SPRING AWARDS CELEBRATION Academic Awards Tuesday, April 6, 2021 SPRING AWARDS CELEBRATION Academic Awards Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Moment of Silence ............................................................. C. Wess Daniels William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies Welcome ........................................................................... Jim Hood ’79 Interim President Recognition of Emerita & Emeritus Faculty ...................................... Rob Whitnell Interim Provost Presentation of Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.................................... Jim Hood Moe Reh Algernon Sydney Sullivan Scholarship Award for a First Year Student Gabriela Vazquez Presentation of Bruce B. Stewart Awards for Teaching & Community Service ................................................... Jim Hood Tenured/Teaching Excellence: Phil Slaby Non-Tenured/Teaching Excellence: Parag Budhecha Staff/Community Service: Susan Smith Outstanding Thesis Advisor Award: Michele Malotky ........................... Rob Whitnell Recognition of Honors and Presentation of Awards ................................. Kyle Dell Interim Academic Dean Closing Remarks ....................................................................... Jim Hood PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AND HONORS George I. Alden Scholarship was established in 1981 for Charles C. Hendricks Scholarship is awarded based on the purpose of providing scholarships to rising juniors academic achievement, exemplary personal character and with a GPA greater than or equal to 3.25. service to the College community. Recipients: Diyaa Kaufman, Macaylee Eller Recipients: Hayley C. Blakemore Fred I. Courtney Fund for Scholars in Management is Eugene S. Hire Memorial Award was established in awarded to students based on academic excellence in memory of Eugene S. Hire ’29 to provide a scholarship management and demonstrated leadership potential. award to a student completing the junior year who has Recipients: Ovidiu Bogdan, Clinton Roger Bost, Corby demonstrated the highest standards of scholarship Belle Brooke, Calyn Anna Davis, Anna Kate Honer, Jay Recipient: Makayla Felton Darden Montague Lawrence T. Hoyle Pre-Law Scholarship was established Charles A. Dana Scholarships provide scholarships for by the S. LaRose Corporation to honor Lawrence T. Hoyle, students of academic excellence with potential for future an attorney in its employ and is awarded to a rising leadership. senior who is planning to attend law school. Candidates Recipients: Juliana Hubbard, Calyn Davis, Noah Dabney, demonstrate proficiency in written and spoken English, Emma English and are of high character. Recipient: Juliana Hubbard Dean’s Award for First-year Writing recognizes superior writing by a first-year student. The Alan Walter Hull Scholarship was established Recipient: Trisha Santanam in 1982. Alan was on the Dean’s List each semester at Guilford and was a Dana Scholar 1979-1982. He was Dean’s Award for Writing in the Physical, Natural and dedicated to serving through Hospice ministry or as a Health Sciences recognizes excellence in an essay on the hospital chaplain. The Scholarship honors a purposeful, Physical and Natural Sciences. altruistic person preparing for a service vocation. Recipient: Edward Brown Southworth Recipient: Jacob A. Perkins Dean’s Award for Scholarly/Critical Writing recognizes James S. Laing Art Scholarship was established in 1983 to superior writing from the Arts, Business and Policy honor the memory of the important life and work of James Studies, Humanities or Social Sciences that explores an Sampson Laing by providing scholarships for students academic topic with the greatest originality and insight with excellent capabilities in the field of art. and the most engaging style. Recipient: Jazzalyn Pena, Ananya Bernardo Recipient: Emma English Algie I. and Eva M. Newlin Social Concerns Award was GlaxoSmithKline Women in Science Scholarship established to honor Algie I. Newlin for his 50 years of recognizes outstanding scholarship, provides an association with Guilford to honor a student who shows incentive for women science students to enter the science outstanding interest in furthering Quaker social concerns. profession, and provides all science students and majors A cash prize is awarded to the recipient and an equal with a woman science mentor at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. amount will be given to the charity of the student’s choice. Recipients: Gracie Perry Garnette, Megan Hooker Recipient: Leo Blain Guilford College Art Appreciation Club Merit Award Lynn & David Odom Leadership Award is presented to promotes the arts by recognizing and rewarding talented a rising junior who has demonstrated leadership at the individuals who