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Annual awards were presented at the 167th Commencement Exercises of Rhodes College on May 14 on campus. Rhodes graduate Heting Hommy Zhu was awarded the Peyton Nalle Rhodes Phi Beta Kappa Prize, the college’s highest academic honor, and James Allen Boone, Jr. ’71, vice president for finance and business affairs, received the Rhodes College Distinguished Service Medal.
Savvy readers will recall way back to our fall issue when Kathryn Anderson ’87 inquired about a tasty sandwich served in the Lynx Pub.
Outside Barret Library, a light layer of white covered the Rhodes campus. Inside Barret 051, a cavernous space typically reserved for group meetings, teams of students huddled together, heads down, diligently working on laptops.
Rhodes senior Emily Hayward has been accepted into a nationally competitive Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).
Five days a week, Rhodes senior Jessica Ramey heads over to Promise Academy, an elementary charter school in Memphis’ Hollywood neighborhood, to assist first-grade students with their daily lessons.
Rhodes senior Miranda Rose recently learned she is the recipient of a 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Korea. She joins four other Fulbright student grantees from Rhodes who will serve as English Teaching Assistants in their assigned countries.