Local Students

On National Dean’s List

Several Newtown students are among the approximately 140,000 students included in the 24th Annual Edition of The National Dean’s List, 2000-2001. It is published by Educational Communications, Inc, and is the largest recognition program and publication in the nation honoring high achieving college students.

Students are selected for this honor by their college deans, registrars or honor society advisors and must be in the upper ten percent of their class, on their schools’ dean’s list or have earned a comparable honor. Listed students are eligible to compete for $50,000 in scholarship awards funded by the publisher, and may also use a referral service for future employment opportunities.

The following local residents were named: from Newtown – Sarah E. Cwikla at Johns Hopkins University, Laura Hammond at Northeastern University, Bernhard T. Klaus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Elisabeth L. Mahoney at Salisbury State University, Cassie Shewmaker at College of William & Mary, and Jennifer Staple at Yale University; from Sandy Hook – Euler Bropleh at Emory University, Elizabeth Kochuba at University of Connecticut, Jodi B. Miklaszewski at Salisbury State University, and Jody Murphy at Naugatuck Valley Community College.