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College at Oneonta News

October 29, 2009
 
SUNY ONEONTA REPRESENTATIVES PARTICIPATE IN FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES CONFERENCE
 

ONEONTA, N.Y. -- A number of faculty and students from the Human Ecology Department of the SUNY College at Oneonta participated in the 100th anniversary conference and expo of the New York State Association of Family & Consumer Sciences in Lake Placid on October 16-17.

Dr. Katherine Angell, Chair of the SUNY Oneonta Human Ecology Department, and SUNY Oneonta student Jessica Esperon-Mason spoke as part of a panel on the future of Family and Consumer Sciences.

SUNY Oneonta student Leslie Schafer represented the College in the special Olympic Torch Lighting ceremony to mark the association’s founding in 1909.

Rosemarie Avanzato and MaryAnn Pinney of the Human Ecology Department faculty participated in the conference, as did students Lauren Bourassa, Kim Coners, Meghan Hunt, and Amy Sibert.

More than 200 Family and Consumer Sciences professionals and students from across the United States attended the annual conference, where experts in Family and Consumer Sciences presented strategies to help individuals, families, and communities to sustain and improve their quality of life while fostering a healthy environment.
 

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