March 2007

THE MARKET AT DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE TO CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK'S DAY WITH IRISH "POTATOES" DEMO

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 1, 2006) - To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, staff members of The Market at Delaware Valley College will hold cooking demonstrations on Saturday, March 11 at 11 a.m., at The Market on Lower State Road on the DelVal campus.

Participants will learn the art of making Irish "Potatoes," a traditional Philadelphia candy favorite made during this time of year in remembrance of the historic Irish potato famine. Richly made with butter, cream cheese, vanilla extract and powdered sugar, filled with coconut flakes and coated with cinnamon, Irish Potatoes are an indulgent confectionery treat.

DelVal junior, Karen Bartz of Ivyland, Pa., a restaurant and food service management major will accompany Shawna Frantz, pastry chef at The Market in the demonstrations. The two work side by side at The Market, where Frantz, a 2000 graduate of the Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, has been pastry chef for the past year.

"Our mission is to educate students in all aspects of operations of a retail grocery establishment," said Michelle Wirtz, event planner at The Market. "We love that we can bring our students and community together with programs like these particularly because our students learn that side of the business and community members enjoy learning through the events. We anticipate showcasing our students' skills by continuing to host demonstrations and other events."

Located on Lower State Road The Market at Delaware Valley College is a retail establishment open to the public. It is operated by students where in addition to running the operations, marketing, merchandising and retail functions of The Market, many of the nursery and gourmet food items are grown at the College.

For more information about this and other events at The Market, call Michelle Wirtz at 215-230-7170.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY STUDENTS TO TAKE ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 1, 2006) - Members of the Delaware Valley College chapter of Habitat for Humanity will participate in an alternative spring break March 12 through March 18. Sixteen students will visit Lexington, Va., and work on building homes in that area as part of Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge program.

Participating students are: chapter president, senior Amanda Bohler of Quantico, Md., majoring in animal science; chapter vice president, senior Robert Acidiacono of Woodbury, N.J., majoring in ornamental horticulture and environmental design; chapter secretary, senior Amanda Burns of Chalfont, Pa., majoring in animal biotechnology and conservation; and chapter treasurer, sophomore Kristen Kirby of Northfield, N.J., majoring in accounting.

Other chapter members include: seniors, Danielle Quaglia of Bensalem, Pa., majoring in animal biotechnology and conservation; Nick Berezansky of Hillsborough, N.J., and Nick D'Amato of Penns Park, Pa., both majoring in ornamental horticulture and environmental design; juniors Jason Lilley of Dublin, Pa., majoring in horticulture; Lisa Bednarz of Feasterville, Pa., majoring in food science and management; Allison Dietrick of Allentown, Pa., majoring in animal science; sophomores Sara Howe of Centreville, Va., majoring in animal biotechnology and conservation, Elizabeth Walker of Bellwood, Pa., majoring in animal science; Stacy Davis of Yardley, Pa., majoring in animal biotechnology and conservation; and freshmen, Marileigh Blake of Hannibal, N.Y., and Michelle Lipari of Dingman's Ferry, Pa., both majoring in animal biotechnology and conservation and Shannon Wachter of Saint Mary's, Pa., majoring in biology.

The Collegiate Challenge program began in 1989 and has grown into one of the largest year-round alternative break programs in the United States and Canada. Each year, thousands of high school and college students, as well as youth from church groups and other community organizations, participate in Collegiate Challenge. A Collegiate Challenge trip offers groups of five or more students the opportunity to visit one of 250 host affiliates throughout the United States. Participants spend one week working in partnership with the local affiliate, the local community and partner families to help eliminate poverty housing in the area. Students and chapters are responsible for all the costs associated with travel and lodging for the trip. Collegiate Challenge is one way for students to have a large impact on the fight to end poverty housing.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE STUDENT RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP

Doylestown, Pa., -- (March 3, 2006) - Delaware Valley College student, Andrew Lutz of Lebanon, Pa., received a 2006 Waddington/Harper Scholarship during the 10th Annual Athletic Field Conference of the Keystone Athletic Field Managers Organization on February 17, 2006.

