Congratulations to the following EXSSers who received awards yesterday afternoon at the Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony.
Student Academic Awards
- Sandra Hoyt received the Patrick Earey Award.
- Established by the Department of Exercise and Sports Science, this award honors the late Patrick F. Earey, a distinguished member of its faculty. Dr. Earey taught in the department from 1957 to 1987 and served as varsity swim coach from 1957 to 1975. This award is given to the member of the graduating class who has exhibited outstanding academic achievement, extracurricular involvement and leadership. The recipient is selected by a committee of faculty members and students from the department.
- Jessica Cox is the recipient of the Sessoms-Meyer Excellence in Recreation Administration Award.
- This award honors the distinguished careers of professors H. Douglas Sessoms and Harold D. Meyer, who served the University for over forty years. It is presented annually to the most outstanding undergraduate minoring in Recreation Administration. The minor is housed within the Department of Exercise and Sport Science. (Formerly known as the Harold D. Meyer Award in Recreation Administration.)
- Jarrod James received the Wallace Ray Peppers Award in Performance of African and African American Literature
- This award was established in 1987 in honor of a professor in the Department of Communication Studies whose teaching in the field of African and African-American literature and whose personal influence and example inspired his students in academic and cultural endeavors. It is given annually to the junior or senior in that department who is judged by a faculty committee to be most outstanding in performance of African and African-American literature.
Student Activities Awards
- Halie Ellinger received the Panhellenic Council Woman of the Year Award.
- Established by the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council, and the Greek Alliance Council, these awards are presented annually to four undergraduates who have made the most significant contributions in the areas of leadership, scholarship, service to their individual chapters, and Greek and University Communities.
- Eric Rossitch was awarded the Sports Clubs Council Achievement Award.
- This award, established in 1979, is given annually to the undergraduate who, in the judgment of a committee representing the Sport Clubs Council, has made the greatest contribution to the vitality and strength of club sports through either the Sport Clubs Council or one or more individual clubs.
- Kamieo Lewis is the recipient of the John Johnston Parker, Jr. Medal for Unique Leadership in Student Government
- This award was established in 1987 in honor of a professor in the Department of Communication Studies whose teaching in the field of African and African-American literature and whose personal influence and example inspired his students in academic and cultural endeavors. It is given annually to the junior or senior in that department who is judged by a faculty committee to be most outstanding in performance of African and African-American literature.