Petra Hayden of Hanover and Luke Rider of Littlestown were announced as recipients of the All-Pennsylvania Academic Team Scholarship, and nominees for the All-USA Academic Team. The award includes an Academic Passport scholarship for tuition at any of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Holly Corbin, Gettysburg, was named the Outstanding Transfer Program Graduate, and Patti Sager, Hanover, was the Outstanding Career Program Graduate. Their names will join those of previous outstanding graduates on an engraved plaque in the campus lobby.
Barbara Stallard, East Berlin, received the Valerie D. Allen memorial scholarship. Valerie Allen, an honor student at the Gettysburg Campus, died in a car accident in 1999. The scholarship is presented annually to the student at Gettysburg Campus HACC who best exemplifies Valerie's attributes as an "intelligent, hard-working, conscientious student, successfully handling family, job and college with limited resources."
Six students in the RN nursing program at Gettysburg Campus received scholarship awards. Lisa Tomko and Teri Stonesifer, nurse managers at Gettysburg Hospital, presented the Gettysburg Hospital Medical Staff Scholarship to Melissa Wise, New Oxford, and the Gettysburg Hospital Faith Redding Memorial Scholarship to Amy Helsel, York Springs. Atty. Kristin Rice, vice president of the Adams County Bar Association, presented the Adams County Bar Association Scholarship to Tosha Shorb, Hanover. Mr. Robert Charles and Dr. Arlene Bobonich presented the Twila Charles Memorial Scholarship to Jessica Watts, Littlestown. Deborah Collins of Fairfield received the Tom and Juene McGlaughlin Nursing Scholarship, and Dawn Utz of Littlestown received the Esther G. Little Nursing Scholarship.
The Gettysburg High School Class of 1950 Scholarship, established in honor of class advisors Mrs. Ruth Mundis McClelland and the late Colonel Jacob Sheads, was presented by Class of 1950 member Alex Kessel to Charlene Felton, Gettysburg, and Amanda Walde, Gettysburg. Gettysburg Subway, which provides food service at the HACC campus, awarded the Gettysburg Subway Scholarship to Crystal Gelles, Fairfield. The first Bernard A. Yannetti Memorial Scholarship was presented by Atty. Bernard A. Yannetti, Jr. to criminal justice major John Durange. The first South Western Academic Award, designated for students in the South Western School District, was presented to Neal LeGore, Hanover. Barbara Stallard received the first VFW Post 15 Scholarship, presented to a military veteran or the child or grandchild of a veteran. Ni Putu Ningsih, East Berlin, received the Charles R. Peguese Scholarship Award and the Multicultural Scholarship. Luke Rider received the HACC Classified Employee Organization Outstanding Student Worker Award.
Eight students achieved Gettysburg Campus Academic Excellence Awards with grade-point averages of 4.0. Thirty-one students were congratulated for their induction into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society during the fall 2004 and spring 2005 semesters.
Also recognized were additional scholarship recipients, dean's list students, Student Advisory Council officers and senators, student assistants, club officers and advisors. Candidates for graduation in May and August 2005 were introduced, along with graduates of December 2004.
All students recognized during the ceremony received a Gettysburg Campus achievement pin and certificate.