Saturday, November 7, 2009

Regan Rockhill

8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Family Weekend Registration and Family Hospitality Center Open
Phillips Hall, North Foyer

8:30 a.m.
Campus Center Dining Hall Opens 

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Parent Keynote Address
Park School of Communications Building Auditorium
Regan Rockhill, with his wife Edye, is the proud father of two daughters, Kit and Kari. Kari, the youngest, is currently a senior at IC majoring in Exercise Science with a medical science emphasis and minors in Biology and Math.  

Education has always been important to Mr. Rockhill. He has an undergraduate degree from SUNY Stony Brook with a B.S. in Engineering and did graduate work in Engineering at the University of Kentucky. He received an M.B.A. from Temple University by going to school at night and is a C.P.A. and a certified fraud examiner. He received a Juris Doctor from Rutgers-Camden, also going to school at night, which is where he met his wife.

Over the course of 40 years and several careers, Mr. Rockhill has worked as an engineer on the design of a nuclear power plant and served as a partner in a national accounting firm, before venturing out on his own while his children were in school. The 12 years on his own as a litigation consultant/expert witness aligned with his daughters’ needs for a chauffeur, self-appointed cheer section, and still allowed him to come in from the office for dinner – the garage office. In his spare time, he fancies himself a gentleman farmer raising beef cattle.

Currently, Mr. Rockhill uses his years of experience, knowledge and training in a job he describes as “the translator.” He is the in-house financial and accounting expert for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Mr. Rockhill says his strength is in understanding the money side, the business side, the legal strategy, and being able to communicate each of those in terms everyone can understand. Education is the foundation from which Mr. Rockhill has built his career and life choices and he hopes his children do the same. 

9:00-11:00 a.m.
Parents of Football Players Meeting and Breakfast
Emerson Suite B, Phillips Hall
Meet and eat with parents of other football players before the game. 

9:00-11:30 a.m.
Career Services Open House
1101 Gannett Center
Learn more about our services and how we assist students in their career and life decisions.

9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Department of Sport Management and Media Showcase
Hill Center first floor lobby closest to Job Hall and classrooms
This program is designed to showcase student and faculty collaborative work that occurs in many different forms and formats throughout the year.  The program will feature the following:

• Informal Meet the Faculty Session - to start off the morning with coffee and conversation.
• Student Internship Session - students will discuss their internship experiences.
• Student Research Session - students and faculty will provide brief overviews of their research projects.
• Student Study Abroad Session - students and faculty will provide an overview of opportunities to study abroad.

Details about the program can be found here.

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Ithaca College Bookstore Open
Josten's representative for College rings available from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Fitness Center Open
(open to family weekend guests age 16 and above)

10:00-11:00 a.m.
International Opportunities Presentation
Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center
Join us for an introduction to the study-abroad opportunities available to Ithaca College students.

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Climbing Wall Open
Fitness Center
Open to Family Weekend guests age 10 and older.

Ithaca Wrestling Invitational
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Hill Center Gymnasium
$5.00 for adults, $2.00 for children, College students free

10:00-11:30 a.m.
Academic School Demonstrations and Open Houses
Conducted by students, faculty, and administrators, the activities for each school's open house are listed below.

School of Business
Textor 102
Come and enjoy interactive presentations by the peer advisor team and faculty who teach first-year classes. You will learn about opportunities for student involvement, experiential learning, internships, study abroad, and career development. We hope that you will join us for an informal gathering to meet the School of Business deans, faculty, and peer advisors.

Roy H. Park School of Communications
Park School Lobby
Share coffee with the Park School family (Dean Diane Gayeski, faculty and staff).  Students are encouraged to show their families where they take courses and work on co-curricular activities, and to introduce their professors.

School of Health Sciences and Human Performance
McDonald Lounge, Campus Center
Meet and talk with HSHP students from all majors at this open, walk-in session.  Students will share experiences and mementos from their trips as well as how they planned for study abroad within their academic programs of study.

