AAT Hosts King Tut Trip

February 25th, AAT hosted a trip to the Franklyn Institute to see the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs" exhibit. VP of Scholarship, Amanda Shertz, organized the trip for the chapter. Chapter President, Andy Davis, Chapter Advisor, Jane Sharrow, AAT members, Ed Floor and Zack Rothwell, Honorary Member, Steve Snyder, 1 Cecil Student, and 3 Cecil County residents, joined Amanda and her husband and son for this trip.

All 12 who attended the exhibit had a great time, and were amazed by the exhibit. After seeing the exhibit, the attendees discussed their favorite pieces in the exhibit and discussed Tutankhamun's roll in Egyptian history through his rule, restructuring of the old religion that the former pharaoh changed, and his mysterious death before his 20th birthday.

"The exhibit was incredible." says Chapter President, Andy Davis, "The artifacts that were on display really gave insight to Egyptian culture three thousand years ago. What you see in the movies is nothing compared to what you see and learn in this exhibit. I highly recommend that you pend the extra six dollars and get the audio tour. We did, and it enhanced our experience with this exhibit. It was a perfect example of the "Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power" 2006 - 2008 Phi Theta Kappa Honor Study Topic. It had Gold, a Religious aspect, and the Glory that is Tut."

Andy remembers when the Tut exhibit toured beck in the 70's, "I wanted to see the exhibit when it came to New York when I was a kid, but my family could not afford the trip. I am glad that I had the chance to see it this time around. It was well worth the wait, and was an educational experience that I will not soon forget. If you are interested in Ancient Egypt, I highly recommend this exhibit."

Chapter President Grows Hair for Locks Of Love

Susan White (Chapter President, Alpha Sigma Pi, Chesapeake College), Andy Davis (Chapter President, Alpha Alpha Theta, Cecil Community College), Mike Rippetoe (Maryland State President, Alpha Nu Omicron Chapter, Wor-Wic College)

Alpha Alpha Theta Chapter President, Andy Davis (center), at Cecil Community College in North East, Maryland, is committed to helping cancer patients. He has vowed to grow out his hair until he is ready to graduate with his associates degrees and have it cut for Locks Of Love just before he graduates.

Andy’s mother died from breast cancer back in 1996 at the age of 45. Locks of Love provided his mother with a wig during her treatment. So Andy thought it fitting to donate his hair to the charity for his graduation in his mother’s memory, since is not with us anymore to see him graduate.

Andy’s estimated graduation date is Spring of 2010. He will graduate with degrees in both General Studies and Computer Programming. After graduation, Andy has plans to work on a bachelors degree in Data Communications: Web Development through Franklin University.

USA Today Kick-Off Successfull

The USA Today kicked-off today at Cecil Community as part of the USA Today's Collegiate Readership Program. AAT has committed to getting the USA Today and the Baltimore Sun delivered to the school during the Spring and Fall Semesters until the end of the Spring 2008 Semester. The Washington Post was also to be part of this project, but may have to be replaced with the New York Times if the details can not be worked out with the Post.

Representitives from USA Today came out to assist Chapter President, Andy Davis, and Advisor, Jane Sharrow, with the kick-off. Andy was with USA Today's Kelly, in the Tech building, while Miss. Jane and USA Today's Jill, were in the hall in front of the library. Between the two kick-off points, the group gave away 200 USA Todays and several Baltimore Suns.

The papers will be available at these two locations, as well as in the Reading & Writing Lab, free to the students, faculty, and staff every weekday.

Distinguished Chapter Nominations Announced

The nominations for both the Regional Convention and the International Converntion have been sent to the Regional and International offices. This year we had a tough choice to make for Chapter Officer and Chapter Member, so we had to make our discision carefully. Finally it was decided.

The Distinguished Chapter Officer Nomination was given to Amanda Sherts, VP of Scholarship. Amanda has been an extreemly active officer for the chapter durring the Fall Semester, while also being a nursing student, a wife, and a mother. This is a real balancing act for any student. For her hard work with the AAT Unity in the Community booth, the Basket Bingo fundraiser, and planning our upcoming trip to the King Tut Exhibit in Philadelphia, PA among other activities with AAT during the 2006 calander year.

The Distinguished Chapter Member Nomination was given to Edward Floor. Ed is also a nursing student, he works with Narcodics Annonimous in his spare time, and was on the College Management Team during the Fall Semester. Along with the previous activities, Ed helped with the new smoking policy at Cecil, aided the campus bookstore to improve the adoption rate of the text books for the Spring Semester classes, and worked with other members during the Basket Bingo. For a member who just joined AAT in the Fall, Ed has been pretty generoius with giving his time to the chapter.

