End of the Year Highlights – Social Studies @ CSU

The end of the academic year is an exciting time and packed with events recognizing our students and their academic accomplishments! This post features a collection of photos from our Annual History Department Dinner on April 19, the CLASS Scholar dinner on May 2 and Commencement on May 11. Congratulations to our Department award winners, Phi Alpha Theta inductees and the CSU Class of 2013!

2013 Social Studies Award Recipient:
Kevin Payne

Annual History Department Dinner
The History Department holds a dinner every Spring to honor our student award winners and Phi Alpha Theta Inductees. This is one of my favorite department traditions. Our department Chair Elizabeth Lehfeldt shared the history of each award and then each student was introduced by a different faculty member. This year, Kevin Payne received the department Social Studies Award. Congratulations Kevin!
Anthony DiFranco received the William I. Shorrock award and was featured with Marjorie Shorrock in the Summer 2013 CLASS Innerlink newsletter. You can read about the history of the Shorrock scholarship in Marge’s own words in her interview.

2013 Phi Alpha Theta Inductees (left to right): Marie Cook, Kevin Payne, Trevor Thoms, Natalie Jemiola-Wilson and Michael Barkacs — 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Inductees (left to right): Marie Cook, Kevin Payne, Trevor Thoms, Department Chair Liz Lehfeldt, Natalie Jemiola-Wilson and Michael Barkacs

Phi Alpha Theta
The inductees to the CSU chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society were also included in the History Dinner festivities. Our 2013 inductees are Michael Barkacs, Marie Cook, Natalie Jemiola-Wilson, Kevin Payne, Shannon Stewart, Trevor Thoms, Matthew Velotta and Daniel Zamborsky.

History/Social Studies CLASS Scholars (left to right) Adena Muskin, Sarah Kasper, Dan Zamborsky and Kevin Payne

CLASS Scholar Dinner
On May 2 the CSU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) hosted its annual CLASS Scholar Dinner. CLASS Dean Gregory Sadlek recognized the CLASS and CSU Valedictorian Justine Keenan (Linguistics and French) as well as 26 CLASS scholars. Eight of the CLASS scholars were History or Social Studies students including: Kasey Fisher, Natalie Jamiola-Wilson, Sarah Kasper, Adena Muskin, Kevin Payne, Scott Reubensaal, Matthew Velotta and Daniel Zamborsky.

Sarah Kasper and her father at the Scholar Dinner

Commencement
CSU Commencement for CLASS was held on May 11, 2013. It was a spectacular finale to the academic year with proud families and students streaming into the Wolstein Center. Congratulations to our graduating majors and the Class of 2013!

If you have pictures of these events that you’d like to share please contact Prof. Rose or post them here!