Holy Cross Students Earn Prestigious Fulbright Awards

WORCESTER, Mass. – The following members of the Holy Cross community recently received prestigious Fulbright awards to teach and conduct research in foreign countries:

Amy Atkocius ’04, a double major in German and sociology, will spend a year at Humboldt Universitaet in Germany studying refugee immigration and asylum. Atkocius is a member of the Dean’s List and Alpha Kappa Delta, the National Honor Society of Sociology. She is a resident of Auburn, Mass.

Edward Butterfield ’01 has been awarded a teaching assistantship in Chile. He will be teaching English classes at the university level and conducting independent research on Chilean and Latin American identity. While at Holy Cross, he was a member of the College’s Honors Program and Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honor Society. He studied in Spain during his junior year. Upon graduation, Butterfield spent a year in Japan teaching English. Since his return to the United States, he has served as the apartment manager at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Chicago, Ill.

Renee Chachakis ’04 has been awarded a teaching assistantship in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, where she will teach English to high school students. A political science major from West Warwick, R.I., she is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, and Delta Phi Alpha, the National German Honor Society. Named to the National Dean’s List in 2003, Chachakis was honored with a German Book Award from the German Consulate in Boston in 2002 and 2003, for excellence in the study of German.

Lisbeth Garassino ’04 will travel to Romania to teach English to high school and college students. An English major, Garassino has held internships in broadcast journalism, including working for the CBS4 – TV Investigative Team in Boston and for Worcester News Tonight. She hopes to become a reporter of international affairs. A resident of Watertown, Conn., Garassino served as a high school English teacher in Bosnia last summer.