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Melinda Harris receives Senior Leadership
Award
from Vice President Beth Sweitzer-Riley
Manchester College honors
its student leaders,
and gives high praise
to senior Melinda Harris
Melinda Harris has
made a career of leadership and service – and she hasn’t even graduated
from college yet. Harris, a senior social work major who grew up in
Bluffton, Ind., has received Manchester College’s highest award for
leadership.
Harris “leads by
example in everything she does,” said Vice President for Student
Development Beth Sweitzer-Riley in presenting Harris with the Senior
Leadership Award during an April 30 ceremony. “During her four years at
Manchester College, Melinda has made a career of leadership and service
to the campus community and to the surrounding area.”
 Rebecca
C. Wheaton of Orland, Ind., received the Outstanding Student Leader
Award for her contributions to campus activities in the current school
year.
Harris was among 26
students nominated by MC faculty and staff for the award, which
recognizes a senior leader who has contributed significantly to the
quality of student life during his or her time at Manchester College.
Harris is a graduate of Bluffton High School, although her parents have
since moved to Celina, Ohio.
“I have been
fortunate to be part of one of the many activities that prove that
Manchester College has many opportunities for students willing to be
involved on campus,” said Harris. Her MC leadership resume is extensive,
from her recent presidency of the Manchester Activity Council, to
leadership roles for East Residence Hall, Camp Mack Day, Student
Government Association and Indiana Reading Corps.
She will start work in September on a master’s degree in social work at
Denver University in Colorado, concentrating on high-risk youth, with
certification in trauma-related therapy.
Other
seniors nominated for the Senior Leadership Award:
Natalie Aschenbrenner
of Niles, Mich., Laura Beutler of Roann, Ind., Steven Boyer of Bourbon,
Ind., Amy Brouse of Union City, Ind., Aaron Cook of North Manchester,
Ind.,
Quanni
Franklin of Indianapolis, Anne Griffey of Shelbyville, Ind., Hikmat
Hamed, Allison
Haynes of Michigan City, Ind., James Hike of Syracuse, Ind., Kirby
Jasper of Franklin Grove, Ill., Sarah Malooley of Marion, Iowa, Tiffany
Maple of Greentown, Ind., Trenton Marsh of Albion, Ind., Myra
Martin-Adkins of North Manchester, Ind., Erika-Lorena Martinez of
Valparaiso, Ind., Aja Michael of Converse, Ind., Cheryl Miller of
LaPorte, Ind., Emily Quandt of New Haven, Ind., Sarah Reed of Mishawaka,
Ind.,
Jaren
Schroeder, Joshua Sigler of Tipton, Ind., Jacelle Stevens of Berne,
Ind., Gabriel
Tribbett of Idaville, Ind., and Rebecca Welker of Frankton, Ind..
Rebecca Wheaton, a
graduate of Prairie Heights Community High School, was nominated by her
peers for the Outstanding Student Leader Award. The junior social
work major is current president of the Manchester Activities Council and
has worked on Homecoming, Little Sibs Weekend and May Day Weekend. She
is co-captain of the track team, competing in shot put, discus and
hammer toss, and is a member of the Social Service Club. “She is determined to
make each event a huge success,” said Sweitzer-Riley.
Peers nominated nine
other students for the award: junior
Stephanie
Alva of Medaryville, Ind.,
senior
Natalie
Aschenbrenner of Niles, Mich.,
senior
Lauren
Bailey of Ogden Dunes, Ind.,
junior
Katie
Crosby of Monticello, Ind.,
senior
Mary-Lu
Garcia Gonzalez of Xalapa, Mexico,
senior
Allison
Haynes of Michigan City, Ind.,
junior Jessica
Hicks of Wawaka, Ind., sophomore David Walton of Rising Sun, Ind., and
junior
Angela
Wilcox of Etna Green, Ind.
At the
ceremony, the Residence Hall Association and Student Government
Association honored the Manchester Activities Council as Organization of
the Year, and MAC’s Little Siblings Weekend and May Day Weekend with
Program of the Year awards.
Member of
the Year is Allison Haynes of Michigan City, Ind., for her extraordinary
dedication and sense of service to the group and college community.
Advisor of the Year is Jennifer Vincent, campus director of student
activities.
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Rebecca Wheaton receives
Outstanding Student Leader Award from Vice President Beth Sweitzer-Riley |
