Tina Antonucci ’10 (History) was named this year’s scholarship recipient of the New Paltz Lifetime Learning Institute. Antonucci is a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard and plans to become an elementary school teacher. This is the second year that the organization awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a non-traditional student to assist with the purchase of books. The SUNY New Paltz Lifetime Learning Institute (LLI) is an all-volunteer educational and social organization for adults 55 and over.

A number of Communication and Media students created media for the Woodstock Film Festival Web site and for their YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/woodstockfilmfestiva. The students created more than 30 videos over the course of five days. The videos include interviews with Academy Award Winning director Jonathan Demme, actor Ben Foster, filmmaker Barbara Hammer, and many others. They also created media featuring Uma Thurman, Woody Harrelson, Lucy Liu, and Richard Linklater among many others. Students working on this production include Chanel Arias ’10, Dan Barry ’10, Stefan Beaumont ’10, Deanna DiBenedetto ’11, Chelsea Feil ’11, Julie-Ann Florio ’10, Spencer Hood ’11, Ian Kane ’10, Colleen Kelly ’10, Yuriy Leschuck ’10, Laura Martel ’10, Randy Moses ’11, Marc Schreibman ’11, Morgan Smith ’11, Lakendra Stith ’10, Cat Tosiello ’10, Tevita Toutaiolepo ’10, Katherine Vidal ’11, Roshanna Wallerson ’10, Mark Walsh ’11, Tina Warren ’10 and Matthew Wright ’11. Communication and Media instructors Gregory Bray and Joseph Vlachos supervised the production.