Mammo-thon sets up screenings
In honor of Mother's Day, volunteers from Regional Hospital of Scranton, along with University of Scranton student volunteers and the American Cancer Society worked together to call hundreds of area women to remind them to schedule their annual mammograms.
Diana Harris, chairwoman of the Mammo-thon committee, and Jamie S. Stallman, M.D.; Cindy Segar-Miller, Regional, chief operations officer; Joseph Cassidy, director of imaging; and Tom Ranella, director of IT; and Erin Moskel of the American Cancer Society, spearheaded the event that saw to the scheduling of 72 women for mammography screenings and identified 49 women who expressed a desire to be called back to schedule a screening.
"It is important to our team to assist women in our community with this important cancer-screening measure," Cindy said.
Serving Justice
Mark Taticchi of West Scranton will begin a yearlong judicial clerkship with Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mark, a graduate of West Scranton High School and Penn State University, will join Justice Kennedy after spending the last year working in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP. Before his tenure at Covington, Mark clerked for Judge Sandra Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif.
He received his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, where he graduated first in his class, served as editor-in-chief of the law review, and published papers on law enforcement seizures of digital evidence and the limits of governmental regulation of speech.
Stars in stripes
Air Force Airman 1st Class Elizabeth J. Hunter has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Airman Hunter is the daughter of John Hunter of Spring Brook Twp., and sister of Cherith Hunter of Apex, N.C. She is a 2006 graduate of Heritage Academy.
High notes
Community members were honored for their service to Keystone College during an annual donor award dinner on campus hosted by President Dr. Edward G. Jr. and Regina Boehm. Jeanne Bovard received the David J. Gray Award; Alex Fried the Joyce E. Tressler Award. Harry Dowling, Dorothy DeWitt Mackie, Albert Mueller, Carol Mueller and Bill Tersteeg each received Presidential Medallions.