Student News
Jewell’s Emily Wales Awarded Prestigious Truman Scholarship
Emily Wales, a senior communication, political science and Spanish major at William Jewell College, has been named a 2006 Truman Scholar by the Washington, D.C.-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Truman Scholars are chosen by independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability, and the likelihood of ‘making a difference.’ William Jewell has claimed three Truman Scholars since the award was initiated in 1977, with the most recent Jewell Truman Scholar named in 2004. The national Truman Scholar recipients assemble each spring on the William Jewell campus for a weeklong leadership development program. They receive their awards in a special ceremony at the Truman Library in Independence.
Morrison Receives Goldwater Scholarship
Jenilee Morrison, daughter of David and Pamela Morrison of Lawrence, Kan., has been selected to receive the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She is a senior majoring in Oxbridge Molecular Biology and Bioethics at William Jewell. Morrison was selected on the basis of academic merit and scientific research potential from a field of more than 1,000 mathematics, science and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premiere undergraduate award of its type in these fields. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
Morrison is a member of a William Jewell research team headed by Dr. Dan Heruth, professor of biology. The research team investigates how bacterial toxins induce cell death in single-celled eukaryotic organisms. As a first-year student she received an Oxbridge Honors Summer Research grant to fund her research at Jewell. In 2005, Morrison completed a summer research experience in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Kansas. Morrison is an active member of Jewell’s American Women in Society (AWIS) chapter. Morrison also serves as the associate editor of The Undergraduate Journal of Environmental Ethics (www.ethicsjournal.org).
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who served his country for 56 years as a soldier and statesman, including 30 years of service in the U.S. Senate. The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.
Jewell’s Toson is Glamour Award Finalist
 Lilia Toson, a junior political science major at William Jewell College, 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 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
Abdoler & Perkins with
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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 at William Jewell College. 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.
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 to Compete at Nationals
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.
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.
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 College Women): 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.
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:
• Kelly Jo Easley (senior biology major; research mentor:
Dr. Dan Heruth)
• Lynda French (senior biology major; research mentor:
Dr. Lori Wetmore)
• Brooke Henderson (senior biochemistry major;
research mentor: Dr. Anne Dema)
• Jill Jackson (senior biochemistry major; research
mentor: Dr. Scott Falke)
• Tim Perkins (senior biochemistry major; research
mentor: Dr. Dan Heruth)
• 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:
• Emily Abdoler (senior Oxbridge
Molecular Biology major; research
mentor: Dr. Dan Heruth)
• Kendra Boswell (senior biology
major; research mentor:
Dr. Dan Heruth)
• Andrew Eaton (senior biology
major; research mentors:
Dr. Dan Heruth, Dr. Lori Wetmore)
• Tim Perkins (senior biochemistry
major; research mentor:
Dr. Dan Heruth)
• Sean Riordan (senior Oxbridge Molecular Biology
major; research mentors: Dr. Dan Heruth, Dr. Judy Dilts)
• 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.
Student-Athletes Recognized
The following Jewell student-athletes have been named to the NAIA Region V academic team: Daniel Asbill, baseball; Kendra Boswell, track; Nicholas Clark, track; Allison Cobb, tennis; Katherine Cullinane, tennis; Julie Duncan, softball; Tiffany Keller, tennis; Zach Kohan, baseball; Julia Nurse, softball; Mary Beth Patterson, tennis; Christopher Pennell, golf; Jessie Pfautz, track; Cody Ptacek, track; Zachary Reed, baseball; Amy Schwindt, track; Farrell Scott, tennis; Jacob Tessereau, golf; Emily Wales, golf; Alexander Williams, tennis; and Jessica Williams, tennis.
Evening Division Honors
 The Evening Division faculty recently named Terrie Craddock-Uhlmann and Jim Godfrey as co-recipients of the Student of the Year Award. These two graduates were selected from students finishing their degrees in the 2005/2006 school year. Both students are earning a B.S. in Business Administration. Craddock-Uhlmann works for Sprint and resides in Liberty, while Godfrey is a Deputy Sheriff with the Clay County Sheriff’s department and resides in Independence.
 The Executive Women International Kansas City Chapter’s Adult Students in Scholastic Transition Program recently awarded LaTosha Brown $1,500 in support of her educational goals. LaTosha is a full-time evening student at William Jewell College who is majoring in accounting and also pursuing the Paralegal and Human Resources certificates. An awards ceremony and dinner was held at the Westin Crown Center with executives from Black and Veatch, Price Chopper, Hallmark and Cerner Corporation in attendance. LaTosha’s acceptance speech and poem earned her a standing ovation.
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