Meet the new RHDs!

Blurb: Exclusive interviews with the new Residence Hall Directors

Section: Campus News
9/12/08

By Avery Williams
Critic Staff

Lyndon State College has hired three new Resident Hall Directors for the Buildings of Wheelock, Arnold/Bayley and Whitelaw/Crevecour who are planning on making a few changes to the LSC campus.
Each is looking to build strong and healthy communities within each of their buildings and throughout the campus, but they each have unique ideas for the betterment of the Lyndon State campus.
“One of my goals is to help develop students into leaders and to help them feel ownership of campus activities,” says Stephanie Tyler, RHD of Wheelock. Tyler wants to develop a student based Student Government Association and Campus Activity Board. She is also interested in bringing Service Learning, Community Service and more cultural events to campus.
A native of Pennsylvania, Tyler has come to Lyndon State for its small local feel and to work toward a graduate level degree in Education. She comes from Juniata College where she studied Latin American Studies, with minors in German and Education.
“The small campus and small community means we can do big things together,” Hailing from Northern California Laura McNaughton, RHD of Arnold/Bayley.
McNaughton hopes to bring more opportunities for students to become engaged within the campus and to find more ways to empower the students into taking pride in their campus and community. She wants them to stay in college until graduation.
McNaughton went to Humboldt State University in Northern California where she majored in communication. She hopes to continue on towards a master in Education at some point in the future.
Jillian McLaughlin, Whitelaw/Crevecour RHD, is a former RA. Previously a Meteorology and Applied Math major here at LSC she loved it so much that when she heard that an RHD position had opened up she knew she wanted it.
“I want to help them make the most of their Lyndon Experience,” McLaughlin said as one of her goals for the near future here at LSC.
McLaughlin said she wanted the Residence Halls to be a place to live, not just a place to sleep. Another of McLaughlin’s goals is to help start the club ASSIST again, and promote giving back to the NEK with Community service. McLaughlin loves the area so much that she hopes to stay here and raise a family in the future.