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The Yale women's swimming and diving team won the 2017 Ivy League championship after posting an undefeated dual meet record. (John Lapides)

Yale womens swimming and diving head coach Jim Henry has been named the new head coach of the mens program, replacing former mens head coach Tim Wise following his resignation.

Next season will mark the first time that the Yale mens and womens programs have been united under a single head coach in seven years. Frank Keefe, the namesake of the Ivy League womens swimming championship trophy, led both teams from the 198081 until the 200910 seasons.

Wise resigned as head coach of the mens program on April 18 after seven seasons at the helm. He left the program after a season that saw the Bulldogs earn a 102 dual meet record but a disappointing fourth-place finish at the Ivy League championships. Neither Wise nor Director of Athletics Tom Beckett provided a reason for his departure.

Henry has served as the head coach of the womens program for five years, replacing Cristina Teuscher before the 201213 season. During his tenure in New Haven, he has turned the Eli squad into an Ivy League powerhouse, taking the team from a 34 Ivy record in 201112 to an undefeated record and conference title this past year, the teams first since 1997. For his efforts, Henry earned Ivy League Coach of the Year honors in 2017.

Prior to joining the Bulldogs, Henry was an assistant at the University of Texas for five seasons and the associate head coach there for one heswam for the Longhorns from 1987 to 1990, winning three national championships in that span. At Texas, Henry helped the womens team to three Big 12 titles. Before that, heheaded both the mens and womens programs at the University of Denver, where he was named Sun Belt Female Head Coach of the Year and Male Head Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

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Swimming coach steps down Yale Daily News (blog) Yale men's swimming and diving head coach Tim Wise resigned on Tuesday after 19 years with the program. A press release by the Yale Athletic Department Tuesday evening announcing Wise's resignation did not offer a reason for his departure. Wise has ...

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Anti-racism activist Tim Wise, whom American scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls a vanilla brother in the tradition of slavery abolitionist John Brown, will speak at Walla Walla University at Tuesday.

His 6 p.m. lecture, White LIES Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear in America, is free and open to the public. Wise, nationally recognized for his book and documentary White Like Me, will discuss contemporary race relations and how to advance racial justice.

He has spoken at more than 1,000 colleges and high schools and made numerous appearances on radio and national television news programs, according to his website. He has also lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement and others ways to dismantle racism in their institutions.

Most recently, he was included in a video exhibition, together with President Obama, at the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

His work began when he was a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from and economic sanctions against South Africa, then under apartheid rule. After graduation he served as a youth coordinator and associate director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, among the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

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Yale Men's Head Coach Tim Wise Steps Down Swimming World Magazine Tim Wise, who has served as the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Director of Yale Men's Swimming & Diving the last seven years, stepped down from his position today. Tim Wise Resigns From Post As Yale Men's Head Coach - SwimSwamSwimSwam all 2 news articles »

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Abingtons

Families presentation: Families Helping Families program by Abington Heights Superintendent Dr. Michael McMahon, April 26, 7 p.m., Ryon Room, Abington Community Library.

Clifford

Church dinner: Clifford United Methodist Church chicken-n-biscuit or ham dinner, May 16, 4-6 p.m., Main Street, takeouts available, $8.95.

Dunmore

School District

Open house: Dunmore Elementary Center kindergarten open house rescheduled to April 26, 6 p.m.; main office, 570-347-6794.

Forest City

Community luncheon: Stone Soup Kitchen at Christ Church free community luncheon, April 22, noon-1:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, Delaware and Dundaff streets.

Jermyn

Bread sale: St. Michaels Orthodox Church Easter food sale, Wednesday, noon-4 p.m., church center, 403 Delaware St.; paska and loaves (plain and raisin), kielbasi, horseradish, sopressata, rolls (apricot, lekvar, nut, poppy seed, pineapple coconut and raspberry cream); 876-1456 or fax 570-876-3454, by Sunday.

Lackawanna County

Pet walk: Fifth annual Furry Friends 5K Run/Walk to Benefit Griffin Pond Animal Shelter, Sunday, registration, 8:30 a.m., 5K Run/Walk, 10, Lackawanna River Heritage Trail, starting and ending at the Olive Street Head Scranton Trail Section; $25; proceeds benefit Griffin Pond Animal Shelter; details: Anastasia Daniels 570-586-3700, ext. 514, anastasia@griffinpondanimalshelter.com.

Basket raffle: St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen Host for a Day basket raffle April 26, 6-9 p.m., Genetti Manor, Dickson City; tickets/details, 570-342-5556.