Lutz is a junior at Delaware Valley College majoring in turf management in the Agronomy and Environmental Science Department.

The scholarship, in the amount of $500, is in honor of Dr. Donald Waddington and in memory of Dr. John Harper, two legendary figures of the Penn State turf program. The annual scholarships are awarded to identify and recognize outstanding students who plan careers in sports turf management. The scholarships are intended to advance the student's educational potential in the science of turf grass management.

Recipients must be enrolled at an accredited college or university in a 2-year or 4-year turf grass program, have completed 20 semester credit hours in a 2-year program or 40 semester credit hours in a 4-year program, and have demonstrated an interest in sports turf management.

The Keystone Athletic Field Managers Organization was formed in 1994 by a small group of individuals who were concerned about the quality of the athletic fields in Pennsylvania. In 1997, KAFMO became incorporated as a chapter of the Sports Turf Managers Association. Today, KAFMO has more than 300 members and is committed to enhancing the professionalism of athletic field managers in the Pennsylvania.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE TO HOST FILM FESTIVAL

Doylestown, Pa., -- (March 3, 2006) - Delaware Valley College will host the fourth annual Algonquin Film Festival of Bucks County on Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26, in the auditorium at the Doylestown campus.

In its fourth year, the film festival offers yearly film exhibition, seminars and workshops to aspiring filmmakers and cinephiles in and around Bucks County.

The agenda for the film festival includes showings of new short music videos, comedy films and other films as well as a poetry performance.

This year, the Algonquin Film Festival will host a presentation by scriptwriter and Bucks County resident William Mastrosimone, whose teleplay, Into the West, was produced by Steven Spielberg for a mini-series starring Gary Busey and Josh Brolin in 2005.

Mastrosimone also penned the play Extremities, which was made into a film starring Farrah Fawcett, James Russo and Alfre Woodard, in 1986, and Sinatra, a mini series produced for television in 1992.

The festival will also feature "Retrofilm!," screenings of rare, one-of-a-kind film owned by a special collector. Film historian Lou DiCrescenzo, a Bucks County native, has been collecting out-of-print film and film memorabilia for the past several decades. The "Retrofilm!" program will screen film from DiCrescenzo's collection, which dates back to film's infancy in the late nineteenth century. Len Gercio, an adjunct professor in film at Temple University, and a filmmaker, is currently making a documentary about DiCrescenzo.

Tickets are $24 for each day or $40 for a two-day pass. Students will be admitted free of charge with student identification and senior citizens will receive a 50% discount. For more information, contact the Algonquin Film Festival at 267-981-1139 or email at or visit their Web site at algonquikfilmfestival.com.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE EARNS "BEST OF SHOW" HONORS AT PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 10, 2006) - A team of Delaware Valley College students led by faculty members in the Ornamental Horticulture and Environmental Design Department earned "Best in Show: Academic/Educational" honors at the 2006 Philadelphia Flower Show.

Their work, "Pioneers of Penn's Woods" depicting more than three centuries of Philadelphia's green heritage earned the team the top honor.

DelVal assistant professors, Howard Eyre and Eve Minson, directed the students in the exhibit. According to the exhibit, The Philadelphia area has been a hotbed of horticultural interest for hundreds of years, enticing both famous and unknown plant explorers, botanists, horticulturists and designers to its forests and floodplains. Unfortunately, many of today's horticulturists simply do not know the background of the plants they collect and treasure and some of the plants have been lost because of their fragile nature or destruction of their habitats. The goal of the DelVal exhibit was to draw attention to what remains of Penn's Woods and the need to protect and appreciate it.

The Philadelphia Flower Show is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society and is the largest indoor flower show in the world.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE TO HOST SCIENCE COMPETITION
Projects on display this week for public and media

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 13, 2006) - More than 200 student projects from 19 junior and senior high schools in Bucks County will be on display Wednesday, March 15 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the athletics building at Delaware Valley College as part of the annual Bucks County Science Research Competition.

