The Sidney-Pacific Executive Council has awarded Service Awards to the following individuals in recognition of their exceptional service to the House:
| spring - 2020 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Arjun Balasingam |
For responsiveness and quick work in the face new problems and bugs brought on by the COVID Moveout process
For responsiveness and quick work in the face new problems and bugs brought on by the COVID Moveout process
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| Demi Fang |
For responsiveness and quick work spreading new guidance and dealing with event cancellations
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| Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz |
For responsiveness and quick work in the face new problems and bugs brought on by the COVID Moveout process
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| Constance McGrath |
For building up SP’s social media presence over the last year on Facebook and Instagram and populating it with many beautiful visuals. |
| Rohini Shivamoggi |
For responsiveness and quick work spreading new guidance and dealing with event cancellations
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| Li-Wen Wang |
For responsiveness and quick work spreading new guidance and dealing with event cancellations
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| Christopher Whittle |
For responsiveness and quick work in the face new problems and bugs brought on by the COVID Moveout process
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| Yannan Wu |
For responsiveness and quick work spreading new guidance and dealing with event cancellations
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| spring - 2017 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Snehalkumar Gaikwad |
For making the Graduate Seminar happen, recruiting speakers, organizing food, creating publicity, etc. and going above and beyond the call of duty by also supporting regular CoSI events. |
| Madhav Kumar |
For exceptional creativity and dedication to running great CoSI events. |
| Grace Liu |
For exceptional service as a publicity chair with respect to external publicity requirements, as well as for being a consistently exceptional volunteer at House events. |
| Aaron Smargon |
For exceptional creativity and dedication to running great CoSI events. |
| Ben Yuan |
For outstanding service to the SP community. |
| Ben Yuan |
For saving the SP website |
| spring - 2016 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Ishwarya Ananthabhotla |
For exceptional coffee hours all year, and maintaining the kitchen and pantry. |
| Mohamed Aziz Bhouri |
For incredible initiative and autonomy in running a very successful off-cycle Cultural Festival. |
| Grace Goon |
For incredible responsiveness and effort invested in publicity for the year. |
| Mandy Korpusik |
For excellent responsiveness and initiative keeping the front desk inventory updated, and for organizing events to record and tabulate all inventory items |
| Sebastian Palacios |
For unprecedented, record attendance at COSI lectures throughout the year. |
| Natasha Patel-Murray |
For incredible outings throughout the year. |
| Chen Sun |
For exceptional service to SP as both Plants and Aquarium chair, in the form of events and care-taking during the HVAC transition. |
| Nicholas Triantafillou |
For exceptional CH's all year, going the extra mile by baking pies and above and beyond cleaning. |
| fall - 2014 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Maryam Aliakbarpour |
For doing an awesome job every week running coffee hour and helping to run special coffee hours |
| Georgia Lagoudas |
For organizing and smoothly running 3 large, high profile lectures and numerous dinner discussions and other events. |
| Wen Jie Ong |
For organizing and smoothly running 3 large, high profile lectures and numerous dinner discussions and other events. |
| James Pelletier |
For exceptional work building community, serving as interim 9th floor hall councilor, and volunteering to organize Open Doors Night. |
| Alessio Spantini |
For doing an awesome job every week running coffee hour and helping to run special coffee hours |
| Daniel Whisman |
For substituting in for Residential Life officers (brunch and coffee hour) while they were away in January. |
| summer - 2014 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Jingzhi An |
For being very active during the summer and covering 3-North in addition to her own hall during the summer. |
| Joseph DelPreto |
For providing amazing audio/visual support for orientation events and constantly making sure that officers have A/V access for SP events. |
| Samuel Elder |
For being very active during the summer and building a very tight-knit community in 5-South through innovative initiatives. He also gave great insights and feedback on how to improve the Hall Council. |
| Cherry Gao |
For doing a great job in keeping SP events stocked with compostables, educating residents and event attendees about composting, and volunteering at many events. |
| Alexandre Girard |
For providing amazing audio/visual support for orientation events and constantly making sure that officers have A/V access for SP events. |
| Sherrie Hall |
For putting on lots of fun hall events and collaborations with other officers, extensive volunteering during Orientation, and helping with printing/distributing door tags. |
| Steven Levine |
For designing new resident gift logo and producing giant posters for the lobby. |
| Jeffrey Liu |
For covering for two co-chairs on leave and elevated the aesthetic standards for posters at SP. |
| Jay Sircar |
For being very active during the summer, volunteering for many orientation events, and organizing outreach events. |
| Tiziana Smith |
For doing a great job in keeping SP events stocked with compostables, educating residents and event attendees about composting, and volunteering at many events. |
| Sydney Sroka |
For organizing and preparing well-attended and awesome orientation events. |
| Charles Thraves |
For being very active during the summer and covering 2-South in addition to his own hall for a large part of the summer. |
