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 the Midwestern State University commencement ceremony held May 10 at Kay Yeager Coliseum. The President's Medal of Excellence winners received their medals from President Jesse W. Rogers.

Sara Suzanne Cuba, accounting major, and Jordan Ray Griffin, finance major, graduated summa cum laude from the Dillard College of Business Administration.

Briana Lynn Hawkins, an early childhood through grade 6: general major, graduated summa cum laude from the Gordon T. and Ellen West College of Education.

From the Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts, Sterling Chance Biegert graduated magna cum laude with a major in theatre.

Susannah Ruth Petty, a respiratory care major in the Robert D. and Carol Gunn College of Health Sciences and Human Services, graduated summa cum laude.

Amy Elise Brister graduated summa cum laude from the Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences with a double major in political science and history.

Ermon Dave Thomas, 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 and magna cum laude graduates must have a 3.7-3.89.