Team and individual student works in science, math and engineering in a variety of disciplines including botany, environmental sciences and zoology will be judged by more than 120 professionals from private industry in their particular area of expertise. An awards program will follow the public display at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

Delaware Valley College has been partnering on the Bucks County Research Competition for more than 2 decades offering facilities and technical support for the fair. In addition, each year Delaware Valley College awards a scholarship to the first place winner.
Area winners earn the right to go on to regional competition followed by an international competition later this year in Indianapolis. For the past five years, Bucks County has been represented in the international competition.

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KIDS CAN ENJOY BREAKFAST WITH EASTER BUNNY AT DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 20, 2006) - Delaware Valley College will host a "Breakfast with the Easter Bunny," at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, April 8 in The Market at the Doylestown campus.

A continental breakfast will be served and the Easter Bunny will be available to take photos so participants are encouraged to bring cameras. Space is limited and by reservation only. Fees are $2.99 for children and $5.99 for adults. For more information or to make reservations, call 267-688-6438.

"The college is please to be working with the Doylestown Parks and Recreation department on this event and the DelVal students that work and manage the operations of The Market are excited about being able to bring this kind of programming to the community for the children." said Michelle Wirtz, event planner at The Market.

Located on Lower State Road, The Market at Delaware Valley College is a retail establishment open to the public. It is operated by students where in addition to running the operations, marketing, merchandising and retail functions of The Market, many of the nursery and gourmet food items are grown at the College.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE EQUESTRIAN TEAM WINS REGION FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR

Doylestown, Pa., -- (March 22, 2006) - This past Saturday, the Delaware Valley College Hunt Seat Equestrian Team earned Reserve High Point team at a show on Sunday, March 26 held at the Delaware Valley College Equestrian Center. In addition, the hunt seat team earned IHSA Zone 3, Region 2 Champions for the third straight year.

Delaware Valley College individual riders will next compete in the Zone 3, Region 2 Regional Championship Show, Saturday, April 1 in Odessa, Del. In addition, a team of hunt seat riders from DelVal will compete in the IHSA Zone 3 Championships on April 8 in Odessa, Del. There, the team will compete for an opportunity to compete at the National Championship show in Harrisburg, Pa., in May.

The team is coached by Cory Herald Kieschnick who joined the faculty at Delaware Valley College in 2001.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE TO HOST EQUINE EXTRAVAGANZA

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 24, 2006) - Delaware Valley College will host "Equine Extravaganza" noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 9 at the Equestrian Center on the Doylestown campus.

In its third year, the event is sponsored by the College Equine Performance Organization. Participants will enjoy a day filled with fun and learning opportunities for children and adults. Demonstrations and lectures include vaulting, driving, dressage, long lining, round penning, differences in gaits, and jumping.

Guest lecturer, David Hirsh, an area equestrian and manufacturer of competition carriages, will be showing tandem driving. For more information, call 215-489-2909.

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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE TO CONDUCT FLOWER DEMONSTRATIONS DURING OPEN HOUSE

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., -- (March 28, 2006) - Delaware Valley College will host an open house, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, April 22, at The Market at the Doylestown campus. Flower demonstrations will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

During the open house, senior DelVal student Rob Arcidiacono, who will be The Market's greenhouse manager after graduation, will conduct floral demonstrations providing care and growing tips. He will graduate in May with a major in ornamental horticulture and environmental design focusing on floriculture and nursery production and management.

"With the opening of our newest greenhouse, a state-of-the-art 2,500 square foot space, adjacent to The Farm Market we will be able to bring more and more horticulture classes and demonstrations, like the upcoming one, to the public" said Michelle Wirtz, event planner at The Market.

Located on Lower State Road The Market at Delaware Valley College is a retail establishment open to the public. It is operated by students where in addition to running the operations, marketing, merchandising and retail functions of The Market, many of the nursery and gourmet food items are grown at the College.

For more information about this and other events at The Market, call Michelle Wirtz at 215-230-7170.

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