Gold Key Society inducts 83 students
Eighty-three students, along with faculty members Bethany Nelson and Robb Eason, were honored during the Gold Key Honor Society ceremony April 22 at the Semel Theater.
Former Emerson Trustee Helaine Miller ’55 (center) poses with faculty members Bethany Nelson and Robb Eason, who were honored during the Gold Key Honor Society ceremony April 22 in the Semel Theater, at the sashes that were given to inductees. (Photo by Dan O’Brien)
Students inducted into Gold Key are juniors who are graded in the top 5 percent of their class, and seniors who are in the top 10 percent.
Nelson, senior theatre educator-in-residence in the Performing Arts Department, and Eason, part-time faculty member in the Communication Studies Department, received the Helaine and Stanley Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching, and the Alan L. Stanzler Award for Excellence in Teaching, respectively.
Helaine Miller ’55 presented the awards during the ceremony, along with President Lee Pelton and Chief Academic Officer Michaele Whelan.
“Without teaching there is no government, no Internet, no literature. Teaching changes the world,” Nelson said while accepting her award. “I love young people, especially my students. They learn from me and I learn from them.”
Each academic year, the Gold Key Honor Society selects two faculty members—one who is full-time and another who is part-time—who consistently receive high Teacher/Course Evaluation ratings. Nelson and Eason were also selected based on the number of nominations and other positive feedback by student officers of the Gold Key National Honor Society and Whelan.
In keeping with Gold Key’s standards of high academic achievement, an important criterion for selection is the high academic standards established by the faculty members.
The Miller award comes with a $1,500 stipend, and the Stanzler award comes with a $1,000 stipend.
Miller served as an Emerson Trustee from 1982-1988, and has been very active in the Alumni Association, especially in the 1970s. In 2001, Miller established the Helaine and Stanley Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching, and was instrumental in helping establish in 2005 the Kenneth C. Crannell Sr. Scholarship in Speech Communication and Public Leadership.
Donor Alan L. Stanzler is a former Trustee and Overseer of the College. The award was created in honor of his father, Harold Stanzler, who for many years was a part-time faculty member at the University of Rhode Island.
Below is a list of students inducted into Gold Key.
Seniors
Juliet Albin
Kathryn Barnes
Elissa Bernstein
James Blaszko
Vanessa Boss
Laura Brincat
Kathryn Caldwell
Margaret Clark
Olivia Connors
Dana Cornelius
Mario Delgado
Alison DeStefano
Andrew Doerfler
Hilary Donoghue
Brian Dratch
Tess Fabeck
Erin Farley
Harshil Gagoomal
Andrea Garza Erdmann
Jonathon Goldberg
Yohanes Joenoes
Kwon Sun Jung
Kyle Koslick
Meredith Lataille
Angelica Lavine
Abigail Ledoux
Edward Ledwith
Sienna Mintz
Olivia Moriarty
Julie Musbach
Jessica Nicholson
Alison Puzio
Juliane Radermarcher
Petra Raposo
Mary Rochford
Cara Rotschafer
Tess Ryan
Erin St. Pierre
Ryann Tagle
Kurtis Theorin
Rebecca Vickers
Dustin Wlodkowski
Juniors
Janella Angeles
Erin Arata
Rebekah Brinkerhoff
Anna Buckley
Adam Burnier
Blake Campbell
Leah Casselman
Loretta Donelan
Kathy Dorn
Wendy Eaton
Laurel Elfenbein
Shantal Erlich
Christopher Gavin
Nicole Gibson
Christopher Gillespie
Natalie Hamil
Genesis Henriquez
Brighton Hernandez
Elizabeth Isenberg
Ashley Kane
Lyndsey Kemph
Henry Krause
August Lah
Isabel Mader
Michael Mahin
Zoe Matthews
Lindsey McFadden
Melanie McFadyen
Alison Meikle
Lindsay Miller
Dinesh Mohnani
Matthew Pierleoni
Rebecca Ring
Katherine Rushlau
Matthew Searle
Maggie Smolka
Sydney Stachyra
Samantha Starkey
Kaitlyn Sullivan
Abigail Thompson
Rebecca Todaro
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