Mallory Wood, a 2008 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Saint Michael's, was named in mid-August as an admission counselor for the college. With the assignment of travelling to much of upstate New York, Ms. Wood is leaving Sunday on her first trip for Saint Michael's.
"I could go on for days talking about my love for Saint Michael's," said Ms. Wood, who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in religious studies and minors in marketing and classics. With the job of marketing Saint Michael's to high school students, she will be travelling to high schools and to college fairs in her assigned region.
"I'm very excited to get started sharing my love for this place; I really want to explain what a wonderful school and wonderful community this is, and persuade them to find out more about Saint Michael's," she said. "And I am really hoping to increase the number of applicants we get from Westchester County, New York-that's in my assigned area, and it's one of our new geo-markets."
Wood was vice president of the Saint Michael's student government last year, with the job of overseeing and keeping track of 40 student clubs and working with the executive board. One of the accomplishments she is most proud of is getting free CCTA buses for students-to take them into Burlington and back. She was secretary of communications for the student government in 2005-06. She also served on nine LEAP and Emmaus religious retreat teams.
Wood made the Dean's List every semester of her college years, and was inducted into Delta Epsilon Sigma, the national Catholic honor society, and Theta Alpha Kappa, the religious studies honor society, as well as Phi Beta Kappa. She studied Early Church History and Theology at Oxford University in England in the fall of 2006.
Mallory Wood is the daughter William Wood and Brenda Whalen-Wood of Chateaugay, N.Y. She now resides in Burlington.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.