SEEDS workshops: Sustainable Energy Education & Development Support home energy efficiency workshops in Lackawanna County, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Countryside Community Church, 14011 Orchard Drive, Clarks Summit; Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Northeast Environmental Technology Center, 1300 Old Plank Road, Mayfield, registration encouraged; info@seedsgroup.net or 570-245-1256.

Happy hour: Childrens Advocacy Center of NEPA, Greater Carbondale YMCA, Greater Scranton YMCA, Lackawanna Historical Society, United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA, West Scranton Hyde Park Neighborhood Watch, & Womens Resource Center NEPA Match Day 2017 Happy Hour event April 21, 6-8 p.m. Lucchi Family Wine Cellars, 134 N. Main Ave., Scranton; http://www.safdn.org/953/double-your-donation-to-a-local-nonprofit-on-may-5th/.

Legal advice: Lackawanna Pro Bono Family Law Help Desk free legal advice for low-income family law problems, Wednesday, 10 a.m.-noon, Family Court Administration Office, 200 Adams Ave., Scranton; household income below 125 percent of poverty level, not represented by attorney; 570-961-2714.

Community event: Lackawanna County Greens events, April 17-23, week of social and climate justice action, fun, documentaries, biking for a cause, Earth Day tree-planting, free; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LackawannaGreens/

Genealogical program: Genealogical Research Society program Remembering the Titanic and Its Shocking Local Connections by David DeCosmo, April 19, 7 p.m., society headquarters, 1100 Main St., Peckville, light fare, free, reservations recommended; 570-383-7661.

Anti-racism speaker: Penn State Worthington Scranton hosts program by anti-racist essayist author and educator Tim Wise, Wednesday, 7 p.m., Study Learning Center, 120 Ridge View Drive, Dunmore; free.

Montrose

Choir performance: First Presbyterian Church presents Madrigal Choir of Binghamton concert, Iberia in the Americas, April 22, 7 p.m., 367 Church St., spiritual music and folk songs, free-will offering, no tickets necessary.

Olyphant

Bunny visit: Olyphant Easter egg hunt April 15, 1 p.m., Monsignor Hrynuck/Wargo Sports Complex, 700 block of East Grant Street.

Regional

Alumni gathering: Mansfield University Alumni Association gathering for alumni and friends, April 29, 5-9 p.m., Merts-Harrys, 302 Penn Ave., Scranton, hosts: Marirose Murphy 79 and Lisa Chipak Spangenberg 81, $20, includes appetizers, finger foods and soft drinks, cash bar; pay online with credit card at alumni.mansfield.edu or by check, made payable to Mansfield University, Alumni Relations Office, Alumni Hall, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA 16933, by April 17; alum

ni2@mansfield.edu or 888-305-6505.

PROSPER conference: Carbondale and Riverside PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) teams recognition/press conference, April 21, 9-10 a.m., Electric City Trolley Museum, 300 Cliff St., Scranton; update on research results from the PROSPER study including prescription opioid misuse outcomes, remarks by officials; Penn State Extension, 570-963-6842.

Barrel sale: Monroe County Conservation District rain barrel sale order deadline Wednesday, pickup, April 22, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., Monroe County Earth Day, Monroe Campus of Northampton County Community College, Tannersville; Pennsylvania-made, screened lid, brass ball valve spigot, bottom drain, overflow fittings, on repurposed barrel, $80 plus tax; call Annie, 570-629-3060, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. or visit http://www.mcconservation.org.

Susquehanna County

Sunday devotions: Divine Mercy Sunday devotions, April 23 (Sunday following Easter), 2:45 p.m., St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 380 Franklin St., Great Bend; Mass, exposition of the blessed sacrament, Divine Mercy Chaplet, praises to the Divine Mercy, rosary, St. Faustinas Litany to the Blessed Sacrament, veneration of the relic of St. Faustina; refreshments follow in parish Trinity Center; Lorraine James, 570-465-3393 or parish office.

West Scranton

Bake sale: St. Ann Maronite Church Palm Sunday bake sale, Saturday, 3-6 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., North Sumner Avenue and Price Street; homemade Lebanese pastries, baked goods, spinach pies, meat pies and Lebanese thin bread available; 570-344-2129.

Pasta dinner: St. Lucys 40th annual spaghetti dinner, April 26 and 27, 5-8 p.m., St. Lucys Church auditorium, 949 Scranton St.; takeouts start, 3 p.m.; $10/adults, $5/children under 12, at door

CLIPBOARD ITEMS may be emailed to yesdesk@timesshamrock.com or mailed to Clipboard, c/o the YES!Desk at 149 Penn Ave., Scranton, 18503. YES!Desk, 570-348-9121.

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