UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 32, Page 3
May 18, 1995
Class of 1995; Three seniors receive Alumni Association awards

     Three students have been named outstanding seniors of the Class
of 1995. Heather Lynn Patton, of Dover, has received the Emalea P.
Warner Award as the outstanding woman, and Eric Allen Nauman, of
Seaford, and Joseph Michael Salvatore Jr., of Pittman, N. J., are the
joint recipients of the Alexander J. Taylor Award as outstanding men.
     Presented by the UD Alumni Association, the awards recognize
outstanding qualities of scholarship, leadership, citizenship and
character.
     In addition to receiving a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond and having
their names inscribed on a plaque in the Perkins Student Center, the
recipients will lead the alumni procession at Commencement May 27 in
Delaware Stadium.
     The daughter of alumni Robert, Delaware '69, and Judith S.
Patton, Delaware '68 '86M, Patton is an American studies major, with a
minor in American history and Black American studies. She has received
a continuous Academic Incentive Award since her freshman year, as well
as an Alumni Association Scholarship in 1994.
     Patton is vice president of  the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor
Society and the Sigma Alpha Iota Music Honor Fraternity for Women. She
also is a member of Golden Key National Honor Society, Mortar Board
National Honor Society, and for being in the top 1 percent of her
class, the Phi Kappa Phi Liberal Arts National Honor Society.
     In addition, she was named to the Commission on the Status of
Women and serves as an executive officer of the University Chorale and
as technical director of the University Opera.
     A Sunday school teacher and peer minister for her church, Patton
was a cluster leader last summer on a mission trip to Eagle Butte
Sioux Reservation in South Dakota for 20 high school and six college
students who worked on a Habitat for Humanity project.
     A resident assistant (RA) in the Rodney complex for two years,
Patton has won awards for her programming, and she represents
residence life and RAs in the Undergraduate Cabinet.
     Nauman, a mechanical engineering student minoring in mathematics
and Japanese, has maintained a 4.0 grade point average. He has
conducted undergraduate research and co-authored journal articles.
     He organized, developed and managed the Launching a Dream program
for Delaware schools, which teaches young students how to build and
launch model rockets to encourage interest in engineering and the
sciences.
     He also is an active volunteer at Emmaus House, a homeless
shelter in Newark.
     His awards include the W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering
Achievement Award, an Engineering Alumni Association Scholarship and
membership in Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma honor societies.
     Nauman is the past treasurer of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers Student Chapter, and a founding member of the
Engineering Ambassadors, which organizes department tours and college
admissions activities.
     Salvatore, an honors degree candidate, is majoring in history and
has carried out research with Karen Bauer, assistant director of the
Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
     In the Honors Program, he has served as a Dickinson fellow, as a
representative to the Honors Council and as a volunteer Honors Program
tour guide coordinator. He also has been a member of the Undergraduate
Cabinet and was involved in the Solar Leadership Conference.
     As an RA in Dickinson, Salvatore won the Office of Residence Life
Program of the Year Award for "How Do We Love: Let Us Count the Ways"
and became a residence hall director in 1994.
     With an interest in theatre, he worked as an intern  for the
Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) production of Mother
Courage and her Children and has been involved in an independent study
in stage management this semester. He has been interviewed by Harvard
University's American Repertory Theatre for placement in its
dramaturgy program. He also has worked with the Not Quite Ready for
Bed Players and served as a master of ceremonies for World AIDS Day.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure