Local students receive Leadership Award at Lake Forest College

05/2019

Contact: Linda Blaser

847-735-6171

blaser@lakeforest.edu

For Immediate Release

Local Students Receive Awards at Lake Forest College

Lake Forest, Il.- Two seniors from Waukegan, Illinois, were recently honored at the 2019 Senior Honors Convocation at Lake Forest College.

Corey Beckford '19 was awarded the McPherson Prize for Excellence in Scholarship - Philosophy. Each year several prizes given for excellence in scholarship are named after the Reverend Simon J. McPherson. A sum of $3,000 was contributed in 1899 by his friends to establish prizes in English, philosophy, French, Spanish, and dramatics. The winners are chosen by the department heads and are announced at the Senior Honors Convocation.

Brian Valerio '19 was awarded the Senior Prize in Computer Science. Prizes are awarded to the best students who have proven themselves genuinely outstanding by absolute rather than relative standards. Each prize is to be a distinguished and valuable reward commensurate with the occasion and with the prizewinner's achievement. Senior Prizes collectively express and celebrate not only intellectual and personal excellence, but also the special, enduring relationship between present and past generations of Lake Forest College. Outstanding students in academic areas for which there are no endowed or donated prizes are honored out of the College's own prize fund for graduating seniors.

Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,500 students representing nearly every state and 80 countries.