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Elmhurst Student Receives Outstanding Service Leadership Award
Sarah Soszko, a resident of Elmhurst, has been awarded Dominican University’s Outstanding Service Leadership Award for 2007-2008 for demonstrating leadership through her service to Dominican University and the larger community.
During her four years at Dominican, Soszko has held a number of leadership positions, including president of the Resident Student Association, co-facilitator of LEAD, a campus leadership education program, and senior senator of the Student Government Association. She also co-chaired the Baccalaureate Mass and the Candle and Rose ceremony.
Soszko has participated in many on-campus ministry programs, including freshman student orientation, encounter retreat and senior weekend retreat. A member of the Dominican student preaching team, she took part in the 2007 Dominican Preaching Conference. She has participated in several university-sponsored service trips such as the Two Feet Retreat, Alternative Spring Break and Chicago Urban Plunge and traveled to Biloxi, MS last year to help repair homes destroyed by Hurricane Rita.
Soszko graduated in May with a degree in psychology and is spending a year of service in a community in Atlanta, GA as a Dominican Volunteer.
Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution
offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in
the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the
Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008
issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in
the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive
year.
“As a student I wanted an intimate community. As an aspiring journalist I wanted a big city. Dominican gave me both—and so much more.”
Tracy Samantha
Schmidt
2005
TIME Magazine
