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1980
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Installation of the
Mu Omicron
chapter at the University of Scranton
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2001-02
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Rachel Henry won the
Sigma Tau Delta
2002 Junior Scholarship
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Heather Theis
won the runner-up Senior
Scholarship
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2002-03
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Talia Argondezzi won the
2003 Senior Scholarship
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Art Posocco
won a Sigma Tau Delta Project
Grant for “My World and Myself—A Literary Competition and
Magazine for the University of Scranton Campus School, Grades 3-8.”
Mu Omicron members
Eileen Tamerlani, Mari-Christina Quinn,
Katie Geraghty,
Dawn Mizwinski, and
Charlie Buterbaugh judge an
Arts in Education contest
for a local school.
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2003-04
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Mu Omicron
chapter won the Sigma Tau Delta
Outstanding Chapter Award.
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2005-06
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25th anniversary of
Mu Omicron chapter’s formation
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Dr. Joseph
Kraus, Dr. Michael Friedman, and Prof. Rich Larsen led film
discussions.
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Mu Omicron chapter voted to donate funds to pay initial costs of establishing a sister
chapter of STD at Yaounde University in Cameroon, to be launched by
Sarah Anyang Agbor, visiting
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in the University of Scranton
Department of English during AY 2004-05
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S. Pearl Brilmyer and Cheryl Mrazik
mentored students developing a literary magazine at the
Howard
Gardner
School.
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Zack Monahan
won the P. C. Somerville
Award for
Future Teacher
awarded to
an active Sigma Tau Delta member who will begin the first year of
teaching elementary school, middle school, or high school English by 15 September following the application deadline. Award recipients receive up to
$1,000.
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S. Pearl Brilmyer
won the runner-up Senior
Scholarship
(Elva Bell McLin), given to a student member applying during the senior year
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Judith Hicks
won the
runner-up for the
Henry Regnery Endowed Scholarship
This scholarship was endowed in 1992 in honor of Henry Regnery,
founder of Regnery Publishing, Inc., in Washington,
DC.
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Cheryl Mrazik,
2005-2006 Chapter
President,
presented a
colorful and detailed
invited poster presentation
about
chapter activities for the national
convention.
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Cheryl Mrazik also
chaired two sessions at the national convention.
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S. Pearl Brilmyer, Pamela Kalinowski, and Jan Amann
presented
papers at the national convention in
Portland,
Oregon.
Pam Kalinowski,
2005-2006 Chapter Vice President, was invited to present her paper
“Order and the Oath in The Clerk’s Tale.”
S. Pearl
Brilmyer, 2005-2006 Chapter Secretary, was invited to present
her paper
“Christianity and Modern Science in Middlemarch: George
Eliot’s Nietzschean Critique.”
Jan Amann, 2005-2006
Chapter Treasurer, was invited to present her paper “Women’s Sexual
Pleasure in Medieval Marriage and The Merchant’s Tale.”
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Dr. Rebecca Beal,
Mu Omicron Chapter
Faculty Advisor, moderated three
sessions at the national convention
and assisted with
the exhibit about the chapter.
The trip to
the convention was made possible by financial assistance from the Mu Omicron chapter which paid the student's registration costs; the
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences who contributed towards the cost of transportation, and the
Office of
Research Services who supported the cost for lodging and food. Without this generous support these wonderful opportunities would have been unrealized.
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2006-07
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Carolyne King,
Pauline Palko, Andrew Prinzivalli presented papers at the national
convention in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Carolyne King was invited to
present her paper “Boy Meets Girl: The Merging of Male and Female
Perspectives in My Antonia.”
Pauline Palko was invited to present her short
story “Four Days in the South of France: C’est bon!”
Andrew Prinzivalli was invited to
present his paper “Why I Read a Forgotten Author: Recovering R. H.
Benson.”
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Professors in the English Department led a
variety of film discussions
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Mu Omicron chapter
won the Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Chapter Award.
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2007-08
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Mu Omicron chapter
sponsored a trip, in conjunction with the Department of English &
Theatre to New York City. The consisted of a visit to
The Cloisters,
the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, and to see
Pygmalion,
presented by The Roundabout Theatre Company.
Carolyne King, Megan Lo Bue,
Kristin Manley,
Pauline Palko, and Ashley
Teatum presented papers at the national convention in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Carolyne King,
was invited to present her paper
Megan Lo Bue
was invited to present
her paper “Tommie as a Prefiguration in Stephen
Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.”
Kristin Manley,
was invited to present
her paper “The ‘Second Sight’ of Dari Bundren in
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying."
Pauline Palko
was invited to present
her collection of poems, “An Ample Cup.”
Ashley Teatum
was invited to present
her paper “Mallory’s Depiction of Sir Gareth as
a Static Character.”
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Dr. Rebecca Beal
was and invited speaker at the national convention. She
presented “Sigma Tau Delta at the
University of Scranton,”
for a
Chapter Sponsor Workshop.
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Professor Michael O’Steen and Dr. Len Gougeon
led film discussions.
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Revision of the
Advising Handbook.
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