| fall - 2013 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Carrie Cai |
For being an extremely self motivated arts chair, initiating a new series of participatory arts workshops. |
| Franco Chingcuanco |
For running an amazing Cultural Festival and 4 great Cultural Coffee Hours. Franco has been amazing at contacting the groups early and setting up everything with time to spare. He is really good at dealing with external groups and satisfying their needs. |
| Daniel Kolodrubetz |
For holding creative, engaging, and well-received house cup events. |
| Dongying Shen |
For doing an amazing job as CoSI chair, organizing a series of extremely smooth and very well-attended lectures, as well as attracting speakers of the highest calibre that SP has unsuccessfully been trying to recruit for a long time. |
| Yingqi Zhang |
Held many creative hall events that encouraged resident participation during the fall. |
| Yufei Zhao |
For doing an amazing job as CoSI chair, helping to organize a series of extremely smooth and very well-attended lectures, as well as revitalizing and improving the CoSI discussion series into a regular, well-attended event, discussing timely and intellectually subjects. |
| summer - 2013 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Yu-Han Chen |
For the outstanding work on publicity during the orientation period. Handled the external and internal publicity of more than 15 events and made creative posters for various events. |
| Sherrie Hall |
Did an amazing job recruiting volunteers over the summer with catchy emails that culminated in a Fairy Tale themed brunch. Additionally, exceptional job in the Orientation Brunch recruiting 50 volunteers and getting great attendance. Also volunteered in other officer's events. |
| Mariana Matus Garcia |
For outstanding work as surrogate hall councilor; holding many events during the summer; and regularly volunteering at other officers' events. |
| Jessica Reddy |
For the outstanding work on publicity during the orientation period. Handled the external and internal publicity of more than 15 events and made creative posters for various events. |
| Francisco Unda |
For outstanding work as surrogate hall councilor; holding many events during the summer; and regularly volunteering at other officers' events. |
| Yi Wang |
Did an amazing job recruiting volunteers over the summer with catchy emails that culminated in a Fairy Tale themed brunch. Additionally, exceptional job in the Orientation Brunch recruiting 50 volunteers and getting great attendance. Also volunteered in other officer's events. |
| You Wu |
For running a great orientation with amazing attendance in the major events as well as implementing new ideas to encourage attendance and participation. Also did a great job in the backstage prior to the events. |
| Yunke Xiang |
For the outstanding work on publicity during the orientation period. Handled the external and internal publicity of more than 15 events and made creative posters for various events. |
| fall - 2012 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Carrie Cai |
For expending SP's COSI program |
| Sumit Dutta |
For making substantial improvements to the computer room, including gathering resident feedback, implementing the most crucial of suggested changes, and organizing a social event for volunteers to help catalog software |
| Tamas Kolos-Lakatos |
For their hard work behind the scene to install a new software platform on the SPTV |
| David Rosen |
For expanding SP's COSI program |
| Alexander Rudat |
For their hard work behind the scene to install a new software platform on the SPTV |
| Nathaniel Zuk |
For outstanding collaboration with CoSI in combining music with CoSI lectures, and organizing numerous outings and jams |
| summer - 2012 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Boris Braverman |
For exceptional work as Brunch chair |
| Mark Chilenski |
For doing a great job as an AV co-chair - Mark and Matt performed above expectations during the summer and the orientation period |
| Matthew D'Asaro |
For doing a great job as an AV co-chair - Mark and Matt performed above expectations during the summer and the orientation period |
| Rachael Harding |
For being a great hall councilor- going above and beyond, and organizing a lot of events during the summer |
| Daniel Kolodrubetz |
For being a great coffee hour chair, and all around volunteer |
| Fabián Kozynski |
for being a great coffee hour chair |
| Chen Lu |
For exceptional work as Brunch Chair |
| Aditya Pathak |
for being a great hall councilor and volunteer in SP |
| Mun Ee Woo |
For innovating and organizing the most successful orientation events (in "living" memory) |
| spring - 2012 |
| Name |
Citation |
| George Chen |
For being a great House Cup Coordinator, taking risks with many new events, and collaborating with multiple officers outside the Hall Council |
| Ozge Karanfil |
For being an enthusiastic and conscientious brunch chair, and working hard with the brunch co-chair to improve programmatic efficiency and the volunteer experience |
| Chen Lu |
For his creative and exciting leadership in House events, being omnipresent volunteer, and an incredibly consistent emailer and communicator to residents
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| Sung Wook Paek |
For being a hard-working, dependable aquarium chair, and making a variety of resource improvements - new glass covers, a wooden canopy, new fish, etc. |
| Sharon Paradesi |
For being an all-around great web chair, helping design the online newsletter pipeline, setting up the backend website framework for a new site, and co-organizing the SP hack-a-thon |
| Yuan Wang |
For being an incredible hall councilor, organizing several creative events (IAP outing to SkyZone, spring beer brewing event) |
| fall - 2011 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Rebecca Asher |
For organizing great, especially collaborative, hall dinners, being a super-approachable hall councilor, and being a frequent volunteer at other SP events |
| I-An Chen |
For coordinating and managing SPICE in an enthusiastic and successful way, and setting up new events such as “Love across Boundaries”
