SERVICE University To Award Students For Work in Community Service By Rebecca Regan-Sachs Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University will recognize 20 undergraduate students with the Lena Landegger Community Service Award on April 14. The awards, consisting of $4,500 each, are in recognition of the students’ distinguished contributions to community service.

“Georgetown students regularly give back to their communities – whether those communities are local, regional, national or international,” Assistant Dean of Students Jeanne Lord said in a press release. “But the students receiving the Landegger Awards have far exceeded expectations in volunteering their time and energy for worthy causes.”

The following students will receive the award this year:

Joanna Belcher (COL ’03), who intends to major in justice and peace studies and psychology, has participated in numerous community service projects, among them mentoring teenage girls in Washington, D.C., and working as a teacher for AmeriCorps.

Jo-Leo Carney Waterton (SFS ’02) is an international politics major who has worked to feed the homeless through the Sisters of Ascension Soup Kitchen and the Bread for the City program. He has also tutored at the Arlington County Jail and through Georgetown’s One-to-One program.

Lindsay Carlson (COL ’03), a psychology major and member of GERMS, worked for a year in Angola after her freshman year running a pre-school program and assisting in children’s health initiatives.

Ryan DuBose (COL ’02) is an English and psychology major who served as president of GUSA. He has participated in Georgetown’s Spring Break in Appalachia, tutored for the Adult Literacy Division of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library and D.C. Reads.

Stephen Feiler (COL ’02) is majoring in philosophy and theology and helped start Georgetown’s annual Jesuit Heritage Week last year. He has volunteered at the Northwest Pregnancy Center, the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute and the Dominican Cloistered Monastery.

Steve Glickman (COL ’02) is an English and government major who also served as vice president of GU Habitat for Humanity. He co-founded the Georgetown Unity Coalition, which seeks to educate students and faculty about diversity issues. This past year, he traveled to Tennessee to help build houses during Georgetown’s Spring Break in Appalachia and to Ukraine to help lead Passover seders and support the Jewish community there.

Antoinette Hurtado (SFS ’02) is a science, technology and international affairs major who has tutored children for the Kids to College Program and Georgetown’s Center for Minority Educational Affairs. She traveled to Cuba as a member of the Witness for Peace delegation and currently serves as the resident director of the Georgetown University Black House.

Grover “Jamie” Jones (SFS ’02), majoring in international politics, has served as a teaching assistant in D.C.’s Prison Outreach program and an English as a Second Language (ESL) tutor. He is also active in Georgetown’s Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

Shannon Kahle (COL ’02) is a psychology major who has volunteered with the Calvary Women’s Shelter, Pediatric Care program, Washington Home, Samaritan Inns, Mary House and Growing Together programs. She is a member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. Kahle is a Hoya staff writer

Cecilia Kline (COL ’02) is a tutor and senior coordinator at an area juvenile detention center. She has worked at the Devereaux Center for family counseling and psychological help and has been an active member of the Georgetown Athletes Mentoring Enterprise.

Susanna LoCascio (COL ’02) is a government major who has participated in the Sursum Corda Literacy Program all four years of college. She has also worked with AmeriCorps, Increase the Peace and the Dwight-Englewood School Summer of Discovery Program in New Jersey, where she tutored children over the summer.

Cassandra Lyons (SFS ’02) is a regional and comparative studies major. She has participated in Georgetown’s D.C. School tutoring program since her freshman year and teaches ESL as part of D.C. Schools’ Parent Program.

Kerry Monaghan (COL ’02), a political economy major, is vice president of Alpha Phi Omega, an AmeriCorps volunteer and a Red Cross volunteer. She has worked at the Calvary Women’s Shelter, the So Others Might Eat program, Samaritan Inns and Food & Friends.

Matthew Neal (COL ’02) is a pre-medicine and biology major who has volunteered for almost 10 years with the Make-A-Wish foundation in Pennsylvania and with the D.C. Reads program for two years. He has also helped coordinate food distribution to the homeless through Hoya Humanitarians.

Aaron Tobias Polkey (COL ’02), majoring in government and history, has served as chairman of the Senior Class Committee and president of the Georgetown chapter of the NAACP. He has coordinated several volunteer opportunities for the senior class as well as the first diversity dialogues and Pluralism in Action programs on campus.

Katie Potter (COL ’02) is a philosophy and English major who has worked extensively at the Calvary Women’s Shelter and organized volunteer initiatives at women’s shelters and in disadvantaged neighborhoods. She has also served as community service chair for the College Democrats.

Richard Sharpe Jr. (COL ’02), a chemistry major, started as a member of GERMS his freshman year and served as a GERMS crew chief. He has organized GERMS volunteers to serve at concerts and athletic events throughout the District when local authorities were understaffed.

David Sherrin (SFS ’02) is a comparative studies major who has served as a substitute teacher and tutor in the District. Working extensively with Latin American youth, he has providing instruction in English and math as well as the post-graduate transition.

Hannah Sin (SFS ’02) is majoring in international politics after spending much of her four years tutoring middle- and high-school students in the District. A volunteer in the Kids to College program and a One-to-One coordinator, she received a grant two years ago from Alpha Phi Omega to map historical, civic and cultural sites for minority communities in North Carolina.

Vanessa Waldref (COL ’02) is a sociology major who volunteers at the D.C. Employment and Justice Center and the Washington Interfaith Network. A past president of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, she worked to establish ESL training for Georgetown employees.

The annual awards were created in honor of the late Lena Landegger by the Landegger Charitable Foundation.