{"id":14406,"date":"2015-04-09T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=14406"},"modified":"2015-04-09T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:27:06","slug":"14406_college-of-the-arts-students-receive-2015-cento-amici-scholarship-and-attend-annual-spring-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2015\/04\/09\/14406_college-of-the-arts-students-receive-2015-cento-amici-scholarship-and-attend-annual-spring-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"College of the Arts’ Students Receive 2015 Cento Amici Scholarship and Attend Annual Spring Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the generosity of Cento Amici<\/a> (100 Friends), a member organization dedicated to providing need-based scholarships to students in New Jersey, 11 College of the Arts’ students were awarded scholarships, seven of whom were hosted at Cento Amici’s 27th Annual Spring Scholarship Recipient Dinner on April 13 at Alfie’s Ristorante Italiano, in Warren. <\/p>\n

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Robert Zito, <\/strong>president of Cento Amici, <\/strong>welcomed <\/strong>the organization’s members and their guests, as well as the student scholarship recipients from five academic institutions including Montclair State University’s College of the Arts. Special guest for the evening, Cento Amici member, and Medal of Honor recipient, Col. Jack Jacobs gave an inspirational talk and awarded an autographed copy of his book If Not Now, When?<\/em> to the attending students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is always a highlight of the year for our members,\u201d said Robert Zito, the founding president of Cento Amici. \u201cThe opportunity to meet the students, who are selected by their schools to receive our scholarships, is a great reminder of why we work to support funding these scholarships.  They are truly tomorrow\u2019s leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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College of the Arts’ Award Recipients<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Cento Amici Scholarship was established at Montclair State University in 1999 and has recognized more than 100 College of the Arts’ students since its inception.  This year\u2019s recipients, representing each of the College of the Arts\u2019 four academic units, are:

School of Music   <\/strong>    
Nicholas Mossa \u2013 Music Education
Sophia Rose Salvatore \u2013 Music Therapy
 
Department of Theatre and Dance  <\/strong> 
Timothy Fisher \u2013 Musical Theatre
Emma Pressman \u2013 Dance
William Ervin \u2013 Dance
Tevin Johnson \u2013 Dance
 
School of Communication and Media<\/strong>
Sarah Wolfe \u2013 Communication and Media Arts
Melissa Donofrio \u2013 Television\/Digital Media
 
Department of Art and Design<\/strong>
Marco Fontana \u2013 Industrial Design
Kayla Osborne \u2013 Fine Arts Studio
Sebastian Gomez \u2013 Animation\/Illustration<\/p>\n

"The College of the Arts is grateful to have been chosen as a beneficiary institution of Cento Amici\u2019s 100-plus friends \u2013 and we thank them for their generosity and support over the years. Particular thanks go to Cento Amici member Joseph Canderozzi, who initially brought the scholarship to Montclair and who serves on the College of the Arts’ Advisory Board," said Linda Davidson, College of the Arts’ Assistant Dean. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the generosity of Cento Amici (100 Friends), a member organization dedicated to providing need-based scholarships to students in New Jersey, 11 College of the Arts’ students were awarded scholarships, seven of whom were hosted at Cento Amici’s 27th Annual Spring Scholarship Recipient Dinner on April 13 at Alfie’s Ristorante Italiano, in Warren. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":114406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}