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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 5, 2007) — 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 compassion, concern and commitment that the student recipient of the 2007 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award demonstrates towards others has not gone unrecognized by his peers, professors and friends. Members of the Queens community call him “a student who is always aware of those around him and who helps people in need” and “who is interested in helping others in any way he can.”
He has devoted his time and energy to his fellow students as a Resident Assistant, as an ambassador for the admissions office, and as a member of the Honor Council. He has organized outreach events into the community and participated in the Guatemala Mission Trip as well as a relief trip to Pearlington, Mississippi following hurricane Katrina. What stands out most to his peers and teachers is this student’s sincere appreciation for other people and earnest desire to help wherever he can.
He has demonstrated his commitment to the greater community through service work at an after-school program, with Habitat for Humanity, and in local nursing homes. On the weekends he volunteers in the emergency room at Carolinas Medical Center, and as an active member of his church he participates in its homeless ministry.
He is a member of the Tri Beta National Honor Society and has served as Vice President of the Janusian Order, President of Mortar Board, and President of the Honor Council. His summers have been spent in internships in medical research at UNC Chapel Hill and the Medical University of South Carolina.
Today, he leaves Queens with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and plans to pursue a career in medicine.
Because he 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, Queens University of Charlotte is proud to name as the student recipient of the 2007 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
Edward Thomas Lewis
F. William Vandiver, Jr. Pamela Davies, Ph.D.
Chairman President
Board of Trustees Queens University of Charlote
May 5, 2007 May 5, 2007
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