Catherine Nock’s HNR 100 Seminar took a trip to The Original Somali Bantu Wazigua Community Organization to volunteer with refugee children. In addition to helping the children with writing and math, the students distributed books and helped the children with reading. The books were provided by TA Stephanie Breed’s program Books Are Food for Thought.
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Honors Students Engage With Traditional Artists During Folk Arts Fieldtrips
We’ve always heard that in the liberal arts tradition of the West, one needs to know about a wide range of things to be a complete citizen and that those who are to be educated and productive members of society have to be exposed even to things that they may (initially) deem not worthy of attention. Honors students in Professor Felicia McMahon’s course, “Folk Arts , Festival and Public Display” recently visited the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY where students were introduced to traditional artists of the region as well as refugee communities in Central New York. The previous week the students visited Syracuse’s African International Restaurant, a popular gathering place for new immigrants from Somalia and other African countries. As Professor McMahon emphasizes, “To know the soul of a people, learn about their folklore.”
HNR 240 Publishes Local, Seasonal Cookbook
The students in Jolynn Parker’s HNR 240 class “Food Stories: Global and Local Food in Syracuse” have published a cookbook! If you’re looking for some great, local, year-round recipes you can download the cookbook as a pdf here.
First “Honors Footnotes” Event Is a Hit!
On Thursday, October 18th, Honors Core Faculty member and chair of the Magazine Journalism Department, Melissa Chessher, hosted the inaugural “Honors Footnotes” event – a guided tour of Oakwood Cemetery, led by Sue Greenhagen, a member of the Historic Oakwood Cemetery Preservation Association, a local historian, and a retired librarian from Morrisville State College .Designed by one of America’s earliest landscape architects, Howard Daniels, Oakwood Cemetery opened its gates on November 3, 1859. The 160 acres of this outdoor museum feature a Gothic style mortuary chapel, 19th- and 20th-century architecture styles, including works by Horatio Nelson White and Archimedes Russell, and hundreds of 150-year-old trees, which showcased their fall colors. Sue Greenhagen (who, along with her sister, are known as “the cemetery chicks”) has spent years researching those buried in Oakwood. In addition to the general history and featured architects just mentioned, the tour highlighted a few of the more notable characters including an abolitionist, a robber baron, a Civil War commander, and several celebrated writers, artists, and philanthropists!
In a sentence: “Honors Footnotes” are small events hosted by Honors faculty or staff that encourage informal interaction around a variety of topics! Stay tuned for future opportunities!
Honors Community Outing
We in the Honors Program are always impressed by the bonds created between our students and professors. It is no wonder we call it an Honors COMMUNITY. We wanted to share these wonderful photos of a recent trip that our Honors professor and Core Faculty member, John Western, took with his former students to the Whetstone Gulf Gorge. Yes, former students. We are proud that the bonds in the classroom lead to relationships well after our students have left the seats of their former classes. This recent trip just goes to show what wonderful friendships can be created here in the Honors Program!
Dramatis personae: Hannah Louys, John Western & Belle, Paige Jarmuz, Bo Stewart, Andrew Frasier, Margo Woodring, Brian Cheung.
HNR 240 Food Stories presents….”Rot or Not?”
A group of students in Jolynn Parker’s HNR 240 Food Stories class has created this display on the ground floor of Bird Library to educate the SU community about chemicals in processed food. The food should rot, right? Wouldn’t it be disturbing if it didn’t rot? Follow the progress of the three burgers (McDonald’s, campus dining, and locally sourced, respectively) at their tumblr feed below.