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Our Officers
Officers are voted on each year in late November/early December. They serve a full year (Spring, Summer and Fall semesters) from January until December when it is time for elections again. We want our members to feel that we are approachable and friendly. We love to hear from our members and talk to them. If you are curious to learn more about our current officers, scroll down below to read about each person or use the links below.
President: Nick Higgins
Nick is a fourth year student at UCF majoring in Psychology. He comes from his hometown of Tallahassee, FL. He was previously the Vice President and the Director of Fundraising. His favorite Honors Congress trip is to Blue Springs every fall. He is a fraternal twin and loves camping, learning new languages and travelling. One day, he would love to travel to Scotland.
Vice President: Drew Hanson
Drew is currently a senior working on a degree in Computer Engineering. He hails from a small town called Venice, FL. Drew has been involved with HonCon since his freshman year, mainly with Homecoming and Relay for Life. He is also on the Honors IM Dodgeball team. He spends his free time going to concerts (when he can afford them) and going to UCF sporting events.
Treasurer: Tiffany Bell
Tiffany is in her fourth year at UCF. She is majoring in Accounting and minoring in Finance. She is from Loxahatchee, FL. She is very involved in intramural sports and Honors Congress. She served as the Webmaster for 2008. She currently works for the UCF Credit Union as their Internal Auditor. In her spare time, she likes draw, paint, do any sort of crafts, make costumes and play video games.
Secretary: Alyssa Bridge
Alyssa is a fourth year student at UCF. She is majoring in Marketing and minoring in Psychology. She served as last year's historian and on the social committee the year before. This girl from a small town in North Carolina enjoys drama, fashion, Gilmore Girls, and philosophy.
Academic Affairs: Melissa Smith
Melissa is a third year student at UCF, majoring in Psychology. This is her second year as the Head of Academic Affairs and she has been a Distinguished Member for the past 4 semesters. Other than Honors Congress, Melissa is actively involved with the club women's ultimate frisbee team and FIRST Robotics. Addictions include puzzles and Scrabble.
Social Affairs: Christine Lange
Christine is in her third year at UCF, majoring in Marketing. She is from Coral Springs, FL and was previously a member of the social committee and the fundraising committee. Her hobbies include anything outdoors (sports, camping etc), going to UCF football and basketball games, going to the beach, and playing basketball - she absolutely love playing basketball and has played almost all of her life. Her favorite basketball team is the Miami Heat! Other interests include drawing in her spare time, traveling, and reading.
Volunteer Affairs: Patricia Urdzik
Patricia is a Senior majoring in Anthropology with a focus on Archaeology. She is from Orlando, and previously served on the Homecoming Committee. Trish's interests include Anthropological research, Archaeological fieldwork, Reading, Camping, Cooking, and Laughing as much as she can.
Fundraising: Annemarie Potts
Annemarie is in her second year at UCF majoring in Social Science Education. She is a long term transplant to Orlando from her hometown of New York City. She was previously on the Fundraising Committee. She enjoys debating about politics and randomly bursting into song. She currently works for University Carillon United Methodist Church in the Children's Ministry.
Special Events: Lauren Murphy
Lauren Murphy is a Junior Mechanical Engineering major and Hospitality Management minor. She is originally from Milford, Michigan. She was a member of the special events committee all of her three previous semesters, and is very excited to be chair for 2009! She enjoys snorkeling, cooking, sewing, and writing and illustrating her own comic books.
Publications: Christine Rigby
The aforementioned Rigby is a third year UCF student who is as tall as she is short. She bitterly uses the term "third year", because it sounds like Harry Potter terminology and she still has yet to encounter a Dark Arts class at her school, and also because she has enough credit hours to make an actual juniors cry. By the time her fourth year expires, she would like to have a degree in Cardiopulmonary Sciences. She enjoys pretending to be a dinosaur as well as wishing upon a star that motorcycle licenses were less expensive - HOWEVER! Publicating, publications, and advancement of public knowledge of events open to the public are her specialties and true source of happiness. As is her questionable copy of Photoshop CS3.
Historian: Jordan Henry
Jordan is a second year student at UCF planning to major in Radio/TV production. Her hometown is Princeton, West Virginia. Previously in Honors Congress, she was a member of the Historian committee and a distinguished member. She is currently studying Italian language and serving as secretary of the Italian Club at UCF. Her interests include travel, photography, film, ice hockey, Harry Potter, and musical theatre.
Philanthropy: Heidi Bolduc
Originally hailing from her southern Florida hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Heidi Bolduc is currently a junior at UCF majoring in Radio/TV Communications and minoring in Psychology. Prior to holding the position of Honors Congress Philanthropy Chair, she served on the service chair committee in Spring 2009, followed by publications committee in Fall 2009. When not studying or attending Honors Congress meetings, you can find her sipping Starbucks, watching Stephen Colbert, or listening to music.
Webmaster: Jonathan Villadolid
Jonathan is a fourth year at UCF, and is dual majoring in Management Information Systems and Finance. He originally hails from New Jersey by way of Cape Coral, FL. He was the Webmaster in 2007, and is currently also the President of MISA. He works at the UCF Office of Research and Commercialization as an IT intern. Jonathan's interests include pretty much everything, and he spends copious amounts of time reading. He enjoys spending his free time this semester reading Arthurian literature for his interdisciplinary seminar.
Housing Affairs: Brendan Monaghan
Brendan is in his third year at UCF as a psychology major and is serving his second term as Housing Liaison. He comes from his hometown of Tampa, Florida. Brendan has been a homecoming committee member, a housing committee member, a distinguished member four times, and goes to almost all of the socials for honors. His hobbies include reading, basketball, video games, and ballroom dancing. He also loves going to the UCF home football and basketball games.
Athletic Director: Zach Hollis
Zach is a third year student majoring in Health Sciences and minoring in Hospitality Management. He has lived in Orlando his entire life but traveling. He's new to Honors Congress and is looking forward to being the guinea pig for the Athletic Director position. He enjoys pole vaulting, jetskiing, talk radio, making smoothies and listening to vinyl.
Fax: 407.823.6583
P.O. Box 161800
Orlando, Fl. 32816-1800
Webmaster:Jonathan Villadolid