GARRISON THEATER
2:00 P.M., SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024
GUEST SPEAKER
ADAM NOVY
Lecturer of Core
SCRIPPS COLLEGE
2024 SENIOR AWARDS CONVOCATION PROGRAM
Welcome
Amy Marcus-Newhall, President
Introduction of the Speaker
Lily Dunkin, 2023-24
President of Scripps Associated Students
“YOU VS THE GRADUATION SPEECH THEY TOLD YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT”
Adam Novy, Lecturer of Core
Presentation of the Senior Class Gift
Destiny Rivera-Gomez and Tara Zhang Senior Class Co-Presidents
Recognition of Students and Presentation of Awards
Amy Marcus-Newhall, President
Jennifer Armstrong, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Emily Rankin ’97, Alumnae Association President
Awards & Recipients
Fulbright Scholar Awards
The Fulbright Program was established by Congress in 1961 to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” Although the majority of grants are for graduate students, a small number of awards are reserved for graduating seniors who wish to further their studies or teach English abroad.
Vasti Cruz Brazil
MirabellaMiller Czech Republic
Elena Vinton Bahrain Open Study/Research
Projects for Peace Award
The Projects for Peace program supports undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to propose grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer of 2022 and 2023. The objective is to encourage and support today's motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.
Louisa CalhoonMellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Anais Martinez Castaneda
Destiny Rivera-Gomez
Blessing Roland-Magaji
Napier Fellow Award
Each of the Claremont Colleges may nominate annually up to three seniors to be Napier Fellows. These are students who have the proven ability to provide leadership for social change and are proposing a project they would like to carry out after graduation. All those nominated are encouraged to work with a mentor at Pilgrim Place, a service-oriented retirement community in Claremont, California.
Louisa Calhoon
Destiny Rivera-Gomez
Irene Roman
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a one-year grant for purposeful, independent study outside the United States, awarded to graduating seniors nominated by one of 40 partner colleges.
Grace Hill
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Omicron Delta Epsilon is a national honor society in economics. Students who meet the criteria are invited to join.
Larkin Barnard-BahnThe Theta of California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Scripps College in 1962. Seniors are elected to membership on the basis of their academic standing and the regulations for eligibility established by the chapter and the national society.
Anna Babboni
Margaret Bancroft
Mena Bova
Elsie Dank
Leona Das
Lillian Ellis
Natalie Gunn
Grace Hill
Madeline Hoorn
Meadow Jones
Helen Landau
Sophia Lewis
Stella Markey
Tali Maximon
Aviva Miller
Mirabella Miller
Rina Nagashima
Katie Nguyen
Melia Oliver
Loy Prussack
Jessica Shen-Wachter
Caroline Shoemaker
Weijia Song
Juliet Welk
Olivia Wilson
Phi Beta KappaPhi Alpha Theta is a national honor society in history. Students who meet the criteria are invited to join.
Helen Landau
Psi ChiPsi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to undergraduate and graduate students who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications.
Taliana Abadi
Samantha Clark
Talia Felcher
Madeline Hoorn
Zoey Lofgren
Prekshi Lohia
Sara Peretz Lougy
Jane Matejka
Kate McArthur
Elyse Shan
Megan Young
Judith Zhao
Phi Alpha ThetaSigma Delta Pi
Sigma Delta Pi is a national honorary Spanish society. Juniors and seniors are elected to membership on the basis of academic standing.
Larkin Barnard-Bahn
Alexandria Assunta Davis
Grace Hill
Reema Iqbal
Meadow Jones
Olivia Lordos
Lauren Marler
Tali Maximon
Katherine Remaklus
Louise Schiele
Lilliana Sena-Gersh
Juliet Welk
Sigma Xi
The Claremont Colleges Club of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, elects seniors to associate membership in the national society on the basis of outstanding aptitude for scientific research and achievement in science.
Daisy Achiriloaie
Talia Felcher
Reese Ger
Lauren McAllister
Jayati Reddy
Nadia Schwartz-Bolef
Elena Vinton
Ella Wasson
Annual Alumnae Award
Each year the Scripps College Alumnae Association presents this award to one or more seniors in recognition of outstanding contributions to the life of the College.
Natalie Burton
Grace Hill
Ellen Hu
Loren Mello
Alumnae Athletic Award
This award is funded in part by the parents of Mollie Clyde Wilson ’32, and is given for excellence in athletics by the Scripps College Alumnae Association.
Hannah Weaver The Athlete of the Year Award Laurel OvenellAsian American Studies Senior Thesis Award
This award recognizes excellent work in the field of Asian American Studies.
Emma Fukunaga“The Origins and the Politically Productive Future of the Hypersexualization of Asian American Women: Media Influences and Everyday Impacts”
Anthropology Senior Thesis Award
This award recognizes the senior thesis in anthropology that best engages all aspects of the ethnographic process, from conception to fieldwork to analysis and final written presentation.
