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May 1, 2004
For more than fifty years, the New York Southern Society has granted Queens University of Charlotte the privilege of bestowing two Algernon Sydney Sullivan awards each year - one to a member of the graduating class, and the other to a person who is affiliated with the University in some other capacity.
The Society specifies the following: "The award is a continuing reminder that the noblest qualities are those characteristics of heart, mind, and conduct which evidence a love for, and helpfulness to, other men and women. True nobility is found in those who move beyond the narrow circle of their self-interest and spend themselves in the interest of humanity."
The student recipient of the 2004 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is someone who strives for success far beyond what is required of her in the classroom. She is a truly giving person who believes in service to humanity. She is loved and respected by the entire Queens community including students, faculty and staff.
Her classmates and friends describe her as a person who "has made helping and giving to others a top priority in her life." She has been an enthusiastic leader in the religious life of the University as a member of the College Union Board's Religious Life Committee, has served on Campus Crusade for Christ leadership committees and has helped to plan weekly chapel services. She participated in the Guatemala Mission Trip for three years and has been a mentor for the Seigle Avenue Afterschool Program in addition to tutoring fellow students through the Learning Center.
Her service to the University includes participation in the leadership team of CEOPS, Queens environmental group. She is co-founder and co-president of Queens' first social justice club, R.A.P.P.E.R.S., and she has been a Queens Phonathon student supervisor. At the same time she has excelled in the classroom. She is a member of Mortar Board and a double major in English and history.
The recipient of the 2004 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for students truly embodies the Queens motto, "Not to be served, but to serve," and the characteristics of heart, mind and conduct which evidence a love for others. She is:
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