I The Scholars, in Statistics
Presidential Scholars U The Rhodes and Marshall Scholars connection BY JOHN KNOX
IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THAT THE U.S. Presidential Scholars Program is a college. But not just any college; it’s a
tiny college about one-tenth the size of Harvard or Yale, with a freshman class of only 141 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and abroad. How do the students and alumni of little “Presidential Scholars U” compare to the elite colleges? One common metric of college comparison is the number of winners of prestigious post-graduate scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarships, given to 32 U.S. students each year since 1904 (men only until 1977; only unmarried persons until 1995) for study at Oxford University, is often regarded as the most selective and prestigious of all such programs. Close behind in prestige are the Marshall Scholarships, given to between 12 and 44 U.S. college graduates each year since 1954 (men and women) for study at any United Kingdom university. And, so, how many Presidential Scholars have gone on to win Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships? Since the mid-2000s, and with the assistance of Kannon Shanmugam (1989, KS), I have researched this question and have compiled a virtually complete list. As of January 2014, 59 Presidential Scholars have been Rhodes Scholars, and 43 Presidential Scholars have been Marshall Scholars, for a total of 102 winners in these two renowned scholarship competitions. (Furthermore, this count does not include those who declined or otherwise could not claim one of the scholarships.) They are, in chronological order of selection by the two competitions: Presidential Scholar (PS) and Rhodes Scholar (RS)
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Robert Darryl Banks, 1968 PS KY (1972 RS) Terence David Valenzuela, 1969 PS AZ (1973 RS) Charles Edward Garvin, 1970 PS MS (1974 RS) Robert Bertelson Mitchell, Jr., 1970 PS ND (1974 RS) James Austin Talcott, 1969 PS MT (1974 RS) John Arthur Ausink, 1972 PS WY (1976 RS) James Glynn Basker, 1970 PS OR (1976 RS) Milton Minoru Yasunaga, 1973 PS HI (1977 RS) Eric Oliver Fornell, 1974 PS MI (1978 RS) Mark Milton Foulon, 1974 PS WA (1978 RS) Harry William Printz, 1974 PS CO (1978 RS) Ruth Sara Mazo Karras, 1975 PS OR (1979 RS) Robin Uriel Russin, 1975 PS WY (1979 RS) Linda Lucille Fletcher, 1976 PS TN (1980 RS) Stephen Reeder Morillo, 1976 PS LA (1980 RS) Michael Fleming, 1976 PS WY (1982 RS) Bruce Nelson Reed, 1978 PS ID (1982 RS) Elizabeth E. Kiss, 1979 PS VA (1983 RS)
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Andrew J. Nussbaum, 1981 PS IL (1985 RS) Beth Ellen Ebel, 1982 PS CO (1986 RS) Vivian S. Lee, 1983 PS OK (1986 RS) Elizabeth M. Cousens, 1981 PS WA (1987 RS) William H. Lipscomb, 1983 PS VA (1987 RS) Richard Yoonsik Chin, 1984 PS KY (1988 RS) Marilynn J. Richtarik, 1984 PS KS (1988 RS) Robert J. Esther, 1987 PS MO (1991 RS) Kenji Yoshino, 1987 PS MA (1991 RS) Jennifer A. Bradley, 1988 PS TX (1992 RS) Akshay Desai, 1988 PS KY (1992 RS) Noah Feldman, 1988 PS MA (1992 RS) Alexander John Hartemink, 1990 PS FL (1994 RS) Jonathan Beere, 1991 PS MI (1995 RS) Rebecca Boggs, 1991 PS KY (1995 RS) Letitia Marie Campbell, 1992 PS AL (1996 RS) Alice Siau-In Chen, 1992 PS MS (1996 RS) Jennifer Elizabeth DeVoe, 1989 PS MT (1996 RS) Ben Ray Sharp, 1992 PS SD (1996 RS) Adam Kenneth Ake, 1993 PS AK (1997 RS) Jeremy Andrew Vetter, 1993 PS NE (1997 RS) Valerie MacMillan, 1994 PS ID (1998 RS) Vaughn Thomas Gray III, 1996 PS MD (2000 RS) Rachel Rebecca Kleinfeld, 1994 PS AK (2000 RS) Derek Eugen Lyons, 1996 PS WA (2000 RS) Brandon David Miller, 1997 PS PA (2001 RS) Alexis Renee Blane, 1998 PS NC (2002 RS) Dave Ashok Chokshi, 1999 PS LA (2003 RS) Adam Steven Cureton, 1999 PS GA (2003 RS) Heidi Lie Williams, 1999 PS ND (2003 RS) Delavane Diaz, 2000 PS FL (2004 RS) Melissa Lynne Dell, 2001 PS OK (2005 RS) Joseph Steven Jewell, 2000 PS MI (2005 RS) Elizabeth W. Mayne, 2001 PS CO (2006 RS) Brad M. Smith, 2001 PS TN (2007 RS) Kyle Q. Haddad-Fonda, 2005 PS WA (2009 RS) Samuel M. Galler, 2008 PS CO (2012 RS) Katherine Niehaus, 2006 PS SC (2012 RS) Victor Yang, 2008 PS KY (2012 RS) Julian B. Gewirtz, 2008 PS CT (2013 RS) Erin A. T. Mauldin, 2010 PS NM (2014 RS)