Two Keyser Campus seniors honored with placement on Whitmore-Gates Academic Achievement Wall

Aslyn Didawick (left) and Stacy Gallant (right) have been honored with recognition on the Whitmore-Gates Academic Achievement Wall. 

KEYSER, W. Va. — Two WVU School of Nursing Keyser Campus seniors, Aslyn Didawick and Stacy Gallant, have been honored with recognition on the Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr Academic Achievement Wall.

Didawick, of Berkeley Springs, has accepted a job on the labor and delivery unit of Winchester Medical Center, and Gallant, of Ridgeley, plans to work on a medical unit for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall was originally conceived to recognize the academic and scholarly activities of Potomac State College's students, alumni, and faculty. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D., attended Potomac State and now serves as chair of Harvard's Department of African American Studies.

Gates was heavily influenced by his professor and mentor, Tony "Duke" Whitmore, Ph.D. Upon Dr. Whitmore's death during the planning stages of the wall, Dr. Gates requested that the name of the wall be changed to include the name of Dr. Tony "Duke" Whitmore, so that the student and his mentor may be honored together.

Each year, a faculty committee selects up to three students who exhibit exemplary scholarship and potential for continued achievement.

“Both of these students are so deserving of this honor,” said Dr. April Shapiro, Keyser Campus Chair. “They exemplify the academic qualities and values held by Drs. Whitmore and Gates, including the strong mentoring skills they exhibited — Stacy in serving as a peer tutor and Aslyn in serving as a resident assistant. I could not be prouder of them and the role models they are for others.”

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