Austin College Students Receive Fulbright Awards

s t u d e n tachieversHistory Students Make Presentations at ConferenceCOURTESY PHOTOJacqueline Welsh, Victoria Sheppard, William Weeks, David Loftice, Trang Ngo,Joshua Pollock, Paige Rutherford, and Miranda Hernandez attended the historyhonor society conference in Denton.Victoria L. Sheppard ’10 won first prize for the best undergraduate paperpresented at the Phi Alpha Theta, national honor society for students ofhistory, conference at the University of North Texas in April. “This was avery competitive accomplishment since more than 60 undergraduatestudents from more than a dozen colleges and universities presentedpapers,” said Light Cummins, professor of history and Guy M. Bryan, Jr.,Chair of American History.Sheppard’s prize-winning paper “Women, Marriage, and Singledom inthe Nineteenth Century: The Emergence of a Conscious Choice” wasresearched and written in the History Department’s “Historiography andHistorical Methods” seminar during fall 2008.Other Austin College students presenting papers at the conference wereDavid Loftice ’10, Trang Ngo ’09, Paige Rutherford ’09, Joshua Pollock’10, and Jacqueline Welsh ’09. A paper by Elizabeth Elliott ’09 was readin a conference session although she was unable to attend. MirandaHernandez ’12 and William Weeks ’09 also attended the conference.History faculty Light Cummins, Victoria Cummins, and JackieMoore attended the conference on behalf of the department.Representing Mauritius and the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Northern Ireland, Austin Collegestudents earned several honors at the NationalModel United Nations competition in New York Cityin April. The Mauritius delegation was namedOutstanding Delegation and the delegation for GreatBritain and Northern Ireland earned DistinguishedDelegation ranking. That delegation also wonOutstanding Position Paper.Adnan Marchant ’10 and Marcela Onyango ’09served as head delegates for the 37 additional AustinCollege participants. Philip Barker, assistantprofessor of political science, directed the students.Sean Killen ’91 and Shelly Williams, professoremeritus of political science, serve on the board ofthe National Collegiate Conference Association thatgoverns National Model United Nations programs.Eric Cox ’97, a member of the political sciencefaculty at TCU, was elected this spring to the FacultyAdvisory Board for the National Model U.N., andAmanda Hunt Williams ’92 was elected as one ofthe two director generals for the 2010 NationalModel U.N. conference in New York.The Art of DiplomacyAustin College students attending the National Model U.N. conference in New York City celebrate outside theUnited Nations Headquarters, posing near the “Sphere Within Sphere” sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro.COURTESY PHOTOJune 2009 Austin College Magazine 15