BARNSTABLE STUDENTS SHINE AT SCHOLARSHIP NIGHT
By Ellen Chahey

Barnstable Patriot, MA
June 1 2007

Cape Cod Community College awards $300,000

Barnstable students brought home nearly one fifth of the scholarships
awarded at Cape Cod Community College’s Evening of Excellence May 23,
in every category from entering freshman to outgoing senior.

All will use their grants for more education, at the college or beyond.

It was a record scholarship year for the college, which handed out more
than $300,000 to 143 students. Twelve of the awards were new this year.

The 76 Barnstable winners aspire to careers ranging from education
to nursing to business, law, hospitality, engineering, math, natural
resource management, journalism, and information technology. One
graduate wants to teach in a planetarium.

The Hyannis Rotary Club handed out six scholarships. The Hyannis Area
Chamber of Commerce, Hyannis Kiwanis Club and the Town of Barnstable
Disability Commission each provided one. Scholarships were named
in honor of Gretchen Farnham of West Barnstable; Charles Powers of
Hyannisport and his late first wife Elsa; and the late Bob Smith
of Osterville.

A new grant honors former Barnstable Village resident Dick Golden,
whose "Night Lights" broadcasts were a signature of Cape Cod radio
for nearly 30 years. Golden, who now lives and works in Washington,
D.C., was standing by at his telephone to congratulate Stephen Haugh
of South Yarmouth, news director of the college’s station WKKL.

After President Kathleen Schatzberg and other college officials
welcomed the audience of about 250, physics and astronomy professor
James Shaw, winner of the college’s 2006 Excellence in Teaching award,
spoke about the biggest recent event of his science: the demotion
of Pluto from planethood. Then he elevated two of his colleagues to
stardom by announcing the recipients of the Bartlett Awards, Marcy
Smith in nursing and Deborah Murphy in early childhood education.

The program ended with an address from Hasmik Sargsyan, class of
2007, for whom English is one of a handful of languages she speaks in
addition to her native Armenian. Sargsyan, who earned a 4.0 grade point
average, won $3300 in scholarships to foster her education at Boston
University, referred to a saying she identified as a Chinese proverb:
"Learning is a treasure that accompanies its owner everywhere."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress