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Southern Region Zetas in the News
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TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - SAN MARCOS
Gender Studies honors Smith for dedication
Ashley Richards / News Reporter
excerpts from article...
Knowing that each day students face perplexing decisions and burdensome obstacles has kept Joanne Smith, associate vice president of student affairs, motivated to motivate.
For 28 years, half of which she has spent at Texas State, Smith has dedicated her career to counseling, mentoring and advising college students and young professionals to ensure their ultimate success in school and life.
“My role in student affairs is to do whatever I can to make sure students are succeeding, advancing and moving forward,” Smith said. “I spend a lot of time here at the university after hours working with different groups.”
To celebrate and educate others about Women’s History Month, the department of multicultural and gender studies accepted nominations in February and selected one faculty member, one staff member and two students to honor for their work or contributions to women’s studies and mentoring.
At a luncheon planned and hosted by multicultural and gender studies today, Smith will be honored as the Outstanding Faculty member. With little initial knowledge of the Women’s History Month celebration and nominations taking place, Smith was surprised to receive a letter revealing she had been selected as the honored faculty member.
During Smith’s 14-year stay at Texas State, she has served as the advisor for the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, and she also counsels students in a graduate student master affairs program to keep a watch on their progress.
Mentoring young women is a large part of Smith’s job. In her conversations with them, she places an emphasis on the importance of women pursing a higher education to benefit themselves and others.
In her wide range of work, Smith helps young women who already have degrees to stay focused and remain competitive by keeping up with changes in trends and in the work place.
“I try to make sure when I talk to people, particularly women, about moving forward and moving into other positions that they really have to broaden their experience beyond what just their job is,” Smith said. “They need to understand the whole and not just their little niche.”
Smith said her work has brought many joyful occasions when she gets to witness the success of students she counseled in the past. She has been able to reap the benefits of her work by seeing first-hand how her guidance has lead young students to succeed beyond college and said she thinks her efforts help students prepare for life after Texas State.
“I do the things I do because I love to do it, and I feel it’s the right thing to do,” Smith said.
Congratulations to Zeta Phi Zeta Chapter in Alexandria, Louisiana-Janet Thompson, Basileus
excerpts from article written by Eugene Sutherland in The Town Talk newspaper, Alexandria
Nuccia Williams will be the nation's first black president. Ask her, but don't just take her word for it.
Consult the Mabel Brasher Elementary School fourth-grader's record: Zion Hill Baptist Church choir member, liturgical dancer and active Sunday School participant. She's also been on the honor roll since the first grade, has won awards for good citizenship and then there's that 3.8 grade point average.
No wonder the future pediatrician was honored along with a number of other Alexandria-area children at Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. "Spotlighting Youth Who Make A Difference" award ceremony Saturday at the Martin Community Center.
"I feel really good about this, because it shows that hard work pays off," Nuccia said. "Now, I'm going to just keep working and keep God first to make sure I have a great future."
That's a strong likelihood for Nuccia, and about 40 others representing each school level from the Alexandria, Boyce and Pineville communities.
Almost without fail, they have at least a 3.0 GPA, are active in their churches and have mapped out productive career plans.
The theme of spiritual strength as their success secret was punctuated by gospel music that played throughout the program. Liturgical dancing, in which some honorees took part, also trumpeted the emphasis on faith.
Zeta: Providing Service in Calamity During Operation Unified Assistance
Dr. Nellie Prudhomme, RN, Zeta Phi Beta responded to the call for humanitarian assistance from the nursing and medical community during the Tsunami disaster. The Nu Epsilon Zeta chapter member of Lafayette Louisiana accompanied 93 physicians, nurses and allied health workers with Project HOPE on a humanitarian aid mission aboard the USNS Mercy to bring health and hope to thousands of tsunami survivors. This mission involved a thirty-four day rotation in which health services were rendered to the Tsunami victims in the Banda Aceh region of Indonesia. The Dec. 26 disaster left tens of thousands of people without access to basic medical care and medical supplies and destroyed much of the region’s infrastructure.
The University Hospital in Banda Aceh was buried under 4 feet of mud after the tsunami. The vast majority of patients and health care providers at the hospital lost their lives, and nearly all of the hospital equipment they had was destroyed. Project HOPE joined the international community in providing immediate response to the disaster in Indonesia.
The USNS Mercy ship (1000 bed hospital ship) served as the enabling platform to assist humanitarian operations both aboard and ashore. Through the private/public partnership with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Public Health Service, over 1,300 tsunami survivors have received medical care. During the 2 month relief effort, Project HOPE’s medical volunteers treated more than 3,000 patients aboard the Mercy and ashore in Banda Aceh.
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