Burlington resident Erin Collins Bodin, Saint Michael’s College assistant director of community service, was recognized for her service to students with a Class Appreciation Award from the Class of 2011 at the annual SMC Senior Awards Luncheon held May 13th. The award is given to a person who “has made a significant impact within the class.”
SMC Senior Class VP Frederick Osborne of Burlington presented the award, stating that Erin Bodin’s efforts “to bring community service to St. Mike’s are outstanding and inspiring, and make for a better campus life.”
“Erin shows students how small, local efforts go a long way,” Osborne said. Ms. Bodin has worked in the U.S. and beyond, “giving of herself in some of the most impoverished cities in the world,” he said. “She has worked selflessly for our school, and class, and has left an impact on so many of the students here, that surely they will take with them forever.”
Saint Michael’s provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J Neuhauser, Saint Michael’s College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America’s top college towns. It is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 371 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges.Saint Michael’s is one of only 280 colleges and universities nationwide, one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael’s has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 100 international students. Saint Michael’s students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation’s top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.