Outstanding students, faculty & alumni honored during 50th anniversary SPCS Night celebration

May 8, 2013

The School of Professional and Continuing Studies continued its tradition of honoring excellence among students, faculty and alumni during its Fiftieth Anniversary SPCS Night celebration this evening.

This year’s awards ceremony marked one of the culminating celebrations of the School’s year-long fiftieth anniversary celebration. The event included award presentations, reflections by alumni along with current and former faculty, staff and students, refreshments and dancing. The celebratory evening concluded with fireworks over Westhampton Lake.

The School bestowed the following awards during the ceremony:

Student Academic Awards

  • Richard W. Leatherman, Sr., and Ida Mae Leatherman Mace Award: Jane Meriwether Gilmore
  • U.S. Flag Bearer: John Jameson
  • University of Richmond Flag Bearer: Jonathan Brown
  • School of Professional and Continuing Studies Banner Bearer: Jacqueline Bowen

Golden Key Award: Michelle Ruth Edgell

Jean H. Proffitt Student Service Award: John E. Butt

Annual Book Awards

Disaster Science

  • Graduate Programs in Disaster Science Book Award: Michael Metzger

Emergency Services Management

  • Louis J. Narduzzi Memorial Book Award: Richard M. Troxel

Human Resource Management

  • Steve Neal Book Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement: Sherri Balderson
  • Steve Neal Book Award for Outstanding Graduate Achievement: Angela Kimel-Hampton

Information Systems

  • George E. Christopher and George W. Swartz Memorial Book Award: Andrew David Bowers

IT Management

  • McDonald Davis Jr. Book Award: Nathaniel R. Duncan

Liberal Arts

  • Investment Consultants and Management Company of Virginia Book Award: Christine A. Charley
  • Daniel McDonald Roberts and Frances Taylor Roberts Master of Liberal Arts Memorial Book Award: Keenan Patrick Cross

Paralegal Studies

  • William R. Marshall Jr. Memorial Book Award

Teacher Licensure Program

  • Samuel E. Perry, Jr. and Nancy B. Perry Book Award (Grades K-6): Elizabeth M. Narduzzi, Pamela Y. Walker
  • Ann C. Taylor Book Award (Grades 7-12): Katherine E. Cowles

Additional Awards and Honors

  • Elizabeth Spindler Scott Book Scholarship Award: Ryan O’Rourke
  • Taylor Kie Cousins Award: Michelle Ruth Edgell
  • The Stratton and Peggy Almond Memorial Book Scholarship Award: Sarita D. Baker
  • Education Department Distinction Awards
    • Sarah Hyslop
    • Jillian Mortimer
    • Thomas Bishop
    • Tracy Smith
    • Lauren Taylor
    • Caroline LaGow Walker
    • Collin Wilson
    • Melanie Phillips
  • Emergency Services Management Research Award: Michael Metzger
  • Colonel Porcher L. Taylor, Jr., Ph.D. Book Award for Community Leadership: Donald Knight
  • Joanita Bbaale Senoga Book Award: Delila Faslic

Commencement Speakers

  • Student Speaker: Mark H. Troemel
  • Gibb Family Distinguished Alumni Award: Thomas W. Winfree
  • Itzkowitz Family Distinguished Faculty Award: Gerald Lee Quirk
  • Keynote Commencement Speaker: Dr. Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond