PATCHOGUE, NY – APRIL 23, 2008 – The 2008 ALS Ride for Life, a fundraising event to support a cure for ALS, will make its annual trek across Long Island, stopping at the Long Island Campus of St. Joseph’s College on Monday, May 5, 2008 at approximately 4 p.m. The College and other noteworthy guests will welcome the patient riders as they travel through Patchogue.

Established in 2001, Ride for Life is a seven day, 150-mile wheelchair and scooter ride from Montauk to Manhattan to benefit those affected by ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The caravan will make a stop at St. Joseph’s College before they continue their journey through Long Island to Manhattan where they will make a dramatic processional through Times Square.

Along with staff and students from St. Joseph’s College, local community leaders will be in attendance as the riders pass through Patchogue, including Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington, Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri and members of the Patchogue Rotary Club.

For more information about this dramatic event or to register, please call Ride for Life at 631.444.1292 or visit www.2008rideforlife.kintera.org.

St. Joseph’s College is located at 155 W. Roe Blvd. in Patchogue, and is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Ave.).

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Suffolk, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 22 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.