Katie Florescu of Merritt Island, Florida, Recipient of CSS Award

LEXINGTON, VA (01/29/2014)(readMedia)-- Katie Florescu, of Merritt Island, Fla., is a fall 2013 recipient of the Celebrating Student Success (CSS) initiative at Washington and Lee University. It is meant  to inspire engaged citizenship and is sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs.

CSS seeks to recognize students who are not typically or sufficiently touted for the depth and breadth they add to the W&L campus community.

Florescu is a Romance Languages major at W&L. She is a resident advisor for first-year students, a dispatcher and driver for Traveller Safe Ride System and memorabilia co-chair for Fancy Dress.

A graduate of Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, Fla., Florescu is founder of Younity, a first-year program designed to promote individuality and unity in the W&L social community; is a Spanish and English tutor with English for Speakers of Other Languages; and is a member of Women in Sciences and Technology and Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society.

Recipients were selected by the CSS Committee, which is composed of students, faculty and staff. Any member of the campus community can nominate a W&L student at any time.