BOLIVAR, Mo. – ÌÇÐÄvlog students were recognized for their contributions to
their academic departments and colleges at Honors Chapel on May 1 in Pike Auditorium
on the Bolivar campus.
Spring 2017 graduates honored included:
- Outstanding Music ÌÇÐÄvlog – Ashley Fox, Dunnegan
- Outstanding Commercial Art ÌÇÐÄvlog – Kaylee Dye, Blue Springs
- Outstanding Studio Art ÌÇÐÄvlog – Natalie O’Keefe, Granite City, Ill.
- Outstanding Ministry ÌÇÐÄvlog – Chelsea Hilbert, Owasso, Okla.
- Outstanding Theology ÌÇÐÄvlog and Behavioral Sciences Male ÌÇÐÄvlog – Joshua Sharp, Camdenton
- Outstanding Behavioral Sciences Female ÌÇÐÄvlog – Kayla Penticuff, Odessa
- Outstanding Elementary Education ÌÇÐÄvlog – Sarah Turney, St. Charles
- Outstanding Middle School Education ÌÇÐÄvlog – Lydia Swisher, Newton, Kan.
- Outstanding Secondary Education ÌÇÐÄvlog – Isaak Pearson, Springfield
- Outstanding Social Science Education ÌÇÐÄvlog – Douglas Chronister, Stockton
- Outstanding History ÌÇÐÄvlog – Wesley Dwayne Gilden, Bolivar
- Outstanding Political Science ÌÇÐÄvlog – Aric Gooch, Bolivar
- Outstanding Accounting ÌÇÐÄvlog – Matthew Randolph, Lebanon
- Outstanding Business Administration ÌÇÐÄvlog – Jacey Buckles, Lebanon
- Outstanding College of Business & Computer Science ÌÇÐÄvlog and Computer Science ÌÇÐÄvlog
– Kelli McNabb, Clever
- Outstanding Web Systems & Design ÌÇÐÄvlog – Shellie Austin, Bolivar
- Outstanding Computer Information Science ÌÇÐÄvlog – Regan Katz, Hampton, Iowa
- Outstanding Chemistry ÌÇÐÄvlog – MariaLynn Jaeger, Ashmore, Ill.
- Outstanding English/Writing ÌÇÐÄvlog – Travis Furtkamp, Ozark
Other honorees and scholarship recipients were:
- J.A. Clark Biology Award recipient – Aleece Kanai, Mount Vernon
- Snellen Scholar & Service Award recipient – Tarah Goodknight, Princeton
- James Frederick Hurst Memorial Mathematics Award recipient – Julie Bowman, Franklin, N.C.
- Outstanding First-Year Chemistry Student – Allison Cormican, Sedalia
- Presser Scholarship recipient – Karen Kelley, Jefferson City
- Baker Book Award recipient – Jess Huck, Pleasant Hill, Iowa
- Autry & Irene Brown Scholarship recipient – Addie Bresee, Fordland
- Autry & Irene Brown Scholarship and Joe B. Shelton Behavioral Sciences Award recipient
– Ashley Monje, Arnold
- Rose E. Ray Scholarship recipients – Kailey Scifres, Bentonville, Ark.; Kimber Stout, Mansfield; Olivia Grace Harris, Little Rock, Ark.
- Sara McGaha Memorial Scholarship recipient – Monica White, Eldon
- Dutile Memorial Hebrew Scholarship recipient – Brandon Eardley, Granite City, Ill.
- Virginia Hopper Scholarship recipient – Hannah Syftestad, Reedsburg, Wis.
SBU will hold three Spring commencement ceremonies. The Bolivar campus undergraduate
ceremony will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 20, on the Merrill Burnidge Memorial Forum;
the graduate degree commencement will be at 3 p.m. in the Jane and Ken Meyer Wellness
and Sports Center; and the Springfield campus commencement will be at 7 p.m., Thursday,
May 18, at Second Baptist Church, Springfield.