2020 Alumni Achievement Winners
Aisha Stroop, M.D. ’94 – Career Accomplishment
Aisha has been an emergency medicine physician at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut since 2017. Prior to that, she was an emergency medicine physician attending at Nyack Hospital and JFK Medical Center.
Louis Berman ’87 – Community Service
Lou is president and founder of Louie’s Voice, a charitable organization that has been serving and speaking up for those with autism since 2011. Lou founded the organization in honor of his son, Louis Berman Jr., who is nonverbal and severely autistic.
Anna Marhefka ’14 – Academic Excellence
Anna was named the Edinboro (Pennsylvania) University Social Work Student of the Year in 2018. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in social work from Edinboro and went on to earn a master’s degree with a flawless academic record in 2019.
Student Achievement Winners
Nathaniel Boyd – Career Accomplishment
Nathaniel’s career aspiration is linked to a personal mission to carve a unique path to serve and advocate for others. Since the beginning of the academic year, Nathaniel has participated in an internship at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center where he has worked as a research lab assistant in the area of breast cancer research.
Diana Creech – Community Service
Diana’s desire to live a life of service is reflected through her actions, involvement in countless service projects, and her goal to attend Johns Hopkins University to major in biomedical engineering to prepare for a career in prosthetics. Diana has been working in computer science class on an innovative prosthetic arm she hopes will be shipped to a child in need.
Daniel Himes – Academic Excellence
Daniel has been taking Honors-level courses since enrolling in 10th grade and ranks among the top academic students in the Class of 2020. His numeric grade point average is nearly 100 percent for his high school career. He has earned distinguished honor roll status every marking period for the past three and one-half years and maintained a perfect 4.0 effort and conduct GPA.