‘Honorary Alumna Award’ of St. Peter’s to Nutley resident

NUTLEY, NJ — Longtime resident of Nutley and Nutley Hall of Fame inductee Eileen L. Poiani, Ph.D., will be presented with the Honorary Alumna Award at the May 5 “Hearts & Minds: The Saint Peter’s University Scholarship Celebration.” The event will be held at the Mac Mahon Student Center at Saint Peter’s University, located in Jersey City.

In addition to Poiani, four other SPU grads will be honored: Drew J. Bauman will be presented with the Honorary Alumnus Award; and Anthony O. Pergola, ’92 and Maureen Lemke Pergola, ’94, will be presented with the Loyalty to Alma Mater Award. Proceeds from this annual event support the university’s general scholarship fund.
Poiani currently serves as special assistant to the president and professor of mathematics at Saint Peter’s University, having come to the university in 1967 as the first woman in the mathematics department. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglass Residential College and The Graduate School-New Brunswick at Rutgers University, she was assistant to four previous Saint Peter’s presidents and vice president for student affairs.

Her honors include a New Jersey Woman of Achievement award; Nutley Hall of Fame inductee; George F. Johnson, S.J., Faculty Award for excellence in teaching; and Italian-American National Hall of Fame. Former trustee of Rutgers and Saint Peter’s Prep and member of the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education, she now serves on the Douglass Residential College board; Hoboken Catholic Academy board; and New Jersey State Board of Accountancy.