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STUDENTS IN THE NEWS
Lilia
Toson is Glamour Award Finalist
Lilia Toson, a junior political science
major, has been selected as a national
semifinalist in Glamour magazine's
"Top Ten College Women" competition.
Toson is the daughter of Bobbie Toson
of Kansas City North.
Each year Glamour sponsors a
competition open to junior female college
students across the United States. The
awards, which have been presented for
49 years, recognize women who have
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demonstrated
campus leadership, community involvement and
academic excellence, along with unique personal
goals. The top ten applicants receive a $2,000
cash prize along with an expense-paid trip
to New York City to meet with Glamour
reporters and photographers. Toson is the
first Jewell student to achieve semifinalist
status. Toson worked with Dr. Lois Anne Harris,
director of Jewell's Prestigious Fellowships
program, to compile her application, which
included an essay, transcript, letters of
recommendation and documentation of her activities
and achievements. Based on the strength of
that application, she advanced to the semifinalist
stage and was interviewed by a Glamour
magazine representative. The results of that
interview have now been forwarded to the magazine's
editors for final consideration. The "Top
Ten College Women" feature appears in
the magazine's October issue.
Abdoler, Perkins Named William Jewell Faculty
Award Winners
Emily Abdoler, a senior Oxbridge molecular
biology and bioethics major, and Timothy Perkins,
a senior biochemistry major, have been named
the co-recipients of the Faculty Award. Jewell's
Faculty Award is the most significant distinction
offered a graduating senior. It is presented
to a student who has spent his/her entire
undergraduate career at William Jewell; who
has a grade point average of 3.75 or higher;
and who has exhibited the highest ideals of
a liberal arts education.
Abdoler and Perkins were also selected by
their peers as seniors "most likely to
succeed." Abdoler received the Leona
E. Kresse Award and Perkins was named Col.
Alexander Doniphan.
Students Receive President's Humanitarian
Service Awards
Three students have been named as the recipients
of the 2006 President's Award for Humanitarian
Service at William Jewell College. Elizabeth
Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hall
of Overland Park, Kan.; Rachel Vig,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Vig of Minneapolis,
Minn.; and Emily Wales, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Wales of Warrensburg,
Mo., will spend their summers involved in
a variety of service-related activities.
Hall will serve eight weeks in Costa Rica
working with Entre Compas, an established
program sponsored by The Defense for Children
International, an international children's
rights organization. The Entre Compas program
is designed to help Costa Rican children re-enter
the public education system. The children
served by this program include street children
and those used in child labor. Hall will be
on a team with professional children's rights
workers involved in workshops focusing on
issues regarding marginalized children and
the public school system. She will also work
in an after-school program. Hall is a junior
Spanish and Spanish Education major. She spent
the 2004-2005 year studying in Salamanca,
Spain. Through her experiences at Jewell,
Hall has developed a passion for the Spanish-speaking
world as well as human and children's rights.
Vig will work with Lutheran Partners in Global
Ministry at the Siloam Boarding School for
Girls in Tirukilur, India. The boarding school
provides education, food and shelter to girls
whose families could not otherwise afford
them for their children. She will work at
the school for six to eight weeks teaching
English through book studies, games and conversation.
Vig is a junior psychology major involved
in the Second Year Experience Leadership Team,
the Pryor Leadership Studies Program, College
Union Activities, the Editorial Board for
The Hilltop Monitor and Rotaract. After
college, she plans to join the Peace Corps,
attend graduate school and pursue a career
in occupational therapy.
Wales will spend four weeks in Boaco, Nicaragua,
working with a Peace Corps volunteer. She
will conduct a self-designed program focusing
on English education and community building
through a series of short theater performances
to be performed for the people of Boaco. The
goal of the theater performances is to promote
self-esteem among young people. The project
relates to youth development, one of the five
main objectives of the Peace Corps in Nicaragua.
Wales is a junior communication and political
science major. She has served as editor-in-chief
of The Hilltop Monitor, worked with
the service-learning program, played for the
Lady Cardinals golf team, and been in a number
of theater productions.
