Charlotte and Arthur Zitrin/Student Support Services Peer Tutor Scholars
Spring 2001
The following students were the recipients of the Zitrin Foundation Scholarships for the Spring 2001 semester. The students were selected on the basis of their outstanding academic achievements and leadership qualities. This was the first time that the $4,000 scholarship was made available to students and awarded to Student Support Services Program students.
From left to right: Gabriela Recalde, Wendy Cerrato, Olga Cerrato, Juan Villafana, Uttam Majumdar, and Luis Ulloa
| Olga Cerrato
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Olga is from Honduras. Started as an ESL student. She entered SSS and CCNY in 1996. She is a Biology Major with a GPA of 3.18. She has participated in many of the college's cultural events. Last year she participated in the Youth Festival at the College, she served as student mentor at the College Day for Families and at the TRIO Training workshop in July. She has volunteered in food and clothing drives, the Homeless Book Drive and visits to Homes for the elderly and to Hale House. Olga has served as a mentor and student advisor in the Student Support Services Program during the summer and during registration periods. Olga has received the Hispanic Association Faculty and Staff Award. As a Zitrin Scholar Olga has tutored students in Chemistry and Biology. She has also been mentoring a new transfer student in the science department. |
| Wendy Cerrato
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Wendy, also from Honduras, Began as an ESL student, is a graduating senior in Psychology with a minor in Spanish. She has a GPA of 3.768. Wendy is from Honduras. She was inducted in into the Golden Key national Honor Society. Last summer she spent six weeks tutoring and mentoring disadvantaged high school students at Fordham University. She has volunteered at the Isabella Home for the elderly and to the Catholic Home Bureau of AIDS stricken children. She is the recipient of many awards, the City Woman of the year award, the association of Hispanic Faculty award, the Latino Alumni association Award, the Helen and Karl Goldberg Memorial prize, the Downer Languages Award, Student Aid Association and many SSS awards including, Outstanding Academic Performance award, Leadership award and Freshman of the Year award. She is also a member of Sigma Delta Pi – the national Honor Society. |
| Uttam Majumdar
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Uttam is from Bangladesh, Started as an ESL student, is a junior in the Computer Science Department. He has a GPA of 3.9. He is affiliated with three organizations on campus. SSSP, The Program for Retention of Students (PRES) and the Association of Computer Machinery. He has tutored in the PRES program, at SSSP, as a private tutor for high school and college students. He has served as a mentor for CCNY TRACC Program. He has also assisted the Office of Academic Advising during registration. He has earned many awards The Theodore Charos memorial Scholar, General Motors scholarship, the National Science Foundation Scholarship in Computer science, The Barbara Barotz Memorial Award, the Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Uttam plans to complete a PHD in Engineering. |
| Gabriela Recalde
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From Ecuador, Gabriela started as an ESL student, now she is a graduating senior with a GPA of 3.495. She is an Economics major. She has won many awards including SSSP Freshman of the Year Award, High Academic Achievement Award, CCNY Association of Hispanic Faculty and Staff Award, the General Motors Scholarship. She was inducted into the Golden Key National Honor society and received the Scholastic Achievement of the Year Award. She also received Mark and Estelle Clements Scholarship for Excellence in Economics and Statistics. She is a member of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Chapter of the International Economics society. She served as a computer basics tutor at the Adult and continuing Education Program, an Economics tutor in the Economics Department and now a Zitrin Scholar and Peer mentor at SSSP. Gabriela plans to continue on towards a PH.D. degree.
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| Juan Villafana
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Juan is from Dominican Republic. He started as an ESL student. Presently, he is a Biology Major, with a GPA of 3.429. Juan is a member of the Golden Key Honor Society. He has received numerous awards from the Student Support Services Program, and he has also received an award from the Association of Hispanic Faculty and Staff. Juan is a youth counselor for his church, in Woodside Queens. He is charge of putting a tutoring Program for children and young adults. He was selected to do research under distinguished professor John Lee. He served as an intern at Mount Sinai Hospital. He plans to be a physician.
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| Luis Ulloa
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Electrical Engineering Major. GPA 3.09. Began with ESL classes. Luis served as an undergraduate researcher for the College’s NSF sponsored Alliance for Minority participation Program, He also serves as the President for the Latin American Engineering Student Association chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (LAESA-SHPE), He has served as the chairperson of the successful High School Student Leadership Conference. Under his leadership as President, LAESA has won the college bowl at SHPE’s north-east conference beating Columbia, Polytechnic, MIT, NJIT and other local schools. Alongside all of this Luis finds time to mentor and tutor lower division students and continues to encourage them to persist in engineering. He has served as an intern at Motorola and was actively involved in a reading program at the Neighborhood Art House.
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Congratulations to them all!
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