October 31, 2007 - Founder's Day to Honor 57 Scholars

A special highlight of Rider’s Family Day on Saturday, November 3 is the Founder’s Day awards ceremony, a tradition that honors Rider’s top students as Andrew J. Rider Scholars. The program begins at 11 a.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. The Scholars have been selected based on their grade point averages in the past year.

The award, named for Rider’s founder and first president, honors the top one percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors in each of Rider’s five academic colleges and schools – the College of Business Administration, the School of Education, the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Continuing Studies, and Westminster Choir College.

During the program, Dr. John Baer, professor of education, will receive the Dominick A. Iorio Faculty Research Award. Dr. Barry Truchil, associate professor of sociology, will give the faculty address and Ruth R. Rodriguez, a senior from the College of Continuing Studies, will deliver the student address. President Mordechai Rozanski will award certificates to 57 students during the ceremony.

This year’s Rider Scholars are:

College of Business Administration
 
Dana M.Hoffman  
Man Sung Bae*  
Nicole Alexandra Addesso
Matthew P. Nissen**  
Alex D’Amico  
Erin C. Bethke
Sergiy Sachko  
Simphiwe S. Mhlanga*   
Melissa J. Cloonan
Ryan Sydorko     
Leah Waldron
      

College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences

School of Education
 
Dawn R. Baines  
William Coughlin*  
Meghan E. Brett
Kathleen J. Hasson  
Patrick Thomas Gaston*  
Emily Ann DiPaolo
Jennifer A. Kamm**  
Ashley N. Weitz  
Michelle A. Mazzulla
Amy Legvari**     
      

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
 
Erin E. Ludwig  
Joshua Chave*  
Stephanie L. Lauer
Mandi Magnuson-Hung  
Meighan E. Hogate III*  
Joanne Nosuchinsk
Stephanie Mostaccio**  
Richard C. Sando*  
Jennifer L. Poorvin
Elizabeth M. Ryan*  
Krista Wettengel*  
Aurora L. Slothus     
Baris Yakin*     

College of Continuing Studies

Kimberly L. Bohonko  
Timothy Burns  
Sanjeev Bassi
Denise L. Jerolymack  
Patrick J. McWain  
Aljermire Dewberry
Courtney Morris  
Sherita A. Whetstone  
Patricia Cashill Headley
Ruth R. Rodriguez     
Sean Wild   

Westminster Choir College

Emily Adams**  
Celia Barry*  
Stephen Buzard
Elizabeth Allen  
Emma-Grace Dunbar  
Brittany Michelle Godfrey
Lauren A. McDowell*  
Shane Magargal*  
Christopher McWilliams
Danielle Lynn Meola*     
Karol Nowicki
Thomas Sheehan

* Second-year scholar
**Third-year scholar