Four Cal U students earn scholarship awards
Four California University of Pennsylvania students received the 2004 Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) Student Scholarship Awards and were honored during a recent dinner. Pictured are (from left) scholarship recipient Gianna Gresko, Cal U faculty member Linda Toth, and scholarship winners Adrianne Wills and Jacqueline Slogan. Not pictured is scholarship recipient Lisa Simms. California University of Pennsylvania recently announced that four students have received the 2004 Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) Student Scholarship Awards.
The four student recipients were Gianna Gresko of McClellandtown, Lisa Simms of California, Jacqueline Slogan of Clarksville and Adrianne Wills of Brownsville.
APSCUF members honored these students and their guests at Becker’s Shadyside Restaurant in Uniontown, with a dinner and an awards ceremony. APSCUF awards four $500 scholarships to outstanding students every spring semester to be used in the following fall semester.
The students are selected on the basis of GPA, scholarly activity and community/university service, and require two letters of professional recommendation.
These awards are funded entirely by the Cal U APSCUF faculty union.
Gresko is working on her master’s degree in community agency counseling and has a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. She is a member of the American Counselors Association, the Student Counseling Association and Chi Sigma Iota, the International Counseling Honor Society. She works as a graduate research assistant in Cal U’s department of sociology and the department of history and political science. As an undergraduate, Gresko received the Outstanding Senior in Psychology Award.
Simms is also a 4.0 student who is pursuing a master’s degree in school psychology. Now working as a graduate assistant in Cal U’s psychology department, she was an undergraduate college valedictorian while also working a variety of off-campus jobs.
Slogan is an undergraduate 4.0 student majoring in special education who has been employed for the past seven years as a teaching assistant in the early intervention preschool program with Intermediate Unit I. She is a member of the Council for Exceptional Children, manager of the Greene County Special Olympics for the past five years, and is certified in CPR, emergency first aid, and crisis prevention intervention as well as being involved in the Greene County therapeutic horseback riding program.
Wills is an undergraduate 4.0 student majoring in elementary education. She is a member of Cal U’s Emerging Leaders and the National Education for Women in Leadership programs. Wills also participates in the Big Brother/Big Sister Lunch Buddy program where she mentors four elementary school children. She recently volunteered over 60 hours of service at a local daycare and work with Cal U’s Young Democrats/Young Republican groups on campus as well as the university’s student government.
Linda Toth, Cal U associate professor of psychology and chair of the APSCUF Student Scholarship Awards Committee, praised the student recipients and the mission of the committee. The other committee members are Cerenna Mace (academic development), Nancy Carlino (communication disorders) and Kausar Yasmin (chemistry and physics).
For more information concerning the 2004 APSCUF Student Scholarship Awards, contact Toth at 724-938-4379 or e-mail at toth@cup.edu.