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Project Announces Essay Contest Winners


Members of the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project at MCC awarded prizes to the winners of the Anna and Joseph Gartner Foundation Annual Essay Contest on June 23 at a special reception for the winners and their families. Leah Monachino, Nazareth College, won first place and $1,000 for her essay "Believing in Humanity After Auschwitz: The Story of One's Journey Beyond the Textbooks." Veronica McClive, SUNY Brockport, took second place for her essay "Wherin Lies the Hope?" Patricia Schupp, a member of the MCC Class of 2004, won the third place prize for her essay "After Auschwitz, How Can One Believe in Humanity?"

Thank you to the following judges for participating in the essay contest: Susan J. Belair, Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology; William Drumright, Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology; Suzanne El Rayess, ESOL and Foreign Languages; Nayda Pares-Kane, Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology; and Katherine Marsh, English. Barbara G. Applebaum, director of the Center for Holoaust Awareness and Information (CHAI) at the Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester, also participated as a judge.

Mark your calendars and get involved with the Project! The next meeting of the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project is scheduled for Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m. in room 3-113 in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center.

Rosanna Condello
Public Affairs
06/25/2004