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WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS OF 1994
MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Among members of the Wellesley College Class of 1994 who
have been awarded major fellowships and awards are winners
of Fulbright Scholarships, finalists for Rhodes Scholarships
and a British Marshall Scholarship, and women awarded
fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and the
National Science Foundation.
Sarah Margaret Adams, Bo P. Tan and Hilda Theresa
Werschkul have each won Fulbright Scholarships for graduate
studies. Adams, an art history major, will study Uli
painting, a traditional art form among the Igbo women in the
southeastern part of Nigeria. Tan, an art history and
Chinese studies major, has declined a Fulbright Teaching
Assistantship in Taiwan to accept a 1994-96
Wellesley-Yenching English Teaching Fellowship at Jinling
Women's College in Nanjing, China. Werschkul, a German
studies and studio art major, received a Fulbright Grant to
study art history in Austria and hold an English teaching
assistantship at an Austrian high school.
Esther E. Cho, a political science major, was awarded an
English Teaching Assistantship in Korea through the
Institute of International Education which administers the
Fulbright program.
Elizabeth G. Janssen and Jennifer Thornton are finalists
for Rhodes Scholarships. Janssen, an English major, also
received a 1994 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for
Basketball. She plans to work in New Mexico for a year prior
to pursuing graduate studies. Thornton, a history major,
also is a finalist for a British Marshall Scholarship and
has been awarded an I.H.S. John M. Olin Fellowship. She will
pursue a masters of philosophy degree in political thought
and intellectual history at Cambridge University, returning
to the United States in a year to begin studies toward a
dual Ph.D. in history and law.
Claudia Jee-Wing Choi, Anna Elizabeth Griffith, and Julia Joy Rehmeyer
have been awarded National Science Foundation Fellowships. Choi, a
computer science and economics major, will enter a Ph.D.
program in economics at Princeton University. Griffith, a physics major,
will pursue a doctorate in mechnical engineering at Cornell University.
Rehmeyer will pursue studies toward Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology.
Meredith A. Hatfield, an Elizabeth Kaiser Davis Scholar
and political science major, received a Harry S. Truman
Scholarship in 1993. Since September 1991, she has
participated in Wellesley's Elizabeth Kaiser Davis Degree
Program for students beyond traditional college age.
Alyson M. Richman, a Japanese studies major, has been
awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for graduate study and
travel abroad. Richman will study Japanese painters in
turn-of-the-century Europe, visiting France, Italy and
Japan.
Beatrice E. Cody was awarded a Beinecke Memorial
Scholarship in 1993. A Greek and Latin major, Cody will
study classical literature and history at Corpus Christi
College, Oxford University.
Heather L. Tavernier, whose individually designed major
is in chemical physics, won a 1992 Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship, a Scholarship from the Achievement Rewards for
College Scientists Foundation, and an Office of Naval
Research (ONR) Graduate Fellowship. In the Fall, she will
attend Stanford University where she plans to major in
Chemical Physics.
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