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Alpha Chi Honor Society recognizes top studentsEach year Tusculum College strives to produce wellroundedstudents, students who succeed not only in theclassroom but also in a variety of other areas, includingbenefiting their communities. Alpha Chi Honor Societyrecognizes these students who work hard to be successfulin every aspect of their lives.Becoming a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Societyis the highest academic honor a student can achieve atTusculum College.The standards required to be a member of Alpha Chiinclude excelling in academics, possessing strong characterand contributing positively to the community. Thefraternity requires that students rank in the top 10 percentof their class.For the 2011-2012 academic year, Alpha Chi inducted21 new members. Each of these students goes aboveand beyond to succeed in their specific academic areas.Whether in their major area of study, in a club, in a sportor in the work force, these students are simply the best ofthe best.Jordan Reams, a senior special education major andAlpha Chi inductee of last year, from Butler, Tenn.,describes Alpha Chi as “a great organization. Theexperience has played a huge role in my success here atTusculum.”President Nancy B. Moody said to the students at theinduction ceremony in November, “We often talk aboutour best and brightest, and I have no doubt that we areright to expect great things from each of you.”This year’s inductees include:• Chris Armstrong, a junior from Grandview, Tenn.,majoring in mathematics with a minor in chemistry. Armstrongbelongs to the College’s fishing club.• Cory Callahan, a senior from Bristol, Tenn., majoringin psychology with a minor in chemistry. Callahan servedin the U.S. Coast Guard for seven years, stationed on thecoast of Florida. He was awarded a humanitarian medalfor his work in hurricane relief in Haiti.•Danielle Doolittle, a junior from Evensville, Tenn.,majoring in human growth and learning, K-6.•Scott Duffy, a senior from Afton, Tenn., majoring inhistory with a minor in religion. Duffy returned to collegeafter serving 17 years in the U.S. Air Force before hereceived a medical discharge. He had 17 combat deploymentswhile he was in the service. He has been acceptedto graduate school at the Emanuel School of Religionin Johnson City. Duffy presented his senior thesis at theBlue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference lastspring.•Kendra Dunn, a junior from Greeneville, Tenn., who ismajoring in biology with a minor in chemistry.16Honorees had the opportunity to have their photos madewith Dr. Nancy B. Moody, president of Tusculum. Picturedabove are Moody, Alex Wiedemann, and Dr. TroyGoodale, associate professor of political science andfaculty sponsor of Alpha Chi.•Andy Goellner, a senior from Denver, Colo., who is asports management, business administration and accountingmajor. Goellner is captain of the men’s soccer team.•Jenny Grant, a junior from Franklin, Tenn., majoringin psychology. She has a 4.0 grade point average. Granthas received the Duffield Academic Award and has beennamed to the conference and college academic honorslists. A member of the Cross Country team, she hascompeted in the NCAA Division II regional meet for thepast two years.•Ashton Hardeman, a junior from Cleveland, Tenn.,majoring in art.•Kenneth Hill, a senior from White Pine, Tenn.,majoring in creative writing with a minor in literature.Hill had one of his nonfiction works, “Recollection onStupidity” published in an online literary journal lastspring. He is the assistant student editor of poetry for theTusculum Review, the College’s literary magazine. He isalso a member of the English Student Organization andthe Pioneer Anime Club.• Emily Paige Hudson, a junior from Hixson, Tenn.,who is majoring in psychology. Hudson is heavilyinvolved in the theater program at Tusculum as an actorand as a member of backstage crews.• Billie Jennings, a junior from Mountain City, Tenn.,majoring in creative writing. Jennings is also heavilyinvolved in the theater program, appearing in leadingroles in several plays on campus.• Kayla Jones, a junior from Jonesborough, Tenn.,majoring in psychology with a minor in theater arts. Jonesis a junior representative for the Honors Council and hasbeen featured in five productions of Theatre-at-Tusculum.Please see Alpha Chi, page 30
Small business program recognized as model for global action initiativeTusculum College’s “Help Me Help You” program hasbeen selected as one of the top programs in the nationby the Clinton Global Initiative University, a nationalfoundation that recognizes innovative programs andprojects that have a large impact with global reach.The program and its co-founder, Luis Zamora, a juniorbusiness and economics major from Santiago, Chile, wererecognized in March at the Foundation’s global conferencein Washington D.C.“This is a wonderful achievement and recognitionfor Luis, his program and for Tusculum College,” saidPresident Nancy B. Moody. “He is the epitome of whatTusculum Collegerepresents andhopes to instill in itsstudents. Luis is astudent-scholar andstudent-athlete whois very consciousof his civicresponsibility.”The ClintonGlobal InitiativeUniversity reviewsthousands ofprojects andprograms from allover the world inorder to select themost promisingcommitmentsto action. Thecommitment madeby the co-foundersZamora and RodrigoGimenez, hasbecome the firstAt the graduation ceremony for the fall semester of Help Me, Help Youprogram were, front row from left, Suzanne Richey, Dr. Scott M. Niswonger,Kim Ward, Gene Maddox, Lynette Price, Eric Price and Dr. MichelleFreeman. Second row are Dr. Tom McFarland, Kalie Smith, Dr. AntonioBos, Brian Ward, Terry Webb, Kirstie Gust, Felicia Waters and RobinShepherd. Third row are Isiah Lymon, Paul Bergvin, Andreas Jarquin,Matthew McKeever, David Talley, Dr. Greg Hawkins, Steven Hollingshead,Julia Newman and Luis Zamora. Back row are Andy Goellner, SamanthaUnderwood and Steve Gehret.from Tusculum and the first from Chile to be recognizedby the initiative. At the conference Zamora not onlyrepresented his Alma Mater, but also the nation of Chile.Gimenez serves as director of operations in Chile.The recognition from the Clinton Global InitiativeUniversity includes two main points. Zamora andGimenez have committed to implementing a smallbusiness support program with a focus on theoretical,practical and emotional aspects of “Help Me Help You” inunderdeveloped regions.In addition, with the hope of creating a global networkthat helps encourage the small business support around theworld, Zamora and Gimenez also committed to sharingthe program at no charge with any business student and/or academic institution that would like to implement “HelpMe Help You” in their respective countries. The program isalready available in both Spanish and English.According to Zamora, this involves not only sharingthe course content and additional documents, butalso supporting and guiding the academic institutionon an ongoing basis in order to ensure an adequateimplementation, as well as providing access to theprogram’s Global University Platform to further enhancethe current efforts of all institutions involved worldwide.Zamora created the program along with Gimenez,in partnership with the University of Chile, located inSantiago.The program,operated byTusculum’s businessstudents and studentsin the BonnerLeader Program, iscommitted to helpingits participantsincrease their profits,create a businessplan, expand theirnetwork and improvetheir practical andinterpersonal skillsthrough a varietyof unique, globallytested activities.The programstarted in the fallwith nine participantsand eight monitorscompleting a 10-week course thataims to create amutual learning environment between students and smallbusiness owners. The spring semester program has 12participants and began in January. The overwhelmingsupport the program has received in Greeneville, in additionto its innovative concept of providing benefits for all of thedifferent individuals involved, has carried through into thenegotiations of implementing the program overseas.The first year has been funded by sponsors ScottNiswonger, Tom Ferguson and Atmos Energy Corp.Following the idea of helping underdeveloped regions,Help Me Help You has gone from the Appalachian regionto Concepción, Chile, which was one of the zones that wasmost affected by the 8.8 earthquake that hit the country inFebruary 2010.17
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