ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University is calling on all alumni and friends to make a bold statement with a donation during the ninth annual #BonaGivingDay on Feb. 15. The purpose behind the 24-hour crowdfunding initiative, found here, is to unite Bonnies worldwide in support of today’s students. With megaphone in hand – make that […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — The Warming House, St. Bonaventure University’s student-run soup kitchen in Olean, has received a $4,000 grant from the Dr. Lyle F. Renodin Foundation. The money will be used to purchase nutritious food, and cleaning and food service supplies, said Alice Miller Nation, director of University Ministries. “We are always grateful for the […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — The American Revolution Experience Traveling Exhibition, an innovative pop-up exhibition featuring display panels and interactive kiosks that tell the story of the birth of the nation, opens Saturday, Jan. 27, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Created through a collaboration between the American Battlefield Trust and the […]
Sister Elaine Bane, OSF, died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, at St. Elizabeth Motherhouse, Allegany. She was born Helen Catherine Mary Bane on April 5, 1924, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Michael and Helen Killilea Bane. Sister Elaine attended Blessed Sacrament Elementary and graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Cambridge. She attended Emmanuel College […]
Father Joachim Anthony Giermek, OFM Conv., 80, a Franciscan Friar of Our Lady of the Angels Province, died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, at Ellicott City, Maryland. Born in Buffalo, on Apr. 2, 1943, he was a son of the late Joseph and Mary (Kowalczyk) Giermek. He was predeceased by his sister, Anne Holmes, […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — Jason Amore is coming home and he couldn’t be happier. The Friendship native has been named vice president for University Advancement at St. Bonaventure University, President Jeff Gingerich announced. Amore is tentatively scheduled to begin work in mid-February. “I am beyond ecstatic to be returning home to the Southern Tier and to […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — For the 42nd consecutive year, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute delivered a truckload of nonperishable food items and paper products to the Warming House, St. Bonaventure University’s soup kitchen on North Union Street in Olean, just before Christmas. This year was the 53rd anniversary of the St. Joe’s Food Basket. The […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — Lucas Ishman, a senior at St. Bonaventure University, raised nearly $1,000 in donations for Special Olympics New York as a participant in the 2023 Buffalo Polar Plunge, held Dec. 2 at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg. It was the most money ever raised for the annual event by an SBU student […]
Sister Janet Finley, OSF, passed away Dec. 4, 2023, at St. Elizabeth Motherhouse in Allegany. She was born March 5, 1934, in Moline, Illinois, daughter of Wilfred and Eleanor Brubaker Finley of Miami. She entered the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany congregation on Aug. 22, 1955. Then was received into the congregation on Aug. 15, 1956; […]
Sister Marie Stachowiak died peacefully on Dec. 10, 2023, at St. Francis Park in the 82nd year of life and the 62nd year of religious life. Mary Anne Stachowiak was born on Dec. 3, 1941, in Buffalo to John and Rose (Lemka) Stachowiak. On Aug. 2,1959, she entered the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph as […]
