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WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Wellesley College senior Morgan
P. Carberry of San Diego is one of 40 Marshall Scholars
to be chosen from across the nation this year and one of
five selected from the Boston/New England Region. She is
the daughter of Sue Punjack and Robert S. Carberry of San
Diego.
Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high
ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Marshall
Scholars are selected each year to study either at graduate
or occasionally undergraduate level at an U.K. institution
in any field of study. The program allows the Scholars,
who are the potential leaders, opinion-formers and decision-makers
in their own country, to gain an understanding and appreciation
of British values and the British way of life. It also
establishes long-lasting ties between the peoples of Britain
and the United States. This year marks the 50th anniversary
of the Marshall Scholarship Program.
"I will use the scholarship to study theater and
music performance in the U.K., namely musical theater and/or
classical voice," Carberry said. "The scholarship
is tenable for two years. I have applied to use it at two
institutions. The first is the Royal Scottish Academy of
Music and Drama in Glasgow, where I would hope to pursue
their new Master of Performance in Musical Theatre program.
The second is the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London, where I have applied to the Post-Diploma Vocal
Training Program in classical voice."
Carberry is majoring in French with a minor in astronomy
and has been extensively involved in many music and theater
performances on campus.
"This is such an incredible honor, I still can't
even believe that it has happened to me," she said
of being named a Marshall Scholar. "I applied for
the fellowship at the beginning of the year simply because
I was so attracted by the possibility of studying at these
wonderful institutions, but I never imagined I would make
it this far. Now I am joining one of the most respected
groups of scholars in the world, and that alone is a great
distinction. But for me personally, what is even more amazing
is that this fellowship will permit me to continue doing
what I love next year, and hopefully for the rest of my
life--theatrical and musical performance."
A member of the Shakespeare Society at Wellesley, she
has recently performed the role of Falstaff in Henry IV
Part I. She presented her own joint classical voice recital
during sophomore year and performed as Figaro in The Marriage
of Figaro, the Narrator in Blood Brothers and Saint Catherine
in Joan of Arc. She has worked as musical director and
actress for Wellesley Summer Theatre, where she created
the original piano score for Jane Eyre and performed the
title roles in both Iphigenia and Other Daughters and Cinderella.
She is currently working as for Open Fields, a non-profit
community theater for children in Dover, Mass., having
served as musical director and choreographer for its first
mainstage production and is now staging a cabaret show
with a cast of 80 children ages 6 to 16.
She works as a French tutor and has been involved in
ASTRO, the student astronomy club. A student of organ and
classical voice, she works as a freelance musician, accompanist
and organist. She is currently doing an honors thesis on
the monologue in French theater, which will culminate in
her own one-woman show performed in French next semester.
She studied abroad in France last year with the Wellesley-in-Aix
program.
The Marshall Scholarship adds to the long list of prizes
Carberry earned at Wellesley, including the Katharine Malone
First-Year Prize, French House Fellowship, Dorothy Dennis
Prize, First-Year Distinction, American Guild of Organists
National Scholarship (three times), American College Theater
Festival: Irene Ryan Acting Competition Regional Nominee,
Pacific Council for Organ Clubs First Place Scholarship,
Ford National Scholarship. But the Marshall Scholarship
is among her most treasured achievements.
"I am so honored that I have been given the opportunity
to apply this conventionally academic honor in this unconventional
way, and that I have earned this recognition that my work
in the arts is as valuable as my academic studies in any
other field," she said. "This is my greatest
love and I have spent all year hoping that one way or another
I would find the means to pursue it--and now I have. I
feel that this scholarship is the paramount recognition
of the many diverse interests and skills I've cultivated
all my life through a liberal arts education, which are
now allowing me to focus on concentrated study in this
wonderful field."
Since 1875, Wellesley College has been a leader in liberal
arts and the education of women. The College's 500-acre
campus near Boston is home to 2,300 undergraduate students.
For more information, contact the Office for Public Information
at 781-283-3321.
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