Mollie Clark honored at SUNY Oswego convocation

2016 Apr 26

Mollie Clark of Amsterdam was honored at SUNY Oswego's recent 2016 Honors Convocation, receiving the Gerhard D. Zeller Award.

Clark is a senior studying cinema and screen studies and creative writing at Oswego. She will begin teaching English in June as a Teach for America Corps member in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Kristine Clark and Eric Clark.

The formal ceremony, complete with a procession of faculty and college officers in full academic regalia, is sponsored each spring at Oswego by Vega, the women's honor society.

The audience included faculty, staff, students and students' family members. SUNY Oswego honored more than 100 students at the ceremony.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2016, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2016 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges" and in its national list of "Green Colleges."

A 155-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.