Friends, family, students, faculty and staff are invited to cheer the nominees for SSU Woman Student Leader of the Year and their mentors, at the annual award ceremony and reception at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 in the Cooperage. The recognition of outstanding campus service, achievement and leadership by women students is part of SSU’s annual National Women’s History Month celebration. At the ceremony, nominees’s achievements will be highlighted, their mentors recognized, and the Woman Student Leader of the Year will be named.
The 2005 nominees are: Nicole Andaya, Emily Barker, Brooke Bauer, Lauren Castro, Vanessa Cavallaro, Sarah Charamuga, Lianne Dillon, Stephanie DeMartini, Kristin Donahue, Angela Flood, Chandra Franham, Ellen Heimann, Erica Klescewski, Erika Larson, Brooke Lesniak, Sarina Loeb, Erin Louy, Brynn McCandeless, Jennifer Mumaw, Michelle Myhre, Amy Nadell, Shannon Quihuiz, Sarah Scudder, Elise Tessler, Frances Thomas, Katie Tole, Jessica Varga, Tara Whiteside, Tucker Williamson and Marina Zimmer.
For more information about the event or the award, contact the Women’s Resource Center, (707) 664-2845.
Sarah Chapman, a 20-year-old human development major at Sonoma State University, was crowned Miss Sonoma County on Feb. 26 in Rohnert Park. Chapman was selected from eight other young women who were also competing in the 58th annual county competition.
Contestants were judged in talent, evening wear and swimsuit competitions among others. For the talent portion of the pageant, Chapman sang Nat King Cole's “Orange Colored Sky.”
From Miss Sonoma County, Chapman will advance to the Miss California Scholarship competition, which will be held in June in Fresno. The winner of that competition will then go one to represent California at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September.
As part of her title, Chapman also received a $1,000 scholarship.
SSU students Ryan Fetzer and Heather Dowling were recently awarded the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award from the National
Intramural Recreational Sports Association for the 2004-05 year. This is one of the highest awards of recognition available to students involved in campus recreation.
Fetzer, a graduate student in SSU's Teaching Credential Program, and Dowling, a senior in Geography with a Global Studies Emphasis, were selected as winners in Region 6, which represents Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, California, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii.
They were selected for this honor based on their work as Campus Recreation Student Program Coordinators and their major contributions to the SSU Recreation Center's start-up planning and development efforts and first-year operations.
In order to be a recipient of this award, candidates need to be active participants, volunteers, or employees of Recreational Sports Programs on university and college campuses. The award, named after Dr. William N. Wasson, NIRSA's founder, is intended to identify students who "set the standard" on campuses across the country.