Loy Prussack"Subverting Heteronormativity: How the Sexual Experiences of Queer People with Vaginas Redefine Virginity, Penetration, and Sexual Roles."
The Paul R. Bishop Memorial Award
The Paul R. Bishop Memorial Award in Choral and Vocal Music will go to a student who exhibits exemplary work in the choral and vocal areas of the Scripps College Music Department and the Joint Music Program.
Larkin Barnard-BahnNoëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award
The Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award was established in 2006 by Thierry Boucquey, a current Professor of French at the College, in honor of his daughters. The scholarship annually recognizes a senior student athlete who was distinguished during four years of athletic eligibility by an outstanding performance or other extraordinary achievement or distinction in one of CMS’ competitive sports, while concurrently earning a minimum cumulative GPA of A-. The student is selected by the Joint Athletics (CMS) coaching staff.
Hannah WeaverChicana/o-Latina/o Studies Awards
Thesis Award (Ray Buriel Award)
Carlos Regalado Figueroa
Community Engagement Award
Cassandra Lynn Hernandez
Artivista Award
Destiny Areny Rivera-Gómez
Crombie Allen Award
This award, presented for the best creative written work: essay, short story, poetry, or play, was established in 1927 by Mr. Crombie Allen, a former editor of the Ontario Daily Report.
Amelia Gross
“Self-Soothing (If You Loved Me, You Would Stop)”
Loralyn Ledwell Cropper ’84 Dance Award
Established by the Class of 1984 in memory of their classmate Loralyn Ledwell Cropper, this award is given to an outstanding Scripps College senior whose persistence, creative spirit, and passion for dance reflects the high standards of its namesake.
Destiny Rivera-GomezEnglish Senior Thesis Award
This award recognizes the English senior thesis that best meets the criteria of an important, wellsustained, and cogently developed argument; of thoughtful, discriminating use of secondary sources; of thoroughness of research; and of excellence in writing.
Mena Bova
“‘The Best Teacher, Comforter, and Friend’: The Gendered Politics of Labor in Louisa May Alcott’s Work: A Story of Experience”
Amelia Gross “Reddening”
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Award
This award recognizes the accomplishments of a graduating senior majoring in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies who has significantly contributed to the department through the quality of academic work, the collegiality of interactions, and commitment to the advancement of feminist ideals.
Margaret Bancroft
“Queer Formations of the Self in Woolf and Forster”
Ruth George Poetry Award
The Ruth George Poetry Prize is awarded for an outstanding poem or group of poems.
Natalie Rezek
“(E)S(S): AN EXPLORATION OF SOUND AND SELF”
The Frederick Hard Award
This award, named in honor of the distinguished Shakespearean scholar who served as president of the College from 1944 through 1964, is presented to a Scripps student for outstanding contributions to our knowledge and appreciation of the Elizabethan Age.
Natalie Rezek
“(E)S(S): AN EXPLORATION OF SOUND AND SELF”
The History Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented by the History Department faculty for the best senior thesis in history and its related disciplines.
Miranda Jacqueline Acuña
“TRAGEDY AND MARTYRDOM: GREEK DRAMA AND THE PASSION OF SS. PERPETUA AND FELICITAS”
Gillian Murdock Gardener
“THE HOLY ABJECT: THE NARRATIVE ARC OF FEMALE CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SUBJECTHOOD IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE”
Sarah Ladwig Prize in Italian Studies
This award was established to honor the memory of Sara Ladwig, who taught Italian for many years at Mt. San Antonio College. It is awarded to a student who is studying or has studied Italian (at the upper division level) and who, through a student’s course work, demonstrates an in-depth interest in a particular aspect of Italian culture, literature, history, or politics. The prize is used to support travel to/from Italy during the summer or provide additional support for study abroad programs.
Lilliana Sena-Gersh
“A Cultural Analysis of Contact Dialects: Spanglish and Italglish in American Popular Culture”
Lois Langland Award
This award, named in honor of Lois Langland, Professor Emerita of Psychology who retired from Scripps after 20 years of teaching, is given annually to one or more students majoring in psychology who wish to study the attributes and functioning of women in their various capacities as individuals and as members of society.
Jane Matejka
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented by the Latin American Studies faculty for the best senior thesis in Latin American and Caribbean studies.
Maris Amador-Lacson“’WE ALSO TILL THE SOIL’: INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN PERU AND ANCESTRAL HISTORY’S CULTIVATION OF A COMMUNAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARTH”
Legal Studies Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in legal studies.
Natalie Gunn
“Executing the Death Penalty: Racial Bias Arguments Will Not Bring the United States Closer to Abolition”
The Lind Family Prize in Mathematics in Honor of Mary Barron and Professor Louis Barron
This award is designated in loving memory by their nephew, Matthew M. Lind, parent of Katy Lind ’06. The prize is awarded to an outstanding senior who is a math major.
