| FSC students in Boston exhibit
FITCHBURG -- The work of five Fitchburg State College photography students was included in a recent exhibit at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. The students were featured as part of the annual 2008 Student Exhibition. Representing Fitchburg State are senior Ashley Brito with her photo "Ayer High," senior Brittany Durgin with her work "Chili Fest," Lauren Davieau with "Yvonne," junior Kiel Szivos with his photo "Corn Field, Templeton," and senior Stephanie Vieira with "Krakow, Poland." The annual event is a showcase of academic diversity among the center's 17 institutional-member schools, which includes Fitchburg State, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston University, Endicott College, Emerson College, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newbury College, New England Institute of Art, New England School of Photography, Northeastern University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Simmons College, University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Wellesley College.
STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS SPARKLE WITH PERSONALITY
THE OWNER: Zach Lemann, head entomologist for the Audubon Institute, commissioned the artisans at Lizano's Glass Haus to create this whimsical piece of stained-glass art for a window in the study (aka "the bug room") of his Uptown home. According to designer Paulette Lizano, Lemann was very involved in the design process, dictating exactly what the web and the insects should look like. "He took me on an actual field trip to get the correct architecture of the web. We spray painted a web and affixed it to cardboard and he then selected the part of the web to duplicate in stained glass," Lizano explained. She fashioned a spider, butterfly and beetle from pieces of fused glass and incorporated them into the overall design, with the spider appearing in relief from the remainder of the panel. "This was truly the most unique and spectacular request we have faced in our stained-glass career," Lizano said.
Heart and vascular center opens at Forbes
Carol Conroy beamed as doctors and nurses at the new Ed Dardanell Heart and Vascular Center in Monroeville autographed her Shumsky Heart Pillow. Mrs. Conroy, 77, of Rankin, was the first patient to be released from the center, a cardiothoracic intensive care unit that opened early this month at the Forbes Regional campus of West Penn Allegheny Health System. "This is better than a hotel," she said. "My room is beautiful and spacious. I have a private bathroom. Everything is comfortable. It feels like home." Mrs. Conroy then joked: "My anesthesiologist was very excited. He told me he had been waiting for me for two years" Dr. Mark A. Taylor was referring to the two years it took to develop the center. He serves as division chief of cardiothoracic anesthesia and chief and vice chair of that department.
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