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| Daw-sen Hwang |
For compiling information about all of SP’s plants to make it easier to care for them; increasing resident interest by organizing new events; and
fostering a volunteer committee of plant care-takers for each floor to keep our home green
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| David Kwabi |
For running extremely well-attended and successful CoSI Presidential Fellows lectures, and coordinating several thought-provoking CoSI dinner discussions
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| Pierre-Olivier Lepage |
For doing a great job of motivating brunch volunteers, handling the hectic brunch logistics, and actively helping out at other SP events |
| William Li |
For actively organizing CoSI lectures and expanding CoSI programming beyond just lectures (CoSI dinner discussion groups, "Evenings with" events) |
| Ahhyun Nam |
For her tireless efforts to promote SP events and her creative poster designs |
| Isaac Oderberg |
For being an exemplary hall councilor (tons of hall dinners, instrumental in the fall 2011 Open Doors Night) and a welcoming friend |
| Michael Peng |
For being an enthusiastic volunteer and Coffee Hour Chair since last fall, and leading the kitchen improvement initiative this past summer |
| Stephen Voinea |
For enthusiastically running Coffee Hour every week, writing awesome SP-Helpers e-mails, and volunteering at most SP events |
| summer - 2011 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Shiou-chi Chang |
For producing one of the best orientation newsletters SP has ever seen (liaising with other officers to develop informative content, and formatting the layout to make it more readable and save paper), and for implementing the new electronic newsletter |
| Diana Chien |
For organizing multiple successful outings over the summer (Tazo Chocolate Factory, Boston Harbor Islands), collaborating with other offices (Walden Pond, Shakespeare in the Park), and spearheading several events through the Figure Drawing Interest Group |
| Mark Chilenski |
For diligently upkeeping the SP music room and resources, and organizing music-oriented outings such as Karaoke Night at the Thirsty Ear and the Cafe Luna Jazz Trip. |
| Jean-Philippe Coutu |
For being a dedicated volunteer/officer since first arriving at SP, for stepping up to fill in for other offices (SP-MORE and Orientation plants sale), and for starting several new initiatives (composting program, environmental dinner discussions) |
| Tarun Jain |
For being very active in both his front-stage and back-stage responsibilities (organizing 3 trips during orientation and working with the LIST center to get new art for SP), and thinking of new ways to engage residents artistically (collective-conscious painting event) |
| Mark Lipson |
For diligently managing SP's financial records and making sure officers get reimbursed on time |
| Timothy Palmer |
For providing help and AV support at SP events this summer (2011) beyond his tenure
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| Tatyana Shatova |
For being an enthusiastic and innovative Hall Councilor, and being a dedicated volunteer at most SP events |
| spring - 2011 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Pamela DeAmicis |
Pam has showed a great energy and attitude fulfilling all the duties under her office. She started with writing a guidebook to help the SPICE group leaders with their tasks finding and moderating topics as well as finding restaurant. Also, she managed to recruit a record SP resident to participate in the SPICE program creating 13 SPICE groups. She follows up, guide, get and give feedback to and from the SPICE group leaders and participant. She is very responsive addressing issues and appreciating all the work done by the leaders. Outside her office, Pam participated in most of the SP events and is a great volunteer. |
| Burcu Erkmen |
B has done a wonderful job building community on the 1st floor. She has organized many successful events, including collaborations with other halls, and has been an active volunteer at numerous SP events. She also actively leads the 1st floor in the House Cup. |
| Denis Loginov |
Denis has done a fantastic job as CoSI chair this Spring. He has successfully run 3 well attended lectures. In addition, Denis is a fantastic community member volunteering at many SP events. |
| Armen Mkrtchyan |
Armen has done a great job maintaining the SP gym. He kept all the machines in great shape following on repairs and maintenance schedules. He added useful (muscle training) posters to the gym and made sure the gym users respect the noise policy spreading posters urging people to do so. Armen kept on updating the gym with new equipments as he saw needed or as proposed by residents. He initiated the athletic afternoons and weekends to have a group of residents enjoy the SP backyard and a sport game. He has done a great job hosting the world cup events in SP and currently working on a pilot session of Yoga. Armen worked very enthusiastically with a group of MIT/Harvard student researching how used the MIT gym are. Also, he has been a volunteer in many of the SP and orientation events. |
| Katie Quinn |
Katie impressed many people with a very successful and well-attended Cultural festival few weeks after she took office. She managed to have up to 18 countries represented with different aspects of their cultures as well as cuisines. She has conducted few cultural outings to Boston/Cambridge and always prepared very nice cultural coffee hours. She strived to have as much of the culture revealed as possible. Katie has played a key role in getting her cultural coffee hours as well as the 2011 cultural festival funded with always writing reports and excellent budget proposals. |
| Stephen Voinea |
Steve joined the SP leadership only few days after moving to SP. He has always been a great team player working with his coffee hour chair and the dedicated group of volunteers who always come to help preparing for coffee hours. He has done a great job building nice relationship with all his volunteers.
