Congratulations to all of this year's award recipients and honor society inductees!
The Doris G. Cassiday Award
The Doris Cassiday award is given to those graduates of Charter Oak who have achieved excellence in innovative learning and who exemplify the essence of the Charter Oak mission. With this award, the College recognizes individuals who avail themselves fully of a broad range of learning options, earning credits both inside and outside the traditional classroom setting. These options include distance learning, testing, portfolio assessment, contract learning, military service school courses and other non-collegiate sponsored instruction, which has been evaluated for credit, as well as classroom instruction. Recipients included:
- Allen D. Black
- Vlasta J. Noubel
- Javier Velez-Ramos
- Danielle C. York
- William A. Easterling
- Keith H. Ford
- Brenda D. Jenkins
- Samantha Lendl
The Connecticut General Assembly Award
Each year the Connecticut General Assembly recognizes the academic achievements of Connecticut graduates who attend in-state colleges and universities. Although this award is normally only given to two graduates, this year three Charter Oak students were so close in their academic performance that the honor was given to all three:
- Martha Aigner - 3.947 QPA
- June Sangapore - 3.943 QPA
- Dorothy Henry Arcovitch - 3.942 QPA
Alpha Sigma Lambda, Honor Society Induction
For the second year Charter Oak State College inducted members to
Alpha Sigma Lambda, the national honor society for adult students. Candidates have been nominated for Alpha Sigma Lambda based on their grade point average and having a minimum of 24 graded credits from Charter Oak State College.
The following were inducted as members of Charter Oak’s chapter, Chi Omicron:
- Adene H. Fordyce
- Matthew I. Friedman
- Martin Garcia
- Jennifer C. Heil
- Brenda D. Jenkins
- John F. Kennedy
- Kathryn L. Lucas
- Theresa M. Lumas
- Dawn Mason-Affinito
- Paula D. McDaniel
- Jason W. Murphey
- Cynthia M. Ott
- M. Peter Saxon
- Mark W. Searles
- Hiromi Tsujino
- Edith M. Valsaint
- Patricia A. Zielinski
- Jason J. Zigmont
The following faculty members and staff were inducted as honorary members of Alpha Sigma Lambda recognizing their support of non-traditional learners:
Faculty
- Prof. Phyllis Gutowski
- Dr. David Henderson
- Dr. Regina Miller
- Dr. Julius Rubin
- Dr. David Sloane
Staff
- Doris Cassiday
- Patricia Derech
- Josi Zendzian