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    Continued from Page 13     Leadership Summits at the      son, Micheline Bury and     at the UA. She represented    ing up with her academic
                               UA. The other nominee was      Sayenne Kelly.              her classmates and stu-       work. The other nominees
Maggy Hazel of the CATC        Prociano Nurse.                Winner of the Student       dents in general by voicing   were Master of Ceremony
accountancy and tax            Xiavier Semileer won the       Award for the SW&D pro-     their concerns regarding      for the night, Dahariana
advisors firm CATC is an       Student Award for the FDR,     gram of the FAS was Keyla   courses and school-relat-     Evertsz, Vandanna Geer-
UA alumnus, just like L. de    the oldest faculty at the UA.  Rojas who has been part of  ed matters, organized ac-     man, Emmeline Webb and
Cuba, representative of        Other nominees were            the student board for the   tivities to give back to the  Tirzlyn Kolfin.
ENNIA Insurances.              Jeannette Baars Richard-       majority of her four years  community, all while keep-    Winner of the Student
The nominees of the institu-                                                                                            Award for the Math pro-
tion of some 700 students,                                                                                              gram of the FAS was Kay-
not only represent the best                                                                                             leigh Pawironadi, who on
of their faculties but dis-                                                                                             top of helping other stu-
played leadership and hu-                                                                                               dents, gave birth in March
man qualities in the interest                                                                                           of this year, yet did not miss
of their fellow students, the                                                                                           a beat and had the top
university and community                                                                                                scores in the finals. Jill Mat-
in general.                                                                                                             thew, Laura Morales and
Winner of the Student                                                                                                   Gustave Lopez were the
Award for the FEF was                                                                                                   other nominees.
Christopher Habibe who                                                                                                  Jonathan Henriquez won
had an admirable aca-                                                                                                   the Student Award for
demic performance and                                                                                                   the OGM program of the
on top of it, outperformed                                                                                              FAS. Henriquez according
many in extracurricular                                                                                                 to the faculty is an excel-
activities including his ac-                                                                                            lent role model for other
tive membership in Kiwanis                                                                                              students. He gave up his
Circle K International and                                                                                              job to dedicate himself
the Debate Club. He is also                                                                                             completely to his studies,
the current President of                                                                                                and his commitment paid
the University of Aruba Stu-                                                                                            off. Henriquez not only ex-
dent Association. The other                                                                                             celled with his grades, but
nominees were Ogieny                                                                                                    also in his extracurricular
Sahron van der Linden,                                                                                                  activities, including the De-
Dianmary Almary and Nina                                                                                                bate Club, assisting the UA
Terletskaya.                                                                                                            Summer School and by be-
Master of Ceremony of                                                                                                   ing a commendable team
the evening Carl Quant                                                                                                  player. The other nominees
was called forth to receive                                                                                             were Kimberley van Loon,
his Student Award for the                                                                                               Nurianne Helder and Ghis-
FHTMS. According to the                                                                                                 laine Nicolas.
faculty, Quant showed                                                                                                   The event was closed off by
leadership qualities from                                                                                               Acting Rector and Dean of
day one. He became                                                                                                      the FAS Luciano Milliard
Class President, attended                                                                                               who honored the student
faculty meeting, guided                                                                                                 organizations working to
his class mates through                                                                                                 improve the general well
full load of study work and                                                                                             being at the university and
motivated them when                                                                                                     for the community, namely
they lacked energy at the                                                                                               Kiwanis Circle K Interna-
end of each semester. In                                                                                                tional and the University
addition Quant also joined                                                                                              of Aruba Student Associa-
the ranks of active Kiwan-                                                                                              tion, SUA. They were rep-
is Circle K International                                                                                               resented by Christopher
members, allowing him to                                                                                                Habibe and Joshua Arrin-
organize among others,                                                                                                  dell, respectively.q
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