Adam Botzenhart, a 2004 Newark Valley graduate, last month was among the honorees at RIT's awards program for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship.  The criteria for this award include maintaining a 3.85 GPA or better, along with particularly creative work, service to others on and off campus and independent research.
 
Botzenhart, who will graduate in May with a BS in Public Policy, is Managing Editor of the Reporter magazine, where he supervises four section editors and 25 writers.  He is a Student Justice on the Institute Appeals Board and serves under Dr. Fornieri as his teaching and research assistant, where he helped to edit a recently published book on political science.

 Also honored during this program was retired Newark Valley English teacher George Lohmann.  Nominated by Botzenhart for RIT's Distinguished Teacher Recognition Program, Lohmann was among the 23 teachers who received this award.  For the honor Botzenhart wrote that "George Lohmann taught me by example how to be a leader and how to accomplish great things working with others.  He truly cared about the development of his students and gave far beyond what was required of his time and energy."  Lohmann retired from teaching in 2006 and is currently the Director of the Tioga County Teacher Center.

 Adam Botzenhart plans to attend law school in the fall.