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CUMBERLAND — Allegany College of Maryland honored four outstanding female students at the recent 15th annual Focus on Women Awards ceremony, where ACM Board of Trustees members were special guests.
The award recipients are a blend of traditional college-age and non-traditional students who bring life experience and accomplishment to the classroom and the college.
Their common purpose has been to pursue academic goals for new and expanded career opportunities. While at the college the four have made real contributions to the college, their communities and to their academic programs.
The Focus on Women Award was created to honor female students who have demonstrated leadership skills through volunteerism and community involvement as well as personal and academic achievements.
The four award recipients are: Khadija Abdul-Hamid of Cumberland; Jacquelyn Rodeheaver of McHenry; Dixie Shoemaker of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; and Joanna Sutherland of Lonaconing.
The following biographical sketches were drawn from information furnished by the faculty and staff members who nominated them and read aloud at the ceremony.
• Abdul-Hamid is co-president of the ACM Peace Studies Club, where she is credited with working to make the recent Hope for Haiti benefit concert a success. In working to achieve this first-of-its-kind college event, Abdul-Hamid showed strong and articulate leadership. She made presentations to the ACM president and Board of Trustees and interviewed at a local radio station. All the while giving over her nights, weekends and spring break to advance the project, Abdul-Hamid maintained an excellent grade-point average.
• Rodeheaver is commended for the conscientious efforts and critical thinking she has brought to her education, both classroom and clinical, and the leadership she has displayed in the respiratory therapy program. Her enthusiasm, dedication and creativity made her a positive role model to fellow students. As an ACM Foundation Ambassador, she further impressed with her professionalism and dedication to service. She spoke at the foundation’s annual reception, to the Board of Trustees and in radio advertisements to promote ACM and its Foundation.
• Shoemaker balanced re-sponsibilities as a wife and mother with the demands of the dental hygiene and a long commute to campus. She is credited with dedicating herself to meets the academic challenges of her curriculum while showing compassion and care to patients in the clinical setting. She has served her community as PTA vice president, homeroom mother and PASS volunteer at Greenwood Elementary School and as a fundraiser auction volunteer for the South Morgan County Volunteer Fire Department.
• Sutherland was encouraged by her daughter to return to school and enter the human service associate program, where the two have been fellow students. Sutherland is credited with not only overcoming her apprehensions, but ex-celling in the curriculum. She revealed exceptional analytical and writing skills, offered wisdom and insight that inspired others and demonstrated leadership through an appointment to Student Government and her program’s admissions team. Her academic achievements earned her entry in the ACM Honors Program and the campus Phi Theta Kappa chapter. Following graduation with her daughter, Sutherland moves on to a job in her field.
The Focus on Women awards were presented at a ceremony attended by members of the college community as well as ACM's Board of Trustees and led by B. Renee Conner, ACM vice president of student and legal affairs, and Joanna DuVall, administrative assistant to the vice president.
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Allegany College of Maryland honored four outstanding female students as Focus on Women Awards recipients at the recent 15th annual awards ceremony. The awardees, shown in the front row, from the left, are Khadija Abdul-Hamid, Joanna Sutherland, Jacquelyn Rodeheaver and Dixie Shoemaker. In the back row are Kim Leonard, ACM trustees chair; Bruce Exstrom, ACM president; Jane Belt, trustees vice chair; and Jim Ortiz, trustee.
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