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Student Recognition Ceremony at GCC |
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IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - May 2, 2011 Thursday, April 28,
2011, Gogebic Community College held a Student
Recognition Ceremony to recognized GCC students for
their work inside and outside the classroom.
Interim Dean of Students Jeanne Graham, pictured above,
welcomed the largest audience ever to attend the event.
In thanking everyone for attending Graham noted how busy
everyone is studying for finals and getting their final
papers done and all the things that keep students busy
at this time of the year.
“Today was a time to look back, reflect upon and
recognize all the accomplishments that so many of you
have made over the past year or two” said Graham. “Each
of you who received a personal invitation to be here are
being recognized for contributions both inside and
outside the classroom, and for your dedication to
excellence. We commend you for your efforts” |
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recognized were two special groups of students. Students
who in the face of many competing interests, their good
days and their not so good days, who have been
consistently been able to perform with academic
excellence and will be graduating in a couple short
weeks with the distinction of academic honors, Graham
noted. |
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Students graduating with honors must be
graduating with an Associate’s Degree and must have
completed at least thirty of their credits at GCC.
The first group honored were those
students that received Honors Recognition, a GPA of 3.5
to 3.74. |
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students graduating with Honors: |
| Christina Anderson Joseph Bailo
Lisa BorsethPatricia Hill
Debbie Hogenson SaaristoSarah Jackson
Scott KatajaJanina Larson
Julie LoweryMiles Mabie
Melinda McCullough |
Joseph Mieloszyk Amanda Niemi
Brianne Niemi
Suzanne PazdernikDanielle Rogo
Camille SligerKari Strand
Tara TregemboMaria Trzebiatowski
Meghan WahlbergMolly Wolfe |
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The second group to be honored were
those receiving High Honors, those whose Grade Point
Average was 3.75 to 4.00. |
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Pictured above and below students Graduating with High
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Stephanie Basso Mary Berg
Kara BjorkquistLen Boodry
Katie BullJoseph Buttice
Yajie ChaiAlysa Cherubini
Gina ConhartoskiMichael Dallavalle
Lucille DavisKevin Elza
Roxanne HallCarmin Heinonen
Alexandra HoeftRaelynn Jakkola
Anita JohnsonJon Johnson
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Linnea Kangas Scott Kangas
Kevin KeranenKariina Kinnunen
Kristine KukerCynthia MacKenzie
Sarah Mascotti
Melissa Miles
Amanda Paulson
Lance Rasmussen
Melissa SawaskiAshley Schmidt
Aimee SeidelTatyana Smirnova
Emma VerbosSonja Waineo
Bonny WalendowskiAmber Warrick |
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| Pictured above and below Chris
Wagner and Stephanie Justinak present Certificates of
Recognition to Members of the Student Senate |
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Members of the Student
receiving recognition certificates were:
Ellyn Davies, President
Brian Trepanier, Senator
Lucas Scherer, Student Representative
Adam Niemi, Student Representative
Troy Long, Senator
Mark-David Lundgren, Student Representative
Kirsten Mullineaux, Student Representative |
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Mark Wendt presented Certificates of Recognition to
members of ADAPT.
ADAPT is the alcohol prevention and awareness team on
campus. Wendt noted that binge drinking is a problem on
campuses, as is drug use and it’s a problem that doesn't
seem to be decreasing. Members of ADAPT use different
types of materials that are available on campus to work
with fellow students. This year ADAPT expanded their
resource library and conducted drug free activities on
and off campus such as “Book Across the Bay” and “Fools
Run at Midnight”. |
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Pictured above receiving their certificates for ADAPT
were Keith Almli and Sue Rodell |
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| Pictured above Ryon List presented certificates to the members of
the the college campus newspaper the "Chieftain" : |
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| Above receiving Certificates for their
work on the Chieftain newspaper were: |
Lauren Siren
Kyle Pollard
Paige Wendt
Christine McGowan
Sarah Jackson
Brittany Tucker
Tracey Maxwell |
Jennifer Terrell
Joseph Beecher
Kathy Peterson
Mark-David Lundgren
Adam Niemi
Samanatha Leskoviansky
Lou Bonagura |
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| Cutis Burdette, assisted by Cindy Frank present Certificates of appreciation
for Creative Arts and Performance Club, known as WAFFLES
- Wacky Art For Fun Loving
Energetic Students. Receiving recognition
were: |
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Mercedes Lynn
Joe Beecher
Troy Long
Mackenzie Desrosiers
Jonathan Seid
Christine McGowan
Sarah Jackson
KJ Parks |
Courtney Dean
Mark Lundgren
Adam Niemi
Ethan Miller
Jon Seppanen
Brittany Shields
John Lawver
Veronica Cannon |
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Receiving special recognition was Ron Altman, pictured
above, who is waiting to hear back from the University
of Michigan. Altman has an opportunity to go right into
a Master's program at the university based on his
special experience and also based on the academic work
he was able to produce. |
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April Matais presented awards for the fall creative
writing contests in poetry, short stories, and creative
non-fiction.