Steve also volunteers and helps with other SP events. Steve has shown leadership and ownership of his coffee hours always making sure everything get well prepared and on time. He has encouraged and worked very well with cultural groups coming to SP to host cultural coffee hours.
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| Hussam Zebian |
Hussam did his best planning and executing orientation events. He volunteered to write reports describing the ups and downs during orientation to document lesson learned during the 2010 orientation. He also highlighted what to avoid and what to repeat in coming years. He has always showed great enthusiasm for other SP events and volunteered in some of them. He has been a key factor, along with a dedicated group of volunteers, in making a (last minute) Lebanese coffee hour take place successfully. |
| fall - 2010 |
| Name |
Citation |
| James Abshire |
For excellent work in the role of Controller. The extra work that Jim has put in throughout reimbursement system changeovers has helped to assure that all officers receive timely reimbursements. |
| Cosmin Deaconu |
For outstanding work as the Web Chair, including setting up the Amendment voting system, setting up the bug tracker, and being responsive to the many requests to update parts of the website. |
| Ece Gulsen |
Ece has been doing a great job leading the Environmental Committee. She has spearheaded many new initiatives, such as Terracycle, and is always looking for new opportunities to improve the environmental friendliness of the S-P. |
| Birendra Jha |
Birendra has shown great energy and enthusiasm working on brunches, recruiting and motivating a great group of helpers and volunteers. He was a great leader during orientation helping in its big events. he was successful working on and presenting an exceptional orientation brunch. Also, He was very good working with the Ashdown brunch chair scheduling brunches and writing progress reports. |
| Holly Johnsen |
Holly is an incredibly dedicated hall councilor who is committed to the residents of 2-South. She goes above and beyond the role of a hall councilor and is a superb member of the SP community. |
| Jacob McKenzie |
For a great job managing a superbly successful bike auction, as well as keeping up other duties including maintaining ever increasing ZipBike fleet and running resident education bike maintenance sessions. |
| Michael Peng |
Michael proved to be a very active coffee hour chair and a very good team member working closely with many ResLife officers and hall councilors. His friendly character has attracted many volunteers,leaders and SP and non-SP students to his coffee hours. |
| Derek Smith |
Derek removed the old lobby aquarium and has done a lot of work to get the new one up and running. He has continued to do a superb job of maintaining and improving SP's aquarium throughout the year. |
| Brian Spatocco |
Brian has done a phenomenal job fostering community in 3-North, initiating creative and highly successful events, spreading his enthusiasm in the SP community, and connecting SP with the GSC. |
| Ramesh Sridharan |
Ramesh has consistently been doing a great job developing the 2-North community. He has provided dedicated service as a hall councilor for almost 2 years, and has been an active volunteer at many SP events. |
| summer - 2010 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Dina El-Zanfaly |
For being extremely responsive and enthusiastic to requests for publicity and handling all postering over the summer while Matthieu was abroad. |
| Ahmed Helal |
For dedicated service as 4-North Hall Councilor. Ahmed has shown dedication to his hall by holding great (and often inter-hall) events, and has actively volunteered at many SP-wide events as well. |
| George Lan |
For outstanding service as 3-South Hall Councilor, including numerous successful events, volunteering at other SP events, and High Five Friday. |
| Jeffrey Mo |
Jeff has been very enthusiastic planning and executing every social event since he took office. He is very energetic doing at least 2 social events each month. He has left his prints on the social life and events in SP by coming up with new event idea. It is always impressive how well and smoothly the events happen because his very well planning and following up on every detail. Also, he has been a great help writing funding proposals to LEF and GSC as well as reports summarizing the events after they happen. |
| Timothy Palmer |
For doing a great job providing A/V support to SP events and handling the SP satellite service reinitiation. |
| Jagdish Ramakrishnan |
For outstanding job as inventory chair in maintaining SP front desk checkout items, aiding in regalia rental and responding to new resident inventory requests. |
| spring - 2010 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Qinxian He |
For developing the 1st floor hall community despite its small size, enthusiastically leading its House Cup team to strong showings, and regularly volunteering at Brunch and other Sidney-Pacific events. |
| Ian Jacobi |
For leading the installation of the Sidney-Pacific server upgrade, working to improve the reliability of the HDTV setup in the lobby, and performing important web script development and maintenance. |
| William Loh |
For outstanding service to SP community and doing a fantastic job transitioning office. |
| Mihir Mehta |
For truly outstanding photography of Sidney-Pacific events over the past year. |
| Rahul Nandkishore |
