Top Students Honored at Awards Ceremony On the eve of Commencement, the seminary has had a long tradition of sponsoring a dinner and awards ceremony to recognize graduates for their high academic achievement. At this year's event, held on Friday evening, April 29, twenty students in the Graduate School of Theology and College of Liberal Arts received honor cords for earning grade point averages between 3.50 and 3.64 (cum laude), 3.65 and 3.79 (magna cum laude) and 3.80 and 4.0 (summa cum laude). In the theologate, seventy-five percent of the graduates earned honors. The seminary also conferred its Bovich Award for homiletic excellence to seminarian Mssr. Rev. Charles Canoy, and its Brownson Award for catechetical excellence to MA Pastoral Studies graduate Ms. Judith Maten. Both awards provide funding to attend a convention or workshop. Mssr. Rev. Andrew Bloomfield and Br. Riccardo Castro-Huergo were recognized for passing their comprehensive exams for the Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB), which will be conferred by Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in May 2005. The evening was a time to recognize the many contributions of departing faculty member Fr. John Kasza. For the past few years, Father John has been a graduate school instructor in Sacred Theology and seminary liturgist. He will now be serving as secretary to Cardinal Adam Maida.