Daniel Webster College
In the News 2005

Nashua college’s program gets students ready for first return visit to the folks

That nose ring you got last month was cool. So was the tattoo on your forearm and that wild haircut your roommate talked you into last weekend.

Read about it in The Union Leader
November 2005

Marden anchored the lines
Future Daniel Webster aviation student

A big part of the success of the Wilmington football team has been the play of the line, and a key member of that line is senior Matt Marden.

Read about it in the Boston Herald
November 2005

DWC's CPR-training initiative gets boost from auto-dealers

Beginning this fall, Daniel Webster College hopes to train at least 75 to 100 individuals from Greater Nashua area on how to respond when a person has a heart attack.

Read about it in the Broadcaster
November 2005

DWC campus security director passes baton to another Nashua Police Dept. alum

With the appointment of retired Nashua Police Sgt. Jamie Provencher as Daniel Webster College's new director of campus safety this fall, a new tradition may have been created. Provencher took over the school's Security Department from another Nashua Police Department retiree, Bob Ravenelle.

Read about it in the Broadcaster
November 2005

Who are these people?

When parents welcome college students home for Thanksgiving, family disharmony often ensues

Read about it in The Lowell Sun
November 2005

Artist's Nashua ties remembered

As a member of the Daniel Webster College community, I was thrilled to learn a year ago last spring that internationally renowned artist R. C. Gorman would be exhibiting in our Eaton-Richmond Center Gallery and the recipient of an honorary degree at our 2004 commencement.

Read about it in The Union Leader
November 2005

Making it in New Hampshire:
Mowing Lawns

Jason Ekstrom was 12 years old when he borrowed the family lawnmower to earn spending money. Eight years later, his lawn care business grosses about $300,000 per year. Over time, Jason has saved money earned from his lawn mowing to buy additional equipment so he could expand his business. Jason is currently a business student at Daniel Webster College and employs four, full-time staff. In telling his story, Jason talks about what he has learned over the years and how it has shaped his character and business. He shows what it takes to Make It in New Hampshire.
November 7, 2005

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National "Make a Difference Day" inspires projects by area groups and individuals

Daniel Webster College social science majors, with the assistance of professors Laurie Gordy, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Susan Nicosia and students who belong to the Mental Health Awareness Committee, donated 268 "We Care Bags" and 122 new bath towels to the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter. This set a new record for the school, which has been participating in Make a Difference Day since 2000.

Read about it in The Nashua Telegraph
October 31, 2005

Government Fees Growing Portion Of Air Travel Costs

Airline passengers are giving an ever-increasing portion of their travel dollars to Uncle Sam, according to data released by MIT's Global Airline Industry Program and Daniel Webster College.

Read about it in Economics Government Cost
October 2005

DWC student majors in aviation, aeronautical engineering

Not every young woman aspires to become a commercial airline pilot. And not every woman thinks of aeronautical engineering as a career choice. But Priti Bhatnagar is not every woman. Priti, a junior at DWC, is a double major in both aviation flight operations and aeronautical engineering.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
October 2005

DWC: A place where women can blend academic and athletic success

Daniel Webster College is a college with a focused mission, preparing women and men for professional challenges in the fields of aviation, engineering, computer science and information systems, sport management and social science; fields not traditionally teeming with women.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
October 2005

DWC students try “etiquette dinner”

College students are not known for their good eating habits. Hoping to beef up their dining skills, about two dozen students have signed up for an “etiquette dinner” to night.

Read about it in the Union Leader
October 2005

Thousands flock to DWC's Aviation Heritage Festival

It was a perfect weekend to “see the planes,” and see the planes they did — by the thousands — at Daniel Webster College’s fifth Aviation Heritage Festival at Nashua Municipal Airport Sept. 24 and 25. Some 13,000 passed through the gates during the weekend, including scores of WW II veterans, who were admitted at no charge in recognition of their service to the country and the 60th anniversary of the end of the war.

Read about it in the Atlantic Flyer
November 2005

Bombers Over New Hampshire

On May 24, 1944, 19-year old T/Sgt. Louis Paltrineri, US Army Air Force, strapped himself in the Radio Operator's seat of B-17G (42-97845) of the 100th Bomber Group, 350th Sqn. This was his 30th and final mission.

Read about it in the Atlantic Flyer
November 2005

400 high school students learn to lead in business world

More than 400 future business leaders gathered at Daniel Webster College yesterday to learn about teamwork and decision making.

Read about it in the Union Leader
October 2005

Business People ─ James S. Hill

Daniel Webster College's President’s Office announced the appointment of James S. Hill as vice president of advancement. Hill started October 11.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
October 2005

Aviation festival offers wealth
of planes, history

The Easter bunny arrived in C-54s in 1949, delivering about 13,000 pounds of coal to the people of Berlin. Gen. William Tunner ordered all the planes make a maximum effort that day to show Stalin the seriousness of the Berlin Airlift.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
September 2005

Higher ed partnership will aid workforce

The following are excerpts of an address delivered by Robert E. Myers, president of Daniel Webster College, earlier this month at the Greater Nashua High Tech Expo.

I think, as most of you know, there are some unique demographic challenges unfolding here in the greater Nashua area.

Read about it in
New Hampshire Business Review
September 2005

Eye-catching photography featured
at Daniel Webster College

Greta Jaklitsch began taking photos when her son was young.
“I wanted to document his life,” she said.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
September 2005

Building from the bottom up

Sonja Crowder was a freshman doing lab work when she heard the news: Women’s soccer at Daniel Webster College was finished for the 2003 season – before it had even started.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
October 2005

Daniel Webster College hosting two-day event featuring vintage aircraft

It wasn't until the B-17 bomber was airborne and heading for Berlin that morning in May of 1944 that a young Louis Paltrineri realized he had forgotten something his wife Treva had given him for Christmas.

Read about it in The Union Leader
September 2005

Back in time,
on board the Nine-O-Nine

Louis Paltrineri buckled in with his back to the co-pilot, the reach down to the floor seeming a bit longer than it did 60 years ago.

Read about it in the Nashua Telegraph
September 2005

Aviation Heritage Festival saluting veterans of WWII

If you are, or if you have a relative or a friend who is a veteran of World War II, be sure to mark your calendar for the weekend of Sept. 24 and 25. Daniel Webster College invites all veterans of that war to the 2005 Aviation Heritage Festival at Nashua's Boire Airport.

Read about it in The Broadcaster
September 2005

2005 Aviation Heritage Festival
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NH Daniel Webster College's Annual Aviation E-Vent
Every year Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire sponsors an Aviation Heritage Festival at Nashua Municipal Airport in Nashua (where else?), New Hampshire (KASH in your GPS). This year's show is coming right up (which is why we gave you the GPS code now) on September 24th and 25th -- this weekend. Aero-News will be there.

Read about it on the Aero-News Network
September 2005

DWC welcoming students displaced by Katrina

Daniel Webster College is among the institutions in New Hampshire welcoming students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The college is providing a semester free of charge to those who qualify, as well as free online courses.

Read about it in
The Nashua Telegraph

The Boston Globe
Listen to an interview with
Dr. Myers and students on WNDS-TV
September 2005

Singer-songwriter brings tour to Common Thread

Singer-songwriter and former frontman of the Los Angeles-based jam band Telepathy will be in concert at DWC on Saturday, September 3 at 8:30 p.m. The concert by the Chicago native is free of charge.

Read about it in The Nashua Telegraph
September 2005

DWC alumnus David Brownell ’72: Newsline brings newspapers to those who have lost their sight

Read about it in The Nashua Telegraph