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Oxford resident wins at U. of Denver

Antoine Perretta, of Oxford, was elected vice president of the All Undergraduate Student Association Senate at the University of Denver for the 2008-09 school year.

The results were announced May 7. Perretta, a sophomore, won on a ticket with junior Monica Kumar, who was elected president.

Perreta, a hotel restaurant and tourism management major, is a current junior senator and chair of the academic affairs committee in the AUSA Senate. He directed homecoming for DUPB this past year and is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Kumar, a finance and marketing major, currently is the director of marketing and records in the AUSA Senate.

Both are members of the Pioneer Leadership Program and the University Honors Program.

"I am very pleased that the students believed in Monica and me and elected us,"

Perretta said.

Area residents earn college degrees

Krista M. Asher, of Trenton, graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Mount Carmel College of Nursing on May 10.

She is the daughter of

Connie Asher, of Trenton, and J.B. Asher, of Somerville, and is a 2004 graduate of Talawanda High School. She was one of 150 students receiving baccalaureate degrees from the college, making it the largest class ever to graduate.

Amy Whitman of Oxford graduated at the end of the winter quarter with a master of education degree from the University of Cincinnati.

Miami University Middletown graduated more than 50 nursing students this spring with the class of 2008. Among those nursing graduate were Rachel Risner, of Somerville, and William Teager, of Oxford.

Students earn college recognitions

Holly Lynne Ratliff, a sophomore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., has earned honor roll status for the recently ended winter term.

Honor roll status at Washington and Lee represents a term GPA of at least 3.75 on a 4.0 scale. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Ratliff, of Oxford.

Emily Boehmler, Jiacheng Chen, Mark Maxwell and Noah Pulver, all of Oxford, and Jeremy Combs, Jeremy Michael and Zachary Robertson, of Camden, were named to the University of Cincinnati's dean's list for the winter quarter.

International study award for Hufford

Jonathan Douglas Hufford, a rising senior from Oxford, was chosen as the 24th Presidential International Scholar at Wofford College, in Spartanburg, S.C.

The program allows one student to travel throughout the academic year to developing countries researching an independent project.

The announcement was made May 6 at the annual spring Honors Convocation.

The Presidential International Scholar is chosen personally each year by Wofford's president as "the singular student best fitted to benefit humankind." An anonymous donor funds the scholarship.

"Jonathan Hufford is quiet, unassuming, brilliant, intrepid and adventurous," Wofford College President Benjamin B. Dunlap said in making the announcement. "He is also deeply committed to helping others. I can think of no one more likely to benefit humankind in the course of his future career.

Hufford, a native of Oxford, entered Wofford in September 2005 as the recipient of a National Merit Scholarship and a Benjamin Wofford Scholarship. He is an offensive guard on the Terriers football team and is a player on the Wofford Quiz Bowl team. He serves as vice chair of the Judicial Commission and as president of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

Hufford also is active in the Spartanburg community as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Department. A scientist and a writer, he has received multiple research grants as well as the first prize in the 2008 "Beyond the City's Northern Border" essay contest. He is majoring in biology with an emphasis in computational science. Upon graduation, he plans to pursue a medical degree and Ph.D. to build a career as a physician and biomedical researcher.

Hufford recently was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Wofford.

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