/ 8 TheDallasPost Dallas, PA Wednesday, May 9, 1990 PEOPLE Susan Sordoni to be Misericordia speaker Susan Fort Sordoni, past chair and trustee of College Misericor- dia's Board of Trustees and a Misericordia graduate, willaddress the graduates at Misericordia’s 64th Commencement Convocation May 19 at 1 p.m., announced Dr. Pasquale DiPasquale, Jr., Miseri- cordia’s president. Sordoni will receive an honor- ary degree of doctor of humane letters, one of Misericordia's high- est honors, DiPasquale said. “College Misericordia is very pleased to honor Susan Sordoni, who has contributed considerable time and effort to Misericordia and to many other community organi- zations,” he commented. “She is a superb example to all of us, the type of leader who plays important roles in the most significant proj- ects in the world today.” In her Commencement address, Sordoni will stress the importance of maintaining the liberal arts curriculum in higher education, providing a value-oriented educa- tion, and continuing Misericordia’s tradition of service to the region. Sordoni graduated from Miseri- cordia in 1968 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. She has served Misericordia during the past 14 years in a variety of roles, be- ginning in 1969 as director of re- cruitment and director of admis- sions. She joined the Board of Trus- tees in 1974, providing leadership to many of the board committees, and chaired the board from 1979- 1982. She also chaired the presi- dential search committees at Mis- ericordia in 1978 and 1988. Sordoni is known for her work in community organizations and in education throughout the state. She is a director of Wilkes-Barre's Osterhout Free Library, chair of the Catholic Schools Office Com- mittee for Special Education in the Scranton Diocese, member of the board of directors of Pennsylvania Blue Shield in Harrisburg and the Pennsylvania Ballet, a member and past president of the Common- wealth Board of Medical College, a former trustee and vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Uni- versity of Scranton, and a stead- fast volunteer in a variety of other positions. Her honors include the Volun- teer Appreciation Award, presented by Mrs. George Bush for service to a public library; the 1983 Wyo- ming Valley Interfaith Council Award, for devoted service to the cause of human welfare, presented to her and her husband Andrew Sordoni, III; and the Pathfinder Award for distinctive service to higher education. Mrs. Sordoni, the mother of five children, has dedicated consider- able efforts to the improvement of education on all levels. ELEANOR MILLER A member of the administrative staff at Luzerne County Commu- nity College will be a presenter at the Third Annual Conference on Student Retention in Two-Year Colleges an Tuesday, May 15, at Mercer County Community Col- lege in New Jersey. Eleanor Miller, of Shavertown, coordinator of the LCCC TeleCol- lege /TACKLE program, will speak on “Advocating Equal Opportunity for a New Minority,” at the annual conference. The conference will bring to- gether national experts and fac- ulty administrators and profes- sional staff of two-year colleges in the Middle States Region to learn about successful programs and innovative support services for student retention in two-year col- leges. Themes of this year’s confer- ence will focus on faculty and staff development, programs and serv- ices for learning disabled students and cultural diversity. Miller's presentation will em- phasize the need to close the gap between the significant percent of the student population affected by learning difficulties and the per- cent who remain unidentified and misunderstood in the educational system. The presentation will also stress the moral obligation of public institutions of higher education to provide support services to stu- dents who have diagnosed learn- ing difficulties, as well as the need for a major restructuring of the relationship between special edu- ¥ Miller to speak college conference cation and regular education in order to form a single educational system responsive to the individ- ual needs of all students. Miller's presentation will also include the need for educators, at every level of the education sys- tem, to develop an awareness of his/her role in changing and shap- ing positive new attitudes of ac- ceptance and approval to replace the attitudes which have been associated with learning differ- ences in the past. Sponsors of the conference are the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, the New Jersey Community College Academic Of- ficers Association, and Mercer County Community College. Ehret named Payne production manager Douglas J. Ehret, Dallas, has been appointed Production Man- ager for Payne Precision Color Graphics, according to an an- nouncement made recently by Payne President and CEO, Tho- mas R. Gauntlett. A native of Lehman and a gradu- ate of the Lake-Lehman Class of 1971, Ehret has been active in the graphic arts for the past 19 years. From 1971 to 1984 he servedas a; photo lithographer at Payne and, in 1984 was promoted to Prepress Supervisor. As head of the prepress | department, Ehret was responsible for the camera, stripping and plate making functions of the nationally recognized graphic arts firm. Dur- ing his tenure as prepress supervi- sor the Back Mountain resident also managed the operation of Payne's highly sophisticated Elec- tronic Prepress and Computer Imaging Departments. +» In his;new: position as Produc- tion Manager, Ehret is responsible for the effective scheduling of the Christine Yezilski presents fashions at annual show The Fashion Industries Asso- ciation presented its annual Spring Student Fashion and Textile De- sign Show at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Henny Ave., on April 20. A local participant Christine Yezilski, presented four garments in the show. For Christine Sweater of fabric scraps she was awarded 1st run- ner up from Aberdeen & Dunbar, a day wear manufacturing company. Christine resides at 390 Ran- som Road, Dallas. She is a sopho- more fashion design student, dean's list, a member of Phi Psi Fraternity. She is the daughter of Thomas and Carol Yezilski. Robert LeGrand returns from political trip to South Africa Robert B. 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