Happy Easter!

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to relay my belated Easter wishes. I hope everyone enjoyed some good family time with great food. As my Easter present, I now present to you the Comm. Department video that was presented during Major Day two weeks ago. I have started putting together the spare footage, but that may take me some time. I'll get it to you soon. In the meantime, here is the video!

Thanks for reading,
Joe

Mercyhurst Celebrates Autism Awareness Day

Hello everyone,

Yesterday was Autism Awareness Day and Mercyhurst celebrated in it's own way. See the full explanation here.

Thanks for reading,
Joe

End of Mercy Month / Major Day Weekend

Hello everyone,

This weekend was many things, the end of Mercy Month AND Major Day weekend, the accumulation of both leaves a great sigh of relief.

Mercy Month celebrates the heritage of the Sisters of Mercy, our founding order, and everything that they still do today. During March, I had an opportunity to visit the sisters at the motherhouse, located on the South side of campus, and hear all of their stories and see their traditions. Below is a picture of our Ambassador group that went and visited and the three sisters that gave us the wonderful tour. It's nice to return to your origins, it makes you appreciate the present.

Also this weekend was Major Day and the Laker Live-In. If you were able to make it, GREAT! I hope everything went well. If you have any additional questions, please let me know. If you didn't make, no problem. You still have time, in fact I have a tour in an hour.

I personally spent a lot of time in the last week preparing for this event, which was presented during the Walker School of Business presentation with the Communication Department video. If you didn't make it, stop back in a few days and I'll get it posted up here once it goes up on YouTube. Also, as promised, I will be throwing up all of my additional footage for your viewing pleasure.

Have a great week!

Thanks for reading,
Joe 

Comm. Students Making Waves

Hello everyone,

Communication students have been making tons of headlines this week. First, Matt Teleha for his national award from the National Broadcasting Society, which can be read here and the video seen below, as well as Alicia Cagle who was named a Newman Civic Fellow for her dedication to service, which can be seen here.

Congrats to both Matt and Alicia on a job well done!

Thanks for reading,
Joe

New York, NY

Hello everyone,

I am back at Mercyhurst and now hustling to get caught up with all of my classes, but who can complain after a week in New York City. While I have attached plenty of pictures below, I just want to explain the convention and give you a bit of play-by-play.

Essentially, this past weekend we took eight people to New York City for the 70th annual National Broadcasting Society Convention. This is a four day event that includes speakers, networking, site seeing and slew of other things. Wednesday night was the keynote speaker, which included two speakers, one which worked for MTV / Viacom and the other is an anchor on the MLB channel. Thursday and Friday were left open for facility tours and site seeing.

On Thursday, we got to go to the World Trade Center Memorial, Chinatown, Little Italy, the Strand Bookstore, Central Park and Time Square. We had dinner at Tony's right off of Time Square, enjoyed Toys R Us and did the Cupid Shuffle in the M&M store, though luckily, I don't think anyone got a picture of that. Friday included the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, along with a bakery called, "Babycakes" (Don't ask, just Google it).

Throughout the week I attended business meetings, which included the organizational business of maintaining a non-profit organization. Saturday morning we voted on the new board members and attended sessions on positioning, social media, young professionals and leadership. Every year I go to these things and I always take some resounding message back from them, which this year is the theme of video. While I've made the promise of videos in the past, I've let things get in the way of that, but not anymore. It is all of your jobs to keep me working on that. :-)

Please check out the pictures below, and thanks for reading!

Joe