alumni-news
The ѿappUniversity Alumni Association is proud to announce its 2019 Alumni Award recipients. Recipients are chosen based on their exceptional contributions in their chosen profession, in their communities and at Kent State.
Last year, ѿappUniversity celebrated 100 years of Homecoming. This year, the university starts the next century of ѿappHomecoming celebrations with a new president leading the institution.
ѿappUniversity will hold the 49th commemoration of the historic events of May 4, 1970, where protesting students, observers and soldiers gathered on that fateful day when the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students and wounded nine others on the Kent Campus.
Ronda McCaskey and Caitlyn Horvath are best friends who went through the nursing program together and graduated one year apart with Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees from ѿappUniversity at Geauga. Now they are both intensive care nurses. But they also happen to be mother and daughter.
From April 22 to Aug. 1, ѿappUniversity’s May 4 Visitors Center will honor Bill Schroeder’s life with an exhibition titled “Bill: An All-American Boy.” Mr. Schroeder’s sister, Nancy Tuttle, and nephew, David Tuttle, helped create the exhibition by loaning some of his personal items to the May 4 Visitors Center.
Ali Salih ’05, IT consultant at Blue Chip Consulting Group.
Under the age of 35 and looking to re-engage with your alma mater and fellow Flashes? Then some of the new events and programs developed specifically for ѿappyoung alumni may be for you.