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04/29/2003 Archived Entry: "I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD"

I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD

Last night, someone in our family received a very prestigious award at Southern Methodist University in a ceremony honoring undergraduates who excel academically. Most of the honorees were graduating seniors, a few were juniors, and there was one lone sophomore. Guess who? Someone who spent most of her years going to school in Lincoln KS, the last two at Salina Central.

She was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, which is the engineering equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most respected honors organization in the US for liberal arts students. She’s majoring in mathematics and computer engineering. Double major.

She served as chairman of their pledge class and was just elected vice-president of the campus engineering organization. Go girl!

SMU has an outstanding engineering department, ranking nationally considerably above both KU and K-State. Such rankings are made available yearly by US News and World Report and other publications. This isn’t an award that is easily earned. SMU is not quite up there with MIT, Cal Tech and Case Western Reserve, etc. in the national engineering rankings, but comes out in the top group overall. That reason for that rests with the inclusion of a more rounded schedule of liberal arts subjects along with engineering. It is a very good fit for her and will serve her well when she graduates.

I couldn’t be more proud of her.

(If she sees this, she'll make me take it down....but, I think she is too deeply immersed in finals to notice.)