• Molly DeSesso ’02, business education, served as director of the iD Tech Camp located on the Rider University campus this past summer. DeSesso oversaw a team of counselors who taught the fundamentals of video game creation, 3D modeling, video editing, programming, robotics and designing Web sites. She recently graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in instructional design of educational technology. She has since worked for the Department of Education, developing technology standards, and has designed several curricula that are being implemented in the Flemington-Raritan School District. iD Tech Camps, the largest summer computer camp in the country, is based in Campbell, Calif.
• Rubin Joyner ’73, director of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at Rider, was featured as “Person of the Month” in The Fourth Estate, a monthly publication serving the communities of Trenton, Lawrence, Ewing, Hamilton and Princeton. It was founded by Lesley B. Carter ’82, journalism, publisher/editor-in-chief.
• Brian David Solomon ’91, accounting/history, received the Delran Township Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) of the Year award in April 2007, the Burlington County District 11 VFW EMT of the Year award in May 2007 and the New Jersey State VFW EMT of the Year award in June 2007. Solomon, in his seventh year as the assistant sports information director and webmaster for www.gobroncs.com at Rider, is an 18-year volunteer EMT, the last 14 with the Delran-Riverside Emergency Squad. He was recognized for his squad’s efforts in helping to rescue five people trapped in a house fire in Riverside in August 2006. The awards were announced by the Samuel T. Lambert Post 3020 of the VFW.