Summer 2001
Top student awards honor outstanding graduates
The
Ignatian Awards for the outstanding male and female undergraduate students
are presented to those students who are distinguished by their involvement
in the life of the campus, representing Loyola with honor and distinction,
who live their faith commitment and maintain a high grade point average.
The presentation was made at the University Baccalaureate Mass.
The outstanding male undergraduate is Matthew Glover, a philosophy/religious studies major with a minor in English literature. He has demonstrated what a Jesuit education means not only by achieving a 3.9 grade point average, but also by serving as Awakening Retreat rector, a tutor, assistant director of a Catholic summer camp for high school teens, ministering to the elderly in an assisted living center, and with LUCAP.
Glover also has served on the Jesuit and Catholic Identity Committee of the Board of Trustees and the University Ministry Advisory Committee. He was captain of the tennis team and a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. A nominator wrote, "In every commitment, he gives his whole care, often neglecting his own needs. He demonstrates his faith through every step and every thought."
Glover has been active in pro-life movement, "witnessing to the sanctity and dignity of all human life." This humble student hopes that through his influence students "will see that beauty in this world resides not in success, but in the amount with which we love." He will pursue his theological studies for the Catholic priesthood at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
The
outstanding female undergraduate is Katherine Wingfield, who graduated
with a bachelor's of business administration in economics major with a
biology minor. Wingfield also was a member of the honors program. A nominator
wrote eloquently, "Jesuit education is the education of persons for
others, persons who will seek to act justly, to love tenderly, and to
walk reverently. She has graced our campus for four years as a person
who epitomizes all that Jesuit education means."
Wingfield involvement includes work for LUCAP as co-chair for CARE (Children Are Reason Enough) and co-chair of external affairs, as president of the Economics Club, treasurer of GOAL, as a tutor, and as a representative of the Dean's Student Advisory Council of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Monroe Library Student Advisory Team, where she has worked for three years.
She worked in music ministry at Ignatius Chapel, sang with the University Chorus, and the New Orleans Symphony Chorusall this while maintaining a 3.991 grade point average. Wingfield says, "throughout my course of study, Loyola fostered my intellectual creativity, encouraged my independence of thought, and challenged me to seek wisdom and truth in an effort to reach my individual potential." She says Loyola taught her to know herself, her potential, and her Creator. She will continue her education at the University of Houston in a joint medical law/masters in public health program.