Congratulations to our Senior English Majors who will be graduating on May 12th, 2007!

Our congratulations to:

Sean Malone--2007 Winner of the Mary Barlow Writing Award

Missi Rasmussen--Nicholas Manchion Award for Poetry

Kelly Mathews and Benjamin Gardner--Outstanding Senior English Major Award

Janice Gerke--Outstanding Junior English Major Award

Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium Spring 2007

Excellent presentations by our English Majors at the Undergraduate Symposium.

Dr. Atkinson, Sean Malone, and Dr. Okerstrom discuss Sean's paper, "T.S. Eliot's Personal Wasteland: A New Historical Reading of the Poem."

Janice Gerke and Adrienne Barr (not pictured) present,

"Pioneering Women: the Works of Montagu and Astell."

Ms. Cynthia Williams with creative writing student Tessa Elwood.

Tessa read from Fantasy Fiction.

Several Scholarships and Awards are available to English majors. For more information on these scholarships and more, contact:

Scholarship Coordinator

Financial Aid Office

Second Floor, Norrington Hall

(816)584-6290  Fax:(816)741-9668

E-Mail: finaid@mail.park.edu

The William B. Markward Award in Early Modern Language, Literature and Culture

$500.00 will be awarded, annually, to the best essay on some aspect of early modern English language, literature or culture.

Kathryn Houghton Groves Endowed Scholarship

Applicants must:

• Be a mathematics or English major
• have a 3.25 G.P.A. in major courses
• have a 3.00 overall G.P.A.
• be active in campus activities or organizations

The Nicholas Manchion Endowed Scholarship

Applicants must:

• Be a declared English major
• be a sophmore
• Have a G.P.A. or 3.0
• Be enrolled full-time
• Submit an original poem to be judged by the English Department (without knowing the identity of the student)

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