For building a thriving community in 5-South by holding more than a dozen very well-attended hall events over the past year. |
| George Tucker |
For steadily improving hall participation in 4-South, cooking and baking for his hall on numerous occasions, and leading his House Cup team to win the hall pizza competition. |
| fall - 2009 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Michael Betancourt |
For steady, outstanding service to S-P as a hall councilor, brunch volunteer, and event helper -- and in particular for contributing culinary expertise whenever needed. |
| Amy Bilton |
For service beyond the scope of her duty during orientation and for and extremely successful orientation brunch recruiting 30+ old and brand new residents to volunteer |
| Leonid Chindelevitch |
For dedication promoting environmental awareness in Sidney-Pacific and incorporating sustainable practices into house events. |
| Matthieu Couturier |
For dedicated leadership of the 6th floor community as well as helping out around S-P in numerous other ways, from photography to coffee hour prep. |
| Himanshu Dhamankar |
For outstanding service outside the scope of his office, particularly for the organization of the very successful Bonsai Workshop |
| summer - 2009 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Chun Wang Chan |
For exceptional commitment as a hall councilor, both in preparing monthly hall dinners in 3-South and also volunteering at numerous other house events. |
| Vishnu Desaraju |
For his development of the in-house SPTV system, creation of video commercials and "happening now" slides and his help in putting out the 2009 orientation guide. |
| Kasia Gora |
For bringing innovative new foods to coffee hour -- many homemade -- and setting up delivery of fresh fruit, baked goods, cheeses and meats from Russo's. |
| Cheng Ju |
For her dedication to and diligence in the bookkeeping and management of S-P finances |
| Rahul Kar |
For his excellent management of the S-P inventory as well as his willingness to go beyond the call of normal duty and to have resident inputs in improving the inventory |
| Mirna Slim |
For planning multiple outings within her first months of taking office and for dedicated volunteerism at house events. |
| spring - 2009 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Nadia Cheng |
For dedicated service as 4North hall Councilor. Over the past year, Nadia has planned frequent hall events with both thoughtfulness and creativity. She has done a great job in collaborating with other hall councillors to host joint hall events. |
| Danielle Issa |
For dedicated service as 5-South hall councilor. Danielle has planned a great number and variety of hall events, and has done a great job in reinvigorating her hall community. |
| Po-Ru Loh |
For his dedicated service as 3-South hall councilor. Po-Ru put showed tremendous devotion in preparing home-cooked meals for his hall each month. He has done a great job in building a sense of community and fostering hall spirit on the 3rd floor. |
| Lennon Rodgers |
For running the social committee beautifully |
| John Sun |
For doing an excellent job as one of the best inventory chairs in years, and taking it upon himself to try a whole lot of new ideas and initiatives |
| fall - 2008 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Melinda Hale |
For outstanding service as the 6th Floor Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of hall community. Melinda has done a great job of hosting thoughtful hall events, using online surveys to solicit resident input while preparing events. Melinda has also extended her service beyond the 6th floor of SP, consistently volunteering at coffee hour, brunch, and other SP-wide events. |
| Adrienne Li |
For beautiful, successful, popular coffee hours many of which were themed. |
| Alexander McCauley |
For beautiful, successful, popular coffee hours many of which were themed. |
| Kaveh Milaninia |
For running the social committee beautifully |
| Ioannis Zervantonakis |
For outstanding contributions over the fall as AV chair, including DJing at the Taste of the Northwest party, and AV support at myriad SP events. |
| Yuxi Zhang |
For outstanding service in the Office of Publicity |
| fall - 2007 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Hila Hashemi |
For the successful implementation of the diversity dinner / mentoring program, and three cultural coffee hours. |
| Adrienne Li |
For her dedication and the excellent care of the plants in SP as well as efficient planning and successful organization of outings and workshops. |
| Leslie Rogers |
For enthusiastic and outstanding service as the 2-South Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community through a variety of hall events and for promoting the eating club initiative SP-wide. |
| Emily Shen |
For diligent and outstanding service as the 8th Floor Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community, in particular, for re-animating her hall and being an effective mediator. |
| Matthew Walker |
For excellent execution of the SP newsletter each month, consisting of great articles, photos, and recurring columns. For his dedication to serving the SP community through his position as newsletter chair and also as a volunteer at most other events. |
| Daniel Weller |
For consistent planning and execution of coffee hours and maintenance of coffee cart. in particular, for the idea and execution of the resident desert showcase. |
| summer - 2007 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Kerwin Johnson |