Ella YoungBarbara McClintock Science Award
The Barbara McClintock Science Award, named for America’s first woman Nobel Laureate, was established in 1991 in honor of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The prize is awarded for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in the sciences.
Daisy AchiriloaieRobert B. Palmer Classics Award
This award, established in memory of the late Robert B. Palmer, Trustee Professor of Classical Studies at Scripps from 1949 to 1977, is awarded to students who have displayed distinguished scholarship and promise in their studies of the classics.
Clementine Farnum “Reimagining the Costume: The Role of Fashion in Adaptations of Euripides’ Bacchae”
Corinne Stevens Fisk
“Pottery and Processional Performance: A Contemporary Application of Ancient Athenian Ritual at Scripps College”
Gladys Pattison Award in Music
Established in 1973 in memory of the widow of Lee Pattison, Professor of Music at Scripps from 1941 to 1962, this award is given to the most deserving student in the field of music for the purpose of enriching the recipient’s music library.
Demiana Emad Ibrahim Recital in Violin
Payton Watkins ’09 Media Studies Award
The Watkins Award recognizes the accomplishments of a Scripps graduating senior majoring in media studies who has significantly contributed to the Intercollegiate Media Studies program through the quality of academic work, committed exploration of creative possibilities, and the mastery of chosen media as a means for issuing social thought.
Ellen HuMarguerite Pearson Drama Award
Mrs. Lillian Grey established this award in 1974 to commemorate the life-long interest in drama of her sister, Marguerite Pearson. Students are selected on the basis of their contributions in one or more fields of dramatic art.
Zalia MayaAviva Miller
The Politics and International Relations Senior Thesis Award
The award is presented for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in politics and international relations.
GraceHill
“RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE IN A NEW ERA OF LABOR SUPPRESSION: SITRACHIRI BANANA WORKERS UNION IN COSTA RICA”
Edith Potter German Award
The Edith Potter German Award is given to one or more students majoring in German or German Studies. This award honors Edith Potter, the late professor of German, who retired in 1990 after 23 years of teaching at Scripps College.
Kushnerniva Laurent
“Drought Incidence and Fire Hazard in the Sierra Nevada Forest Foothills, 2022-2023”
The Margaret Siler Faust Psychology Senior Thesis Award
This award, named in honor of Margaret Siler Faust, Professor Emerita of Psychology, who retired from Scripps College after more than 30 years of teaching and research in psychological science, is given to the senior whose thesis best exemplifies the use of careful, empirical research to address important psychological questions about human behavior and experience.
Jane MatejkaThe Joan Robinson Prize in Economics was established in memory of a highly accomplished female economist. The prize is given by the economics faculty for superior accomplishment in senior thesis, judged on analytical and creative merit.
Sierra Delores Scott
“How Could the Soviet Union Have Developed Its Wheat Industry Without the Collectivization Movement?”
Joan Robinson Prize in EconomicsSlocum Award
The Slocum Award was established in 1936 by Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Slocum, whose two daughters attended Scripps. This award is presented annually to the senior who has formed the best personal library during four years of college.
Corey LoDuca
Krip Dyke Existential Anxieties: Fear and Hope for the Future
Zoey Lofgren
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: A Collection of Nonfiction Inspired by Didion
The Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented by the Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures faculty for the best senior thesis in Spanish and its related disciplines.
Katherine Remaklus
“El Tabú De Ser Mujer: Central and Latin American Feminist Literature in The Horror Genre”
Lucia Suffel Crafts Award
Established in 1973 in memory of Lucia Suffel of the class of 1960, this award is given annually to an outstanding student in the field of art.
Sarah Teske
Her Monstrous Body, Ceramics and mixed media
Avery White
Proof of Vanitas, Mycelium and mixed media
Nicole McDermott
Body Gate Series, Oil, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas
Sallie Suzanne Tiernan Memorial Award
Sallie Tiernan Reynolds attended Scripps College before graduating from Stanford University in 1945 with a degree in chemical engineering. She was one of four women to graduate from the first law school class of UCLA in 1953 and served on the Scripps Board of Trustees for over four decades. The award is given to a student who will be attending law school.
Mika SacreEdward A. White Award in American Studies
This award was established in 1976 as an appropriate honor to Edward A. White, the late Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor Emeritus of History and Biography at Scripps College, and is given to a senior who has done outstanding work in the study of the United States and its history, culture, or politics.
Anna Babboni“Fugitive and Sumud Encounters: Geographies of Black-Palestinian Transnational Refusal”
Writing Program Thesis Award
This award is presented by the Writing Program faculty for the best senior thesis produced by a selfdesigned writing major.
Nikki Godinez
“Serving C*nt: An Intersectional Historical Look at the Reclamation of a Taboo Word”
Sophia Shepard
“From Activist to Journalist: Radical Journalism against the Climate Crisis and American Militarism”
Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award
The Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award, named for the 1977 Nobel Laureate, was established in 1991 in honor of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The prize goes to a graduating Scripps science major with the highest GPA.
Olivia Wilson