By School of Dentistry - August 1, 2012
Held Friday evening, May 25, at Loma Linda’s Campus Hill Church, the School of Dentistry’s annual pinning ceremony for graduating dental hygiene students provides a meaningful preamble to their baccalaureate and commencement services.
Included in this high evening is the presentation of 16 awards to dental hygiene students (see listing below).
The Loma Linda University School of Dentistry Department of Dental Hygiene graduating class of 2012
The pinning ceremony tradition gives each class the opportunity to publicly accept the responsibilities that accompany their profession as caregivers and to pledge “before God and all present … I will live my life in a way that brings honor to my family, my profession, my community, my school, and my God.”
Dental Hygiene awards
Dean’s Award
Yatziri Ortega
Klooster Humanitarian Award
Alexandra Knight
Violet Bates Award
Solomon Iyesusab
Student of the Year Award
Julianne Souza
Clinician’s Award
Joselyn Garcia
Middleton Award
Michelle Kaiser
Mitchell Award
Solomon Iyesusab
California Dental Hygienists’ Association Outstanding Leadership Award
Kim-Phung Truong
American Association of Public Health Dentistry
Kim-Phung Truong
Colgate STAR Award
Kim-Phung Truong
Sigma Phi Alpha Award
Kim-Phung Truong
Service Learning (DH) Award
Darwin Redil
Tri-County Dental Hygienist’s Society Award
Brianna Pickens
Western Society of Periodontology Award
Amanda Armand
Joni Stephen’s Preventive Dentistry Award for Research
Debra Gruzensky
Jeanne Gustafson
Julianne Souza
Special Service Award
Class of 2012