Year-End Awards Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion: Yasmine Espert ’11
and David J. Doobin ’11. It’s awarded by vote of the faculty to students who excel in high ideals of living, in spiritual qualities and in generous and disinterested service to others.
Along the Colonnade
Commencement elicits a range of emotions: bittersweet, joyful, celebratory, playful.
Edward Lee Pinney Prize: Kara Leann Karcher ’11. The Stu-
dent Affairs Committee gives it for extraordinary commitment to personal scholarship and to the nurturing of intellectual life at W&L.
Frank J. Gilliam Award: Stephanie Jean Brown ’11. The Ex-
ecutive Committee bestows it on a student who has made the most valuable contribution to student affairs in one or more fields.
Barber Scholarship: Dana Kathleen Fredericks ’12. It honors a member of the junior class who manifests superior qualities of helpfulness and friendliness to fellow students, public spirit, scholarship and personal character.
“I cannot easily sum up what we do here at Washington and Lee, but one simple description is that we seek to move students up a ladder that begins with information, then up to knowledge and then, ultimately, wisdom,” said President Ken Ruscio ’76.
The Baccalaureate speaker, Christopher A. Beeley ’90, is the Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics at the Berkeley Divinity School of Yale University. “The pursuit of knowledge and beauty and goodness that you have begun here at Washington and Lee,” he said, “must be at the center of who you are and who you become.”
A seat and a rose for Granvil George ’11, who died on Sept. 20, 2010. His parents attended the ceremony, and his classmate Scott Centorino paid tribute to him from the podium.
For complete coverage of Commencement 2011, including video and audio of the ceremonies and speeches, see wlu.edu/prebuilt/commencement_2011. Spr ing/Summer
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