Greensboro College Honors More Than Two Dozen Students with Academic Prizes and Scholarships

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College honored more than two dozen students during its annual Academic Awards Convocation April 22, presenting both subject and all-college awards.

The prizes and winners were:

Dr. and Mrs. S. Laws Parks Accounting Award: Kelvina Dorcas Dei-Tumi, a senior accounting major from Ludington, Mich.
Dr. and Mrs. S. Laws Parks Accounting Award: Manuel Roman Antunez, a senior accounting and Business Administration & Economics major from Hendersonville, N.C.
Dean’s Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Student in Accounting: Manuel Roman Antunez, a senior accounting and Business Administration & Economics major from Hendersonville N.C.
Dean’s Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Student in Accounting: Kelvina Dorcas Dei-Tumi, a senior accounting major from Ludington, Mich.
Clara Dougherty Brown Art Award: Alicia Marie Helms, a senior art major from Youngsville, N.C.
Regina Mouw Scholarship Award in Art: Alex Wilson Hedrick, an incoming freshman art education major from Winston-Salem, N.C.
Arnold Van Pelt Biology Award: Jessica Faye Edwards, a senior biology major from Winston-Salem, N.C.
Fred L. and Myrtle R. Proctor Endowed Business Scholarship Award: Sarah Elizabeth Bailey, a junior Business Administration & Economics major from Stokesdale, N.C.
Academic Achievement in Business Award: Kelsey Ann Emrich, a sophomore Business Administration & Economics from Sturbridge, Mass.
Dean’s Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Student in Business: Max Elliott Jenks-Gilbert, a senior Business Administration/Economics major from Colwyn Bay, Wales.
Zelda C. Pemberton Education Award: Lindsey Pope Blackwelder, a senior middle-grades math education major from Thomasville, N.C.
Leroy Lee Smith Memorial English Award: Keeley O’Quinn Catarineau, a sophomore English and Communication Studies major from Tavernier, Fla.
Mary L. Ginn Award for Excellence in English: Faith Marie Hood, a senior English & Communication Studies major from Kings Mountain, N.C.
Marvin L. Skaggs History Award: Stefania Robba, a senior history and political science major from Delran, N.J.
Mayo C. Harlow III Athletic Training Award: Hannah Leigh Clayton, a junior athletic training major from Willow Spring N.C.
Randy Hunt Exercise and Sport Studies Award: Wyatt Benjamin Bradley Vilaseca, a senior exercise and sport studies major from Guilford, Conn.
Willie Taylor Health and Physical Education Award: Alannah Nychol Haggerty, a senior health and physical education major from Raleigh, N.C.
Health Sciences Award: Kara Ann Whitson, a junior health sciences major from Winston-Salem, N.C.
Excellence in Mathematics Award: Joshua Taylor Fitzgerald, a junior mathematics major from Elon, N.C.
Luella Pugh Knott Music Award: Tesla Ann Chapman, a senior music major from Randleman, N.C.
Distinguished Psychology Student Award: Timothy Samuel Crowell, a sophomore psychology and English & Communication Studies major from Pinnacle, N.C.
David Caldwell “Log College” Scholarship: Abigail Elizabeth Bügger, a junior religion and art major from Cary, N.C.
Hardee Christian Service Award: Ronald Burrell Hinson II, a senior religion major from Greensboro, N.C.
Thelma Dixon Taylor Religion Scholarship: Alla Ahmed Alaghbri, a junior history and religion major from High Point N.C.
Distinguished Sociology Student Award: Shayla Denise Moss, a senior sociology major from Cary, N.C.
Isabelle Reedy Powell Sociology Merit Scholarship Award: Dorothy Elizabeth Medlin, a junior sociology, English & Communication Studies, and history major from Gastonia, N.C.
Alpha Chi Award for overall academic excellence: Kelvina Dorcas Dei-Tumi, a senior accounting major from Ludington, Mich.
Collegian Excellence Award in Journalism: Adelaide Leigh Elliott, a junior English & Communication Studies and history major from Walnut Cove, N.C.

Winners of music awards, who normally would have been recognized at this ceremony, were returning from a performance trip to New Orleans and so could not be present. They will be honored April 30 at the spring Jazz Ensemble concert.

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and, spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and four master’s degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features an 18-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities.

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