The President's Award for Humanitarian Service
provides funding for William Jewell students
who wish to participate in public service
projects during the summer months. Students
may choose to work with an established service
program or agency or may choose to design
an entrepreneurial project. The duration of
the project may be up to twelve weeks. Up
to three such proposals are normally funded
each year. Projects to be funded address compelling
human needs benefiting a specific and identifiable
individual or group in a way that is readily
and immediately observable.
William Jewell's Students in Free Enterprise
in Regional and National Competitions
William Jewell's SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)
team was named Regional Champion at the organization's
recent competition in St Louis. The team also
was named a national finalist in three special
topic areas: Market Economics, Success Skills
and Financial Literacy, with the national
competition set for Kansas City's Bartle Hall.
"This is a significant win for us since
we are just in our second year of competition
and there were only six competition topic
areas available in which to compete,"
said Debbie Scarfino, assistant professor
of business administration at William Jewell.
The regional champion trophy comes with a
cash prize of $1,500.
The William Jewell SIFE team was represented
in a 24-minute oral presentation of the year's
project work, delivered by Melissa Herschlag,
Andy Pitts, Nicole Kraft, Christina Pryor
and Seth Smith. Hannah Smith, John Barber
and Marcus Mikkelsen supported the team with
power point technology and team members who
were able to attend the competition all participated
in the Q&A session with the judging panel.
Students Aaron DeJong and Aaron Mays also
contributed to the group's printed annual
report.
SIFE is a nonprofit organization that gives
students the tools to learn the free enterprise
system in a real working situation. SIFE challenges
students on more than 800 college campuses
nationwide to take what they're learning in
the classroom and use their knowledge to better
their communities. Guided by faculty advisors
who are named Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise
Fellows in honor of the late Wal-Mart founder,
SIFE Teams establish a variety of community
outreach programs that teach free enterprise.
The team earned the first runner up honors
in their league in the opening round of the
2006 National Expo but did not advance to
finals. The WJC SIFE team upset some top 20
teams with a strong history of wins - including
Texas State, a former champion. The national
winner this year was Graceland University,
whose Sam Walton Fellow, Kevin Prine, is coming
to William Jewell College as professor of
business administration and chair this fall.
To be a top 40 team with only two years of
competition under their belt made a strong
impression on WJC's competitors. Several parents
traveled to the competition to support the
students and some campus and BAB (Business
Advisory Board) members were in the audience
on presentation day.
William Jewell College Fraternity Captures
Chapter Excellence Award
The Alpha Delta chapter of the Kappa Alpha
Order at William Jewell College has been awarded
the Samuel Zenas Ammen Award for Chapter Excellence.
The award was presented recently at the fraternity's
annual Province Council meeting in Columbia,
Mo. The award, given to the top 15% of Kappa
Alpha chapters nationwide, is the chapter's
eighth such honor.
"At Alpha Delta, we have a rich history
of success, both on campus and in the community,"
said Nick Clark, chapter president. "We
are extremely glad to be retaining a leadership
position in the William Jewell College Greek
community." The award recognizes the
chapter's progress in a variety of areas.
Chapter members' cumulative GPA consistently
ranks at the top of Jewell's fraternity system,
and currently stands at more than 3.2 on a
4.0 scale. Service projects in and around
the Liberty community and increased leadership
roles on campus also contributed to the award.
MORE STUDENTS IN THE NEWS
Music Students Gather at Jewell
More than 100 high school, college and young
professional singers visited the Jewell campus
to compete in the annual spring auditions
held by the Kansas City Chapter of the National
Association of Teachers of Singing. In the
10 divisions, 5 William Jewell students received
awards/recognition. Division 6 (Lower CollegeWomen):
sophomore Brittany Williams tied for second
place; Division 8 (Upper College Women): Katie
Noel was second and Libby Pierce and Jayme
Gann tied for third; Division 7 (Upper College
Men): Josh Lawlor tied for second. Brittany
is a student of adjunct professor Melinda
Lein, while Katie and Libby are students of
Professor Ron Witzke. Jayme Gann and Josh
Lawlor study with adjunct professor Kathy
Price.
Psychology Students Present Findings
Seven of Jewell's psychology majors conducted
research that was submitted to the Great Plains
Student Psychology Convention held this spring
at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg.
