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Roxbury Community College HONORS ASSEMBLY Thursday, April 1 9, 2001 Student Center, Room 200 AM PM 11:30 -1:00 Program Student Greetings AmenataIsaac, ScholarshipandHonors Committee, StudentMember LeveeAnnMollineau, ScholarshipandHonors Committee, StudentMember YocastaCambero, Spanish Yuan Mandarin Jia, Oluwaseun Olusanya, Yoruba TBA,Haitian Creole TarikChokri-Hamrani,Arabic Professor Chiso Ndukwe-Okafor,Igbo Opening Remarks JanisW.Jones, Ed.D.,Provost Introduction of Keynote Speaker MarvaNathan,President,RCCFoundation Keynote Address JosephFeaster, Esquire Musical Selection RCC Chorus ledbyDr. EdmondJ. Mousally,Professor, Humanities Dean's List Recognition Dr.JaneAswell,ActingDean,Mathematics, Scienceand ComputerScience Dr. Everest Onuoha,ActingDean,LiberalArts PatriciaSchuldenfrei,Director, Nursing&AlliedHealth WalterJ. Silva,ActingDean,Business EleanorRollins,ActingDean, UrbanAffairs Dr. RudolphJones,Dean, EnrollmentManagement President's List Recognition JanisJones, Ed.D., Provost Recognition of Scholarship and Honors Committee members HollyGuran, Chair Lift Every Voice and Sing LedbyDr. Edmond Mousally,Faculty,Humanities J. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies ofliberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full ofthe faith That the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full ofthe hope That the present has brought us, Facing the rising sun of our new day begun Let us march on till victory is won. James WeldonJohnson The composer, born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1871, attended Atlanta University. His subsequent careers as a public school principal, lawyer, diplomat, executive secretary for the NAACP and professor of creative literature at FiskUniversityparalleledhis growth andmaturity as apoet andman ofletters. At the time ofhis death in 1938, he was regardedas one ofthe foremost African Americans ofhis generation, (from ThePo- etry oftheNegro, 1746-1970, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bon- temps). Reception immediatelyfollowingtheceremonyin room 200ofthe StudentCenter. The Keynote Speaker Joseph D. Feaster, Jr. is Counsel to the Boston law & A firm ofMcKenzie Edwards, P.C. graduate of Northeastern University and Northeastern University School ofLaw, Mr. Feaster has also completed programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Real Estate Development and Harvard University'sJohn F. Kennedy School of Government. Currently Mr. Feaster is President ofFeaster Enterprises, a consultant firm engaged in strategic planning, organizational development, board development and community outreach. Mr. Feaster's community and civic activities are numerous and varied. He served as President ofthe NAACP Boston Branch ofthe for two terms and as President ofthe Northeastern University School of Law Alumni Association. He is chairman ofDimock Community Health Center's Board ofDirectors and a member ofmany organizations including the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. Mr. Feaster has been honored by a host of organizations: the nationalJaycees named him Outstanding Young Man ofAmerica, and the George Washington Carver Grand Lodge honored him as Outstanding Community Leader. He is an active member ofthe Morning Star Baptist Church and has contributed his time and resources generously to RCC. President's List Thesestudentscompletedatleast 12college-levelcredits(days) oratleast6college- level credits (evenings) or at least 9 college-level credits (enrolled in nursing) and earnedagradepointaverageof3.76to4.00withnogradelowerthanC. Spring 2000 DesrenePhilips KesnelEdouard MaryamAbdul-Rahim AretuzaPires KellyEscoto CharityAnyamele JasonRaymond CoreyFernandes LorettaBarboza JuliaAnnRice KelleyFreeman LenitaRichardson MarieGautier JEemainlnyeBBaarrrroest KMealrliylyRnyaSannchez DCharviisdtiGniallGenovese MahletBejiga TinaSimpson MariaGrajeda JWoesieMBrianngdaCohen JacquelineStanton PReorsleaniGeurHaelcntiokr ChungChou JosephStultz KurtHenningsen AstrideChrisphonte ShimelesTaye NicoleHigginbottom MarieThebaud AllinaChristian AmenataIsaac MickoCopeland JeanMaryTheodat DahaliaJackson AlmaCuffy-Edwards LyndonVincent MohamedJalloul CordiaDaswell AllisonWidhalm FranciaJean-Baptiste KarlDorvilus MarvaWilliams YalemzewdKebede GertrudeEason Seblewongel TamaraKozlova KesnelEdouard Woldeyohannes PamelethaLewis MarinetteEmmanuel GloriaZapata BernadetteLochard NatalyaFedorova DanielLopes LuciannaFevrier Fall 2000 Jean-SimoneLopez ValerieGardner MaryamAbdul-Rahim MarvinLopez MarieGautier OlatunbosunAdamson MarieLouis MiguelGomez VirginiaAdamson AltagraciaMarmolejos Richard Gopie ChristelleAhyee KeishaMateo ArashHaghayegh PriscaAhyee LeonoraMcLaren YasminHassan LorraineAnderson EfimMiller GinoMurphy AllanHumes SonnyAsoa MarthaNorris-Leatham AmenataIsaac VjollcaAvrami DahaliaJackson