Awards and Scholarships
Daisy Moore Duvall Scholarship: Kelsey Jackson
Wanita Danley Centennial English Honors Scholarship: Jaime
Worden
Margaret (Peggy) Nims Writing Scholarship: Noelle Hurt
Young Family Scholarship: Jessie Randall
Reed Loving Watt Scholarship: Felicia Doyle
Geraldine Burns Award: Noelle Hurt
Outstanding Student Teacher: Cody Stephens
Senior Portfolio Award: Lindsey Dugan
LeMoine Blake Crabtree Outstanding Student of Russian:
Ashley Cardwell
Gary and Linda Travel and Study in Russia and Ukraine
Scholarship: Trevor Spradling and Yin Lai
Paul Hughes Award: Nathan Steinman
Eleanor Waner Dedmon Spanish Scholarship: Heather
Truett (Byng High)
Ozella Waner English Scholarship: Mary Dixon (Ada
High)
Sara Randall Memorial Scholarship: Macy McDonald
Higgenbotham Scholarship: Michael Womack
Criswell Memorial Scholarship: Jaime Worden
ACTR National Post-Secondary Scholar Laureate: Ashley Cardwell.
Best Essay Awards
Best Essay in a Humanities Course: Cayla Odom,
“Endearingly Deceptive: The Merit of the Unreliable” (Responding to Literature,
Dr. Hada)
Best Essay in a Literature Course: Noelle Hurt, “‘Til
Death Do Us Part: Idealism in All the Pretty Horses” (American Literature
since Whitman, Dr. Hada) and Lindsey Dugan, “Examples of the Relationship
Between Music and Mortality” (Existential Literature, Dr. McMahon)
Best Creative Writing in a Freshman/Sophomore-Level
Course: Teresa Buretta, “Life Is But a Dream” (Introduction to Creative
Writing, Dr. Walling)
Best Essay in a Writing Course: Noelle Hurt, “What’s a
Teacher to Do?” (Composing Theories, Dr. Davis)
Best Essay in a Language Course: Jaime Worden,
“Critical Period, Genie, and Language Learning’” (Introduction to Linguistics,
Dr. Benton)
