APAN Member of the Month
(The APAN Member of the Month section highlights individual APAN members who have contributed significantly to the expansion and success of APAN over the past few years.)

The APAN Member of the Month for the month of September is Harmon Andrews, Class of ’53. Harmon, who participates in both the College Fair program and the Adopt-A-Student program, is being honored for his longtime commitment and service to APAN and to the entire SU community. Harmon first came to campus in 1949, when the minister of the Lutheran Church in Dumont, New Jersey recommended SU. He was especially attracted to the fact that SU had Business and was a liberal arts school with a music program, and did major in Business Administration during his time here.

Harmon feels SU prepared him for the real world in many different ways, and fondly recalls his days in charge of lighting for all plays, and fraternity and sorority parties. "Alpha Psi Omega was a wonderful experience especially with Shakespeare Productions. Phi Mu Delta was filled with friends, [and although] many have passed away, a few of us enjoy our reunions back at SU." Harmon also admits that he still "keeps track of" his old SU girlfriends.

At the end of his junior year, Harmon joined the Merchant Marines and went to Korea for six months. "I missed the 1st semester of my senior year as a result," recalls Harmon, "but had many war stories to tell during the last semester and in summer school. I graduated with my class '53'."After Graduation we were all Drafted or joined the Military. I still keep track of my old girl friends from SU.

Harmon first joined APAN with the thought of spreading the word about SU in a state that that does not attract too many students to SU, and says his favorite part of the program is meeting and talking with prospective students and their parents. Congratulations Harmon, and thank you for your terrific work!

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Class of 2009 Update

Thanks to all of your tremendous efforts over the last year, SU welcomed 515 first-year students, the third-largest class in its history, when class began on August 29th. With 36 transfer students and five foreign exchange students, the total number of incoming students for the 2005-2006 academic year is 551. The Class of 2009 comes from 17 states and seven countries. Represented in the class are the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Students from Canada , Germany , Japan , Nepal , Russia , Sudan and Switzerland also make up the class roster.

Along with being one of the largest classes in SU history, it is also one of the most qualified classes with 28 percent of its students ranked in the top 10th of their high school classes, 52 percent ranked in the top fifth and more than 80 percent graduating in the top two-fifths of their high school classes. Thirty-six percent of the class was inducted into the National Honor Society. Fourteen students were named valedictorian or salutatorian of their high school classes.

While bringing in such an outstanding, qualified class is the work of many groups and individuals, APAN members made significant contributions to bring in so many talented students. Your individual conversations with students and your representation of SU at college fairs and in your home communities are valuable tools in attracting prospective students to SU. We thank you for all of your hard work and contributions, and look forward to even greater success with the Class of 2010!

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SU Responds to Hurricane Katrina

After the devastating tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, the entire SU faculty and student body have done a great deal to try to help in the relief effort. As President Lemons said, “We know for certain that this relief and recovery effort will require many months and years and that sustaining support for these needs will be challenging. I hope that through our volunteer and service learning efforts we might create programmatic responses that will be helpful to the people of the region.”

The university has made a donation to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Disaster Response Program, and will donate the gate receipts for fall athletics events to the relief effort. A dance sponsored by student resident assistants on Friday, September 9th raised over $1,000 from the student body, and a car wash sponsored by the student-run WQSU on Sunday, September 11th had great success as well. As it is expected that the nation’s blood supply will be stretched thin, SU will also be sponsoring a blood drive on September 20th.

Susquehanna has also communicated its ability and willingness to work with displaced students from colleges and universities from the affected region. If you know of any displaced students from Gulf Coast colleges who are interested in continuing their studies at SU until their schools are once again operational should contact Chris Markle at (570) 372-4260, (800) 326-9672 or marklec@susqu.edu as soon as possible.

Of course, some of the university’s 14,000 alumni reside in the Gulf Coast states directly affected by Hurricane Katrina as well. The university is currently engaged in efforts to confirm their whereabouts and well-being and has created a message board at www.sualum.com to facilitate information exchange. We also invite information about alumni who are involved in relief and recovery efforts.

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Questions, Comments, Concerns, or Feedback are always welcome! We want to know what you think! Please e-mail APAN at apan@susqu.edu, or call us at 1-800-326-9672.