For the diligent, consistent, and thorough preparation of brunch for over the past year, including orientation; for effective planning for the orientation brunch including recruiting and assigning volunteers to tasks and managing the preparation in a timely manner. |
| James Shing Hin Lee |
For effectively and efficiently designing posters for most all events during the summer, even while away from campus, and most of all for creating and executing an extremely successful orientation publicity campaign based on the "hello my name is" beavers, all of which were crucial to the success of summer and orientation events. |
| Jonathan Lindsey |
For meticulous planning and organization of SP orientation, particularly the Rock & Roast BBQ; for effective logistical command during the event into managing the volunteers to accommodate the larger than expected crowd. |
| Christophe Mandy |
For installing and reconfiguring several new and old computers, efficient and accurate maintenance of the IT resources, prompt attendance to any computer issues, thereby effectively enhancing the IT resources at SP. |
| Benjamin Renkoski |
For the planning and organization of the Summer Pool Party, a great hit which required significant early preparation, especially for the trial run and prep of the pool; also, for the selection and execution of the successful summer movie screenings. |
| Lynne Waldman |
For thorough command of the SP orientation schedule and budget, particularly the Return to Lythion dance party; for effective implementation of a (previously not attempted) outdoor VJ dance party. |
| spring - 2007 |
| Name |
Citation |
| HyoJin Chiang |
For enthusiastic and outstanding service as the 4-North Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community; in particular, for creating a spirit of home with many events that featured "home-cooked" foods and thoughtfulness, including brunches, dinners, and Korean drama nights with delicious desserts. In addition, Rosaria's support of other SP committees and dorm-wide events is very appreciated. |
| Nan Gu |
For committed and outstanding service as the 5-North Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community; In addition to his role as a hall councilor, Nan played a less visible role in thoroughly investigating important dorm-wide issues such as front desk security as well as late night food options for residents, currently works in progress. His persistence and thoroughness is matched only by his appreciation for Sidney Pacific community. |
| Wenhao Liu |
For dedicated service to the web infrastructure, consistently providing a rapid response whenever website problems arose. Also for rewriting the hall councilor application forms, implementing an elaborate key checkout interface to improve security, AJAXifying several web forms, and countless other creative ideas and improvements. |
| Tara Sainath |
For enthusiastic service and dedication to Sidney-Pacific for two years as Chair of the Athletics Committee. Tara has organized a number of successful outings to local sports games as well as been involved in organizing dorm-wide ski trips. During the winter and spring of 2007, Tara organized an S-P getfit community, motivating residents to get involved in the national getfit competition. |
| Lynne Salameh |
For excellent work creating several new poster designs, and for orchestrating a highly successful officer recruitment campaign, the turnout for which greatly exceeded all predictions. |
| fall - 2006 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Mark Baldesarra |
For revolutionizing SPTV content, adding new features such as Highlight Videos, Public Service Announcements, Behind the Scenes, Explore Boston, and for designing the new SPTV 2.0 look. Also for pioneering two new and very successful SPTV Gameshow events. |
| Mihir Mehta |
For being a major organizer of the successful Casino Royal MIT/Harvard Dance Party, for helping with a number of other social events, and for contributing toward outgoing, positive officer rapport. |
| Michelle Sander |
For organizing several well-attended outing trips and also for taking an active role in planning and running several cultural coffee hours. |
| Joseph Thomer |
For diligent and outstanding service as the 2-South Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community; in particular, for planning out a social events schedule for the entire semester early in the Fall, which continued the tradition of "Dinner Club" as well as began new ones with ice cream socials and breakfasts in the common kitchen. In addition, Joe's support of other SP committees and dorm-wide events is very appreciated. |
| Chia-Hung Wu |
For creative and outstanding service as the 7th Floor Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community, often through thoughtful and original ideas; in particular, for planning community programs such as the "Know where your neighbors are from" map and floor birthday notices as well as implementing new initiatives and activites such as the common kitchen reservation whiteboard and jigsaw puzzle entertainment+snacks during finals time. In addition, Chia's support of other SP committees and dorm-wide events is very appreciated. |
| summer - 2006 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Matthew Abel |
