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Court Shorts
GCU placed 34 th out of 206 in the national Recyclemania competition and 2 nd out of 9
in New Jersey with a 39.97 percent recycling rate in the Grand Champion Competition. GCU
also placed 189 th out of 293 nationally and 4 th out of 11 in the state for cumulative pounds
per person in the Per Capita Classic.
GCU was a finalist in the NJ Biz Green Leadership Awards under the category of Alternative
Energy Use.
« The De LaSalle Education Club sponsored a lecture and reading by young adult
literature author Toni De Palma in the Little Theatre on April 22. Her debut young adult novel
Under the Banyan Tree is a New Voices Pick by the Association of Booksellers for Children.
Georgian Court held its Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on October 1 in
the Little Theatre. Presenters included Rosemarie Fabrizzio ‘11, Melissa Miller ’10, Shealyn Sullivan ’12,
Kathryn Raynor ’10, Megan Mastrogiovanni ’11, Kathleen Morgan ’10, Amanda Brown ’12,
Autumn Grady ’13, Bianca Login ’10, Regina Betz ’10, Kelly Cosentino ’11, and Kathleen Heitz ’10.
The conference was coordinated by Pamela Rader, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, and
Jonathan Kim-Reuter, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy.
The GCU chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national college
athlete honor society, welcomed its inaugural class in
a ceremony held on May 12 in the Dorothy Marron University
Community Chapel. This organization recognizes college studentathletes
who earn a varsity letter in at least one sport while
maintaining a 3.4 or higher cumulative GPA throughout their junior
and senior years. The seven inductees were Allison Abbate ’10,
Kim Galvin ’09, Ogechukwu Okeke ’10, Jilian Pennington ’11,
Amanda LaFrance ’10, Chelsea Long ’10, and Patricia Foley ’09.
Chi Alpha Sigma
inaugural class
Special thanks goes to Claire Gallagher, Ed.D., professor of education, for helping Georgian Court
establish a chapter of the honor society and for organizing the induction ceremony.
Theta Alpha Kappa, the religious studies and theology honor society, welcomed new
members in a ceremony held on April 29 in the Dorothy Marron University Community Chapel.
The new student inductees were Howard Andrews ’09; Michael Abatemarco ’09; Patricia Blake-
Flum ’09; Virginia Blasi ’09; Maria Blanc ’10; Florence Egan, ILEM student; Suzanne Goyette ’16;
Angela Harrell ’09; Sandrine Holloway ’09; Mary-Theresa Mykityshyn ’10; Mary J. Piechocki ’09;
Lendonna Thomas ’09; and William Wegner ’12. Also inducted were full-time faculty members
Mary-Paula Cancienne, RSM, Ph.D., assistant professor of religious studies/theology; Mary Chinery,
Ph.D., ’86, associate dean of the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Sciences and Mathematics
and associate professor of English; and Mark Ryan, Ph.D., assistant professor of theology, along
with James Bridges, Ph.D.; Vahan Hovhanessian, Ph.D.; and Margaret Taylor-Ulizio, Ph.D, all
lecturers in religious studies. The speaker of the evening, Elena Procario-Foley, Ph.D., Driscoll
Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies and chair of the Religious Studies Department at Iona College,
spoke on “Confronting Identity and Healing Wounds: Jewish-Christian Reconciliation within a
Pluralist Context.”
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