Genesee Community College Announces March Employee and Student of the Month

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GCC’s March Student of the Month Devon Kleinbach with GCC President Dr. James Sunser

BATAVIA, NY (04/03/2012)(readMedia)-- Genesee Community College is pleased to announce Ken Mead has been named March Employee of the Month. Ken is a highly regarded member of the Mathematics and Computer Information Systems faculty, valued for his generous support of various technical projects, and his passion for making sure those projects are user friendly.

A Long Island native, Ken earned both his degrees from the University at Buffalo: a bachelor's in Mathematics and his Master's in Mathematics Education. He also taught math as a graduate student at SUNY Buffalo and spent a year teaching high school in Byron Bergen, before joining the faculty at GCC.

Ken helps design the electronic voting system for the SUNY Chancellor's Awards, serves as the membership webmaster for the Genesee Educational Association, and sets-up the online registration process for the annual Mini Summit. "GCC has great people to work with, great students, and a positive, vibrant and creative atmosphere," which Ken says make his work so gratifying.

In addition to his GCC responsibilities, Ken also serves as the webmaster for the New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (NYSMATYC), and works as a Server Specialist with Datatel+SGHE, Genesee Community College's long-time technology support provider.

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Batavia, NY- Genesee Community College is pleased to announce Devon Kleinbach has been named March Student of the Month. The Batavia, NY resident leads by example, through her exemplary work as an SGA Senator and President of the campus Phi Theta Kappa chapter.

"GCC has been in my life for a very long time. I knew about all the different programs and opportunities and after hearing great feedback about the Education program, I decided to pursue a Liberal Arts and Science degree in the Teacher Education Transfer program." After graduation from GCC, Devon plans to attend SUNY Geneseo as a chemistry major, and earn her teacher education certificate. "My dream job? Taste tester at Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream! But realistically, I hope to become a Chemistry teacher."

Devon has been an outstanding scholar and athlete at GCC, earning a place on both the President's List, which requires full-time students maintain a quality point index of 3.75 (roughly equivalent to an A) and the Dean's List, which requires a quality point index of 3.50 to 3.74. She also earned the Nicholas J. Goergen Teacher Education Scholarship and was named to the 2011 Academic All Region team for Women's Lacrosse.

Devon's proud family includes dad David Kleinbach, stepmom Desire Kleinbach, mother Anne Kleinbach and stepdad Rich Stefaniak. She also has 7 siblings: sisters Ashley, Taylor, and Ryann and brothers Ronald, Steven, Tyler and Parker.

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