College Knights

American University Council 14465 in Washington, D.C., sponsored a welcome-back event for the American University Catholic community at the start of the Fall 2009 semester. More than 50 students enjoyed waffles, dessert and several rounds of wiffle ball.

Webster Council 228 and Crusader Council 2706 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester hosted their annual fund drive for people with intellectual disabilities at the Holy Cross homecoming game against Dartmouth College. Proceeds from the drive were presented to the Massachusetts State Council charity fund.

Mother Marianne Cope Council 14260 at Syracuse University co-sponsored a lecture by New York Times and Washington Post national religion writer Gustav Niebuhr for the students of the university's Catholic campus ministry program. Niebuhr gave a lecture titled "Catholicism and the Modern Media: The Church in the Era of Instant Information" at the Alibrandi Catholic Center Sept. 30.

WVCST College Council 11517 in Ilolio initiated a rosary hour and Mass in honor of the council's 15th anniversary.

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