{"id":290,"date":"2015-04-13T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:50:33","slug":"honors-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2015\/04\/13\/honors-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ODK, a national leadership honor society for upperclassmen, held Honors Convocation on April 8 to honor students, faculty, and staff that have been doing outstanding work during this year.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty from each department come together to decide on which student has been excelling or doing outstanding work. The students recognized also are recipients of outstanding grades.<\/p>\n<p>ODK members recognize an outstanding sophomore, staff member, faculty, and campus organization. This year&#8217;s winners were Jordan Heim was the Sophomore Cup recipient; Chris Spicer, associate professor of mathematics, received the Faculty Person of the Year; Gail Dooley, professor of music, was presented the First-Year Teaching\/Advising Award; Donna Galati Huls, writing center consultant, received the Staff Member of the Year; and the Tommeraasen Award of Excellence was presented to two outstanding campus organizations, International Student Association and the Kiosk Magazine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_294\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-image-294 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2758-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"FE5A2758\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2758-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2758-1024x625.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Heim, Sophomore Cup winner.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_295\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2760.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-image-295 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2760-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"FE5A2760\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2760-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2760-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Galati Huls, Staff member of the year.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_292\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2749.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-image-292 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2749-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"FE5A2749\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2749-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2749-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new officers for the 2015-2016 Student Government team.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_293\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2753.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-image-293 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2753-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"FE5A2753\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2753-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2753-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students being recognized for their outstanding work in the Business Department.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2742.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2742-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"FE5A2742\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2742-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2015\/04\/FE5A2742-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ODK, a national leadership honor society for upperclassmen, held Honors Convocation on April 8 to honor students, faculty, and staff that have been doing outstanding work during this year. 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