Two Medina County Branch members have been honored.

Carol Rommel and Denise Douglas (center) were awarded scholarships by the Medina Country Branch. They were accompanied by daughters, Cheyenne Rommel (far left), sophomore at Cloverleaf High School, and Elizabeth Douglas (far right), new graduate of the University of Akron.

Pat Stropko-O’Leary was recently named to the Crain’s Cleveland Business 2010 Class of Women of Note. She was one of 12 distinguished female business leaders chosen for their outstanding achievements throughout northeast Ohio. Stropko-O’Leary was inducted into the Class on July 22. She is Executive Director of Hospice of Medina County.

Carol Rommel, student affiliate member, and one of this year’s winners of the branch scholarship, has been hired with a college work/study as a Student Ambassador at Tri-C Western Campus. She is a dual enrolled student at Tri-C and Cleveland State and, as she noted, has the distinction of being the oldest College Ambassador Leader at Tri-C Western campus. She was “humbled and overjoyed at being chosen for this job as it was a very competitive process,” she said.

In addition, the college has named Rommel to be an Adult Student Mentor in remedial math, and to help lead a mentoring pro-gram for other “non-traditional” studnts re-entering college after job loss or hardships. She will be leading other women by coaching and by offering her own insight into the difficulties of re-entering college.

Rommel is also one of four ambassadors from Tri-C West selected to serve as hosts for the opening of the new Cleveland Center for the Creative Arts on the Tri-C Main Campus later this month.