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Catherine Ruggiero '07, from Saratoga Springs, NY, majoring in biology with a minor in psychology: She has reached out to the community beyond St. Lawrence and made a difference.
Catherine was drawn to St. Lawrence by the friendly and welcoming campus atmosphere created by students and faculty. She describes community service as a great way to get involved in campus life. "It is also an opportunity to get to know the people and places around campus that are so often overlooked," she adds.
Catherine has been involved with Circle K since her first year. She has helped organize and participate in community-wide bottle drives, campus fundraising efforts, dances with an agency for the developmentally impaired, and clean-up days in Canton. She says she particularly enjoyed the community-wide Clean-Up campaigns because "they allowed me to interact with other student service organizations like Rotaract and APO and others interested in serving the community. I also got to meet and help our Canton neighbors. Our work made an obvious impact on community members in the Canton area."
Aside from direct involvement in community service, Catherine has used her position as the coordinator of the Intercultural Floor to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief. She also works in the Science Writing Center and has been a chemistry teaching assistant, a member of ODK and a writing mentor for a first-year seminar. In 2006-07, Catherine she is a mentor in the First-Year Program and a teaching assistant in Animal Psychology.
As a science major, Catherine appreciates opportunities available at St. Lawrence for lab work. "I have completed live-animal surgeries, dissections, animal training and chemical syntheses," she says. "And I still have a year left!" She plans on going to a veterinary school after graduation to obtain her DVM.
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