Student Leadership Lauded at Year-End Banquet

– Photos by Caleb S. Schirmer, student photographer

A table tent tells the tale.

A healthy and colorful presentation

Students Making a Contribution, one of the many vital campus organizations on hand

Elliott Strickland, chief student affairs officer

Faculty keynoter Craig A. Miller

Anthony J. Pace (left), assistant director of student activities for student organizations/orientation, swears in Zachary T. Peachey for a second term as SGA president.

Members of the Penn College Construction Association, with co-advisers Levon A. Whitmyer (left) and Barney A. Kahn IV (right), claim the title as Outstanding Student Organization of the Year.

Civil engineering technology major Colin P. McNoldy, and president of the Omega Delta Sigma veterans fraternity, accepted an Outstanding Philanthropy award for the organization's scholarship fundraising. The group also can boast Greek Scholar of the Year in Donald A. Smuck Jr. , of Wrightsville, a welding and fabrication engineering technology major, who was unable to attend.

Caleb E. Cartmell, of Honesdale, enrolled in automotive technology management: automotive technology concentration, was chosen as Student Government Association Senator of the Year.

This year's recipients of Student Leader Legacy Scholarship awards are Alexandra D. Petrizzi (left), of Langhorne, dental hygiene: health policy and administration concentration, and Morgan N. Keyser, of Cogan Station, graphic design.

Monica A. Flexer, a nursing major from Williamsport, was named Student Leader of the Year.

Selected as the Most Improved Student Organization of the Year was United Campus Ministry. Representing UCM are Danielle M. Logan (left), of Harrisburg, pre-dental hygiene, and Morgan K. Ebersole, a graphic design student from Martinsburg.

A trio of Sigma Pi brothers celebrates with Ryan P. Dortone, of Doylestown, an engineering design technology major honored as New Greek Member of the Year.

Phi Mu Delta was honored with the Greek Academic Achievement Award and with Best New Program of the Year for "SexEd Bingo."

The Saudi Student Organization, which put together an informative and comprehensive cultural presentation in the Thompson Professional Development Center, was honored for Outstanding Program of the Year and the Penn College Community Betterment Program of the Year.

Adviser of the Year honors went to Jodi L. Binkley, lab assistant for early childhood education, who mentors the Early Educators organization.

The Early Educators' Jared Box Project, which provided hospitalized children with a storage container of games and activities, was singled out as Outstanding Community Service Program of the Year.

The night's impressive winners, all in one place

Eileen N. Harrington, of Etters, enrolled in technology management, was chosen as the Student Leader Committed to Social Justice and Diversity.

SGA members assemble