Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe received the distinguished alumni award from Barry University late Saturday.

The Haitian leader said his experience at the school was one filled with discipline and perseverance when he studied political science and French there.

I never thought that I would become prime minister after I graduated, he said. I wondered what was next and whether I would find a job.

Lamothe, who came to the private university to compete on the tennis team, graduated from the school in 1996.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Lamothe lost when he first tried out for team.

Very badly, he said at a news conference before receiving the award. But the coach gave me an opportunity and I seized it.

Lamothe became the first mens tennis player to be named an All-American at the school and he represented Haiti in the Davis Cup in 1994 and 1995.

He later went on to St. Thomas University to earn an MBA.

Before joining President Michel Martellys government in Haiti, he worked mostly as an entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry.

Lamothe has previously said he wanted to reignite reconstruction and promote Haiti as an investment destination.

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Staff from Southeastern Technical College had their work commended at a public relations conference on Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Oct. 21-24.

The National Council on Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR) held its District II conference on Hilton Head over four days, culminating in an awards dinner that saw STC public relations staff receive NCMPRs Medallion Award for their work on the schools medical programs booklet.

Even though we try to do a lot of our recruitment efforts electronically during this day and time, I decided last year that we should create another booklet and a video highlighting our medical programs, said Barry Dotson, vice president for student affairs. I didn't want it to just repeat the course information in our catalog and on our websiteI also wanted it to tell the stories of some of our amazing medical graduates.

Southeastern Techs health science alumni include department managers, directors, and other high-level employees in regional facilities like Meadows Regional Medical Center and Optim Medical Center-Tattnall, so locating subjects for the stories wasnt difficult.

So, I sketched out my ideas on a piece of paper, and passed it along to the incredible team of Krysta Rushing and Clarke Schwabe, and the result was a medical booklet that got second place in the NCMPR District II Medallion Awards in the Wild Card category, said Dotson.

The scoring system used by the NCMPR judges does not necessitate the awarding of gold, silver, and bronze, and the highest medal awarded in the Wild Card category was a silver. So, STCs medical booklet actually tied them for top honors in the category with three other schools.

The NCMPR District II encompasses 11 southern states and that is a lot of technical and community colleges, so I'm very proud of this award, said Dotson.

I'm very proud of Krysta and Clarke and the months of hard work they put into this booklet and the accompanying video. I'm also extremely proud of the graduates highlighted and the fact that Southeastern Technical College was able to change their lives forever.

To view the accompanying video to the award-winning medical booklet, visit http://www.youtube.com/SoutheasternTechColl. To find out more about Southeastern Technical College and its medical programs, call 912-538-3100 or 478-289-2200 or visit http://www.southeasterntech.edu.

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The Parkway School District's Alumni Association will induct its fifth class into the Parkway Alumni Association Hall of Fame.

The Nov. 17 event will feature a reception and induction dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Westport Hotel - Lakeside Chalet, 900 West Port Plaza in Maryland Heights.

Reservations for tickets to the event, which cost $75, are required by Nov. 1 and can be made by calling the association at (314) 415-8074 or visiting http://www.parkwayalumni.org.

The Hall of Fame inductees have distinguished themselves in various areas and made significant contributions in their respective fields.

The 2012 inductees are:

Chandra Brown (Parkway West High, Class of 1986), vice president of Oregon Ironworks, L.L.C., and president of its new subsidiary company, United Streetcar, Inc.

David Brown (Parkway West High, Class of 1981), an awardwinning communications professional at WCVBTV in Boston.

Jeffrey Burke (Parkway South High, Class of 1988), an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburghs School of Medicine.

Bryan Chapell (Parkway West High, Class of 1972), chancellor of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis.

Robert Clark (Parkway Central High, Class of 1977), the founder, chairman and CEO of Clayco, Inc., a real estate development, engineering, architecture and construction company.

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RAYNHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Medrobotics, an emerging medical robotics company developing the innovative Flex Robotic System, announced today the appointment of Eugene N. Myers, M.D., and Marshall Strome, M.D., two thought-leaders in the field of head and neck surgery, as co-chairmen of the Companys worldwide Medical Advisory Board.

The Flex Robotic System is designed to provide hospitals with a costeffective, multipurpose surgical platform so they can offer patients and surgeons a new, minimally-invasive treatment alternative for disease in difficult-to-access anatomical locations, starting with transoral applications in the oropharynx and larynx, said Samuel Straface, Ph.D., president and CEO of Medrobotics. We are extremely excited to have Dr. Myers and Dr. Strome, two exceptional surgeons, lead our worldwide Medical Advisory Board as we prepare to make our first product available to leading head and neck surgeons, added Dr. Straface.

Dr. Eugene N. Myers is Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has written 259 articles and has published many books, the most notable of which is Cancer of the Head and Neck together with Dr. James Y. Suen, now considered the standard textbook on this topic. Dr. Myers serves on many editorial boards throughout the world and was International Editor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. I am excited to participate in making this important technology available to surgeons and their patients, whose treatment options currently are often limited and not well tolerated, said Dr. Myers.

