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NC Wesleyan Students Receive Awards at Honors Convocation

Rocky Mount, NC—The annual Honors Convocation was held at North Carolina Wesleyan College, Sunday, April 30. History Professor Karin Zipf was the speaker. The two highest awards went to seniors, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award to Casey Elizabeth Smith and the President’s Cup to Laci Lynn Powell.

Smith is a senior from Wall, N.J. Her father is Kenneth Smith from Toms River, N.J.; her mother is Pastor Linda Applegate, from Wall. She is an elementary education major transferring to NC Wesleyan in 1998. She has worked in the College’s security and student life offices, has been a math tutor, and currently works in the College bookstore. She is also a member of Tri Sigma, and was awarded this year’s Sister of the Year award.

Powell is a senior with a double major in sociology and psychology and a minor in business administration. She is from Emporia, Va., and her parents are Leonard and Emma Powell. She made the President’s List every semester of her college career. Powell worked in the College post office and the bookstore. She is a member of Pi Gamma Mu sociology honors society and Psi Chi psychology honors society She graduated from Greensville County High School.

Other award recipients included:

Humanities Divison Awards:

• Freshman Writing Award, Amber Lesane;
• Religion/Philosophy Award, Carol Hayes Grove;
• Theatre Award, Allison Dore;
• Senior English Award, William M. Norris.

Mathematics and Science Division Awards:

• Biology Award went to two people, Erin A. Gaddy and Jennifer E. Foreman;
• Chemistry Award to Vivian R. Vega;
• American Institute of Chemists/North Carolina Institute of Chemists Foundation Award also went to Vivian R. Vega;
• Exercise Science Award to Erin L. Smith;
• Mathematics Award to Laura K. Hilbert;
• Don Scalf Scholarships to Erin Smith, Richard Bullard, Carl (Buddy) Hernandez, James Pitney, and Chontae Uptegrow.

Education and Social Sciences Division Awards:

• Psychology Award, Laci Lynn Powell;
• Sociology Awards to James L. Stevens and Latonya R. Whitaker;
• Outstanding History Major Award to Jason P. Boone;
• John Paul Jones History Award to Jennifer E. Foreman;
• Justice Studies Award to Robert J. Pike;
• North Carolina Association of Education Student Program Education Award to Elizabeth A. Page.

Business Division Awards:

• Business Administration Outstanding Senior Award to Robin S. Williams;
• Outstanding Food Service and Hotel Management Senior Award to Ana N. Ochoa;
• Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award to Olivia de Chazal;
• Computer Information Systems Award to Daniel D. Smith;
• Outstanding Senior Accounting Awards to Tabatha L. Weaver, Stacie O. Miller.

The Internship Award went to Sarah L. Grizzard.

The Outstanding Adult Degree Programs Award for Rocky Mount went to Sherry A. Goldman; for Goldsboro to Shelly A. Chandler; for Raleigh, Daniel J. Nagle; and for Durham, Bradley D. Evers.

Student Life Awards granted were Tutor of the Year to Krystall Pittman, Supplemental Instruction Leader of the Year to Laura K. Hilbert, Student Life Organization Award to Alpha Sigma Tau, the Sarah Alexander Tulloss Award to Trevor S. Gonsalves, Leadership and Service Award to Jamanda A. Gunter, James R. Hailey Leadership and Service Award to Herbert J. Clinton, and the Religious Life Award went to Thereasa Bradley.

New members of national sociology society Pi Gamma Mu were recognized. They include Jessica Allora, T. Grant Ambrose, Cameron Batchelor, Alyssa Battle, Thereasa Bradley, Glenda Carpenter, Nathaniel Bunn, Deborah Dickens, Victoria Donnelly, Howard Draper, Maggie Dunn, Kim Evans, Michael Ferrell, Jamie Funk, Carrie Gearing, Linda Hawkins, Sherry Hires, Robert Hughes, James Hunt, Connie Nelson, Carolyn Morris, Bill Norris, Robert Pike, Christina Pinzon, Camella Pulliam, Monica Reed, Brian Richardson, Kelly Sessoms, Hilga Sloan, Anne Smith, Cynthia Stallings, and Eleni Traidafillou.

New members were also inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, national freshman honors society. They included Robert Adams, Jerry E. Bennett, Jr., Natasha Keora Berry, Kelly Diane Cecil, Gina L. Compofelice, Paula C. Eckard, John Joseph Gall, Anasha Joy Godley, Jamanda Anina Gunter, John Allen Hopkins, Terri Nicole Langston, Meredith A. Lasater, Amber L. Lesane, Mickey D. Lofton, Aaron A. Lolar, April Chandler McDowell, Christopher A. Pierce, Robert J. Pike, Krystall C. Pittman, Donald Richards-Smith, Jennifer L. Rossi, Kia V. Savage, Katie J. Schaeffer, Justin C. Steil, Robert I. Uche, Amanda J. Wilber, Courtney A. Wormuth, and Joel B. Yednock.

North Carolina Wesleyan is an independent, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The College offers bachelor’s degrees in 22 majors to traditional-aged students on the Rocky Mount campus. NC Wesleyan also offers an Adult Degree Program geared to help working adults finish their bachelor’s degrees in several disciplines, with classes in Rocky Mount, and at additional teaching sites in Raleigh, Goldsboro, and Durham. The College is also planning to introduce a new accelerated degree in computer information systems and also an accelerated master of business administration program in the fall 2000 to the adult students in the Triangle area.

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