CAMPUS NOTES

CAMPUS NOTES
In the spotlight
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
The university's Chapter 143 of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi granted awards to the following students at its recent induction ceremony:
$1,000 Chapter 143 Scholarship Award: Charlene Arendas from Lowellville, senior biology major.$500 Gratia Murphy First-Year Student Award: Stephen Rowe, a freshman arts and sciences major from Cortland.$1,000 Mavrigian-Grim Scholar Award: Leslie Wagner of Fredericktown, a senior majoring in American studies.$500 Phi Kappa Phi Dean's Scholar Award: Jabin Richard Williamson, a senior music performance major from Toronto, Ohio.
Three YSU musical ensembles were selected to perform at the 2004 Ohio Music Education Association Professional Conference in Columbus this winter. This is the second time that all three were asked to perform the same year. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directed by Stephen Gage of Poland, the Percussion Ensemble, directed by Glenn Schaft of Poland, and the Jazz Ensemble 1, directed by Kent Engelhardt of Youngstown, also performed at Barberton, Medina and Grove City high schools as part of their OMEA tour.
In addition, five jazz studies students were selected to perform with the OMEA/IAJE Intercollegiate All-Star Jazz Ensemble at this year's OMEA Professional Conference: Michael Boscarino of Cranberry Township, Pa., trombone; Joe Carey of Youngstown, baritone saxophone; Craig Hill of Girard, drum set; Greg Pflugh, of Vandergrift, Pa., tenor saxophone; and Robert Traugh, of Hyde Park, Pa., trombone.
Kimberly Caputo of Girard has been named a "Zeta with Zest" by Themis magazine, a publication of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. She is a member of YSU's Zeta Gamma chapter. Caputo has served the chapter in all three vice president positions, as well as house manager, judicial chair and, most recently, as president. She also is a member of the Emerging Leaders Program and the executive committee of the Up Till Dawn fund-raiser for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
Senior Robert Tablack of Youngstown is among 15 BGSU students who were part of the first Gettysburg, Pa., leadership seminar for students offered by retired U.S. Army Col. John R. O'Shea earlier this month. O'Shea, director of education and public affairs for the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, has for years offered seminars to CEOs at the site where more than 51,000 Americans were killed, wounded or captured during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Tablack is majoring in accounting, management information systems and information systems auditing and control specializations. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tablack, he graduated from Ursuline High School in 1999.