Sara Devota Swartz-welder, daughter of Elizabeth and Scott Swartzwelder of Chapel Hill graduated cum laude from Middlebury College on May 24.

DePaul University student Caitlin M. Moran of Chapel Hill was named to the Dean's List for the 2009 winter quarter.

To receive Dean's List commendation, full-time students must earn a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or above on a four-point scale.

Chapel Hill native and long-time Carrboro resident Mike Okun recently was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a national organization established in 1995 to recognize those who, by long and outstanding service, have distinguished themselves as leaders in the field of labor and employment law.

Okun is just the second member ever elected from North Carolina, and the first who represents employees or labor unions.

Okun, a partner at Patterson Harkavy LLP, has represented labor unions and individuals with employment-related matters across North Carolina for more than 25 years. He is general counsel to the N.C. State AFL-CIO and has served as chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the N. C. Bar Association; on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Coordinating Committee, the national organization of attorneys representing unions; and on the founding Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association, the national organization of attorneys representing employees.

Terrie S. Baker, MSW, has graduated from the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Carolinas as an adult psychoanalyst.

Baker is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice providing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Chapel Hill. Baker, who also holds a masters degree in chemistry, returned to UNC after a career in chemistry and toxicology to earn her masters degree in social work at the School of Social Work in 1996.

She was awarded the Rubin Blanck Award for rising second year clinical social workers.

She completed the advanced program at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center of North Carolina. She is active in many organizations that seek to promote psychoanalysis including the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and serves on the Board of both the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation and the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society.

David Schmoeller, the son of Margaret and Joe Schmoeller of Chapel Hill, was honored with the George W. Davis Memorial Prize in Religion at the Macalester College Honors Convocation May 15.

Schmoeller is a graduate of East Chapel Hill High School. He was a junior at Macalester last spring.

The George W. Davis Memorial Prize was established by Ethel Mary Davis in memory of her husband. Cash awards are given by the Religious Studies Department to juniors who in the judgment of the department have attained the highest degree of excellence.