Newsletter
of the Washington College Department of Business Management | Spring
2001
Awards
recognize outstanding business students
The
end of the school year is always a bittersweet time for graduating seniors.
Graduating and leaving Washington College is what seniors been working
toward steadily for four years—but it also means leaving the shelter
of Chestertown and venturing out on one's own. Fortunately, the end of
the year is also a time to look back, remember and recognize our best
students with departmental and College awards. May 2000 proved an especially
exciting time because of the caliber of the students and the growing magnitude
of the awards. The first annual Schottland Business Leadership Award—a
$10,000 tuition grant towards graduate work in business—was awarded
in Spring 2000 to Rebecca Corbin, an outstanding all-around student-athlete
at Washington College. Besides her academic prowess, Becca was captain
of the women's tennis team, president of Terra Firma, a student environmental
group, and an SGA senator, to name just a few of her activities. By the
terms of the award, Becca will spend at least two years working before
pursuing graduate work. Schottland runners-up Marilyn McDonald and Christopher
Pierzynski were also recognized as outstanding students and young leaders
at the Senior Awards Luncheon.
Rebecca Corbin also won the department's highest continuing award, the
Department of Business Management Award, which is given annually to the
graduating business major who has demonstrated outstanding qualities of
scholarship, character and leadership. The department's Senior Obligation
Award, given to the graduating business major whose senior thesis 
demonstrates
the most outstanding scholarship and analysis, was awarded to Kelly Powell.
And seniors Rebecca Corbin, Abigail Futia, Christyl Johnson-Arrabal, Margus
Korgesaar, Christopher Pierzynski and Kelly Powell were inducted into
Sigma Beta Delta, a national Honor Society for business and economics
students that recognizes students graduating in the top 20% of their class.
Several business majors were also honored for their athletic prowess.
Senior Christyl Arrabal-Johnson, a member of the women's lacrosse and
field hockey teams, won the Eldridge Eliason Award, given to the student
in the upper half of his or her class who has accomplished the most in
the field of athletics, as well as the Doris T. Bell '50 Award, given
to the varsity-letter senior woman with the highest cumulative average
during the year. Arrabal was also named an All-American field hockey player
as well as the team's Most Valuable Player. Senior Lance Cassell was named
the Most Valuable Player of the men's soccer team. Both the Most Valuable
Player and the Most Improved Player Awards on the men's basketball team
were given to business majors: juniors Greg Adams and Earl Piner. The
Most Valuable Player on the men's tennis team was sophomore Seth Morgan.
Erica Roath, a senior, was named the Most Improved Player on the softball
team.
Congratulations to all award recipients, and may success continue to come
your way as you move beyond Chestertown. We are confident it will.