Student Success: Brookline Students Named to Dean's Lists – May 20

The following press releases are via the readMedia Newswire, sent in the last week.

Champlain College's 134th Commencement took place at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington on Saturday, May 5. In all, 451 undergraduates and 66 graduate students earned their degrees.

Dublin scholar, Dr. Patrick Masterson delivered the Commencement address to degree candidates. Andrea Rogers, founder and former director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, spoke in honor of the three honorary degrees that were conferred.

Champlain College President David Finney noted a long list of accomplishments that graduating students had already achieved while working, serving and playing at Champlain. "Over 50 percent of the graduating class will be starting jobs within their field of study in the next week," he recognized, "and eleven have already created their own businesses while at Champlain."

Local students who received their degrees from Champlain College include:

• Samantha Bowen of Brookline, received a BS degree in Public Relations with a possible specialization and/or minor.

• Samuel Friedman of Brookline, received a BS degree in Secondary Education -English with a possible specialization and/or minor.

About Champlain College: Since 1878, Champlain College has provided career-focused education to students from its hilltop campus in Burlington, Vt. Champlain's distinctive educational approach embodies the notion that true learning only occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain offers traditional undergraduate and online undergraduate courses, along with online certificate and degree programs and eight master's degree programs. Champlain offers study abroad programs at its campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's "The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition." Champlain was named a "Top-Up-and-Coming School" by U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges and is ranked in the top tier of 2012 Regional Colleges in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.

Max Queen, a resident of Chestnut Hill, MA, received aBachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design, from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University (AU) during Commencement exercises May 12 in McLane Center on the AU campus.

Queen is the son of Michael and Deborah Queen and a graduate of Brookline High School.

Queen was among the 13 doctoral, 104 masters, and 423 bachelor's degree recipients who heard David J. Miller, AU class of '66, tell them that Alfred University prepares its graduates to take risks in pursuing their passions.

Miller, a member of the AU Board of Trustees, said he owes his success as a noted lawyer and jazz musician, "in no small part to the experiences I had at Alfred University. It's the same for you," he said, noting it was on campus he learned "the importance of listening, reflecting, and respecting other's points of view.

"You need to take risks to perform on the stage of life," Miller told the Class of 2012. Then "you too can reap a life of fulfillment."

Alfred University, founded in 1836, became the first coeducational institution in New York State and the second in the nation. The University encourages students to undertake community service projects as an important part of their education. U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks AU among the top 20 regional universities in the North.

Samantha Leahy of Chestnut Hill, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2013, has been awarded the Art History Junior-Year Prize at Bowdoin's annual Honors Day ceremony, held May 9, 2012.

Leahy, majoring in Art History and minoring in Teaching, is a graduate of Buck Browne Nichols High School.

About Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine, about 25 miles north of Portland. One of the oldest colleges in the nation, it received its charter in 1794. Bowdoin enrolls approximately 1,750 students from across the country and around the world.

Notable alumni include 14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce (class of 1824), writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (both 1825), African-American newspaper editor John Brown Russwurm (1826), Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852), Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary (1877), former Senate Majority Leader and architect of the Ireland peace accord George J. Mitchell (1954), former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (1962), and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979).