Five students were able to attend the conference
and present their findings. Posters and the
researchers were judged by a pair of faculty
judges from other colleges and universities.
Debra Bowman, Rachel Vig and Katie Heaton
garnered second place in their research division.
Language Department Honors
The Language Department is pleased to announce
William Jewell's 2006 Phi Sigma Iota inductees:
Kim Fogarty, Elizabeth Hall, Melissa Hill,
Malinda Horovitz, Heather Jones, Jaala Kirkley,
Jill Sladek, and Kimberly Swanner. Phi Sigma
Iota recognizes outstanding ability and high
standards of students and faculty of foreign
languages, literatures and cultures. It is
the highest academic honor in the field of
foreign languages. Phi Sigma Iota has initiated
over 60,000 members since its foundation in
1917.
Celebrating Science Successes
The Departments of Biology and Chemistry celebrate
the success of a number of students who recently
presented undergraduate research results at
regional and national meetings. The following
students presented the results of their undergraduate
research in poster sessions at the 231st American
Chemical Society National Meeting in Atlanta:
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Kelly Jo Easley (senior
biology major; research mentor: Dr.
Dan Heruth) |
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Lynda French (senior biology major;
research mentor: Dr. Lori Wetmore) |
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Brooke Henderson (senior biochemistry
major; research mentor: Dr. Anne Dema) |
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Jill Jackson (senior biochemistry
major; research mentor: Dr. Scott Falke) |
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Tim Perkins (senior biochemistry major;
research mentor: Dr. Dan Heruth) |
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Andy Wommack (senior chemistry major;
research mentor: Dr. Kathleen Kilway,
UMKC) |
The following students presented the results
of their undergraduate research in poster
sessions at the Kansas City Area Life Sciences
Research Day in Kansas City:
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Emily Abdoler (senior
Oxbridge Molecular Biology major; research
mentor: Dr. Dan Heruth) |
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Kendra Boswell (senior biology major;
research mentor: Dr. Dan Heruth) |
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Andrew Eaton (senior biology major;
research mentors: Dr. Dan Heruth, Dr.
Lori Wetmore) |
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Tim Perkins (senior biochemistry major;
research mentor: Dr. Dan Heruth) |
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Sean Riordan (senior Oxbridge Molecular
Biology major; research mentors: Dr.
Dan Heruth, Dr. Judy Dilts) |
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Matt Wortham (senior Oxbridge Molecular
Biology major; research mentors: Dr.
Dan Heruth, Dr. Lori Wetmore) |
Jewell Student Scores Bronze Quill
Art major Aaron Mays received first-place
recognition in the student category of the
recent Bronze Quill awards sponsored by the
Kansas City chapter of the International Association
of Business Communicators. Aaron's entry involved
a mock corporate branding project that included
the creation of logos, letterhead, business
cards and a web banner.
Works Published
Tristin Hooker, an Oxbridge English Language
and Literature major, has had a poem, "Grace,"
accepted for publication in the spring issue
of The Albion Review. Lindsey Melvin,
also an Oxbridge ELL major, has had a short
story, "One Single Microscopic Life-Altering
Chromosome," accepted for publication
in Thirty One Seventy: A Journal of Art
& Writing.
Andy Gard, Oxbridge Institutions & Policy
major, currently studying at Cambridge University,
has just published an article that he wrote
on Russian politics and the oil connection
in The Cambridge Globalist, a journal
of international affairs published at Cambridge
University. Follow this link to read an online
version of the article, entitled "Russia's
Addiction to Oil" http://www.yale.edu/globalist/cambridge/
New Members of Mortar Board
Congratulations to new members of Mortar Board
initiated April 2, 2006: Joel Bryce, Nick
Clark, Amanda Flanigan, Matt Kastner, Bess
Keller, Caroline Ketter, Marilyn Minter, Alicia
Pavkov, Christopher Pennell, Daniel Stricker
and Lilia Toson. New members who will be initiated
in Fall 2006 include Ashley Ihde Baker, Amanda
Brown, Andrew Gard, Diana Hilton, Jenilee
Morrison, Kelsey O'Donnell, Katherine Perko,
Scarlett Savage, Sarah Smith, Erin Thess,
Emily Wales, and Andrew Wingfield.
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