School of Humanities and Sciences
Have coffee with Dean Leslie W. Lewis, faculty and staff. Meet faculty and staff from the School of Humanities and Sciences Honors Program, Exploratory Program, and others. Enjoy the Handwerker Gallery exhibit and listen to live music.

School of Music
Whalen Center for Music
Enjoy coffee with Dean Greg Woodward and faculty.

10:30 a.m.
Hillel Shabbat Service
Muller Chapel

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
HSHP in Malawi, Africa 2009:  A Special Experience
Clark Lounge
Attend this interactive presentation about the Summer 2009 HSHP-Sponsored field experience in Malawi, Africa.  Enjoy a variety of displays.  Students will also share their first-hand experiences about the effects of poverty on health care and their visits to a variety of related locations.

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
The Park School on the Road
Park Hall Auditorium
Parents of students who are majors or minors in the Park School are invited to a presentation on our James B. Pendleton Center in Los Angeles, the IC programs in Washington, DC and London, and highlights from some of our international internship and travel opportunities.

11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Organizing Your Digital Photographs
Gannett Center Room 112
Presented by Randi Millman-Brown, visual resources curator for the Department of Art History.
She will offer some practical tips for organizing digital images. She will review the most common features offered by several photo-sharing sites, highlight the pros and cons of using such sites, and provide information to you for how to manage all those images of your college student!

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Family Weekend Luncheon
(Ticketed Event)
Terrace Dining Hall
Join students and their families, faculty, and staff for a lunch where you will be entertained by some of Ithaca College's talented staff and student performing groups, including our faculty staff choir, IC VoICes, and a student jazz quintet.  There will be two lunch seatings, one at 11:30 a.m. and the other at 12:30 p.m..

12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Handwerker Gallery Exhibition
Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center
Threads of Hope:  The Chilean Arpillera Movement
Chilean arpillera from the collection of Dr. Marjorie Agosí^'n, Latina author, activist, and professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.  Arpillera are small hand sewn and embroidered/embellished tapestries, created by women, most of whose relatives were among those listed as detained/disappeared during the military dictatorship in Chile.

1:00 p.m.
Football:  Ithaca vs. Alfred
(Ticketed Event)
Butterfield Stadium

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Climbing Wall Open
Fitness Center
Open to Family Weekend guests age 10 and older.

2:00 p.m.
The Library Then and Now
319 Gannett Library
Back in the 1970s and 80s, students used card catalogs to find books.  Today, students can access journal articles, books and historic news online 24/7 from their dorm rooms.  See an online demonstration of how accessing information in today's college library has changed.  We'll show you a few online resources, such as e-books and databases.  Additionally, we'll cover some new Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, YouTube videos, social bookmarks, and interactive DVD reviews.

2:00 p.m.
Ithaca College Theatre presents:
Children of Eden
(Ticketed Event)
Dillingham Theatre
Inspired by the Book of Genesis, "Children of Eden" uses Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and Noah and the flood to shed new light on universal stories of love, hope, parents, and children.  Composer Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell) brings musical life to familiar characters as they struggle to raise families and do what's right in a complex and conflicted world.

3:30-5:30 p.m.
Student Performances Showcase
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
Enjoy performances by a variety of our talented student organizations highlighting music, dance, and more.

5:30-7:30 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars Reception
Martin Luther King Jr. scholars and their families are invited to this reception and informational meeting. Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served.

7:00 p.m.
Movie:  Shorts
101 Textor Hall
Admission is $3.00 per person at the door.  Sponsored by the Student Activities Board.

8:00 p.m.
Cultural Student Performance Showcase
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
Join our ALANA students as they showcase performances that highlight the many cultures of Ithaca College.

8:15 p.m.
School of Music Concert:  
Symphonic Band and Jazz Workshop
(Ticketed event)
Ford Hall, Whalen Center for Music

Food Services Available

• 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. - Campus Center Dining Hall (cafeteria style, $7.00 breakfast, $11.00 dinner)
• 4:30 - 8:00 p.m. - Terrace Dining hall (cafeteria style, $11.00)
• 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Lavincita, Campus Center
• 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. - BJ's/Sub Connection, Towers Concourse