Rebekah Wieland of Lansdale,  graduated Magna Cum Laude with High Honors at Mount Holyoke College’s 175th commencement exercises.

Wieland, a Pre-Medical student majored in Biochemistry and minored in Mathematics. Among her many honors, she was a Division III National Scholar Athlete (Newmac Academic All Conference Crew Team), Seven Sisters Scholar Athlete, and Sarah Williston Scholar. Wieland recently won the Grand Prize Poster Competition at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa (the oldest undergraduate honors organization in the United States) and to the Sigma Xi Society (the Scientific Research Organizations of North America).

She has also been chosen as a 2012-2013 Fulbright Award winner. She will be doing cardiovascular research at The Center for Gender Medicine at The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden before attending Medical School.

She is the daughter of Dr. Kenneth and Dr. Diane Wieland of Lansdale.

MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION LAUNCHES FOURTH
ANNUAL DIVERSITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

 

Norristown, PA - On June 4, 2012, the Montgomery Bar Association’s (MBA) Diversity Committee will launch its fourth annual Summer 1L Internship Program, which provides paid internships to first year law students of diverse backgrounds.

 

Participation and interest in the program has grown steadily from year to year.  This summer, ten highly qualified students will be placed with law offices throughout Montgomery County.  The program runs for eight weeks with each student receiving a stipend of $500 per week, paid for by the respective law office.  In 2011, the MBA awarded a $1,000 scholarship to each of the participating interns.

 

Throughout the internship, the Diversity Committee sponsors a weekly event with a speaker.  This year’s speakers will be: MBA President Donald J. Martin, Esq., Superior Court Judge Susan Peikes Gantman, Court of Common Pleas Judges Cheryl Austin and Garrett Page, District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman and Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey.

 

The Summer 1L Internship Program sprang from an effort from the MBA to increase diversity throughout the Montgomery County legal community.  The MBA partners with the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group in locating students to participate in the program.  This year, the following firms will be participating in the Program:  Flamm Walton, PC, Fox Rothschild, LLP, High Swartz LLP, Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy & Kramer LLP, Miller, Turetsky, Rule & Mclennan, Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd., Snyder & Verbeke, Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP and Wisler Pearlstine LLP.

 

The Diversity Committee is currently chaired by Mohammad Ghiasuddin, Esq. with Carolyn R. Mirabile, Esq.  serving as Vice Chair and Wendy G. Rothstein, Esq. serving as Chair of the 1L Summer Program.

 

For additional information regarding the summer 1L Program contact Wendy Rothstein at 610-397-6510 or Jim Mathias at the Montgomery County Bar Association at 610-279-9660.

 

MCCC Students Named to Who’s Who Among American Junior Colleges

 

 Blue Bell/Pottstown,  —Sixty-seven students from Montgomery County Community College’s Class of 2012 were named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges. To qualify for Who’s Who, students must have graduated during the 2011-2012 academic year with agrade point average of at least 2.75 and must be nominated by a member of MCCC’s faculty or staff.

 

The 2012 Who’s Who students are listed below by area of residence:

 

Abington: Mary Ann McPaul

 

Bridgeport: Arthur Mongrande

 

Bryn Mawr: Rebecca McKendrick

 

Chester Springs: Billie Wagner

 

Coatesville: Alyssa Balun, Melinda Henderson

 

Conshohocken: Mohammed Mohammed

 

Eagleville: Candice Doherty

 

East Norriton: Hilary Sbei, Karen Wagler

 

Gilbertsville: Erica Wilson

 

Glenside: Christine Chiodo

 

Harleysville: Valerie Ferrin, Mattie Gehman, Jacquelin Howsare, Sarah Munson, Kathleen Schillinger

 

Hatboro: Brian Jerardi, Marianne Shaeffer, Nicholas Yanoshak

 

Hatfield: Jenna Rosenberger

 

Horsham: Kevin Ciccone, Scott Fida, Lisa Furry

 

King of Prussia: Deanna Kim

 

Lansdale: James Brown, Melissa Gallagher, Teresa Harris, Joanna Kohlbus, Rachel Lacoff, Scott Sampson, Kayla Sheely, Kristin York

 

Levittown: Andrew Stegena

 

Norristown: Gina Nash, Linda Watson

 

North Hills: Scott Alcott

 

North Wales: Joseph Daniels, Lindsay Jordan

 

Pennsburg: Dean Haas Jr., Catherine Mealing

 

Perkiomenville: Allison Lavella

 

Plymouth Meeting: Kim Calhoun, Kelly McCarty

 

Pottstown: Dominique Burks, Brian Gallie, Alysa Murray, Stephanie Muse, Amanda Nelson, Tessa Piepmeyer, John Roddenberry, Nicole Weising, Karen Willman

 

Reading: Emily Minotto

 

Red Hill: Mary Lemon

 

Royersford: Jennifer Callahan, Charles Plaugher

 

Schwenksville: Marjorie Kelley

 

Souderton: Norman Detweiler

 

Telford: Dorothy Collison

 

Tylersport: Tammy Matczak

 

West Norriton: Barbra Bateman

 

Willow Grove: Molly Barrett, John Cirillo, Barbara Lederman

 

Wyndmoor: Corinne Angelilli

 

Wynnewood: Rachel Herman