Landolfi named to board

Landolfi named to board
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Atty. John Landolfi, a Niles native, was recently named to the Westminster College board of trustees. Landolfi is a partner in the Columbus law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. He is a graduate of JFK High School in Warren, where he was named Trumbull County Football Player of the Year in 1981. He also graduated from Westminster College and Ohio State University College of Law.
He is the son of Toni and the late Greg Landolfi of Niles. He and his wife, Christina, live in Columbus with their three children.
DeBernardo gets grant
YOUNGSTOWN -- Holly DeBernardo, a science teacher at Youngstown Early College at Youngstown State University, has received a $500 grant from FirstEnergy for a classroom project titled "Exploring Mendeleev's Periodic Table."
The project will allow students to learn about how Mendeleev created the Periodic Table in 1896, to replicate some of Mendeleev's experiments and to create a unique table using Mendeleev's techniques.
FirstEnergy's Mathematics, Science and Technology Education grants are available to educators at schools and youth groups in communities served by its electric operating companies and where it has facilities.
Youngstown Early College, developed with the assistance of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, is an innovative high school aimed at giving Youngstown public school students a head start on college.
Tau Beta Phi awarded
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University's chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, received a secretary's commendation award at the society's national convention in Orlando, Fla.
The commendation is given to a chapter "for the perfection of its reports to the national headquarters." Nicholas Maillis, president of YSU's chapter, was present to accept the award.
Frat plans hoops game
YOUNGSTOWN -- Members of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity will sponsor a celebrity benefit basketball game called "The Game of Hope" at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 22 in Youngstown State University's Beeghly Center.
The home team will be Phil Kappa Tau brothers, and the opposing team will be composed of celebrities, dignitaries and members of the press from the Mahoning Valley.
Proceeds will go to the fraternity's national philanthropy, Paul Newman's "The Hole in the Wall Gang," which helps chronically and terminally ill children. Youngstown's Children's Museum also will receive funds.
Hispanic honor given
YOUNGSTOWN -- Maggie McClendon of Boardman, a coordinator in Youngstown State University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions, was selected as a Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan by the Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs.
She was among 11 recipients of the award this year.
Among the examples of her community service, McClendon, who graduated from YSU in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, developed the Educators and Community Helping Hispanics Onward program in 1998. ECHHO is an education fair for Valley Hispanic high school students and their parents held at Organizacion Civica y Cultural Hispanic Americana in Youngstown.
McClendon serves as the secretary and volunteer board member for the Mahoning Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes and volunteers as a bilingual radio announcer and commentator for radio shows on WASN and WGFT.