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Hudon named Rhodes finalist Nov. 19, already has been elected into several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. Hudon works as a student manager for the Colket Center event staff. She plays clarinet in the wind ensemble and is the musical director for the women’s a cappella group, Mainstreet. She volunteers at a local hospice, works as a medical scribe at LewisGale Medical Center and works with Habitat for Humanity. Hudon also is a figure skater, having skated with the Ocean State Ice
“As a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship, she has achieved a level of personal distinction that few students ever achieve.” — Dr. Richard Smith Rebecca Hudon in lab with Dr. Chris Lassiter, associate professor of biology.
FOR THE FIRST TIME in more than 100 years, Roanoke College has a Rhodes Scholar finalist. Rebecca Hudon ’17 shares the distinction with Frank A. Reid, who was named a Rhodes finalist, then Rhodes Scholar, in 1908, the year he graduated from Roanoke. Hudon, of Burrillville, Rhode Island, is a senior biology major, with minors in chemistry and music, as well as a concentration in neuroscience. A pre-med student, she works as a re-
search assistant with Dr. Chris Lassiter, associate professor of biology, on a genome editing tool to create mutant lines of zebrafish. “We are very pleased and excited for Rebecca,” said Dr. Richard Smith, vice president and dean of the college. “As a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship, she has achieved a level of personal distinction that few students ever achieve.” Hudon, who interviewed with a regional Rhodes committee in Indianapolis, Indiana, on
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Theater, which won four national gold medals and competed internationally for a bronze medal at the World Cup. Rhodes Scholarships are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world. Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership.
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One of the oldest and most historically significant standing structures in Salem is the Roanoke College-owned Clay Street House, at the corner of Clay Street and Thompson Memorial Avenue. Believed to have been built about 1850, the house and lot became part of the larger property of College-owned Monterey House in the early 20th Century. Over the past year, renovation has given the modest, one-and-a-half story frame dwelling a new lease on life. Photos, left and right, show before and after the renovation.
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