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Welcome
New CWRU Faculty
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The
New Faculty Family Picnic is Held in August Each Year
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NEXT EVENT
NEW FACULTY AND THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS
are invited to a COOKOUT PICNIC
following New Faculty Orientation
on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
19, 2009 at 5 PM
at SQUIRE VALLEEVUE
FARM, Picnic Area #6
The woods and ponds
of this lovely University property can be explored earlier in the
afternoon, and some activities for children will be available. There
will also be information, brochures and programs available, for the
many cultural and recreational attractions to be found on campus and
in Cleveland.
Call (216) 321 7465
for more information, or if you need directions to the farm
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The Newcomers Committee is a group of
volunteers (faculty spouses and
faculty) who greet new members of the faculty
and administration, and their families,
to the Case Western Reserve University
community. We look forward to answering any
questions you have (or at least guiding you
in the right direction!) regarding your
joining our campus, enjoying the immediate
University Circle cultural institutions,
or becoming familiar with the wider Cleveland
metropolitan area and the facilities
in the various suburbs.
We hold a number of events during the year to
which we would like to invite you.
These include a couple of Potluck
Dinners during the fall semester for new
faculty and their companions, and a Campus
Walking Tour in September. Our
first event in the academic year is the
Family Picnic, following New Faculty
Orientation, in August. Morning
Coffees for new faculty spouses, to which
young children are welcome, are also held
during the year.
We look forward to meeting you and hope you
will be able to attend one or more of
our events. Please contact us, at the number
or by the e-mail below, if you would
like further information on our program
during the year.
Wishing you a smooth and enjoyable transition
to our diverse and stimulating campus
and city,
Sarah Taylor (Chair),
Newcomers Committee
Phone (216) 321-7465,
E-mail: taylor@case.edu
Committee members: Lin
Emmons, Roberta Farrell,
Anne Poirson, Beverly Saylor, Audrey Solow, Aaron Starr,
Patrick Volz, Donna Walsh. Committee Advisors:
Christine Cano, Gary Chottiner, Bill Fickinger, Philippa Pearson, Mano
Singham.
These University web sites are recommended for general
interest, as well as for specific information:
The following links and organizations
might be of interest to you, if you are new
to the Cleveland area.
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FACULTY HOUSES for sale.
The purpose of this link is to provide a service to
faculty who are leaving CWRU, and who would like to sell their
Cleveland home. It may also be useful to incoming faculty,
interested in buying a home, who might like to look at houses that
were chosen and lived in by those in similar positions to themselves.
This site is not intended as a real estate service, and only the
individual home, owned and occupied by a departing faculty member,
will be included.
No claim to quality is implied by being listed here. Please make all
enquiries to the home owner.
Homes will be removed from the site after a month, unless the seller
requests us (at taylor@cwru.edu) to continue the listing.
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HOUSING conveniently
close to CWRU, and to the University
Circle cultural institutions: For Cleveland
Heights, phone Heights Housing
Service. If you are interested in buying, call
(216) 291-5959; for rentals, call
(216) 291-5784. For information about Shaker Heights,
phone the Shaker Heights
Communications and Outreach Department, at (216)
491-1337.
- For CHILD CARE AND
PRESCHOOL INFORMATION, phone
The Center for Families and Children, at
(216) 861-0492.
- John Carroll University's Career Center
has a registration process for those interested in obtaining BABY-SITTING services provided by their students. Phone (216) 397-4237, or (216) 397-1795.
- Heights Parent Center
(www.heightsparentcenter.org) offers
programs and services
for families with young children.
The Center is a particularly
useful resource for those living in the Heights
area.
- For HIKING AND BIKING
in the Cleveland metropolitan
area, phone the Cleveland Metroparks, at
(216) 635-3253, for maps and
information. They also have a web site: www.clevelandmetroparks.com. Also try the Ohio and Erie Canal
Towpath http://www.ohioanderiecanalway.com/. The ambitious can consider The Buckeye
Trail. Check out: www.buckeyetrail.org/index.html. For additional information
on anything related to bicycling in
our area, contact Gary Chottiner:
gsc2@case.edu
- For information about GOLF, phone Lois
Ritchken at (216) 292 4848
- For information about SAILING,
contact Wes Kroeze at
wkk@case.edu, or check out
this web site: www.ensignfleet29.net
- COOL CLEVELAND
-- For current information
on the enormous amount of interesting, entertaining, musical,
artistic, and other lively events taking place in Cleveland, try the
web site for Cool Cleveland
- For information about Northeast Ohio's
ENVIRONMENTAL news, organizations, and activities, check out
http://www.gcbl.org/
- An environmentally focused company, CITY
WHEELS, offers its members affordable rental of
efficient vehicles for short-term, round-trip use in order to
supplement the public transit network. It has two convenient access
points in University Circle:
http://www.MyCityWheels.com/
If you live in the
Heights area, and would like
suggestions for the following services and shops:
Please call Laura Smith,
at (216) 320 1548, if you are
interested in recommendations for: - A pediatrician,
- A dentist who is good
with children,
- A realtor.
Please call Sarah Taylor
at (216) 321 7465 for advice
about:
- Dry cleaning and shoe
repair,
- Hardware store (one
that provides advice as well
as products!),
- Car repair.
Please call Roberta
Farrell at (216) 321 3152 to
learn about:
- Supermarkets,
- Catering,
- Garden/plant items.
Please call Audrey Solow
at (216) 371 8697 for
suggestions about:
- Supermarkets,
- Car repair,
- Dry cleaning.
Please call Donna Walsh
at (216) 752 9545 for general
information
about:
- Shops and services
in Shaker Heights and
Mayfield Heights
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