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First-year NC State students named as the Class of 2011 Caldwell Fellows.*

Twenty-eight first-year NC State students have been selected from among 52 finalists as Caldwell Fellowship recipients. Final interviews were held February 16 at the College of Textiles. More than 60 alumni, faculty and staff, as well as two dozen Caldwell Fellows, assisted with the selection process.

Janay Braxton	Biological Sciences	Greenville, N.C.	Emilea Burton	Zoology	King, N.C.
Andrew Carmen	General Engineering	Winston-Salem, N.C.
Zach Clawson	Applied Mathematics	Manteo, N.C.
Saul Flores	Management	Charlotte, N.C.
Kayla Forrest	English	Cary, N.C.
Jayne Goethe	Environmental Design In Arch.	Wake Forest, N.C.
Jami Hall	Chemical Engineering	Wilmington, N.C.
Cedric Harville	Paper Science & Engineering	Hopkins, S.C.
Kari Henderson	Biological Sciences	Lexington, N.C.
Jeff Huber	Civil Engineering	Cary, N.C.
Riley Huston	Graphic Design	Gastonia, N.C.
Sonja Jones	Chemical Engineering	Waxhaw, N.C.
Tasheka Jordan	Political Science & Social Studies Ed.	Wilmington, N.C.
Sam Lazoff*	History	Raleigh, N.C.
Ethan Lineberger	Agronomy-Soil Science	Raleigh, N.C.
Caitlin Lowe	Plant Biology	Liberty, N.C.
Alex Martin	Management	Greensboro, N.C.
Mark Menesses	Nuclear Engineering	Kenner, La.
Lauren Morris	Psychology	Raleigh, N.C.
Nate Myers	Mechanical Engineering	Andrews, S.C.
Christine Nguyen	Aerospace Engineering	Matthews, N.C.
Ben Quigley	Biological Sciences	Knoxville, Tenn.
Sindhu Ravishankar	Biological Sciences	Cary, N.C.
Quint Reid	Chemical Engineering	High Point, N.C.
Frank Simmons	First Year College	Atlanta, Ga.
Shelley Smith	Art & Design	Raleigh, N.C.
Ali Thomas-Hollands	Animal Science	Mclean, Va.
Patrick White	Chemistry & Applied Mathematics	Winterville, N.C.

*One student was selected as a Shelton Scholar/Caldwell Fellow directly from high school in 2007: Sam Lazoff.

Events

3rd Annual Benefit Gala

The evening begins at 7:30 with heavy hors d ’oeuvres and a silent auction. A brief program at 8:30 will feature presentations on the Gala benefit agencies and will highlight the reunion classes. Music and dancing will follow.

In keeping with the challenge to ‘Think Globally, Act Locally” the Fellows have selected two health care initiatives as the beneficiaries of this year’s Gala silent auction.

The Open Door Clinic of Wake County addresses health care for uninsured and indigent people by providing comprehensive medical, pharmacy, and ancillary care at no charge to patients. Free care provided from physicians, nurses, pharmacists, lab techs, interpreters, receptionists and screeners, total in value more than $235,400 a year. A significant number of Caldwell Fellows have been part of this volunteer force. One of our long-term clinic volunteers, Caldwell senior Carol Akers, has helped identify a specific target for the funds raised at the Gala. Flu Shots are a vital service provided by Open Door. $2400 raised at the Gala will purchase 200 doses of flu vaccine for fall 2008.

Tholulwazi Uzivikele is currently home for Caldwell Alumna Brice Nielsen (06) and her husband Jim Lefler who serve as Program Coordinators of this South African NGO. Tholulwazi Uzivikele (which means "Get Information to Protect Yourself" in Zulu). Tholulwazi is located in an area of need in upper Kwa-Zulu Natal, where the general population suffers from extreme poverty, 70% unemployment, and one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. To face these challenges, Tholulwazi has developed three main programs: Home Based Care, Orphan Care, and Young Adult Care. These programs seek to increase the quality of life of patients living with and dying from AIDS, to look after the children left in the wake of the HIV epidemic, and to give youth a vision to change the world around them. The goal of the Caldwell Fellows Benefit Gala is to raise money for Orphan Fun Days. As Brice says, “The children we work with have rarely been outside their village community, as few families have cars or money to travel. Thus, Tholulwazi wants to take these deserving kids for fun days out to Game Parks to learn about animals and to the beach to see marine wildlife. We cannot take away the painful memories these orphans have endured, but we can help create happy memories filled with laughter, caring, and friendship. Please help us restore hope and bring light into these children's lives.”

The Gala student planning committee is currently seeking donations for the Silent Auction. Donations of meals, services, art and jewelry, and vacation sites have been highly successful in the past as auction items. Silent Auction donations made to The Caldwell Fellows are tax-deductible. Questions regarding Silent Auction donations may be directed to Maggie Smith of the planning committee at: mhsmith@ncsu.edu or to The Caldwell Fellows office at janice_odom@ncsu.edu or 515-3837.

Ticket prices for the Gala evening are $25.00 per person for students (undergraduate and graduate) and $40.00 for non-students. Tickets and may be purchased on-line through the Alumni Association.

News

Caldwell Fellows earn several of NC State's national scholarship and fellowship endorsements

Nathaniel Harris '06 (chemistry, philosophy) won a Rotary Cultural Scholarship to travel to Columbia.

Sarah Amend '08 (biological sciences) was awarded a St. Andrews Society of NC Scholarship to Dundee, Scotland, where she is currently studying.

Scholarship and fellowship endorsements

The NC State Fellowship Advising Office has announced the University's 2007-08 endorsees for the prestigious Churchill, Marshall, Mitchell and Rhodes scholarships. Six of the 10 endorsements have gone to Caldwell Fellows. Best wishes to Jennifer Boyd '08, Brian Clark '08, Carla Babb '06 and Vansana Nolintha '08.

Caldwell Fellows maintain tradition, placing among top three in Shack-a-thon fund-raising

Caldwell Fellows are fierce competitors when it comes to defending their spot as one of the top fund-raising groups for the campus Shack-a-thon competition. to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity. Fellows have placed in the top three groups each year since the inception of Shackathon. This year's competition was the most successful yet with students groups raising more than $25,885 for Habitat for Humanity as they work to eliminate poverty housing in Raleigh and beyond.

Staff Developments

Following an extensive search, we are delighted to announce Chaffee W. Viets (Caldwell Class of 1997) as the new associate director of The Caldwell Fellows. Chaffee comes to us with considerable experience, having served on our campus for the past nine years as associate director of Park Scholarships. We welcome him back home. You can reach him at chaffee_viets@ncsu.edu or 919.515.3837.