Graduates Urged to Pursue Good
Bradley Poznanski is VP of Enrollment Management and Marketing
Award-winning journalist Helen Aguirre Ferré addressed 413 seniors during the college’s 115th commencement exercises on the college quad, urging them to face adversity without fear and to always look toward the truth. In his address, Father Jonathan DeFelice, O.S.B., president of the college, quoted Pope Benedict XVI, saying that an education in faith nurtures the soul of a nation: “If you marginalize God and the truth, you cannot fulfill your obligation to nurture the soul of the nation.” Father Jonathan presented Benjamin Prieur, summa cum laude nursing graduate, with the Student Award for Service and Citizenship. Nursing professor Kathleen Perrin won the faculty award of the Saint Anselm College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Business major Anthony Vercollone gave the student address. For pictures of the ceremony, go to www. anselm.edu/commencement08.
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Poznanski has been appointed vice president of enrollment management and college marketing and will oversee the college’s admission, financial aid and communications and marketing areas. He comes to the college from Southern New Hampshire University, where he worked for 16 years, and since 2003 served as vice president of enrollment management. As director of admission Poznanski played a key role in New Hampshire College’s transition to Southern New Hampshire University in 2001. Prior to joining Southern New Hampshire, he worked for six years as director of admission at Rivier College and played a key role in Rivier’s transition from a women’s college to a coeducational institution. He is past president of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling; was the elected representative to the College Board’s radley
National Guidance and Admission Assembly Council; and is a trustee of Granite State Management and Resources (a non-profit organization affiliated with the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation, NHHEAF). Poznanski graduated from Springfield College, where he earned his B. S. in Health, Physical Education and Recreation. He holds an M.S. in Counseling from Rivier College. He and his wife, Brenda, are the parents of Brian Poznanski, a sophomore politics major at Saint Anselm.
Talking About Quotes from speakers hosted by the college. “I was a painfully shy person. In my high school class, when I was elected governor, everyone was surprised, not only me. I was not the most likely person to do this. I learned to speak, I learned confidence, by practice, by caring, by letting the issues pull me into the fray.” Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont, giving the keynote address at the National Education for Women Leadership New England Program. 4
Portraits
“The reason the European Union is important to you is that effectively the United States and the European Union are part of the same economy. We are one economy. We’re 800 million people between us—300 million of you, 500 million of us.” John Bruton, European Union Ambassador to the U.S.
Winter 2009
“Unless we have a first class, high-speed rail road system from Maine to Virginia, we will not be a world class megalopolis…. It’s one of these issues where the people are way ahead of the politicians.” Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, at a forum on rail transportation.
Dave White
The Campus Report