Pottstown Area Students Make Dean's List

BURLINGTON, VT - Eric A. Stadlin, of Pottstown, PA has been named to the dean's list for the spring 2012 semester at the University of Vermont. Stadlin is a first-year student Business Administration major in the School of Business Administration.

To be named to the dean's lists, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.

Chartered in 1791, UVM was the first college or university in the United States that did not give preference to a religious sect in its charter. UVM now has nearly 10,460 undergraduates in seven schools and colleges, 1,550 graduate students and 450 medical students. As a small, comprehensive university, it blends the academic heritage of a private university with service missions in the land-grant tradition.

SCRANTON - Joseph Nagy of Pottstown has been named to the Dean's List at The University of Scranton, which recognizes students for academic excellence during the 2012 spring semester. A student must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better with a minimum number of credit hours to make the Dean's List. The list includes students from the Jesuit university's College of Arts and Sciences, the Kania School of Management, the Panuska College of Professional Studies and the College of Graduate and Continuing Education. More than 1,470 students were named to the 2012 spring semester Dean's List.

Nagy is a senior finance major in Scranton's Kania School of Management.

HARRISONBURG, VA - Jessica Kelly of Pottstown graduated with a bachelor of science degree in health sciences.

Emilee Haverkamp of Pottstown graduated with a bachelor of business administration degree in hospitality and tourism management.

Dr. Linwood H. Rose, who is stepping down as president of the university June 30, spoke at the ceremony Saturday, May 5, 2012 in Harrisonburg, Va. Rose conferred degrees to approximately 3,567 undergraduate students and 558 graduate students at his final commencement exercises as JMU's fifth president.

James Madison University is a comprehensive university that is part of the statewide system of public higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is the only university in America named for President James Madison. Established March 14, 1908, the university offers programs on the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels with its primary emphasis on the undergraduate student. JMU provides a total education to students - one that has a broad range of the liberal arts as its foundation and encompasses an extensive variety of professional and pre-professional programs, augmented by a multitude of learning experiences outside the classroom.

GETTYSBURG - Gettysburg College students with a quality point average of 3.33 or higher for a semester's work are placed on the Deans' Commendation List. The following students from your area have been placed on the Spring 2012 list:

Stephen Andrasko, of Pottstown

Alan Heise, of Pottstown

Olivia Powell, of Pottstown

Douglas Smith, of Pottstown

Molly Reynolds, of Pottstown

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.