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About Students :: May 2006

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Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) (May 31)

Competitions Net Musician $10,000
Wingate native Jonathan Ryan won $10,000 in two organ performance competitions this year. Ryan, a graduate student at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., won $2,500 in the Poister Competition on March 25, then $7,500 for his first-place performance in the Rodland Competition on April 22.

Democrat and Chronicle (May 25)

A Life-Changing Injury Gave Paul Averill a New Focus
Before he could finish at MCC, he slammed his car into a telephone pole in Brighton. . . . After six weeks at Strong Memorial Hospital, Paul and his mom, Kathy, spent 3 1/2 months at the Shepherd Center, a catastrophic care hospital in Atlanta. . . . After he finished at MCC, he enrolled at the University of Rochester (where he was able to live two years in a dorm room). He graduated May 21 with majors in math and economics.

Democrat and Chronicle (May 24)

UR Student Starts Blog About Bipolar Disorder
A University of Rochester student has started a blog (online comments, questions) about bipolar disorder at www.TheBipolarBlog.com that has attracted close to 700 members. The goal is for peers to help each other to learn, share information, and heal. Eric Wisch, who just finished his sophomore year studying political economics and psychology, was diagnosed with the mental health condition before college.

Democrat and Chronicle (May 9)

Adult Students See College as a Gift to Be Treasured
Thirty years after high school, Trish Cerone discovered her true love—writing and literature. At 51, she is graduating this month from the University of Rochester and has already been accepted into the UR’s Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education.

London Free Press (Canada) (May 4)

London Guitarist Gets School’s Highest Offer
Aimee Piche is going to Rochester’s Eastman School of Music—and her brothers are going on the road with their band, Article One. The young London guitarist will begin studies at the western New York school in the fall, after accepting a four-year financial assistance award worth more than $90,000 US. “It’s one of the No. 1 schools in North America for music,” Piche says of Eastman.

Democrat and Chronicle (May 2)

Eastman Students to Perform Today
Two Eastman School of Music graduate students—pianist Xi Zhang and violinist Bin Huang—will perform today at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Conservatory Project ongoing concert series.

Scranton Times-Tribune (Pennsylvania) (May 1)

Around the Schools
Another member of last season’s District 2 Class AAA champion football team will go on to play in college. Lineman Jon Pesota, a Times-Tribune All-Region selection, will continue his academic and athletic careers at the University of Rochester.