Students focus research on New Hamburg history
1 August 2011
The New Hamburg History Group launched an oral history project recently at the New Hamburg Yacht Club.
Several students and teachers from John Jay High School worked together with the New Hamburg History Group to develop a video chronicling the history of local schools, railroads, the Hudson River, the Great Depression, World War II and farming through the memories of Rose Ronkese, a New Hamburg resident since 1921.
John Jay students Jonathan Bateman, Alex Belton and Giuliano Cavallo spent four months researching the history of New Hamburg, preparing interview questions, and filming and editing Ronkese's memories.
This was the class project for Rena Finsmith's Participation in Government class.
Graduate raises funds to volunteer at orphanage
The Notre Dame Club of the Mid-Hudson Valley together with Erin Rider of Hyde Park raised more than $5,600 of the $12,000 needed for Rider to spend the next 2 1/2 years volunteering at the Farm of the Child, a small Catholic orphanage in rural Honduras.
The Farm of the Child provides family-style homes, education, health care and spiritual formation to the children living there.
According to a press release, Rider also received the support of Regina Coeli Parish along with the Knights of Columbus in Hyde Park, St. Peter's School, and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School in Poughkeepsie.
Rider is a 2011 honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in psychology and minors in theology and Catholic social tradition. She is the daughter of David and Kathleen Rider of Hyde Park.
For more information about her mission or how to help, visit http://erinatthefarmofthechild.blogspot.com/.
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