Students honored
Thanks to a $12,500 donation from GE on behalf of Joe Ruocco, five Hudson High School students will receive college scholarships.
In a ceremony at the school May 1, Joe Ruocco, vice president of human resources for GE Consumer and Industrial, presented the donation to Peggy Hudson, individual small group instructor, and the Akron Community Foundation.
Earlier this year, GE chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt presented Ruocco with a prestigious Chairman's Award for Operating Excellence at GE's Global Leadership Meeting in Boca Raton, Fla. Ruocco received $12,500 to donate to the charity of his choice.
Ruocco's son attended Hudson High School, and Ruocco decided he wanted to reward students in small group instruction there with college scholarships for their hard work and achievements. Ruocco worked with the Akron Community Foundation to establish a scholarship fund, using his GE Chairman's Award donation within the foundation, to support one student a year for five years with the Ruocco-Hudson Small Group Instruction Scholarship.
"Thanks to Peggy Hudson and others in the small group instruction program, many students at Hudson High, including my son, have gained the knowledge and skills needed to be successful," Ruocco said.
This is GE's first partnership with Akron Community Foundation and the Hudson City School District. Akron Community Foundation administers 19 scholarship funds benefiting Hudson school students. Seventy-seven Hudson students participate in the small group instruction program.
"The additional three teachers and I would like to thank Joe and GE for this generous donation," Hudson said.
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Kristin Silver, a graduate of Hudson High School and sophomore at Ohio State majoring in psychology with minors in neuroscience and Slavic and Eastern European studies, has been selected to receive a $2,000 Wolfe Study Abroad Scholarship. She will use the scholarship to participate in a study abroad program at the American Institute for Foreign Study in the Czech Republic this summer.
The scholarship was established by John F. Wolfe, chairman and CEO of the Columbus Dispatch. The financial support provided by these scholarships allows students to participate in quarter or summer-long study abroad programs.
Scholarship recipients are chosen based on grade-point average, residence, class rank and other criteria.
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Spring graduation ceremonies at Bowling Green State University were May 2 and 3 at Anderson Arena in Memorial Hall.
The following students from Hudson earned bachelor's degrees: Rachel H. Adamkiewicz, Jennifer Lynne Boebel (cum laude), Brian Charles Bornhoeft, Amy L. Grunenwald (cum laude), Morgan L. McKinney and Stephanie L. Mohr (cum laude).
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Hudson resident David Wilkinson was awarded a trustee scholarship form Bethel College for fall 200. The trustee scholarship awards $5,000 to full tuition annually. Wilkinson plans to study Bible literature.
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WVIZ/PBS ideastream and Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio recently announced the winners of the fourth annual "Kids Speak Out" essay contest. Contest finalists and guests, including teachers, parents and community leaders, will be recognized at an award luncheon May 15.
Alex Marzullo, a student at Hudson High School, received honorable mention.
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The University of Akron College of Business Administration honored 72 students at its recent Beta Gamma Sigma initiation and banquet.
Junior Brenton Taussig and seniors Roger Sun and Krystin Wilson, all of Hudson, were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma.
Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student can receive at a school accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. To be eligible for membership, students must place in the top 10 percent of the junior or senior class or top 20 percent of the master's degree class.