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An Honors Marriage

Hello Honors Community,

This is a brief story we just had to share!

Andrew Catauro ’06 and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07
Andrew Catauro ’06 and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07

Meet Andrew Catauro ’06 (TRF/ITA) and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07 (MAG/SOC) . Andrew and Shannon met in the Honors Program on their first day of class for PHI 107, completed what was then “General Honors”, and went on to get married!  Andrew works on the acclaimed documentary POV for PBS and Shannon provides social services to homeless men in NYC. They stopped by the Honors Suite before the semester began and asked if we’d take their picture in 304C.   They even remembered where they used to sit!

These are certainly the kinds of stories we love to hear from our alumni. Remember that if you have any interesting stories like this one, to let us know so we can share them!

First “Honors Footnotes” Event Is a Hit!

On Thursday, October 18th, Honors Core Faculty member and chair of the Magazine Journalism Department, Melissa Chessher, hosted the inaugural “Honors Footnotes” event – a guided tour of Oakwood Cemetery, led by Sue Greenhagen, a member of the Historic Oakwood Cemetery Preservation Association, a local historian, and a retired librarian from Morrisville State College .Designed by one of America’s earliest landscape architects, Howard Daniels, Oakwood Cemetery opened its gates on November 3, 1859. The 160 acres of this outdoor museum feature a Gothic style mortuary chapel, 19th- and 20th-century architecture styles, including works by Horatio Nelson White and Archimedes Russell, and hundreds of 150-year-old trees, which showcased their fall colors. Sue Greenhagen (who, along with her sister, are known as “the cemetery chicks”) has spent years researching those buried in Oakwood. In addition to the general history and featured architects just mentioned, the tour highlighted a few of the more notable characters including an abolitionist, a robber baron, a Civil War commander, and several celebrated writers, artists, and philanthropists!

In a sentence: “Honors Footnotes” are small events hosted by Honors faculty or staff that encourage informal interaction around a variety of topics! Stay tuned for future opportunities!

Oakwood Cemetery - Honors Footnotes
Inaugural “Honors Footnotes” group posing during their tour of Oakwood Cemetery
Honors group listens to guide during Oakwood Cemetery tour
Honors group listens to guide during Oakwood Cemetery tour

Honors Convocation Photo Gallery

We’ve sorted through all our photos from Honors convocation!  At the Flickr link below, you will find individual pictures of students receiving their medals from the Dean of their college.  Once you find the image you want: click on it to open the larger version. Then, right click on it to bring up a menu that will bring you to the download page for the full size photo.

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Or view and download general images from the entire event here:

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