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City Tech Inducts 97 Members into National Society of Collegiate Scholars
From left to right: Gall, Harewood, Lansiquot, Degrosa, Jones, Wu, Liou-Mark and Fictum
President Hotzler addresses the inductees.
Ninety-seven City Tech students were inducted into The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) at a ceremony held in October. City Tech President Russell K. Hotzler gave the keynote address, and the inductees also heard from Arlene Casillas, the NSCS Scholar Ambassador from Region 1, which includes the eastern seaboard from Maine to Maryland.
With chapters in 170 universities across the nation, NSCS was founded in 1994 on the principles of scholarship, leadership and service. The requirement for NSCS membership is a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and completion of 15 to 60 credit hours.
During the induction ceremony, two City Tech NSCS members were given the NSCS 2004 Distinguished Member Awards. They were Reneta Lansiquot (webmaster) and Imogen Jones (chapter president).
Lansiquot was one of the charter members who had drafted the petition letter requesting an NSCS chapter at City Tech. Since graduating in June of 2003, she has maintained strong ties to the chapter and volunteered to design and maintain its website. She is presently pursuing a master of science degree in integrated digital media at Polytechnic University.
Jones, who is working on a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, also helped get the chapter off the ground. Because of her dedication, the chapter was able to send two students to the national NSCS 2004 Leadership Summit. Originally from Nevis, in the Caribbean, Jones came to the United States four years ago at age 23. She is preparing for a career as a network administrator or web designer. Last year, she served as secretary/treasurer of the chapter.
Before her involvement with NSCS, Jones had been recognized for academic excellence. She is a Pfizer Scholar, a scholarship program sponsored by the Pfizer Company and one of the highest academic honors City Tech can bestow on a student.
According to Lenore Gall, City Tech dean of students and academic services, NSCS offers members a wide variety of national service opportunities. "Students will have available to them such disparate experiences as leadership conferences, trips with the American Hiking Society and work with Habitat for Humanity," she says. "For the motivated student, NSCS truly opens up a world of opportunity."
Some of the community service activities that City Tech’s NSCS chapter members are participating in during this academic year include:
- Assisting with an art supply and toy drive for the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, which is located on East 34th Street in Manhattan.
- Volunteering as math tutors at P.S. 282, an elementary school located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The chapter is establishing a partnership with the school to provide tutors for their upper grades.
- Mentoring City Tech students on academic probation, as part of the Integrated Student Mentoring and Advisement Program (ISMAP).
- Volunteering for the New York Cares program, which each month mobilizes more than 3,000 volunteers to take part in a wide variety of flexibly scheduled, team-based projects that have a dramatic impact on the lives of New Yorkers in need.
The chapter’s 2004-05 officers, in addition to Jones, are: graphic arts major Chloe Lim, vice president; telecommunications technology student Sherard Harewood, vice president for “Planning for College Success,” hospitality major Laurel Dagrosa, vice president for community service; and computer engineering technology student Huixin Wu, secretary/treasurer. Mathematics Professor Janet Liou-Mark and Director of Student Life Daniel Fictum are the chapter's advisors.
The 2004 inductees are:
- Patricia Arthur
- Rayna Attwood
- Tonya Avent
- Collin Baker
- Egle Baltakyte
- Natasha Bhoodai
- Eloise Blake
- Arlene Brown
- Marie Brown
- Troy Burgher
- Latoya Burris
- Amy Carey
- Zehra Cevher
- Mary Chan
- Deoki Chaturgan
- Hui Chen
- MouJin Chen
- Yoon Suk Choi
- Danielle Cora
- Bertha Dantzler
- Richard Daunt
- Mabel Del Rio
- Raymond Dickson
- Sonia Dorsaint
- Paul Michael Duller
- Susan Falack
- Terrone Fearon
- Shao Hong Feng
- Anaika Forbes-Grant
- Veronica Gerber
- Oksana Gervas
- Diana Gonzalez
- Victor Gonzalez
- Andrew Gooden
- Priscila Granda
- Sherard Harewood
- Jersenia Hernandez
- Nadya Ibrahem
- Ingrid Jeannot
- Damian Jhagroo
- Quzjienda Johnson
- Gregory Kats
- Ines Kissner
- Inga Korickaja
- Philippe Lantimo
- Karen Lawrence
- Nicole Leary
- Ilona Lelchitska
- Danny Leung
- Yanguang Li
- Li Lin
- Aqila Lodai
- Andre Lopez
- Wilma Lopez
- Rashleigh Lythcott
- Evelyn Martinez
- Yasmine Matheson
- Kaetty Morales
- Aia Mourtazalieva
- Jennifer Myers
- John Nolan
- Dieudonne Nonga Makon
- Eddy Orellana
- Christopher Orosz
- Yana Ostrovska
- Maria Palacio
- Suzanne Paradis
- Nicole Patience
- Miguel Pimentel
- Nicole Press
- Dyal Ramkoomar
- Charles Ramsammy
- Beata Redaszywala
- Jonathan Rivera
- Alvin Rodriguez
- Jolina Rodriguez
- Lauren Rosario
- Marlen Royer
- Paul Sanabria
- Loredana Sbircea
- Madge Scott
- Madelyne Shabot
- Harrison Simmons
- Xiao Er Tan
- Linda Tegnestam
- Vinh Tram
- Natallia Tsynkevich
- Derrick Tyson
- Edgardo Villanueva
- Maria Virgile
- Cynthia Waggoner
- Carmen Warmington
- Quncie Williams
- Huixin Wu
- Harvey Yan
- Elena Zayats
- Shou Zheng
11/8/04
