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Several Holy Cross students won prestigious grants and fellowships
this past spring, including three recent graduates who were
awarded Fulbright Teaching Assistantships.
Ryan
(Gino) Giannini ’01, a German/economics major from Mentor, Ohio, will travel
to Germany to teach English in a secondary school. Megan Cokely ’01,
a Spanish major from Canton, Mass., and Jon Carfagno ’01, a German/art
history major from East Windsor, N.J., will be posted in Austria. Their responsibilities
will include serving as native English speakers to high-school students who
are
learning English, while representing American culture and ideals and learning
about European ways.
John
Giblin ’03, a physics and mathematics major from Brunswick, Maine, was
recently honored with a two-year Goldwater Scholarship from a field of 1,164
mathematics,
science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of
colleges and universities nationwide. A member of the College Honors Program,
Giblin
plans to spend next year studying at St. Edmunds College at Oxford University
as part
of the Holy Cross Study Abroad Program. He also teaches a religious education
class at a local Worcester
parish and serves as a lector at Holy Cross.
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