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Student News
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Tau Delta ~ 2006-2007 |
Welcome
to the homepage of Samford's English Honors Society, Sigma
Tau Delta! We have some exciting events coming up this year,
as well as great opportunities for scholarships! Also, be
sure to check out the national Sigma Tau Delta website at
http://www.english.org!
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Film
Concentration
Look
into the new Film Concentration in the English Department!
See Drs. Emory-Johnson or Gustafson for details, and check
the course catalog for next semester to see classes.
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STD Scholarships
Check the national Sigma Tau Deltawebsite at:
http://www.english.org/scholarships.shtml
to apply for this year's scholarships.
Service
Project
This semester
Sigma Tau Delta is sponsoring a service project
at Erwin Elementary.
We will be helping the students read for a
couple of hours a week. Times for the project are:
Thursdays
and Fridays 11-12 and 12-1
Sign-up sheet is posted on the column in the English Dept. near
302 Please
contact Shannon McDaniel at slmcdani@samford.edu
with
other questions.
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Poetry
Circle
Sigma
Tau Delta will be sponsoring poetry readings for student poetry
throughout the semester! If you have peoms that you would
like to share with fellow students, join us in the Poetry
Circle! (Time and date of next meeting TBA.)
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Film Series
If
you like thought-provoking films and stimulating discussion,
this is for you! Join us as we watch films and then discuss
them with an English Department professor!
(Time and date of next meeting TBA.)
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Faces
from Spring 2007 Awards Day
English Majors from each class gather at the Awards Banquet. |
Ladell
Payne Exemplary Award
Amanda Holcombe, Calen Verbist
Senior
Faculty Award
Shannon McDaniel, Jennifer Pate
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Vivian
Lankford Campbell Creative Writing Award
Andrew
Wells
Junior
Faculty Award
Josie
Capuano, Bethany Carroll, Kelley Cotten, Stephen Freer,
Peyton Jones
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Sam
& Lizette Mitchell Award
Susannah Mayhall, Katelyn Williams, Holly Burgin, Amy
Saxon, Erin Eades
Dean
Percy Pratt Burns Scholarship
Melissa Gibson, Andrew Wells
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Holly Burgin with her husband
and their new baby
C.
Maxwell Lancaster Scholarship for London Studies
Andrew Crosson
Kelley Cotten and Peyton Jones with their families
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James
L. Treadway Memorial Scholarship
Christine Taylor
Sophomore
Faculty Award
Jessica Bonner, Caitlin Murphree, Christine Taylor
Gaines
S. Dobbins Scholarship
Joseph Rhea, Margaret Stockard, Elissa Young
English
Faculty Scholarship
Kristan
Burson, Kyle Mykitta
Outstanding Senior Thesis Award
Shelby Crowe
Myrtis Tureman Kurz Scholarship
Britney Blalock, Caroline Williams
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Hannah Palmer, Tessa King,
Britney Blalock, Erin Sutton, Caroline Williams, and
Elissa Young
Freshman
Faculty Award
Anna Bedsole, Matt Campbell, Ellen Carder, Andrew
Crosson, Elizabeth Cuenin, Brittney Hitt, Quanecia
Richardson, Sloan Schmidtke, Victoria Stone, Emiy
Wright
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Christine Taylor with her father, Mark Taylor, and pastor,
Dave Franklin |
Joseph
L. & Dora Evelyn King Scholarship
Kayla Burke, Jay Lasater, Quanecia Richardson
Margaret O'Bryan Brodnax Scholarship for Excellence
in Writing
Hannah Palmer
David
Ingram Purser, Sr. David Ingram Purser, Jr. Scholarship
Caitlin Murphree
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Dr. Workman, Dr. Davis, and Dr. Epley |
Josie Capuano, Matt Campbell,
Mary Laura Rogan, Sloan Schmidke, Lauren |
Brittney Hitt with her parents
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Elizabeth Cuenin with her mother
and Stephen Freer with
his parents
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Shannon McDaniel with her family and her fiance Mark
Katelyn Williams and Bethany Carroll with their families
Jenny Pate, Dana Basinger, Dr.
