{"id":27219,"date":"2019-04-30T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2019\/04\/30\/necc-alpha-beta-gamma-chapter-recognizes-business-students\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:14:14","slug":"necc-alpha-beta-gamma-chapter-recognizes-business-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/30\/necc-alpha-beta-gamma-chapter-recognizes-business-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Alpha Beta Gamma Chapter Recognizes Business Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20976\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/04\/ABG-1.jpg-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20976\" class=\"wp-image-20976 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/04\/ABG-1.jpg-crop-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Louise Schafer, Katie Lacroix, Alyssa Ronca (student speaker), and Justine Janvrin.\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right are inductees to the Beta Omicron Chapter of Alpha Beta Gama: Louise Schafer of Atkinson, NH, Katie Lacroix of Plaistow, NH, Alyssa Ronca (student speaker) of Derry, NH, and Justine Janvrin of Seabrook, NH.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Northern Essex Community College business students were recognized for academic excellence and leadership at the 32nd annual induction and awards ceremony for the Beta Omicron Chapter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/current-students\/academic-centers\/center-for-business-and-accounting\/alpha-beta-gamma\/\">Alpha Beta Gamma<\/a>, which was held recently at the college.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one\u00a0 students were inducted into the honor society and nine received awards. \u00a0 Alpha Beta Gamma was established by business professors in 1970 to recognize and encourage scholarship among business and professional students enrolled at two-year degree granting institutions.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/current-students\/academic-centers\/center-for-business-and-accounting\/alpha-beta-gamma\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The award recipients included:<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Miles, of Salisbury,\u00a0 received the Hausman Siegel Distinguished Award. This award is given to the outstanding student chapter president. Miles has shown exceptional leadership in his time as chapter president.<\/p>\n<p>Four Beta Omicron members earned essay awards this year. The recipients included, Sara Tavitian of Haverhill, who received the Dr. Mary Bone Essay Award for her essay \u201cWhat Alpha Beta Gamma Means to Me\u201d; Celine Ramey of Salem, NH, who received the Peter J. Gleason Essay Award for \u201cBusiness and the Environment, Today and in Ten Years\u201d; Elaine Filed of Haverhill, received the Ester J. Cross-Carter Memorial Essay for \u201cHelping Others\u201d; and Anastasios Koulopoulos of North Andover, who received the MBIA Competitive Essay Award for \u201cThe Significance of Municipal Bonds in Financing Special Projects in the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other award recipients honored this year included, John Williamson of Merrimac, who received the Professor Steven Graham Memorial for attending the national meeting. Professor Pamela Donahue of Methuen received the C. George Alvey Distinguished Fellowship for the outstanding chapter advisor of the national organization. Linda Goddu of Salem, NH, received the Nathan Ancell Memorial Award for outstanding business plan.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Echavarria of Lawrence, was the recipient of the President Eva Bobrow Medallion which is given to a chapter member who has made many contributions to the society over a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>The chapter itself also won an award; the Brooks College Golden Key. This chapter award is given to two year colleges for excellence in community service, campus service, recruitment, and excellence in financial management. This is the ninth year Northern Essex has won this award. Throughout its chapter history, Alpha Beta Gamma has received over 98 national awards.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha Beta Gamma is an international honor society that recognizes and encourages scholarship among students of two-year business and professional colleges. Members of NECC\u2019s local chapter must maintain a cumulative 3.0 minimum grade point average and exude strong moral and academic character.<\/p>\n<p>The following students were inducted into Alpha Beta Gamma this year:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gregory Baden Gobin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haverhill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rory Astacio<\/p>\n<p>Jannyl V. Fabi\u00e1n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cinthia Arias<\/p>\n<p>Luis E. Estevez<\/p>\n<p>Emely Rachel Pimentel<\/p>\n<p>Jeurys Santiago (Incoming Treasurer)<\/p>\n<p>Maniscarlett Valera<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynnfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Hawes<\/p>\n<p>Michael Stellato, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrimac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erin Thibodeau<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methuen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Candy Castillo<\/p>\n<p>Amel T. Perez Cavallo<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Victoria Garcia<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Labranche<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Lucas<\/p>\n<p>Nickey Pereyra (Incoming President)<\/p>\n<p><strong>North Andover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BreAnne C. Rogers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salisbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David M. Fanaras<\/p>\n<p>Cody Harding<\/p>\n<p>Patsathorn Noyvimol<\/p>\n<p>Renee Taylor Pearson<\/p>\n<p>Joshua J. Rolfe<\/p>\n<p>Justin Robert Stanley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waltham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Sullivan<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Atkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Louise Anne Schafer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Derry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Ronca (Incoming Sec. &amp; Speaker)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plaistow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Roy Jackson<\/p>\n<p>Katie Lacroix<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Piscopo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seabrook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justine E. Janvrin<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Essex Community College business students were recognized for academic excellence and leadership at the 32nd annual induction and awards ceremony for the Beta Omicron Chapter of Alpha Beta Gamma, which was held recently at the college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NECC Alpha Beta Gamma Chapter Recognizes Business Students - NECC News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/30\/necc-alpha-beta-gamma-chapter-recognizes-business-students\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NECC Alpha Beta Gamma Chapter Recognizes Business Students - 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