For getting our existing equipment working better than ever and expanding the A/V options available to residents. This included overseeing the installation and setting up the new plasma TVs and planning out the projection and sound systems for the new outdoor movie setup among other things. In addition, for providing support at nearly every event throughout the summer despite being the only member of the A/V committee during this period. |
| Jesse Edgerton |
For his exemplary work in planning and executing an exceptional orientation. |
| Wendy Iskenderian |
For single-handedly spearheading summer publicity by quickly, effectively, and reliably designing and deploying posters, taking charge of the SPinfoCD, making effective use of the large poster printer, and helping out at events, all of which constituted a crucial contribution to the success of our summer and orientation events. |
| Natalija Jovanovic |
For coordinating with adminsitrators and undergrads to turn what was looking to be a disaster for the Northwest shuttle into a schedule expansion. Thanks to Natalija, instead of having no service in the afternoon, we now have double the service in the morning AND service in the afternoon. Also for being active in the committees of the HCA and HSG currently investigating couples and co-ed Housing, an important issue to many members of the S-P community. |
| Alison Kremer |
For her hard work in organizing an extraordinary orientation, filled with an unprecedented number of successful events. |
| Swati Mohan |
For her hard work organizing the S-P Orientation Carnival. This event was very well planned and executed. Swati also helped with numerous other events and has contributed good ideas for streamlining event logistics. |
| spring - 2006 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Jennifer Fang |
For successfully working with the City of Cambridge for brighter lights on Albany St, organizing a large series of Healthy Eating workshops, leading a 4th of July Boston Pops outing, organizing a hurricane relief dinner, planning Rape-Aggression-Defense training, organizing the Stress Less yoga workshop, bringing the police for a Coffee Hour safety talk, designing magnets with important phone numbers, teaching Bhangra dance lessons, successfully lobbying for the Pacific Kitchen dutch doors, and carrying out S-P publicity for GSC events. |
| Amanda Kowalski |
For exemplary service as the 3-North Hall Councilor in fostering a sense
of community, holding regular social events, increasing collaboration
between halls, and input towards the hall councilor RSVP system |
| Tara Sainath |
For taking over as sole athletics chair after the former athletics chair moved
away, for doing an outstanding job in this role, and for helping with many
other aspects of SP life outside her realm of duty. |
| Vivienne Sze |
For exemplary service as Inventory Chair, including revising the Terms of Service and improving the inventory system. In addition, for exceeding the call of duty
and organizing social events such as the Dragon Boat racing. |
| fall - 2005 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Jiawen Chen |
For working for the migration of the S-P web server to the RAID system, for adding new features to the front lobby touch-screen, and for making the S-P web site more efficient by fixing several errors and inconsistencies. |
| Jane Kim |
For exemplary service as the 4-North Hall Councilor in fostering an increased sense of community, regular social events and getting residents involved in hosting these events, and supporting other S-P committees. |
| Bernard Mares |
For installing a new SPTV server which is stable and enables the transmission of audio and video through SPTV, for improving the resolution of SPTV and for adding several new features to it. |
| Robert Wang |
For implementing new features for the S-P web server and the front lobby touch-screen, including the guest registration system and the event management system, for working for the migration of the S-P web server to the RAID system, for his outstanding con |
| spring - 2005 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Waleed Farahat |
For organizing a successful tax workshop series and consistently taking
on a diversity of projects throughout the year. |
| John Paul Kurpiewski |
For organizing well-attended brunches all year long and taking
leadership positions in SP intramural sports. |
| Panayiotis Lemonidis |
For being an active hall councilor, consistently organizing social
events, and also being an effective mediator in the hall. |
| David Oertel |
For organizing the first ever S-P bikes auction (serving as it's
memorable auctioneer), and putting in countless hours of work during the
extraordinary challenge of recovering our database system. |
| Kyungbum Ryu |
For organizing a successful tax workshop series |
| Nicholas Senske |
For his outstanding job in organizing the fall Winter Arts Festival and
his creative designs for the S-P '05-'06 Officer Application campaign. |
| Jonathan Winter |
For fostering a great sense of community on the 9th floor and always
keeping his residents informed about pertinent issues going on in the
building. |
| fall - 2004 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Margrét Bjarnadóttir |
For the tremendous effort of organizing and implementing the first ever comprenhensive Sidney-Pacific Survey and for consistently representing the interests of Sidney-Pacific at the Graduate Student Council. |
| Denis Daly |
For excellent job as a Web vice-chair. Especially, he contributed in picking up various errors and inefficiencies in our system and improved them to be faster and more efficient. |