Miss Jane Sharrow, AAT co-advisor, also had Ed write a nomination for Chapter President Andy Davis for Distinguished Chapter President. A Computer Programming/General Studies/Web Development Student at Cecil, Andy joined AAT over the Summer Semester of 2006, Was elected President, and has represented AAT at Regional and International Honors Institutes, the Regional Picnic and Maryland Leadership Conference, has hosted two Regional Chapter Presidents Luncheons, Adopted the Chesapeak College chapter (Alpha Sigma Pi) as AAT's Sister Chapter and aided them to go from a one-star chapter to a five-star chapter between October 2006 and December 2006, doubled as AAT's Webmaster, and been an active Student Leader at Cecil. Andy has been involver in every activity that AAT has done since June 2006. He has also worked with other Student Leaders on projects such as Cecil's All College Day, attended Cecil's Leadership Retreat, helped the bookstore with Ed on the book adoptions, and will be attending the Student Advocacy Day in Annapolis, MD on February 14, 2007. All this and he still maintained a 4.0 grade point average with 11 credits in the Fall Semester.

Other AAT award nominations include, the Five-Star Chapter Award, the Service Hallmark Award, the Scholarship Hallmark Award, the Leadership Hallmark Award, and the Website Award. Award winners will be announced at the Regional Convention in Valley Forge, PA March 1st - 3rd, and at International Convention in Nashville, TN April 11th - 15th.

Students Present Spring 2006 All College Day

Cecil Community College's Spring All College Day, "Your Students - Our Success" was on January 17th with the main presentation done by some of Cecil's student leaders. The Student Leader presenters were (in the order of the actual presentation):

AAT Chapter President and Computer Programming/Web Development Student, Andy Davis presented the Academic Accomplishments portion and the Academic Needs break-out session that followed.

AAT, SGA, Cecil's Newspaper editor, and Nursing Student, Maeve Hession presented the Leadership Values portion and the Service Needs break-out session that followed.

AAT Member and Nursing Student, Zachary Rothwell presented the Unmet Expectations portion and the Campus Behavior break-out session that followed.

SGA Vice-President, co- Newspaper editor, and Nursing Student, Ben Stull presented the Student Aspirations portion and the Facility Needs break-out session that followed.

SGA Treasurer and Visual Communications Student Owen Connelly presented a short film that he created on "The Cecil Difference" and the Technology Needs break-out session that followed.

The All College Day presentation by the student leaders was a first in Cecil's History.

Sattelite Seminar Series Now Showing at Cecil

AAT has started showing the PTK Honor Sattelite Seminar Series for 2006. The series started on Monday January 29, 2007 with Power and Gender in Relationships with Dr. Pepper Schwartz and a discussion on Power and gender in the Workplace that followed the showing.

AAT will run a new seminar every two weeks in TC106 from 4 PM to 6 PM to complete the series. Discussions on that seminar's topic will follow each seminar. The remaining seminars are as follows:

February 12 - The Iraq War and its Consiquences in the Middle East with Dan Senor.

February 26 - Money Talks: Lobbyists and the Power of Money in Washington with Jeffery Burnbaum.

March 12 - Lessons Learned from my Grandfather with Arun Gandhi.

AAT Brings USA Today To Cecil.

On February 12, AAT will kicked-off the USA Today Readership Program at Cecil Community College. Through this program, Cecil will receive the USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun every weekday. These papers are free to students, faculty, and staff. The program is ment to help keep students up to date on current events and helps instructors to use current events materials in their classes.

AAT will purchuse the papers and distribute them in three locations on campus. Students can get the papers in the Reading & Writing Lab in the Arts and Sciences building, in fromt of the Library in the Student Services Building, and on the second floor of the Technology Center at the top of the steps leading down to the Student Lounge.

It is AAT's hope that the program is helpfull to the students and instructors in improving their classes and in broudening thier minds.

Chapter President To Attend MD College Advocacy Day.

AAT Chapter President, Andy Davis, will be Attending the Maryland College Advocacy Day in Annapolis on Wednesday February 16, 2007. The annual event involves several student leaders from colleges across the state.

Andy will be meeting with local presentives for Cecil County to discuss issues that concern college students at Cecil and in colleges across Maryland. Also attending the event from Cecil Community College will be other student leaders.

Andy has recieved confirmation that Alpha Sigma Pi (AAT's sister chapter at Chesapeake College) will be attending the event with some of her ASP officers.

AAT Sets Family Movie Night To Kick-Off Project Graduation.

AAT is kicking off 2007 Project Gradication with a family movie night that will feature 2 films related to the "Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power" Honor Study Topic. As an admission price, AAT is asking each person attending the movie night to bring at least one item to donation to Project Graduation. Admission/Donation includes double-feature and refreshments.

The movie night will be Monday, April 30th from 5 pm to 9 pm on the North East campus in room 208 in the Technology Center building. The movies to be shown are Disney's "The Lion King" (G) and" Miracle" (PG).