SELINSGROVE, Pa. —Natasha Johnson of Poland has been selected to serve as Panhellenic delegate of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Susquehanna University.

Susquehanna is home to five national sororities for women that comprise the Panhellenic Council: Alpha Delta Pi (Gamma Omicron chapter), Kappa Delta (Beta Upsilon chapter), Sigma Gamma Rho (Rho Theta chapter), Sigma Kappa (Epsilon Delta chapter) and Zeta Tau Alpha (Iota Nu chapter).

The officers work toward improving life at Susquehanna University through community building events and social activities.

Johnson is a senior psychology major at Susquehanna. A 2010 graduate of Poland Regional High School, she is the daughter of Linda Johnson and Michael Johnson.

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NEW LONDON, N.H. — Christian Coffman of Auburn was one of 10  student-actors featured in “Orlando,” a play based on the novel by Virginia Woolf.

The play was performed in late March in the Sawyer Center Theater at the Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center.

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STANDISH — For 22 years, groups of Saint Joseph’s College students have dedicated their spring break to week-long service projects. This year, more than 30 students participated in service trips to Kentucky, Westchester County, N.Y., and Philadelphia.

Lindsay Carr of Lewiston, a senior theology student, volunteered in Vanceburg, Ky., at Glenmary Farms to help build and renovate needed community projects.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Jonathan M. Roy of Lewiston received a Master of Science in accounting degree from Western New England University on Feb. 14.

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BOSTON — Emerson College student Sarah Patterson of Lewiston, a theatre education – acting major, performed in “A Toast to Emerson’s Voice: Acappellooza 2014”on March 28 at the Paramount Mainstage to fundraise for student and diversity scholarships.

Acappellooza 2014 is an initiative of the Spirit of Emerson, a community-building celebration of Emerson College. For the first time, Emerson’s four a cappella groups — Acappellics Anonymous, Achoired Taste, Noteworthy and Treble Makers — were to unite on stage.

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BATON ROUGE, La. — Alan Bennett of Gray, Michael Vietze of New Gloucester, Madeline Nazar of Readfield and Mercedes Gurney of Rumford recently were initiated at The University of Maine into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

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EASTON, Mass. — Lewiston native Rebecca Lessard, a member of the Class of 2015 at Stonehill College, will be one of 50 students at the college who will be conducting research with Stonehill faculty this summer through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program.

Lessard will be working with Assistant Professor of Political Science William Ewell on a project titled “A Political History of the Appropriations Process.”

During the summer, the project team, all political science majors, will explore the historical development of the appropriations process from the initial establishment of the modern committee system in 1946, to the 1974 establishment of the Budget Committees, and to the appropriations subcommittee reorganizations in 2003, 2005 and 2007.

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AUBURN — Tara Manns of Portland, a radiologic technology student at the Central Maine Medical Center College of Nursing & Health Professions, has been selected to participate in the American Society of Radiologic Technologists 2014 Student Leadership Development Program.

Manns will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the ASRT Educational Symposium and Annual Governance and House of Delegates Meeting in June in Orlando, Fla. She will attend two educational courses specifically designed for students and be assigned a professional mentor during the House of Delegates meeting.

She was one of 75 radiologic science students from around the country chosen to participate in the program.

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