| Apostolos Fertis |
For his excellent job as a Web chair. He has volunteered to help out S-P events such as brunch. He also put a lot of hours creating a new SPinfoCD and the S-P resident survey. |
| Daryush Mehta |
For completely reviving the Coffee Hour. Also took care of the publicity for Coffee Hour very well. He always seem ready to try out new ideas and are very open to suggestions from other officers and residents. Daryush helps out at other events cleaning up |
| Lennon Rodgers |
For the outstanding work and creativity in organizing new music-related initiatives and events at Sidney-Pacific: acoustic guitar available at front desk, music groups of resident musicians, OpenMic Night, IAP guitar workshops. |
| Christopher Zeineh |
For completely reviving the Coffee Hour. Also took care of the publicity for Coffee Hour very well. He always seem ready to try out new ideas and is very open to suggestions from other officers and residents. Chris and Dayush also work very well together |
| summer - 2004 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Jennifer Cheung |
For outstanding service and contribution to the office of
residential life and Sidney-Pacific community. |
| Jared Gross |
For demonstrating dedication to his role as Hall Councilor by
taking responsibility for two halls over the summer period. For exemplary
service by contributing to events organized by other offices/committees
beyond the Hall Councilors' group. |
| Adrian KC Lee |
For the hard work and creativity in putting together a
successful orientation program for Sidney-Pacific, and for his
involvement in the orientation program organized by the Graduate
Student Council. |
| Jose Alberto Ortega |
For the hard work and creativity in putting together a
successful orientation program for Sidney-Pacific, and for his
involvement in the orientation program organized by the Graduate
Student Council. |
| David Quinn |
For exemplary service throughout the summer, setting up the
A/V equipment at all S-P summer events and showing dedication in helping
other committees and residents. |
| Krishnan Sriram |
For extensive contribution to the Inventory committee,
helping upkeep all front desk items and coffee cart. |
| Sharma Vikas |
For exemplary service and outstanding dedication to the
Aquarium and Plants committee, helping upkeep these valuable resources,
especially being a former officer. |
| spring - 2004 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Diana Bernal |
For exemplary service towards the maintenance and upkeep of the S-P Aquarium. |
| Jonathan Kennell |
For contributions as a brunch committee volunteer, for music performances at social events and for participation in debates on governance. |
| William Norris |
For extensive contributions to the movie committee and for help and participation in community events. |
| Rita Saad |
For championing the efforts towards increasing the presence of art at S-P. |
| Vasanth Sarathy |
For volunteering in the organization of all of the Sidney-Pacific lectures, especially while being a first-year grad student. |
| Lucy Wong |
For developing an outstanding program of innovative, simple, and frequent activities for the 4-South community. |
| fall - 2003 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Lillian Dai |
For expanding the scope of music committee and increasing participation from resident musicians and performing artists. |
| Naomi Davidson |
For working closely with residents of the Ninth Floor and representing them on community-wide issues as the 9th floor Hall Councilor. |
| Siddhartha Jain |
For initiating the SuPerkids program, pioneering the successful tax workshops and for organizing several collaborative events with various committees. |
| Kota Murali |
For pioneering the Sidney-Pacific lectures and facilitating faculty-student interactions as CoSI Chair |
| Jess Vey |
For successful implementation of the monthly Sidney-Pacific brunches and for contributions to large social events. |
| Jacob Wronski |
For successful organization of large social events and participation on behalf of Sidney-Pacific at MIT-campus wide events and discussions. |
| summer - 2003 |
| Name |
Citation |
| Elodie Adida |
For leading the monthly Sidney-Pacific brunches and for extensive service and help with the large events during S-P Orientation 2003. |
| Michele Aghassi |
For single-handedly overseeing the organization of Sidney-Pacific Orientation 2003. |
| Ioannis Bertsatos |
special recognition for contribution to SPinfoCD |
| Caitlin Devereaux |
For implementation of the online in-house room assignment process and the redesign and up-to-date content management of the S-P website |
| Abdallah Jabbour |
For successful planning of several new cultural events and for broader participation at the house council. |
| Natalija Jovanovic |
special recognition for contribution to SPinfoCD |
| Adlar Kim |
For extensive participation in the implementation of SPIDir, Sidney-Pacific's database and for up-to-date content management of the S-P website |
| Jacky Mallett |
special recognition for contribution to SPinfoCD |
| Demian Raspall Galli |
For improvements to the usage of common-space A/V equipment through user-guides and for A/V support at all house events. |
| Jonathan Smith |
For extensive involvement in the full implementation of the front-desk checkout system in Fall, 2003. |
| Dan Stratila |
For bringing WinAthena to S-P and for expanding the printing services. |
| Sharma Vikas |
special recognition for contribution to SPinfoCD |
