Student leaders from a variety of academic disciplines were honored April 30 at the annual Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony in Whitley Auditorium. The program followed an April 23 ceremony in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and preceded upcoming recognition events for students in the School of Communications, the School of Education and Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.
ODK recognizes students who have provided outstanding leadership in their junior or senior years, and who have maintained high academic averages.
The School of Communications presented its top scholars in a ceremony immediately following the ODK event. School of Education achievers will be honored May 1, with Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, recognizing its top students during a May 7 program.
2009 ODK award winners included the following:
Outstanding Academic Service-Learning Student Paper Award – Kara Elizabeth Cowdrick
Iris Holt McEwen Community Service Award – Kayla M. Hicken
Phi Kappa Phi’s national Marjorie Schoch Fellow – Victoria Davis
John W. Barney Memorial Award – Ivy E. Crank
Truitt Center Reconciliation Award – Bonnie Jean Harvey
Ella Brunk Smith Award – Christen Brett Aquino
Student Communications Media Award – Alyse Joy Knorr
William Moseley Brown Leadership Award – Hallie Marie Killmer
Perito Award – Margeaux Rose Corby & Kimberly Brooke Duggins
James S. And Marilyn A. Denton Award – Ryan Paul Chabai
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award – Rachel Erin Teem, John Parker McAllister & Michael T. Williams (Elon staff recipient)
W.L. Monroe Christian Education & Personality Award – Henry Caleb Tabor & Hannah Mae Bourquin
Ward Family Learning In Action Award – Meagan Hope Harrison
ODK Officers:
President: Marshall Sharpe
Vice President: Kirby Sypek
Secretary: Tory Chase
Treasurer: Kristy Keiser