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UB to hold Sept. 11 observance
UB will recognize the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a special observance from noon to 3 p.m. Sept. 9 in the Student Union, North Campus.
All members of the university community are welcome to attend.
The remembrance program will honor victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as victims of Flight 93 that crashed near Shanksville, Pa.
The program will begin with the University Police Color Guard presenting colors. Dennis Black, vice president for university life and services, will remember the 11 UB alumni who perished in the attacks.
Members of the university community will be invited to pay their respects by striking a memorial bell.
The American flag that will be featured at the observance was donated to the university in 2002 by Capt. Steven Spall, a UB civil engineering graduate and member of the New York City Fire Department’s Emergency Rescue Task Force who worked at Ground Zero.
Spall presented the flag, which had flown over the recovery site at the World Trade Center, to UB in memory of those members of the UB family who died on Sept. 11.
UB students also will be remembering the events of Sept. 11 by helping a local block club create a new garden in a vacant lot recently turned over to the community by the city of Buffalo.
The students are members of UB’s Honors College, which recently was awarded a $500 9/11 Day of Service Grant from State Farm and Youth Service America that will used for the service-learning project.
The lot, located at Sycamore and Johnson streets on Buffalo’s East Side, will be transformed into a 9/11 “Never Forget” community action garden. Fifty UB students will be assisting members of the None Like You/We Care Block Club. The students say they hope the garden “will stand as a tribute to the spirit of togetherness and community involvement that allowed for both physical and emotional rebuilding following the attack on our nation.”
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Volunteer for Irene cleanup
UB faculty, staff and students who would like to assist in Hurricane Irene cleanup efforts in New York State can do so through the state’s “Labor for your Neighbor” program.
The National Guard and the state Office of Emergency Management are organizing the effort, and a representative will contact prospective volunteers to let them know how they can pitch in.
Volunteers interested in signing up for the storm recovery volunteer team should click here.
Members of the UB community who volunteer through the “Labor for your Neighbor” website should send an email to Terri Budek at tfrysh@buffalo.edu with their name, their UB position and the assignment they’ll have as a volunteer.
Budek, community engagement coordinator in the UB Center for Student Leadership & Community Engagement, is gathering information about UB’s involvement in this effort to keep track of the impact the university and its faculty, staff and students have in the community.
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World premiere at Anderson Gallery
“Saigon Diary,” a 12-channel, mixed-media installation by Dinh Q. Le, a Vietnamese artist best known for his woven photographs, will receive its world premiere on Sept. 17 in UB’s Anderson Gallery.
The exhibition, which will be on view through Dec. 31, will open with a reception from 6-8 p.m. Sept. 17 in the gallery at 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo.
Both the exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
The exhibition is an incisive commentary on the radical changes taking place in Vietnam as it moves from a socialist to a capitalist economy, a process that has provoked the birth of a new generation of consumers and their attendant waste.
“Over the course of a year, Le created video documentaries of the activities of 12 ‘recycling women’ whose work requires them to travel long distances throughout Saigon, which was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976,” says Curator Sandra Firmin.
“Pushing carts or on bicycles, they accumulate large loads of waste dominated by cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, Heineken beer cans and light construction materials. The documentaries take viewers from the wealthy city center to its poor outer districts; from main thoroughfares clogged with beeping mopeds to quiet winding alleyways,” Firmin says.
In the course of following the women on their daily routes, she says Le produces a visual map of the city and weaves vivid portraits of their lives into the fabric of Saigon.
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UB Women’s Club plans luncheon
The UB Women’s Club will begin its 66th year with a Fall Luncheon at 11 a.m. Sept. 10 in the Fox Valley Country Club, 6161 Genesee St., Lancaster.
Mary Roberts, executive director of the Darwin Martin House Restoration Corporation, will be the guest speaker.
During the luncheon, club members will have the opportunity to sign up for various activities offered for the year. Venders offering a variety of goods for purchase also will be in attendance.
The UB Women’s Club is a service organization to the university. Members participate in educational and charitable activities that benefit the Grace Capen Academic Awards.
Membership is open to anyone who has a commitment to the university and the purposes of the club. Dues are $25.
Those interested in attending the luncheon or joining the UB Women’s Club should call Joan Ryan at 626 9332.
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Flags at half-mast honor fallen soldiers
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast on Sept. 13 and Sept. 14 in honor of a New York State resident and a Fort Drum soldier who died while serving their country in Afghanistan.
Flags will be flown at half-mast on Sept. 13 to honor Army Spc. Christopher J. Scott of Tyrone, a small town in Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes. Scott died on Sept. 3 in Kandahar province of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. He was assigned to the 716th Military Police Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Flags will be flown at half-mast on Sept. 14 in honor of Army Spc. Kevin R. Shumaker, who died on Aug. 31 in a stateside hospital of a noncombat-related illness contracted while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He was assigned to the Brigade Special Troops Battalion of the 10th Mountain Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team stationed at Fort Drum. He was from Livermore, Calif.
Cuomo has ordered that flags on all state buildings be lowered to half-mast in honor of and tribute to New York service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.
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