Recently graduated Wagner softball star Andrea Lazzari (Reno, Nevada/ Wooster High School) has received yet another major honor, having been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America's Academic All-America First Team--University Division.
Lazzari garnered this honor after completing a spectacular softball season while maintaining a 3.83 grade point average as a dual major in sociology and education.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — At its meeting on May 21, the Wagner College Board of Trustees elected Louise S. Kaufman of Savannah, Ga., to be its next chairwoman. She is the first woman to be elected presiding officer of the college’s governing board in its 125-year history.
New York Governor David A. Paterson was the keynote speaker for Wagner College's 2009 commencement exercise, which graduated a total of 701 students (502 baccalaureate degrees, 194 master's degrees, 5 post-master's certificates). The governor was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree by President Richard Guarasci (left) and Jay Hartig, chairman of the college's board of trustees (right).
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College will hold its annual commencement exercise on Friday, May 22 at 10 a.m. on the Sutter Oval, the campus’s central green. In case of rain, the program will move indoors to the Sutter Gymnasium in the Spiro Sports Center.
The commencement speaker will be N.Y. Gov. David A. Paterson.
Family visitation for Lila Barbes will be held at the Meislohn Silvie Funeral Home, 1289 Forest Ave., Staten Island. The Barbes family will welcome visitors there on Sunday, June 7 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will be held on Monday, June 8 at 10 a.m. at St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church, 225 St. Paul's Avenue, Staten Island, followed by inurnment at the Moravian Cemetery, 2205 Richmond Rd., Staten Island.
The family requests that memorial gifts be made to:
Wagner College
Guild Endowed Scholarship Fund
The Horrmann Library’s Spotlight Gallery presents an exhibition created by Professor Sarah Scott and her students, “Sennacherib’s ‘Palace Without Rival’: Court VI Reconstructed,” which will be on display through May 27. The library will be open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the end of May, except Monday, May 25, when it will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday.
Forty-nine students were honored at the 2009 Senior Awards Banquet, held on Thursday, May 21 — the night before graduation — in the main dining hall.
PETER ACERIOS of Staten Island won the Harvey Logan Memorial Award in Physics, which is given for academically outstanding work in the study of physics. Acerios is a physics major with a minor in mathematics. He is on the Dean’s List.
On Friday, May 1, Wagner College held its annual Undergraduate Awards Dinner. The following awards were given:
The RUGBY CLUB was awarded the New Organization Award for an organization that has responded to need in Wagner Community and set a tone for other groups to follow.
ALPHA DELTA PI was awarded the Elsie N. Delo Award for the sorority achieving the highest academic average during the year.
Wagner College junior Nicole Mahoney has been named a 2009 Gilder Lehrman History Scholar. As one of fifteen Gilder Lehrman History Scholars, Mahoney will participate in a five-week program in Manhattan this summer that combines historical research, seminars with eminent historians, and behind-the-scenes tours of historical archives.
