Savaria M. Raineri honored at SUNY Oswego convocation

2012 May 17

Savaria M. Raineri of Canastota was honored at SUNY Oswego's recent Honors Convocation. She received the Robert Davis Helsby '40 Award.

Raineri is a junior studying technology education at Oswego. She is the daughter of Charles and Tina Raineri of Canastota. She is a member of Epsilon Pi Tau.

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. Nearly 110 Oswego students received awards at the ceremony.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News named it among the "Top Public Regional Universities in the North" for 2012, the Princeton Review and USA Today named SUNY Oswego to their 2012 list of 150 "best value" colleges and universities in the nation, and the Princeton Review included Oswego in its 2012 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges."

A 151-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls more than 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.