PH.D.

PH.D.
Received degree
Maria Dannessa Delost, a professor in the Department of Health Professions at Youngstown State University, has received her doctorate degree in health-related sciences from the Virginia Commonwealth University-The Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va.
She completed the doctoral program with the defense of her dissertation "Quality Laboratory Services -- Is it Related to Personnel Credentials?" The study involved a retrospective analysis of proficiency test results of regional clinical laboratories as related to the testing personnel.
Delost is also director of clinical laboratory programs at YSU, where she coordinates the clinical laboratory science, clinical laboratory technician and histotechnical programs. She was the recipient of a Distinguished Professor Award in Teaching at Youngstown State in 2005 and also a recipient of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education Award for Excellence in Teaching.
She is a graduate of YSU and The University of Akron. She is the daughter of Mary Dannessa of Youngstown and the late Amil Dannessa. She is married to Atty. Raymond Delost. They live in Struthers with their two sons.
HONORS
Elected to hall of fame
The board of trustees and directors of the Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Akron, had elected Margaret Linton-Lanier, formerly of Youngstown, to the hall.
She and other inductees will be honored Oct. 1 at the Cathedral Buffet and Banquet Center, Cuyahoga Falls.
Linton-Lanier, who lives in Cleveland, is a former publisher of the Buckeye Review newspaper and Critique Magazine, former operator of the Linton Funeral Home, and founder of the Black Broadcasters Coalition here in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Linton-Lanier led the fight for minority programming on Youngstown television stations and once hosted the show "One Woman's World" that aired on WYTV-Channel 33 in the 1970s. She still writes a column, also called "One Woman's World," for the Buckeye Review.
She was honored by the Youngstown-Warren Association of Black Journalists for her contributions and accomplishments in 1998. She was organizer of the Youngstown Negro Business & amp; Professional Women; an organizer of the Youngstown Area Urban League; co-chairwoman for the McGuffey Centre building fund; and life member of the American Association Workers for the Blind.
The Broadcasters Hall of Fame was founded in October 1982 by C.S. "Doc" Williams, as the Radio Hall of Fame, says the hall's Web site. The names and bylaws were changed in 1990 to include television.
The hall memorializes the Golden Age of broadcasting and promotes furtherance of the art of broadcasting.
To be eligible for induction, the candidate (living deceased, retired or active) must have made a significant contribution to the radio or television industry as a performer, station owner, manager or producer.
LAWYERS
Notre Dame graduate
Adam J. Russ, a 1998 Lowellville High School graduate, has earned his law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
While at Notre Dame, Russ participated as a member of the school's Association of Trial Lawyers of America mock trial competition team, served as a class representative and sports commissioner for the Student Bar Association, worked as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate political science course and was named to the Dean's Honor List.
Before law school, Russ received a bachelor of business administration degree magna cum laude from Notre Dame in finance and business economics in 2002, with minors in both accounting and philosophy, politics and economics. As an undergraduate, he was elected president of St. Edward's Hall, served as the Senate Liaison on the Hall Presidents Council Executive Board, served as Gala Chairman for Junior Parents Weekend 2001 and volunteered in the Programming Division of the Office of the Student Body President.
Russ began practice this month in the litigation and labor and employment practice groups of Frantz Ward, LLP, Cleveland. He is the son of Richard and Veronica Russ of Youngstown.
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