Honoring Integrity, Enthusiasm

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HONORIS CAUSA: Joseph Bernier, who is retiring at the City of Oneonta’s community development director after 35 years, was inducted, honoris causa, into the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society, SUNY Oneonta Circle, on Dec. 5

IN TIMES:  Sean Scherer, who teaches two-dimensional design in SUNY Oneonta’s Art Department, was recently featured in the New York Times’ Home and Garden section in a story, “An Artful Clutter.”

HONORED:  Jason Ogden, Oneonta, is on the Otsego Area Occupational Center (BOCES) honor roll for the fall semester.

STUDENT-ATHLETE:  Misericordia University senior Phil Schultes of Maryland, is on the Middle Atlantic Conference’s student-athlete honor roll for the fall semester.

SUNYAC Honors Local Wrestler
With Award For Academic Merit
SUNY Oneonta senior Josh Wake, a wrestler, has been selected for the Dr. Sam Molnar Award, the highest academic award a male student athlete can receive from the SUNYAC conference.
Wake, a graduate of Delaware Academy, Delhi, becomes the sixth Oneonta recipient of the award since its inception in 1975-76. 
A high school teammate, Kyle Hauptfleisch, received the award in 2005.
The Red Dragon wrestler is also a two-time NWCA Scholar All-American, was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma and the National Student Athlete Honor Society, and last spring was named to ESPN the Magazine’s Academic All-District 1 At-Large
second team.
He is an Oneonta Academic Merit and Alumni Association Scholarship recipient, a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, and has appeared on the SUNYAC Commissioner¹s List and All-Academic Team during his first three years.

SUNY’s Haley Publishes New Book
SUNY Oneonta’s Brian Haley’s “Reimagining the Immigrant: The Accommodation of Mexican Immigrants in Rural America,” exploring Mexican immigration and settlement in a California small town, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan later this month.
Haley, associate professor and Anthropology Department chair, earned his doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and joined the SUNY Oneonta faculty in 2000.


O’Neill Center Taps Hartwick Student
Hartwick College theatre major Ian Olsen ’11 has been accepted to the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theatre Center’s National Theatre Institute spring program,  an intensive 14-week curriculum at the institute’s New London, Conn., campus.
A psych major, Olsen will also spend two weeks in New York, London and St. Petersburg, Russia, visiting theaters, museums and cultural sites.
He is the first Hartwick student accepted into the program in 39 years.