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Guests at banquet display their awards. Left to right: Dr.
Harold Aurand, Dean McCallus, Mario Rosato, Alita Rovito,
Dr. William David, Suzanne Nocchi, Jerry Trently.
Campus contributors awarded
by Kelly Yale
The annual campus Awards
Banquet was held on May 1 at
Gus Genetti's.
Faculty members and
representatives from each cam
pus club and organization were in
attendance to present various
awards.
Dr. Alan Price presented
Academic Honor Awards to
Ronald Mackunis, for Business
Administration; Kimberly
Monks, for Engineering; Lynne
Houck, for Human Development;
Ken Skuba, for Liberal Arts;
Kathleen Stone, for Science;
John LeGrande, for 2-year
Business Administration;
Stephen Salko, for 2-year
Mechanical Engineering
Technology; Michael Pauzer, for
2-year Electrical Engineering
Technology; Melinda Kauffman,
for 2-year Medical Laboratory
Technology.
Dr. William David presented
Highacres chorus accompanies soloist Debbie Cassano
I did for love."
Activities
Parnassus awards to outstanding
sophomore Suzanne Nocchi and
outstanding freshman Alita
Rovito.
Dean McCallus presented the
Eric A. and Josephine Walker
Award to Mario Rosato.
Dr. Harold Aurand received the
"Teacher of the Year" award.
Todd Benow received the Maria
Rovito Award, and Jerry Trently
received an honorable mention.
The Rovito Award was judged on
the basis of creative essays which
the students entered in a contest.
Pat Zubritski received the
Veterans Award for being the
faculty member who most helped
the veterans on campus
throughout the year.
Marybeth Powell, Bill Warg,
and Jon Weaver received
Character and Integrity Awards
from the SGA.
All SGA senators received
awards for their participation in
that organization.
Suzanne Nocchi received
recognition for being exceptional
ly active in organizing campus
activities.
Lori Owens received an award
from the RHC president, Dave
Hubley, for being the most
valuable RHC member.
Sophomores Dave Hubley and
Marcia Price, and freshmen
Alita Rovito and Karl Zimmer
man received awards from RHC
for doing the most to improve
residence hall life.
Lisa Vendura received an
award for being the "Most
Valuable SUB Member."
At the close of the awards
presentation SGA president Mike
Ford relinquished his office to
next year's president, Alita
Rovito.
The guests closed the evening
by dancing to the music of
"Peach."
The sixteenth annual Fine Arts
Festival, entitled "Arts Alive,"
was held on May 1,2, and 3, at
Highacres campus of the Penn
sylvania State University. Par
ticipating in the Festival were
local artists from Hazleton and
the surrounding area.
"Arts Alive" was organized
and presented by the Arts Council
of Greater Hazleton, which was
formed in 1964. Dr. Donna
Kumagai, a professor at Penn
State, was on the organizing com
mittee of the Arts Council and
states, "the purposes of the coun
cil are to create a Fine Arts
building, and to get people in
terested and educated in the arts
in the Hazleton area." The
chairperson of the Arts Council
and the Arts Festival is Alice
Laputka.
The festival was sponsored by a
state grant and money raised
A stroll along Broadway
The Highacres Campus Chorus
presented its annual spring con
cert on May 2 and 3 in the
Highacres gymnasium. The
theme of the concert was
"Fame" and was a recreation of
some memorable moments from
Broadway musicals. The chorus
performed selections from "Your
Arms Too Short to Box With
God," "Evita," "A Chorus Line,"
"Grease," and "The Wiz."
Soloists for the performance
were Mandy Amsell, Genea
Saylor, Debbie Cassano, Jon
Weaver, Dawn Mace, Finn
Petersen, Greg Puhak, Kelly
Yale, Bill Warg, Francis McGirk,
"What
"Arts Alive"
The Highaeres Collegian-
from the community. With this
money the council also rented a
bus for transporting people from
Hazleton to the festival.
The festival depicted exhibits
of painting, sculpture, craft,
music, and photography. Also in
cluded in the festival were juggl
ing, tatooing, quilling, sandpain
ting, silkscreening, and make-up
demonstrations.
One other organization involv
ed with the Fine Arts Festival
was Penn State. The University
donated the food concession and
presented the demonstration on
silkscreening. Both of these pro
grams were sponsored by the
University's Student Govern
ment Association (SGA), and
represented by John Weaver and
Alita Rovito. Also WQEQ, the
radio station, put on a presenta
tion on the evolution of jazz
music.
Sandy Humenik, and Martha
Beharry.
In addition to the performance
by the chorus, several members
of the student body performed a
dance number to "Fame". They
were Tina Albano, Veronica
Szumillo, Linda Trinidad, Paul
Mulhern, Cheryl Makara, John
Albano, Chris McNab, Garry
Strausser, Janet Legault, Mary
Stump, Carol Yamolla, and Pat
Przbyski.
All dances in the performance
were choreographed by Paul
Mulhern. The production was
under the direction of Dr.
Jumpeter, assistant professor of
music at the Hazleton campus.