Dr. Marshall Strome is the immediate past Professor and Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Head and Neck Institute. In 1998, Dr. Strome performed the worlds first total human laryngeal transplant; and in 2005, he performed the worlds first robotic laser excision of a laryngeal malignancy. In addition to more than 200 publications and several books, Dr Strome was one of a select group of physicians recognized at the millennium by the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery for their contributions to medicine in the last 250 years. Ive had the privilege of working with the Medrobotics team throughout the development process, and am pleased to formalize my role with the company as the Flex Robotic System is introduced to the eagerly awaiting ENT community, said Dr. Strome.

The initial application of the Flex Robotic System will address a compelling unmet need for minimally invasive treatment options for the approximately 200,000 patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year in the U.S. and Europe, and many more with significant benign disease. The Flex Robotic System is anticipated to be commercially available in 2013 in the U.S. and Europe. Additional applications in other difficult-to-access anatomical locations in the body are already under development.

About Eugene N. Myers MD, FACS, FRCS Edin. (Hon)

Dr. Myers is Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The department has always been in the top tier in the nation in U.S. News & World Report.

Dr. Myers is acknowledged as one of the top Head and Neck surgeons worldwide. He has written 259 articles and has published many books, the most notable of which is Cancer of the Head and Neck together with Dr. James Y. Suen now considered the standard textbook on this topic. Dr. Myers serves on many editorial boards throughout the world and was International Editor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is also an Honorary Member of more than 20 national societies and was Principal Investigator of the Oral Cancer Center of Discovery funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

Dr. Myers is Past President of the American Board of Otolaryngology, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Laryngological Association, the American Head and Neck Society, and the Pan American Association of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

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VOL. 127 | NO. 216 | Monday, November 05, 2012

Heres a look at whats going on at the moment in the citys legal community and some things that are on the horizon.

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, which turns 50 this year, in 2010 moved into the historic U.S. Custom House/Courthouse/Post Office on Front Street in Downtown.

(Daily News File Photo: Brandon Dill)

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law is celebrating its golden anniversary this year. On Oct. 27, the school held its 50th anniversary celebration for the Downtown facility, which opened in 2010 and marked a new chapter for a building that once was the Front Street post office for nearly 40 years and a federal courthouse before that.

The celebration was expected to draw more than 1,500 alumni and community members from across the city, state and country. And it honored both the schools history and the people whove been part of that history, including former deans, professors and alumni.

Speaking of the law school, its been making some changes. One such tweak is a new pro bono requirement, which now makes students complete a certain amount of pro bono legal work in order to graduate.

All students must give 40 hours of their time to pro bono legal activities, said the law schools interim dean William Kratzke. I think thats going to be good for everybody. I think its going to be good for the community, and I think itll be good for the students and good for the school.

In many ways, the school has come a long way. Were very different than we were 50 years ago. For one thing, were in a new building. And were celebrating all of that together this year.

The school moved Downtown thanks to the U.S. Postal Service in 2006 agreeing to move out. A $5.3 million deal was worked out to turn the property over to the University of Memphis.

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Who says dolls are just for kids?

A collection of cute, cuddly and unique dolls in different school uniforms is fast becoming a hit among grown-ups, particularly alumni who are mostly mothers and career women.

Fashioned out of vinyl, the 12-inch, made-to-order school dolls are currently available in the uniforms of St. Scholastica's College, Miriam College, St. Paul University, St. Theresa's College, Assumption College, Saint Pedro Poveda College and Mother of Divine Providence in Marikina.

Ophelia Formeloza, a businesswoman and mother of four, sells these trendy school dolls. She says the idea came from Luisa Jimenez, her batchmate from St. Scholastica's Academy (SSA) who thought of coming up with dolls dressed up in the blue and white jumper St. Scholastica's uniform during the school's 50th anniversary celebration in July 2011.

Since then, the business has been growing rapidly as these plushies have managed to attract not only alumni and students from their alma mater but other schools as well.

DOLLS FOR THOSE IN NEED

"We all find it cute to see little Scholasticans in the dolls we sell. It represents us, who we are, and how we looked like many years back. Looking at these dolls reminds us of so many good memories we had while we were in school. It's fun to reminisce and the dolls help us do just that. Feeling this way about the dolls, we are too sure that there are many others like us who want to remember their childhood as well and the dolls will definitely be a lot of help," Formeloza says.

For her and her batchmates though, the dolls are more than just symbols of the past, but one of the best ways to help Scholasticans in need, those who are suffering from medical conditions, and those whose kids have transferred to public schools because their parents could no longer afford to send them to St. Scho.

"We know that we will not be able to raise as much funds to enable us to be of great help to almost every Scholastican in need. But for as long as we continue what we do, contributing whatever amount we have, (that) is already an achievement we can all be proud of, especially to our kids whom we pray can learn from us and eventually be inspired to do the same in the future," she ends.

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