Sandwich, Mass., resident Josh Hoxie graduates from Saint Michael's College, earns service award

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Saint Michael's College senior class VP & President present award to Josh Hoxie (far right) of Sandwich. Photo by Jeff Clarke.

COLCHESTER, VT (05/24/2011)(readMedia)-- Joshua V. Hoxie, son of Robert and Arlene Hoxie of Sandwich, Mass., earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science, magna cum laude, from Saint Michael's College during ceremonies May 16, 2011, on the campus of the liberal arts residential Catholic college in the Burlington area of Vermont. At a graduation-week banquet, Hoxie, a 2007 graduate of Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, Mass., also was awarded a Community Service Award, presented annually to "students who in some way involve themselves in the activities of the college community and the local community." Hoxie also was inducted into Pi Sigma Alpha, the national honor society in Political Science.

In presenting the Community Service Award, Senior Class President Kate Condon '11 said Hoxie has been part of the Student Association since freshman year, "making his opinions heard and always acting to create change." She said as a member of the Green Up campus environmental group, Hoxie was always challenging fellow students to recycle and compost. He also was involved in freshman orientation and was an intern in the office of independent Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders. Soon Hoxie will be starting a full-time job in the senator's Washington, D.C. Office. He has participated extensively in the college's volunteer service organization MOVE (Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts, its Wilderness Program as a leader, and in the Student Labor Action Movement. He also did extensive research and activism on health care reform and other progressive political causes.

James Wall '74 H'07, global managing director of human resources for Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, a multinational corporation with 2,000 partners and 28,000 employees, was the featured speaker at the Saint Michael's College 104th commencement. "The value of a liberal-arts education at Saint Michael's College has never been more relevant than it is today – never," he declared. "My Saint Michael's experience taught me how to learn. Nothing is more important in today's world." Wall served on the college's board of trustees for 12 years, four of those as chairman.

Some 435 undergraduates received bachelor's degrees at the ceremony as well as 95 graduate students who earned master's degrees. These numbers include students earning degrees in August 2010 and December 2010, but receiving their diplomas May 16th.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. It is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 371 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Saint Michael's is one of only 280 colleges and universities nationwide, one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 100 international students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.