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Kussmaul Award for Community Service Honors Senior Clary Sawyer

April 17, 2015

Clary Sawyer, a 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### University senior from Menlo Park, Calif., was honored with the Kussmaul Award, given jointly by the Granville Chamber of Commerce and 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### University, at a lunchtime ceremony on Wednesday, April 15, at the college’s Knobel Hall in the Burton D. Morgan building. Sawyer was presented with the award, which recognizes 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### University students who have contributed most to the friendly relations between Granville and the college, by Steve Matheny, director of the Granville Chamber of Commerce, and Seth Patton, vice president for finance and management at 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 #########.

Sawyer was nominated for the Kussmaul Award by Jesse Yeager ’10, assistant director for Admissions at 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 #########. In her nomination Yeager wrote, “In her role as a YoungLife Licking County leader, Clary has spent hundreds of hours selflessly serving the students in the Granville High School community. For all four years of her time at 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 #########, Clary has shared her life with the students at the Granville High School, conducting weekly Bible studies, meeting for coffee, and hanging out with them after-school, at school dances, and football games.” Yeager added, “On campus, Clary has served as a resident assistant for first-year students and is a member of EDIT, 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 #########’s Eating Disorder Intervention Team.”

Sawyer is a communication major with double minors in Women's & Gender Studies and Anthropology & Sociology. After commencement, she will be working as a psychiatric care technician at the Ohio State Medical Center in the Harding Psychiatric Hospital. Sawyer plans to pursue a master’s in social work.

Matheny and Patton presented Sawyer with an award certificate and a check for $300. Other nominees for the award include Stacey Adams ’15, nominated by Carrie Messner of Village Core Fitness; Megan Leigha Hart ‘15, nominated by Dwight Davidson, of United Church of Granville; Ankita Rachel Henry, also nominated by Dwight Davidson, of United Church of Granville and Erin Worden ’17, nominated by Susie Kalinoski, of the John W. Alford Center for Service-Learning.

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