One of the qualities that nearly vaulted former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to the Republican nomination for president in 2008 was his conversational ease and ability to move smoothly from one topic to another. So, Huckabee was as eager to discuss his influences on the bass guitar – the instrument he plays in the rock ‘n’ roll band Capitol Offense – as he was fiscal policy with an overflow audience in the BLC Theater on April 1. His address was sponsored by the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics and made possible by a generous donation from the Hennessy Fund and Politics magazine. More
When English major Ericka Kriedel graduates in May, instead of returning home to central Connecticut, she is heading to Southeast Asia. The captain of the MAAC Champion swimming & diving team, Kriedel has obtained a Teaching Fulbright Scholarship to study in Thailand. “I picked Thailand because I figured it would be completely different from anything I’ve ever known,” said Kriedel, a two-time MAAC All-Academic team member. “I wanted to learn a language and learn about a culture that I knew nothing about.” More
While his responsibilities as grants manager may require more interaction with faculty and staff at Rider, Michael Rutkowski ’91, M.B.A. ’95 also serves as a mentor to students and a supporter of activities at the University. “It’s not just a job to me. I believe in the University’s mission,” said Rutkowski, who started working at Rider in 2001. His commitment to the University was recognized when he was named the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Nancy Gray Award at Rider’s University Day on April 7.
Throughout his 27-year military career, Col. Roger Carey ’80 has often thought back to his time at Rider. A Communication major and member of the Army ROTC program, Carey remembers how he was pushed by his professors and mentors to excel. “You had to focus on a goal and chase it in pursuit of excellence,” he recalled. Carey’s experience at Rider not only shaped his attitudes, but allowed him to focus on his career aspirations. His accomplishments were recognized by the Department of Communication and Journalism when he received the Alumni Achievement Award on March 30. |
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Honorary Degree Recipients Announced
During its 144th Commencement ceremonies on its Lawrenceville campus, Rider University will proudly bestow honorary Doctor of Laws degrees upon M. Nathaniel Barnes ’77, Liberian ambassador to the United States, and Anthony Dickson, the retired president and CEO of New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company. Barnes will be honored at Rider’s undergraduate ceremony on Friday, May 15, while Dickson will be honored the evening before at Rider’s College of Continuing Studies and Graduate ceremony on Thursday, May 14. On Saturday, May 16, organist, improviser and composer Gerre Hancock will receive the honorary Doctor of Music at Commencement exercises for the Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton.
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University Day Photo Gallery
The entire Rider community celebrated University Day on Tuesday, April 7. Traditionally, University Day is commemorated on or near April 13 each year to recognize the day in 1994 when Rider officially achieved university status. Rider’s annual celebration began with various student representatives greeting community members with University Day Morning Muffins and continued with a daylong fest on the Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses, and included the presentation of the Nancy Gray Award.
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On With the Show
If a Broadway show enjoyed a marvelously successful three-decade run before closing, you could imagine the celebration and fanfare that would surely follow the final curtain. Alas, the curtain is falling on Patrick Chmel’s career at Rider, and his popular 31-year run was celebrated by a cast of hundreds inside the Bart Luedeke Center Cavalla Room on Friday, April 3.
- Rider Raises $55,000 for Relay For Life
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Organizers for Rider’s Relay for Life hoped that the event would attract the same enthusiasm and support seen during Midnight MAACness. They not only generated that passion, but raised in excess of $55,000 – more than doubling their initial goal of $25,000. More than 600 members of the University and local communities participated in Rider’s first-ever Relay For Life to honor cancer survivors and their caregivers. During the community celebration, members from 56 teams took turns walking and running around the track inside the Student Recreation Center to raise funds for cancer research.
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Two Students, One Faculty Member Recognized at Annual Colloquium
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Two undergraduate students and one faculty member were honored for their commitment to improve the status of women during the annual awards ceremony at the 2009 Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Colloquium on April 2. The Dr. Virginia J. Cyrus Scholarships in Gender Studies were awarded to Tracey Belbina, a junior Liberal Studies major, and Maria Gullo, a junior Psychology major. Dr. John Hillje, associate professor of History, was this year’s Ziegler Gee Award recipient.
- Westminster Hosts Day of Play for High School Actors
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Despite the fact that there were more than 170 high school students sitting in Yvonne Theater, the room was perfectly still – for a couple of minutes at least. The student performers were hard at work with the task at hand. Minutes earlier, they had just been told to bend their knees, drop their heads down and stare at the ground.
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