Summit are due by Friday, December 3 to Regional Director-Elect Connie Castellano, email castelc@sunyit.edu.  We have to admit, all of our hard work on the conference was worth every minute to be able to host our wonderful colleagues (the BEST region in ACCED-I, no doubt) and to give everyone an opportunity to network and have some fun!  Please consider hosting next year’s event! 

Regional Director-Elect Nominations:  Regional Director-Elect nominations are due to Ron Diment by Monday, November 1, email ronald.diment@villanova.edu.  Please consider running or nominating a deserving colleague for association leadership. 

ACCED-I Board of Directors:    Nominations for ACCED-I Board of Directors are due November 12.  Please don’t forget to vote for candidates from our region.  After all, we are the best region in ACCED-I—we need to be well-represented!!

Kathleen Pantalone
Director, Event and Conference Services
Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, PA  15650
724-532-5030 Phone
724-532-5019 Fax
kathleen.pantalone@stvincent.edu