Away from Home Announcements September

James Curtis, of Court House, made the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the summer 2015 term.
Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean’s List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete”, “D” or “F”; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours.
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Zachary Zellers, of Ocean City, has enrolled at Alvernia University, beginning this fall (2015) semester. A graduate of Ocean City High School, Zellers is an Early Childhood Education with Special Education major at Alvernia.
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Anthony Klingos, a 2017 Chemistry major at Widener University from Wildwood, attended a summer cultural immersion trip run by the university to the Gullah/Geechee Nation along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts. The Gullah/Geechee people descended from west and central African ethnic groups whose people were brought to the New World to work as slaves on plantations.
All of the Widener students spent time learning about the rich — and well preserved — culture of the Gullah/Geechee people and volunteering to help them in a number of different ways. Tasks included helping to create a digital archive, painting and cleaning up outdoor spaces.
The students also explored the cities of Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C. While in Charleston, they stopped at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the site where nine people were shot and killed in June by a lone gunman. The preacher was a Gullah.
The students were impressed how the Gullahs have emerged from this incident as they always have — with forgiveness and strength.
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Aaron Hedstrom-Wiggins, a Lower Cape May Regional 2011 graduate, has completed a Bachelor of International Studies with majors in Politics and International Relations and Indonesian and a minor in Criminal Justice from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia. Aaron has been active in the University’s  Student Guild and is the current President of the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Indonesian Youth Association. Aaron continues to live and pursue his goals on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of Queensland.