The Hardin and Clark Scholars, the top academic honors at Midwestern
State University
 
Ruth Sherrill Burns, a keyboard performance major, was named Hardin Scholar.
This is the university’s highest award for academic excellence and was begun in
1961 by the Hardin Foundation. It is presented each spring to a student during
his or her senior year and a $2,500 award is given with the honor. Burns serves
as Chi Omega vice president, Mortar Board membership chair, University
Singers Choir president, and University Singers Women’s Section Leader.She is
a member of many organizations including Association of Disciple Musicians, the
American Guild of Organists, Midwestern State University Singers and Student
Ambassadors.
Robbie Lee Graham, a chemistry major, was named Clark Scholar. The Clark
award was established in 1976 to honor E. B. Clark, a former chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the MSU Foundation. It is presented each spring to a
student in his or her junior year and carries with it a $1,500 award. Graham
serves as a Student Senator, secretary of the Biology Club, and treasurer of the
Political Club. He is also a member of the MSU Honors Program and serves as a
tutor in chemistry.
In addition, the following students were honored from each department. College
of Business Administration Outstanding Accounting Student: Kim Carson
Prigmore Outstanding General Business Administration Student: Kelsey Louise
Wright Outstanding Business Computer Information Systems Student: Bradley
Wayne Mills Outstanding Management Student: Vinessa Marie Lipps Fitzwater
Outstanding Marketing Student: Tanya Ann Lindemann Outstanding Economics
Student: Aisha Jamila Howell Outstanding Finance Student: Wayne Glenn Daniel
Outstanding International Trade Student: Kathrin Bente Gordon T. Ellen West
College of Education Outstanding Elementary Education Student: Jacquelyn
Brynea Landrum Outstanding Secondary Education Student: Randy W. Thurman
Outstanding Special Education Student: Sharon Rae Devereaux Travis and
Evalyn White Student Teaching Award: Fall 2003 Elementary: Teresa Faye Wiist
Fall 2003 Secondary: Andrea D’Yon Bowden Ketschird Spring 2004 Elementary:
Brandi Sue Beavers Spring 2004 Secondary: Crystal G. Krueger Lamar D. Fain
College of Fine Arts Outstanding Art Student: Nicholas J. Parker Outstanding
Mass Communications Student: Robert Zachary Duncan Outstanding Music
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Student: Daniel D. Siegert Outstanding Theatre Student: Stephanie R. Brownie
Vinson Award in Journalism: Samantha R. Sandell College of Health Sciences
and Human Services Outstanding Criminal Justice Student: Amos Deerinwater
Outstanding Dental Hygiene Student— Dr. Rudolph Robinson Award: Shirley
Galera Cortez Outstanding Kinesiology Student: Dominic Lee Van Nielen
Outstanding Nursing Student: Chad Randal Vickers Outstanding Radiologic
Science Student: Shonna Renee’ Diggs Outstanding Respiratory Care Student:
Holly Renae Maxwell Outstanding Social Work Student: Sara Elizabeth
Afflerbach College of Liberal Arts Outstanding English Student: Pollyahna K.
Birkhead Outstanding History Student: Sylvia Garcia-Leon Outstanding Student
in a Foreign Language: Peter L. Braveboy Vinson Award in Creative Writing:
Wendy-Ann Wells Outstanding Political Science Student: Misty L. Blazewicz
Outstanding BAAS Student: Donald Winston Curry Outstanding Psychology
Student: Laura Ann Hise Outstanding Sociology Student: Michael W. Spiller, III
Outstanding International Studies Student: Shirlyn M. Solas-Edwards College of
Science and Mathematics Outstanding Biology Student: Stormie Gayle Melton
Outstanding Chemistry Student: Jeremy Clayton White Outstanding
Environmental Science Student: Thomas J. Wauhob Outstanding Geology
Student: Kathryn L. Kizer Outstanding Medical Technology Student: Amy Lynn
Cook Outstanding Physics Student: Jorge Antonio Paramo Outstanding
Mathematics Student: Jorge Antonio Paramo Crenshaw/Descartes Award: Kyle
Evans Wynne Outstanding Computer Science Student: Hoang Bui Outstanding
Manufacturing Engineering Technology Student: Juan Francisco Paramo
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