plan to further their education or training College and may be renewed in the senior year. in their chosen disciplines. Recipient: Michael Mesa Recipient: Harper Reese The Sue Keith Prize in Fiction celebrates the writer who Judith Weller Harvey Award in Campus Ministry was best demonstrates a mastery of short fiction. established in 1993 to be used for Quaker Visitors and a Recipient: Sydney Partyka campus ministry award for a senior who has contributed significantly to Guilford’s spiritual community. The Betty Place Prize in Poetry, which honors the memory Recipient: Teagan Gilliam of Betty Place, librarian and lover of words, is awarded to that poem which best demonstrates, with passion and Hege Library Research Award is made possible by the precision, a control of the poetic art. generosity of the Friends of the Library and H. Curt ’56 and Recipient: Harper Reese Patricia S. ’57 Hege. The award honors exemplary senior theses and celebrates faculty mentorship and librarian Eric Reid Memorial Leadership Fund awards a rising engagement in furthering students’ development as senior in good academic and judicial standing who critical thinkers and thoughtful and creative scholars. exhibits leadership involvement that enhances campus Recipients: Jillian Morrison, Gracie Perry-Garnette life, sustains a sense of contribution through his/her years as a student leader at Guilford, recognized by peers as one plans and goals. who encourages community, and conducts himself/herself Recipients: Anisgul Stanikzai, Munah Nimely, Annalee with a balanced sense of humor and an energy about life that Durland-Jones inspires others. Recipient: Benita Bahoya The Van Leer-Campbell Scholarship is given to strong academic achievers committed to community involvement The Hazel Steinfeldt/American Friends Service Committee during or immediately after college. Scholarship is presented to students committed to working Recipients: Walter R. Stowe (CE), Kayla Rose Krest for peace and justice in the world, as reflected in their career DEPARTMENTAL HONORS Accounting: NC CPA Board Exam Fee Waiver Award eases senior Chemistry major for superior ability and academic the financial burden of bachelor- and master’s-level students achievement. at specific North Carolina colleges and universities and Recipient: Don McTaggart offers one Guilford student a Uniform CPA Exam voucher package that allows the student to take that exam at little Chemistry: Harvey A. & Maxine K. Ljung Scholarship or no cost. is presented to Chemistry majors for scholarship and Recipient: Zachery Greene service to the department and the College. Recipient: Karla Hernandez Accounting: Outstanding Achievement by an Accounting Student is presented to a senior Accounting major in Computer Technology and Information Systems: recognition of outstanding academic achievement in the Outstanding Senior in Computer Technology and field. Information Systems is presented to a CTIS major in Recipients: Calyn Davis, Jacob Perkins recognition of outstanding achievement in the field. Recipients: Connor Button, Pamela Rhyne Art: The James C. McMillan Art Award was established in013, the0th anniversary of the College’s integration, to Cyber and Network Security: Outstanding Graduating honor its first African-American professor. The award Senior Award is presented in recognition of outstanding is presented to students of color based on leadership in achievement in the field. the classroom, quality of art work, and/or demonstrated Recipient: Charly Smith achievement in community service in the arts, and is juried by the Art department faculty. Education Studies: Outstanding Achievement by a Senior Recipients: Asheley Rodriguez-Sanchez is presented in recognition of outstanding academic achievement in the field. Art: Merry Moor Winnett Art Scholarship was named in Recipient: Delaney Martin memory of Guilford photography instructor Merry Moor Winnett, and established by her husband. It is awarded English: The Anderson Creative Writing Scholarships, annually to students in good academic standing, with named in honor of American author Sherwood Anderson preference given to students studying art, in particular and established by his heirs, are awarded annually to four photography. students who demonstrate exceptional promise in the field Recipients: Kat Hawkes, Estelle Mandeville of Creative Writing, including poetry, prose and drama. Recipients: Harper Reese, Alys Parker, Ainsley Kalb, Juliana Biology: Eva Campbell Scholarship is awarded to biology Hubbard majors on the basis of scholarship and aptitude for a career in biology. English: The Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert Awards provide financial Recipients: Madison Burkardt, Caleb Huppert, Chloe Pope assistance to deserving English majors for career planning and preparation. One is offered to rising