Congratulations to the Business Communication seniors who were part of the stage party at Baccalaureate on Monday, May 16. Zuryna Smith sang, and Megan Donahue, Lanie Swanhart and Annie McCoach offered reflections. The service was planned by the members of the Senior Council. (Photos from SU Flickr)
The Young Alumni Award is presented at Baccalaureate to a graduate from the past 10 years who has achieved extraordinary success while remaining engaged and connected to the University. This year the Young Alumni Award recipient was Lauren Humphries, a Business Communication major from the class of 2008. While attending Villa Julie College, Lauren was an accomplished and active student-athlete. She served as a writer and editor of The Villager, Vice President of the Student Athlete Advisory Council, and a member of Lambda Pi Eta, Sigma Alpha Pi, and Sigma Tau Delta. In October 2015, she was the first person with dwarfism to run the Chicago Marathon. She now works as the Marketing Manager for LUNGevity, the largest national lung cancer-focused nonprofit. The department is enormously proud of the work Lauren has accomplished in her young life. . (Photo from SU Flickr)The three Business Communication faculty members who also serve as "Faculty in the Halls" mentors -- Christine Noya, Leeanne Bell McManus, and Chip Rouse -- enjoyed a year-end tailgate cookout with their first-year residents in Western Run, Susquehanna, and Patapsco residence halls as the semester wound down. Overseeing the program is Jeff Kelly, dean of students, and the other faculty mentors in the initiative include Laurel Moody, Art Fifer and Romas Laskauskas.
