WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS OF 1995 MAJOR
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
In national competitions, members of the Wellesley
College Class of 1995 have been awarded numerous major
fellowships and awards including two Rhodes Scholarships, a
Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Scholarship, a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, and two
Fulbright grants.
Tracy Johnston and Heather E. Ure have been selected as
Rhodes Scholars and will attend Oxford University in
England:
Tracy Johnston, a Geology major from Garrison, N.Y., also
received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship to study Geology at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and Honorable Mention for a National Defense
Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. She plans to
study towards a Ph.D. in structural geology and to pursue a
career combining teaching and public policy to reform
science education.
Heather Ure, an English major from Salt Lake City, Utah,
hopes to develop a career that combines her two major
interests, language and public service.
Valentina Ana Zic and Maria L. Lesser have been awarded
Fulbright Grants.
Valentina Zic, a German Language and Literature major
from Rancho Palos Verdes, California, will study German
literature at the University of Vienna and serve as an
English teaching assistant at a high school in Vienna.
Maria Lesser, a German Studies major with a minor in
Psychology, from Newbury, Ohio, received a PAD
(Padagogischer Austauschdienst) Teaching Assistantship to
Germany and a Fulbright Travel Grant. Next year, she will
teach in a high school in Kiel, Germany.
Erika Renee Williams has won a Mellon Fellowship for her
first year of graduate study. A resident of Montclair, N.J.,
she completed a dual major in English and French at
Wellesley and received an Andrew Mellon Minority Fellowship
for undergraduate study toward a career in college teaching.
She will attend the University of Pennsylvania and pursue a
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.
Maria E. Hyler received a Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Fellowship (1994 competition). A resident of Cinnaminson,
New Jersey, she double majored in English and Africana
Studies at Wellesley will attend Harvard Graduate School of
Education in the fall. She plans to teach at either the
junior high or high school level.
Emily P. Marciniak and Alexandra L. Weeks received
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation
Scholarships.
Emily Marciniak of Kansas City, Missouri, majored in
Physics with a minor in Economics. She will be working for a
year at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Weather Sensing
Group on a program to improve prediction of thunderstorm
growth and decay for air traffic controllers.
Alexandra Weeks of Oneonta, New York, majored in Geology.
She has accepted a position as a staff geologist at Amoco
Production Company.
Carla Y. Sapsford and Ka Vang were selected as finalists
for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship (1994 Competition).
Carla Y. Sapsford, who majored in International Relations
with a minor in Economics, is from Kent, Washington. Before
enrolling in graduate school, she will be working at PACT
(Private Agencies Collaborating Together), a non-profit
international development agency in Washington, D.C.
Ka Vang double majored in Philosophy and Religion at
Wellesley. A resident of Providence, Rhode Island, she will
attend the University of Minnesota School of Law where she
plans to focus on public interest law.
Gabrielle A. Jones has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson
Fellowship for independent travel and study of deaf
education in the former Soviet Union. A Russian Area Studies
major currently from San Diego, California, Jones was raised
in Aix-en-Provence, France. Deaf since birth, she is fluent
in English, French, Russian, Spanish and German.
In addition, the Barbara Bush Award for Volunteerism was
presented to Victoria Gross, an American Studies major from
Roslyn, New York. This summer, the award will enable her to
work as a volunteer at two non-profit organizations on Long
Island, New York: the Working Organization for Retarded
Children and Adults, and United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau
County. In the fall, she will attend medical school.
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