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GOOD NEWS! GOOD NEWS! IS COMPILED BY MICHELLE TERRY PRESSCONNECTS.COM SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013 4A ACHIEVERS enhance and expand children's programming. Catholic Charities of Broome County was awarded $1,000 to fund summer programs. CV grad awarded medal for excellence BINGHAMTON Anton i-no V. Altadonna was awarded the Sister Maria Laurence Maher Medal for Excellence in biological studies at Mary-wood Univer The Binghamton Garden Club recently presented Chantal Messinger, of Harpursville Central High School, the Laimons E. and Sylvia Drupa scholar award, worth $10,000.

photo provided Garden Club presents Drupa scholar award HARPURSVILLE The Binghamton Garden Club recently awarded Chantal Messinger the Laimons E. and Sylvia Drupa scholar award in the amount of $10,000. Messinger was the 2013 salutatorian of Harpursville Central High School. She plans to attend Brigham Young University-Idaho to pursue studies in biology and ecology. She is the daughter of Todd and Jessica Messinger of Harpursville.

M-E students to attend leadership conference ENDWELL The Endwell Rotary Club selected Grace Chow, Ernesto J. Porcari, Carla Spera, Brian Talbot and Mikayla Wright, all of Maine-Endwell High School, to participate in the Rotary Youth Leadership Conference that was held June 23-28 at SUNY Oneonta. The conference featured speakers and workshops focused on decision making, critical thinking, communicating effectively, time management, ethics, career development, public service, contemporary problems and other challenging issues. Keuka College presents excellence awards Kaitlin Korver, of Sherburne, and Rebecca Allen, of Oxford, were recognized for academic achievements during Keuka College's annual Honors Convocation ceremony held at the college in May. Korver received the Academic Excellence in Early Childhood Education award, and Allen received the Academic Excellence in Childhood Education award.

graduate summa cum laude, he needed a cumulative GPA of 3.9 or higher from the last four years. Allen, a 2009 Oxford Academy graduate, is the son of Bob and Ginny Allen. UHS General auxiliary presents contribution BINGHAMTON The UHS Binghamton General Hospital Auxiliary presented John Carrigg, senior vice president chief operation officer, and Betsy Pietriyk, executive director of UHS Foundation, a contribution of $40,377 during the BGH Auxiliary annual meeting May 22. Hurford funding enables project VESTAL Alexandra Wolkoff recently received funding from Haverford College's John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities to spend the summer working in Philadelphia with a project titled, "The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois' Seventh Ward" through the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

She will work on an oral history component of the project, interviewing at historic black churches and developing an open-access, web-based course. Wolkoff, a resident of Vestal, is a rising senior at Haverford College. BOOKS program awards grants BOOKS, a partnership of state Sen. Thomas Libous and Morrisville State College, awarded more than $25,000 in grants to 24 libraries in Broome, Tioga, Chenango and Delaware counties and Catholic Charities of Broome County to initiate, sity commencement ceremony. He received a bachelor of science degree in biology from the university, where he was a mem Antonio V.

Altadonna ber of the Biology Club and American Chemical Association. Altadonna, a graduate of Chenango Valley High School, is the son of Vincenzo and Serafina Altadonna, of Palmero, Sicily. Power of a Purse campaign a success Mothers More of Broome-Tioga participated in a national campaign, Power of a Purse, and collected more than 900 new and gently used purses this year to donate to organizations that serve financially disadvantaged women, including the SOS Shelter, YWCA of Binghamton, A New Hope Center, Mom's House, Catholic Charities and the VOA women's shelter. Campaign efforts included a partnership with Weight Watchers in Vestal, which was used as a collection site. The local Junior League also donated approximately 50 purses.

E-mail Good News! to Michelle Terry at 'MP The following officers were presented: Virginia Gruver, president. Lucille Roberts, vice president. Shirley DeLucia, treasurer. Elizabeth Durkot, assistant treasurer. Marjorie Testani, recording secretary.

Arlene Engle, corresponding secretary. Oxford's Allen named IC outstanding senior OXFORD David Allen, of Oxford, was chosen by the faculty at Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College to receive the Outstanding Kaitlin Korver, of Sherburne, left, and Rebecca Allen, of Oxford, recently received academic achievement awards from Keuka College. PHOTO PROVIDED Only two students were chosen from their class in their major for these awards. Hospital Auxiliary elects officers BINGHAMTON The UHS Binghamton General Hospital Auxiliary elected a slate of officers for 2013-14 at the BGH Auxiliary annual meeting May 22.

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