MosesAyuk RekiatuOsiebu DenisiaParisienne KarenJones SydonyaBarker JuniaPaul NatalyaKasymova EmilyBarros WendyPaulino AgathaLayne MarieBastien KelvinRamnath AndraeLewis MahletBejiga JuliaRice YatharLi RolandeBerlus LonniScott LarryLittle SadrackBertrand VivanSheffield ErnstLubin TheresaBridgemohan TsenayneshTshadiku Anteneh Manahle SarahBufford GloriaValentin RoshniMartin YokastaCambero JessicaMartinez MariaCardoso KeishaMateo LuisCastillo DavidMeade DebraChristian EfimMiller BeatriceDamas SemenNikiforov NidiaDiaz NixoderNorelus LeeDrinkard Dean's List Thesestudentscompletedatleast 12college-levelcredits(days) oratleast6college- levelcredits(evenings)oratleast9college-levelcredits(enrolledinnursing)and earnedagradepointaverageof3.50to3.75withnogradelowerthanC Spring 2000 YvetteLong LornaClunie YusufAkbar YunhongLuo ClaudiaCollins LorraineAnderson MichelleMair IsabelCristinaDiez Ann-MarieAngus GraceMbawuike CarolinaDominquez MiraisAugustin GwendolynMclean JoyceDwomoah VjollcaAvrami WilliamMiller MeichelleFerguson FadumoMohamed BecsaidaFlores AliceBangali-Kallon HowardBennett MarthaNorris-Leatham BradleyGarber RolandeBerlus DesireeOlivera NinaGordiyenko OluwaseunOlusanya MarieGroshomme PamelaBerry EuniceBisong RachaelOsagie FatouGueye AndresBorges MinaParvaresh MichaelHampton KirvenBoyd ElodiePaul TanyaHowe TheresaBridgemohan RachellePierre-Salomon AllanHumes TinishaBrowne CecilePilgrim GuillaumeJean TizianaBuddie BrhanuRedda YuanJia JuanitaCaine ReginaldRice YvonneJohn MarleneCameron MohamudSamanter JunerJuste RachaelCapitolin FrankScott JessicaMartinez HectorCardona VivianSheffield WayneMartinez MarieCharles MuhammedSillah BekeleMerene SophiaCotton LesterSimmons CarineMichel BeatriceDamas WandaStokes HassanSuleMohammed OdneyDamas AjebeTassew KimberelyMoore JudithDavis StacyAnnTaylor KateNgo AnaTovar-Lopez TrangNguyen NidiaDiaz SofiyaDobromyslova KimberleyVassar OluwaseunOlusanya MarieDorvilus JaniceVazquez GalinaPutyatina AngeliqueDove MaryVelez BertrandRene SorayaDume ZulmaVerano MadelineRobles IfeomaEche MichaelVirgil JacquelineRodriguez ConstantineEdosah SahraWarfa AnaRosado KellyEscoto LekiaWikina MichelleRubiera MarieFrancis AlexisWilliams JeanSaintine ChristinaGenovese IssoufouYacouba-Issa MohamudSamanter DavidGill GalinaZhogina TinaSimpson SofyaGodovich-Kogan OliviaStots MarieGroshomme Fall 2000 CharlesTaylor RoxannHarvey AlphaAbate LatoyaTaylor TanyaHowe ZendaiAbe StacyAnnTaylor MarieThebaud YuanJia LorettaBarboza MaryVelez YvonneJohn IngridBeckles DelourdesJoseph WayneBlack MarvaWilliams MohamedKaba TanychaBonilla JulieYoung FeyissaKewiessa TraceyBoyd SvetlanaKokoshenko ValerieCarrington Recipients of Foundation Scholarships Fall 2000 Daphne Aldeus Sifonde Anaka I. Alice Bangali-Kallon Ronald Barnett Martin Egboh Ophelia Gibson Gracieuse Jean Louis Feyissa Kewiessa Shauntay King Andrae Lewis Jennifer Love Delroy Matthews Fodumo Mohamed Lina Ochoa Olewassuen Olusanya Andrea Orrega Marie M. Pady Daniel Que Kayra Rivera Frank Scott Latoya Taylor Benian Y. Teferdgn Mercedes White Patricia Whitehead & Scholarship Honors Committee Alex Asare, Mathematics Faculty- Elizabeth Clark, Student Activities Director Holly Guran, Career andTransfer Services Director AmanetaIsaac, Student Government Association Dr. RudolphJones, Dean ofEnrollment Management Yvonne Monette, Business Technology Faculty JoAnn Mulready-Shick, Nursing Department Chair Levee-Ann Mollineau, Student Government Association Chiso Ndukwe-Okafor, Business Technology Faculty Roxbury Community College Foundation Board of Directors MarvaF. Nathan, President WilliamR. Sapers, Vice President Robert A. Williams III, Treasurer SylviaA. McDowell, Clerk SharifAbdal-Khallaq RogerAlly, Esq. DonnaHarris-Lewis Ann Kibrick RichardM. Lee MarcyK. Lemberg Joan Resnikoff Dr. Robert Sperber Harry Sterling,Jr., exofficio Roxbury Community College Foundedin 1973, the College is one of 15 publicly- supportedtwo-yearinstitutions ofhigher learningproviding liberal arts, technical and careerprograms. Day and evening classes are held ontwo campuses. The College offers 24 associate degrees and 11 certificate programs. Students have the advantage ofasupportive learning environment where faculty and staffreflect the cultural diversity ofthe student body. The mission ofthe Roxbury Community College Foundation is to directly andpowerfully affect educational opportunities for students ofRoxbury Community College by generatingprivate support for scholarships, apermanent endowment and other essential programs andservices at the College not covered by public funds. Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees Mr. Harry Sterling,Jr., Chairman andTreasurer Dr. Keith Motley, Vice Chairman J. Mr. Alberto Calvo, Secretary Mr. Pervis Ryans,Jr. Dr. S. Allen Counter Ms. Ruth E. Fitch, Esquire Mr. Michael Hoyle, Esquire Mrs. Jacqueline Payne-Thompson Ms. Sophia Cotton, Student Trustee