MSU names President's Medal of Excellence winners

            Students graduating with the highest grade point averages from each of the six academic colleges were honored at Midwestern State University commencement ceremonies held May 15.  The President's Medal of Excellence winners received their medals from President Jesse W. Rogers.

            From the Dillard College of Business Administration, Gerard Clifford Austrie graduated summa cum laude with a major in Accounting.

Meagan Nicole Stanaland, from the Gordon T. and Ellen West College of Education, graduated summa cum laude with a major in Special Education.

            Sharon Kaye Bock Mills graduated magna cum laude from the Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts with a major in Music.

            Mesfin K. Galata and Deirdre Carolyn Johnson, Respiratory Care majors in the College of Health Sciences and Human Services, graduated summa cum laude.

            Lauren Candence Craig, a Psychology major; Michael Sheldon Rawl, an English major; and Suzanne Elizabeth Wallace, a Sociology major, all graduated summa cum laude from the Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences.  

            Trudy Marie Horton Ware, an Environmental Science major, graduated summa cum laude from the College of Science and Mathematics.

            Summa cum laude graduates must have a minimum of a 3.9 grade point average. Magna cum laude graduates must have a grade point average of 3.70-3.89.