Friday, May 09, 2008
Top award to Samuel C. Bowles
 During the 2008 Commencement, Samuel C. Bowles will receive the President’s Medal, the highest honor given by the University to a graduate. The award recognizes academic excellence and service to the University. He will graduate summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree. An English/Secondary Education major, he was awarded the Robert E. and Judith E. Griffin Endowed Presidential Scholarship when he enrolled. He is a four-year member and officer of the Honors Program. He also holds membership in Alpha Mu Gamma, a foreign language honor society, and in Sigma Tau Delta, an English honor society, which he served as vice president and president. The Crawford County resident was secretary of the Residence Hall Council for one year, and he served as a student ambassador in the Office of Admission for two years. He is a world traveler who has visited Honduras, Brazil, Canada, the Bahamas, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Spain. Some of the trips have been mission trips and other pleasure trips. He is interested in returning as a teacher to Tanzania. He earned the All Campus Student Achievement Award and the Top Student Leader Award in spring 2007. For four years he was a student worker in the English Department. He values the relationships he built with support staff and faculty who served as teachers, mentors, and advisors. After graduation, he plans to serve Hillview Christian Church in Marengo, Indiana, his home church where he currently serves as part-time ministry associate. He also will work in youth philanthropy for the Crawford County Community Foundation. Graduate school, divinity school, teaching, and the Peace Corps are future career options for Bowles. He said, “Whether I am a minister or a teacher in southern Indiana or Africa, I am confident that I will be serving people and working with people, as that is what I love to do.” Bowles graduated first in his high school class at Crawford County High School. He is the son of John and Rita Bowles of Marengo, and he has three younger brothers. |
Copyright © 2013 University of Southern Indiana. All rights reserved.