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Bartolomeo, Sullivan Receive Raymond J. Marion Award The Marion Award was established in 1984 to honor the outstanding contributions of Dr. Marion, who served as a professor of History at Assumption from 1946 to 1990 and academic dean from 1971 to 1973. A $1,000 award is given annually to the two students who, at the end of their junior year, have the highest cumulative grade point average. Bartolomeo is pursuing a double major in Visual Arts and Foreign Languages (French as a primary language and Italian as a secondary language). She has been a peer tutor in the Academic Support Center for two years in both French and Italian and participated in the Writing Fellows program during the spring of 2005. An avid artist, Bartolomeo’s work has been displayed in the student art show for the past three years and was featured in the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library during the senior seminar show last spring. She has also had her work displayed in the ARTSWorcester gallery and is a member of Pi Delta Pi, the National French Honor Society. After graduation, she plans to teach English in France or pursue a career in graphic design. Sullivan is completing an English major with a concentration in writing and mass communications and a minor in French. She is the Editor in Chief of Le Provocateur, Assumption’s student newspaper, where she oversees the production of 13, 20-page issues by a staff of over 30 student writers and eight editors. Sullivan has been on the editorial staff of Thoreau’s Rooster, a national creative non-fiction magazine based at Assumption, and received the Richard T. Testa French Scholarship to study at the Alliance Francaise in Paris in July 2004. She is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society and the Sigma Tau Delta National English Honor Society. She is also a writing and French tutor at the Academic Support Center and hopes to secure an internship at the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for the spring semester. Following graduation, she plans to work as a reporter, columnist, or editor.
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Worcester, MA - Seniors Kristen Bartolomeo and Kerry Sullivan were named recipients of the Raymond J. Marion Award for the 2005-06 academic year in a ceremony held at the Testa Science Center Atrium on November 8.