Distinguished senior


NationalHonor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi AlphaTheta, and a history tutor. A historymajor fromHar-


Notmany college students are appointed to statewide commis- sions and are certified dementia practitioners, but Charlotte Ar- bogast can claimboth.Those are just two of the accomplish- ments that helped her earn the Robert L.HillDistinguished Senior Award, given annually to a graduating senior who ranks in the top 2 percent of the class, has pursued a challenging and rigor- ous academic curriculum, and has exhibited involvement in campus and/or community life. Charlotte was amember of the WestoverHonors Society, the


risonburg, Virginia, Charlotte was appointed to the Virginia Alzheimer’s Commission by for- merGovernorTimKaine.Her love of issues surrounding aging will take her this fall to Virginia CommonwealthUniversity’s gerontology graduate program, where she won the Richmond MemorialHealth Foundation 2010 Fellowship.The fellowship grant provides Charlotte a $6,500 stipend for sixmonths to identify regional, state, or na- tional funding that targets col- laborative or shared work among organizations. Charlotte’s work with the


Lynchburg College Beard Cen- ter on Aging helped prepare her. She was a work study assistant to Denise Scruggs, director of the Beard Center, and helped set up Medicare Part d educational events throughout Central Vir- ginia. She also helped plan lc’s annual aging conference. Char-


lotte andDenise presented at the SouthernGerontological Society Conference in Richmond about the Central Virginia Consor- tiumon Aging, which brings to- gether a diverse group of communitymembers to address aging issues. For those efforts, Charlotte


also received theHeritageGreen Assisted LivingGerontology Award established by a Lynch- burg assisted living facility. Charlotte’s understanding of


Alzheimer’s started at age twelve, when hermaternal grandfather’s memory started slipping.He is now in the advanced stages of the disease. “I firmly believe that it is im-


portant to involvemy generation in issues related to aging and de- mentia,” she said. “It is essential that we become informed about the aging process, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia. As baby boomers start to age,my genera- tion needs to be prepared for the impact they will have.”


History scholars notch awards


Three Lynchburg College students took top awards at the 2010 Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference. Students fromthirteen schools at- tended the conference. Phi Alpha Theta is the national honor society of history students and professors. Ashley Schmidt ’10 won the Most Outstanding Paper Award in the American history category. Other undergraduate participants were Samantha Bryant ’11, David Caldwell ’10, and John Marks ’10. Jonathan Shipe ’08, ’10M.A. won theMost Outstand- ing Paper Award in the European history graduate category, while Kathleen Jennings placed sec- ond. Cheryl Rychkov won the Most Outstanding Paper Award in the American history graduate category.


Graduate research Nature writing


Englishm.a. graduate students Jen La Plante ’09 and Santina Knight ’94M.Ed. read fromtheir work alongsideDr. Casey Clabough, associate professor of English, at the John BurroughsNa- tureWriting Conference at the StateUniversity ofNew York atOneonta. Santina’s reading focused on the advocacy


work ofMonacan poet KareenWood, while Jen’s reading looked at the environmental ele- ments in the novel Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Another English m.a. student, AlisonMay-


hew ’09, was selected to present a scholarly paper at the 2010 South AtlanticModern Lan- guage Association in Atlanta.


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Four Lynchburg College students presented research at the Virginia Council of Graduate Schools (VCGS) Fifth Annual Graduate Stu- dent Research Forumat the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Their research originated in the graduate class, “History of the English Language,” taught by Dr. Elza Tiner, professor of Eng- lish and Latin. Attendees include members of the General Assembly and their staffs, industry represen- tatives, faculty/administrators, and the general public. LC’s presenters were all candidates for anM.A. in English: CaryWright, Jennifer La Plante ’09,MariaMasci, and Taranee Tabaian ’09.


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