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MEDIA ALERT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 21, 2007
www.jcu.edu
Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
                 216.397.1958
                     tstrong@jcu.edu

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John Carroll University Freshmen
Provide “Extreme Makeover” of
Local Community Center
Thursday, August 23
10 a.m.
Thea Bowman Center

 

 
WHAT:

John Carroll University is collaborating with the Thea Bowman Center (TBC) in support of the center’s community outreach efforts by providing a “makeover” of the TBC and its surroundings. “Makeover” activities will include:

  1. Playground landscaping
  2. Indoor painting of the center’s interior
  3. Outdoor painting of garages

 
John Carroll’s Campus Ministry and Center for Service and Social Action  developed the project to help students make a connection to the local community during their initial days on campus.
Thea Bowman Center offers a safe, healthy environment and a range of services, including computer labs, a music school and other educational support programs.

 
WHO:

More than 140 John Carroll first-year students, along with current students, faculty, and staff members will volunteer at the center for the day
WHERE:

Thea Bowman Center at Epiphany Catholic Church
11901 Oakfield Avenue
(at the corner of Union and E. 119th/Mount Pleasant Neighborhood)

Cleveland, Ohio 44105
WHEN:

Thursday, August 23, 2007,
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
11 a.m.-11:30 a.m.- JCU President, Robert L. Neihoff, will visit the site

CONTACT:

John Carroll University
                        Christopher Kerr, 216.397.4777
                        Dr. Peggy Finucane, 216.397.1608

Thea Bowman Center at Epiphany Catholic Church
                        Sr. Shelia Marie Tobbe, OSU
                        Sylvia Little-Harris
                        Phone: 216.491.0699

 
 

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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