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FSAS Annual Meeting - 2005Thursday, June 9, 2005
Following the dinner, Dean Super gave his annual talk on the state of Family Studies at Storrs and the regional campuses, this year focusing on the “Qualities of Growth”.
Read more about Stephen Ristau '80 recipient of the 2005 Lorraine Wetherell Family Studies Alumni Society Distinguished Service Award.
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The reception began with a presentation of the Undergraduate Honors Program Research poster display which included projects by: Lauren Elizabeth Fogarty on occupational and relational expectations and satisfaction in intimate relationships among emerging adult couples; Stephanie H. Parade on the effect of adults’ perception of their childhood experiences with parental acceptance-rejection on the current parent-adult child relationship; and Stephanie L. Stolzenbach on the efficacy of an alternative incarceration program. After the poster display and hors d’oeurves, the Annual Meeting began with a welcome by Dean Charles M. Super.
SFSAS President Catherine Foley Geib presented a report about the yearly activities of the Society. The slate for the incoming officers was accepted as presented. The 2004-2005 officers are: Jennifer Fairbanks, President; Julie Eldridge, Vice-President; Secretary vacant; Grace Caruso Whitney, Treasurer, and Merrilyn Cummings, Corresponding Secretary. New board members who will serve until 2008 are: Amy Tedesco, Mary Petillo, Kim Petrovic, Diane Bengston, and Carrie Musil. Continuing board members include Shirley Randazzo, Beena Achhpal, Mary Anderson, Mishonda Rankin Baldwin, Gaye Stewart Carroll, Laurel Fey, Virginia Garvey, Becky Niederwerfer Person, Catherine Foley Geib and Laurie Greenstein. Irene Brown, Lorraine McClatchey Wetherell, Nathan Ives and Dean Super will continue to serve as ex-officio members. The Society also remembered a few alumni who has passed away last year, and thanked members of the board whose terms expired.
SFSAS business was followed by an awards ceremony recognizing the accomplishments of current student Lauren Elizabeth Fogarty, ’05 and alum Stephen Ristau, ’80 M. A. Assistant Dean Maureen T. Mulroy presented Lauren Fogarty with the 2005 Outstanding Student Award for her scholarship, volunteerism and future career promise. Event co-chairs, Gaye Stewart Carroll and Shirley Randazzo, presented Stephen Ristau with the 2005 Lorraine Wetherell School of Family Studies Alumni Society Distinguished Service Award for his notable career in the family service sector serving as an executive, senior manager, consultant and trainer, and clinician. As a 1980 alumnus of the Marriage and Family Therapy program, Mr. Ristau now heads the The Governor’s Prevention Partnership (GPP) as President and CEO. The GPP is a non-profit, public-private partnership whose goal is to keep Connecticut youths drug-free, safe and successful by creating local programs that prevent youth substance abuse and violence. This Partnership carries out research, evaluation, and dissemination of prevention work in the state. The GPP has also supervised SFS graduate student interns, allowed access to data for theses and dissertations, hired former undergraduates and graduates, and partnered with UCONN in many other ways.