1/6/2003

Contact: K.E. Schwab  -- 724-738-2199;  e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu

27 STUDENTS NAMED TO SPECIAL EDUCATION HONORARY AT SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY

          SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Twenty-seven Slippery Rock University students have been inducted into Sigma Pi Epsilon Delta, the national special education honorary at recent campus ceremonies.

          Membership in the service-based fraternity requires the student to have completed nine or more credit hours in special education courses and hold a 3.25 or higher grade-point average. SRU’s College of Education, a signature program, was the first university in Pennsylvania to gain re-accreditation under newly established guidelines of theNational Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

          Named to the honorary (and their hometowns) were:

          Eowyn Glass            Mechanicsburg

          Aisha Holmes            Philadelphia

          Johnathan Breininger     Slatington

          Erin Lindelof            Clarion

          Kristi Howard            Canonsburg

          Jennifer Pingree            Brentwood

          Laura Marie Dougherty  Corry

          Drenna Marie Zeits       Wexford

          Vickey Scheeler            New Brighton

          Ryan McCoy            Hookstown

          Joseph O’Brien            Clinton

          Jessica Booth            Johnstown

          Maria Mariotte            Jeannette

          Kristin Sands Oley Valley

          Christy Nicole Bridges  New Castle

          Kyleigh Squicquero        Ellwood City

          Carrie Shick   Erie

          Laurie Nelson            Port Allegany

Amanda Tubbs Meadville

Natasha DeVanno Sagertown

Melissa Seeman            North Huntingdon

          Maria Cannella            Pittsburgh

           Samantha Miller Fairless Hills

          Krista Wirth Gibsonia

          Danielle Harding            Pittsburgh (15207)

          Melissa Davis            Pittsburgh (15220)

           Jessica Pekar            Washington

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