Gustafson and her two sons, and Kelly Leavitt
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Highest
/ High Class Honors (3.750-4.0)
Anna Bedsole, Britney Blalock, Andrew Crosson, Shelby
Crowe, Brittney Hitt, Tessa King, Susannah Mayhall,
Hannah Palmer, Jennifer Pate, Victoria Stone, Caroline
Williams, Elissa Young
Cum
Laude
(3.5-3.749)
Holly Burgin, Ellen Carder, Elizabeth Cuenin, Erin
Eades, Amanda Holcombe, Shannon McDaniel, Caitlin
Murphree, Joseph Rhea,
Katie
Riegle, Stephen Sansom, Amy Saxon, Christine Taylor,
Katelyn Williams, Susan Williams, Emily Wright
Quanecia Richardson with her
mother, Matt Campbell, Jane Brock and Andrew Wells
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Amanda Holcombe with
her parents
Calen Verbist and
Dr. Davis
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Pictorial
Directory of English Majors
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Robert
Atnip
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Britney
Blalock |
Lindsey
Bolinger |
Jessica
Bonner |
| Holly
Burgin |
Kayla
Burke |
Kristan
Burson |
Mathew
Campbell |
| Josie
Capuano |
Ellen
Carder |
Bethany
Carroll |
Erin
Carroll |
| Kelley
Cotten |
Shelby
Crowe |
Elizabeth
Cuenin |
Erin
Eades |
| James
Fenwick |
Stephen
Freer |
Melissa
Gibson |
Nicholas
Gross |
Rachel Hart |
Samantha
Hawkins |
Brittney
Hitt |
Amanda
Holcombe |
| Jordan
Jarvis |
Peyton
Jones |
Mary-Wallace Keown
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Tessa King |
| James
Lasater |
Kelly
Leavitt |
Susannah
Mayhall |
Shannon McDaniel |
| Amanda
Miles |
Preston
Miller |
Stephanie Mitchell |
Caitlin
Murphree |
| Kyle
Mykitta |
Trevor
Moore |
Hannah
Palmer |
Jennifer
Pate |
| Justin
Paxson |
Joseph
Rhea |
Stephanie Richter |
Katie
Riegle |
Stephen Sansom |
Amy
Saxon |
Mary
Segrest |
Mary-Margaret
Self |
Ann Shivers |
Brittany
Steele |
Margaret
Stockard |
Victoria
Stone |
| Christine
Taylor |
Brandon
Vaughan |
Calen
Verbist |
William
Weir |
| Amanda
Weizenecker |
Andrew
Wells |
Caroline
L. Williams |
Caroline
M. Williams |
| Katelyn
Williams |
Susan
Neal Williams |
Rebekah
Wood |
Emily
Wright |
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Senior
Theses - Fall 2006
Holly
Burgin:
"The 'Divinity that Shapes our Ends': The Demonstration
of Destiny through Character Doubling in Shakespeare's
Plays"
Shelby
Crowe:
"Society's Monster: A New Historical Interpretation
of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
Erin
Eades:
"A Feminist Reading of Frankenstein"
Nicholas
Gross:
"Blake's Redemption and Rising 'from Generation
free' in 'To Tirzah' and 'The Everlasting Gospel' "
Rachel
Hart:
"The Unclassifiable E. E. Cummings"
Amy
Hawkins:
"Cutting the Wire Fence: Cultural Mediation in
Ceremony"
Amanda
Holcombe:
"Charming, Coercive, Champion: Gramsci's Marxist
Heroine of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby"
Mary-Wallace
Keown:
The Apocalyptic Vision of Flannery O'Connor"
Kelly
Leavitt:
"Defining Beauty: A Feminist Aesthetic Approach
to Zadie Smith's On Beauty"
Susannah
Mayhall:
"The Implied Male Perspective of Ian McEwan's Saturday"
Shannon
McDaniel:
" 'Half Sick of Shadows': Wordsworth, Arnold and
Tennyson on the Paradoxical Calling of the Poetic Vocation"
Preston
Miller:
"Dreams of My Father: Michael Corleone and the
Idealization of His Father Vito in The Godfather
Part II"
Jennifer
Pate:
" 'I see I have Given the Impression That . . .':
A Study of Perception and Gender Subversion in F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby"
Justin
Paxson:
"Quentin as the Idiot Bourgeoisie: Post-Colonial
Hegemony in The Sound and the Fury"
Stephen
Sansom:
"Bhabha's Hybridity and Narrative Discourse in
Orhan Pamuk's Snow"
Amy
Saxon:
"The Ruinous Sources of Female Power in Les
Liaisons dangereuses"
Ann
Shivers:
"Contresens and Disappointing Shades: Poems"
Katherine
Turk:
"When Thoughts Betray: An Exploration of the Sliding
Surfaces of Narrative Consciousness in As I Lay Dying"
Calen
Verbist:
"Myth and Meaning and The Man Who was Thursday"
Will
Weir:
"Time and the Self: The Sanctity of the Moment
in Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' "
Katelyn
Williams:
"Theory and Practice: Discontinuity in the Poetry
of Robert Frost"
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