Tolerance Resource Center Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio—5 October 2007—Notre Dame College’s Tolerance Resource Center begins a yearlong celebration of its tenth anniversary in October with a variety of programs open to the community. The commemoration continues throughout the academic year.

The Tolerance Resource Center, located in the College’s Clara Fritzsche Library, provides students, faculty, scholars, and members of the greater community with materials for studying and teaching issues of racial, cultural and religious diversity in the world around them. The collection includes books, periodicals, video recordings, curriculum materials, and more resources, on tolerance and diversity, teaching the Holocaust, and Native American issues.

The celebration begins with a dramatic production, “Walk, Don’t Ride: The Fight for Freedom in America,” which pays homage to the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama. It takes place Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, October 21 at 2:00 p.m.

An opening reception Thursday, October 25, 5:00-7:00 p.m. launches an exhibit of Cleveland Holocaust survivors’ portraits by photographer Herb Ascherman. It takes place in the College’s Performing Arts Center and runs through December 7.

On Thursday, November 1 at 7:00 p.m. Herb Ascherman presents a gallery talk about his vision and journey in documenting the survivors’ images.

The speaker for Thursday, November 15, 7:30 p.m. is Sr. Gemma Del Duca, S.C., Ph.D., recipient of Yad Vashem’s Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education. A Catholic nun, Sr. Gemma has been leading seminars for Holocaust education for two decades. She is the first non-Jew and non-Israeli to receive this important award. Sr. Gemma discusses her years of experience as a Catholic educator and peacemaker working in the heart of Jerusalem.

A screening of the independent film, “Paper Clips,” takes place Thursday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m. The film, acclaimed in the international film circuit, chronicles a small Tennessee town’s project to help middle school students comprehend the number of Holocaust victims by collecting 11 million paper clips.

Notre Dame College is located at 4545 College Road in South Euclid.

All events are free of charge and open to the public. The celebration will continue during the spring semester, with event information to be released at a later date. Call 216.373.5267 for additional information, or visit www.NotreDameCollege.edu.

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