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Vote for new Spirit Ambassadors Sept. 26-30

Spirit Ambassadors finalists: (front row, from left) Karen Anderson, Kimberly Neilsen, Natalie Gempesaw-Pangan, Melanie Holodynsky and Ming-Jay Shiao; (second rown, from left) Lindsey Kling and Lydia Hume; (third row, from left) Laura Milazzo, Danielle Caby and Jennifer Seelin; (fourth row, from left) Jonathan Klein, Megan Denver and Eugene Paulus; (fifth row, from left) David Drowos, Anthony Angelico, Matthew Cohen and Stephen Shallo

4:25 p.m., Sept. 26, 2005--Vote for your favorite candidates for UD Spirit Ambassadors online through Friday, Sept. 30.

Seventeen UD students are competing for selection as ambassadors--the spirited UD supporters who serve as student hosts at campus events. For more information about each finalist, visit [www.udel.edu/spiritambassadors].

Spirit Ambassadors possess strong communication skills, positive attitudes, reliability, leadership, patience, flexibility, diplomacy and an interest in community service.

Those who are selected will join a student advisory board that meets with President David P. Roselle and senior administrators. They will also meet with alumni and UD benefactors.

To vote for your favorites, visit the Spirit Ambassador polling page at [www.udel.edu/spirit] before 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30. Students, faculty and staff can vote one time for up to two candidates.

A selection committee will interview the finalists and the winners will notified on Friday, Oct. 7.

The new Spirit Ambassadors will be announced at halftime at the Homecoming football game at Delaware Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 8.

The winner of the T. Muncy Keith Spirit Award also will be announced at halftime. The award, a $1,000 scholarship given to the ambassador who makes the greatest contribution to the group, is named for the late Wilmington attorney who was believed to be UD’s oldest former cheerleader when he died in 1998, at age 98.

Mr. Keith. a member of the Class of 1922, was UD’s only cheerleader from 1918-1922. He graduated and went on to Harvard Law School. He was still practicing law three days a week when he was in his 90s.

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