Neighbors in the News
• Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Gamma Gamma Chapter announced that Rita Hess of Elk Grove Village ws the recipient of its $1,000 scholarship. Hess, a student at James B. Conant High School, will be attending Illinois State University in the fall to major in education. Delta Kappa Gamma promotes professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.
• Alden Estates of Barrington Rehabilitation and Health Care Center's Sheri Bass was recently selected a "Hero in Long-Term Care" by the Illinois Health Care Association and the Illinois Council on Long Term Care.
Bass, who is a massage therapist at the rehabilitation center, was selected for positively impacting the quality of life of residents at the facility and her commitment to serving the needs of residents and their families. She received a certificate of recognition as part of National Nursing Home Week.
• Two students from Wheeling High School won places in the Illinois Womens Press Association's 2010 High School Journalism Contest. Junior Stevi Anderson won an Honorary Mention for her article titled, "Music as a Barrier Between Students," and senior Dan Malsom earned third place for his article, "Students to Help Administration Make Key Decisions in School."
Anderson and Malsom received the awards Saturday, May 15, at the Union Club in downtown Chicago.
• Hanover Park resident Lorraine Moschini, a business services sales manager for Comcast, was honored with the company's "Circle of Success" award, a national award given annually to individuals, managers, work teams and cable systems for outstanding business performance and customer service.
Moschini was nominated for the award by one of her peers for her outstanding work as a business services account executive. In that role, she was responsible for selling business class Internet, phone and TV solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in the Western suburbs. Only 17 employees among 100,000 received the "Circle of Success" Award in 2010.
Moschini was recently promoted to lead the sales team of which she was a member as business services sales manager. She was honored by the company's senior leadership - including Comcast founder Ralph Roberts - at a reception at the company's Philadelphia headquarters earlier this month, and was also featured on a companywide employee broadcast available to Comcast's employees nationwide.
• Jessica Berens of Schaumburg and Kathryn Grzebieniak of Hoffman Estates will be among 33 Augustana College students, who will spend 11 days this summer in Rome, Italy, studying and visiting a variety of sites including St. Peter's Basilica, the Pantheon and Jewish Quarter. The group will also visit The Vatican and attend an audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
The trip to Rome is the final requirement for a class called Faiths in Dialogue, which focuses on both historical and ethical issues within Christianity. Berens is a senior majoring in art education while Grzebieniak is a senior majoring in speech communication. The girls leave May 25th and return to the United States on June 4.
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