For Immediate
Release—Friday, January 19, 2007
Contact:
Mary E. McCrank
Media Relations Officer
(585) 245-5516
Environmentalist Chad Pregracke
to Speak at SUNY Geneseo Jan. 23 About his Work and Volunteerism
Geneseo, N.Y.—Chad
Pregracke—who founded and leads an environmental organization named
Living Lands & Waters—will give two presentations at the State
University of New York at Geneseo this month.
The first presentation,
titled "One Individual Can Make A Difference," will take place from 4-5 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 23, in 114 MacVittie College Union. The second presentation,
titled "Helping to Clean America's Rivers," will take place from 8-9 p.m. Jan.
23 in 114 MacVittie College Union. Both presentations will document Pregracke's
environmental work and the impact one individual's efforts can have on the
world.
Many members of the Geneseo
community are already familiar with the work Pregracke does and the
volunteerism he exhibits. A group of 20 students, faculty members,
administrators and community members working through Livingston CARES went to
Biloxi, Miss., from Jan. 6-13 to do still much-needed volunteer work after
Hurricane Katrina. While in Biloxi, the students restored a group of homes
destroyed by the hurricane and visited the families who live in the homes
restored by the group in 2006.
Pregracke was working to clean a bay in Biloxi at the same time the
group from Geneseo was busy rebuilding homes.
Pregracke's visit helps
enhance the college's reputation as an institution that instills in its
students the importance of community service and civic responsibility, says Tom
Matthews, director of leadership education, development and training at SUNY
Geneseo.
"Pregracke is an amazing person
and embodies so much of what we are trying to teach to students about how they
can really make a difference in the world," says Matthews.
Livingston CARES is a
collaborative effort among groups and organizations at SUNY Geneseo and in the
Geneseo and Livingston County community to focus relief efforts in Harrison
County, Miss., which were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Pregracke's presentations
are free and open to the public.
For more information about Pregracke's work, visit www.livinglandsandwaters.org/About/default.htm.
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Written by Joe Mignano,
public relations intern in the Office of Communications and Publications.