Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011
A highlight of Rider’s Family Weekend is the Founder’s Day Awards Ceremony, a tradition that honors Rider’s top students as Andrew J. Rider Scholars.
by Lauren Adams
A highlight of Rider’s Family Weekend is the Founder’s Day Awards Ceremony, a tradition that honors Rider’s top students as Andrew J. Rider Scholars. The award, named for the founder and first president of the institution, honors the top one percent of seniors, juniors and sophomores in each of Rider’s six 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, Westminster Choir College, and the School of Fine and Performing Arts – based on their grade point averages.
President Mordechai Rozanski will award certificates to 61 students during the ceremony, which will be held on Saturday, November 5, at 11 a.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. Joel Phillips, Professor of Composition and Music Theory, will present the faculty address. Carolynne Lewis-Arévalo, a senior psychology major, will give the student address.
This year’s Andrew J. Rider Scholars are:
College of Business Administration
| Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores |
| Lisa Aultz Jeffrey Barsoum Jocelyne Karam Alexander Pinho** |
Clarissa Beck* Anam Khan* Kelly Sandefur |
Daniel Enrique Broll Michael DeBonis Dana Hebeler Victoria Marquardt Dylan Miller Christina Lee Yasay |
School of Education
| Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores |
| Brianne Bergen** Heather Joan Conway Lauren Croasdale Sarah Levandowski* |
Jami Centrella* Brittany Gajewski Stephanie Seymour |
Hilary Boff Katharine DeSomma Katherine Freier Katherine Szatkowski |
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
| Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores |
| Patricia Ashmore** William Goodheart IV James M. Hodges Erin McCafferty** |
Abigail Bentley- Cottam* Yolanda Leon* Maeve Nielsen |
Margaret Casperson Christopher P. James Michelle McBride Rachel Stengel |
College of Continuing Studies
| Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores |
| John Lambdin Carolynne Lewis-Arévalo Kim M. Orozco Laura Walters |
Carol Harris Megan E. Krapcho Brian Tasch |
Westminster Choir College
| Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores |
| Alexander Glover* William Gotmer Hannah Guerra** Jordan Laurelle Timchal |
Sareen Jebejian Kristian C. Kohler* Rachael Lipson* |
Ryan Brown Hazel Eaton Kirin Sugino |
School of Fine and Performing Arts
| Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores |
| Wendy Feaver Brittany Santos** Valerie Stevens** |
Elena E. Camp Andrea Cocozza * Samantha Ferrara |
Kailey Hewitt Blair Elizabeth Miller Samantha Penick |
*Second-year scholar
**Third-year scholar