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Clune and DeCicco Share Swaminithan Award
The Vernacular (Spring ‘08 PDF)

Kim Clune and Amber DeCicco, both of whom achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average in English, will share the Swaminathan Award this year. The Swaminathan Award is named for Dr. Swaminathan, who taught English for many years at Saint Rose. His family funded the award in his memory to help an outstanding English student start graduate study. Kim and Amber received this award at the Honors Convocation on March 30.

English Honors: Kim Clune is the top graduating English major. Reflecting on her English study, Kim finds that it has been “an invaluable exercise in identifying, articulating, and debating the historical events and viewpoints that have culminated in the socio-political condition that humanity faces today.”

Kim, who is originally from Angola, N.Y, transferred to Saint Rose after studying at SUNY Fredonia and working for several years. She now lives in East Nassau. Kim plans to study Environmental Studies on the graduate level and seek employment in that field. Before that, however, she will be volunteering in Ghana in July 2008, recording the lives of parents dying of HIV/AIDS for their children and teaching women’s empowerment. She will also partake in sustainable, organic farming.

Kim is happy that she pursued her deferred dream of completing an English degree. At Saint Rose, she has “learned a great deal about where my passions lie for social, economic and environmental justice.”

On March 31, 2007, I was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

Sigma Tau Delta’s central purpose is to confer distinction upon students of the English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies. Sigma Tau Delta also recognizes the accomplishments of professional writers who have contributed to the fields of language and literature.

The full announcement can be read in The College of Saint Rose English department newsletter, The Vernacular (PDF).

On March 27th, 2007, The College of Saint Rose awarded me with the Outstanding Senior Award as well as the Swaminathan Award for holding a 4.0 every semester, the highest GPA in the English Department. (Photo: Leslie Lewis, Ph.D, the Dean of Arts and Humanities hands me the Outstanding Senior Award).