Those receiving awards were:
Poetry: Kathy Peterson, Paul Chlebowski, Amber Mieloszyk
Essay: Sharon Baily, Amber Mieloszyk, Joe O'Donohue
Fiction: Casey Evaich, Cynthia O'Brien,
Katheryn Peterson was also distinguished for her Poem
"North" that won third place in the statewide LAND
writing competition. |
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| Pictured above, Jeanne
Graham presented Amber Warrick an award for
Excellence in Library service. Bookstore manager, Brian
Panich was not able to make the ceremony as he was busy
in the bookstore with text book buy backs. He did send
his comments stating Amber's dedicated performance to
bookstore. |
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| Presenting the Library
award was Kathryn Slizewsk, pictured above. Anthony
Buchko was not present to receive his award. |
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| Certificates for the Allied Health Division were
presented by Kari Luoma to: |
NURSING LEADERSHIP -
ASSOCIATES DEGREE
Anita Johnson
Gina Conhartoski
NURSING INTEGRITY -
ASSOCIATES DEGREE
Heather Smith
Yajie Chai
NURSING LEADERSHIP
Katie Smith
NURSING INTEGRITY -
Ann Madden |
NURSING LEADERSHIP - PN
Raquelle Makinen
NURSING INTEGRITY - PN
Eugene LaneExcellence in Student
Nursing Professionalism
Deborah Juntunen
Student Nursing Scholarship
Zhasmina Tsvetanova Kotova |
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| Dennis Svoke and Connie Hicks award CAD Certificates
to
Melissa
Sawaski,
Scott
Tanula, and
Tim
Mackin |
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| Cosmotology: Nicole Hocking and
Laura Erickson presented certificates to the Cosmetology
students. "It takes quite a commitment to sign up for
this course. A lot of people don't quite know what this
entails until they get in to the brunt of it. 8-4 5 day
on the job work week" Erickson said
It’s been a very ambitious group this year and have gone
above and beyond the expectations we had set for them
she explained.
Fighting back tears she said "It’s going to be hard
to see a lot of them leave and enter the workforce.This
is a wonderful group of students."
Describing other wonderful activities by the Cosmetology
class were volunteering at nursing homes, involvement
with the DOVE shelter, ringing the bell for Salvation
Army. The most exciting event was being involved with
the Sweet Charity production. Students working on wigs,
took time out from their spring break to help out with
makeup and hair at the theater.
Certificates were awarded to the Cosmology students
for their Excellence in hair & makeup for the Theatre
North Production of "Sweet Charity" |
Brittani Williams
Samantha Schneider
Louis Miskovich
Jerika DeCarlo |
Tiffany Ranta
Krystal Synkula
Katie Hawthorne
Stacie Rooni |
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Jim Dahlin presents awards for the Business
Division to three graduates, two of whom will graduate
in two weeks, and a third student will graduate in
September. they were:
Stephanie Basso, Emma Verbos, and Lisa Borseth.A
fourth student, Kristi Montonati, pictured above has
already earned an Associates of Arts in Elementary Ed at
GCC. She is currently working towards an Associates in
Applied Business and she will graduate in December 2011
with a perfect 4.0 in all her classes. Montonati tutors
other students and works in a secretarial capacity in
TRIO office. |
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| Alex Marciniak awards Certificates for Language &
Arts Division |
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| Recognized for Excellence in
Speech were Emma Verbos, and Paige Wendt |
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| Lorrie Stahl presents Certificates for exceptional
accomplishment in the Math and Science Division "I
have the pleasure to present awards to students that
have shown a special caring and a special academic
pursuit in science and math and science area," said
Stahl "while none of these students are math or science
majors they really enjoy the math and science classes
and what they really do that I find exceptional is give
back to the other students. by helping them in math and
science"
Stahl also mentioned the U.S. Department of
Education's recognition of GCC as being one of the top
120 Community Colleges in the nation. Noting that the
distinction also made GCC possibly eligible for a
million dollar prize drew a round of applause from the
audience. She went to say that GCC was the smallest
school nominated, and it received the honor
because of these students that are helping us to do our
job.
Above, Stahl presents award to Christy Cooper and Zak
Cooper a couple, non traditional students, they are
married and have a family, they have a commute, they go
out of their way to help everyone. "Its been a pleasure
to have them and all of the students love them." said
Stahl.
Jessica Shifra was also honored as most improved
student. Shifra who helped with the Science Fun day
earlier in the day was not there to receive her
certificate. She was also getting ready for a trip that
the class was taking later that day. |
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| Dan Obradovich, Social Science Division, awards
Certificate of Appreciation for Excellence in
History awarded to Amber Warrick. |
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| A reception sponsored by the Student
Personnel Committee was held immediately after the award
program. Photos by Bob Severin |
