Honors Convocation Ceremony – 2012
At the Honors Convocation, the university recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who are nominated by the faculty for their distinguished academic achievements. Undergraduate students selected by the Taylor Medal Selection Committee are awarded Taylor Medals, the highest academic award at the university. The 2012 Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher at the University of Mississippi is also announced.
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Honors Ceremony Instructions
Students are notified by the Provost that faculty have recommended them for an award. If receiving a college, school or department award, students will report to the Ford Center no later than 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2012. Awardees will be seated according to their college or school in the center section closest to the stage. A card with the student’s name will be attached to the appropriate seat. When requested by their dean, the group in that particular college or school will come forward to be recognized. The announcer will call the students’ name and award. Students will be congratulated by the Chancellor and the Provost as they process across the stage and return to their seats.
Recommended Attire
The Honors Ceremony is a formal university award recognition ceremony. Business attire is recommended.
Reception
A reception will immediately follow the ceremony in the Orchestra Level Lobby of the Ford Center.
Parking for Honors Convocation
Parking is available in the Ford Center parking lot.
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Dr. William A. Taylor of Booneville, Mississippi, in June 1904 founded the Marcus Elvis Taylor Memorial at the University of Mississippi “out of affection and regard for the memory of his son, the late Dr. Marcus Elvis Taylor, and honored alumnus of the university, of the class of 1871, and out of benevolent regard and good will for the youth of the state and the interest and the work of the University of Mississippi, and for the encouragement of meritorious scholarship and deportment.”
This memorial fund provides scholarship medals to students nominated for outstanding scholarship in particular fields combined with superior work in all other subjects. The number awarded annually may not be more than 1 percent of the student body. Each medal has engraved on it the name of the nominating school. A faculty committee recommends students to be recognized for “meritorious scholarship and deportment” from those nominated by the participating division of the university. The Undergraduate Council and the Council of Academic Administrators give formal approval for recognition.
To be eligible, a student must have a grade-point average of 3.90 or higher, must have senior standing and must have completed at least 18 semester hours in the school or college in which the nomination originates. Transfer students must have earned 45 semester hours at the University of Mississippi prior to being nominated. August and December graduates are included.
Taylor Medalist Dinner
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Johnson Commons Ballroom East
To RSVP: Christine Wallace: cswallac@olemiss.edu or 662-915-5203
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Taylor Medalist Instructions
4:15 p.m. Photographs will be taken in the lobby of Paul B. Johnson Commons Ballroom. As further recognition of this honor, we would like to make others aware of your achievement. Please remember to complete and return the University of Mississippi Hometown News Form and the Taylor Medalist Data Sheet as stated in Provost Stocks’ letter. We suggest that you wear business attire.
5:00-6:30 p.m. Dinner honoring Taylor Medalists and their families – Paul B. Johnson Commons Ballroom.
7:10 p.m. Be in the Ford Center for the Performing Arts to be seated. It is important that you get there as early as possible. Seats are reserved for the Taylor Medalists. A card with your name will be attached to the appropriate seat. When requested by the Provost, you will come forward. As the Provost and Chancellor recognize you, you will receive your award and then be seated as directed on the stage for the remainder of the evening. Some of you may be getting additional awards. Those awards will be announced when you are recognized as a Taylor Medalist.
There will be a recessional at the conclusion of the Convocation. The deans will proceed and you will follow them. A reception will then follow the Honors Convocation in the Orchestra Level Lobby of the Ford Center.
Parking
Taylor Medalists and their two dinner guests are welcome to park at the Ford Center or at Johnson Commons Ballroom (space is limited in the parking lots near Johnson Commons Ballroom, but you may park at Paris-Yates Chapel and walk to the dinner). If you and your guests choose to park at the Ford Center, please do so by 4:00 p.m. A shuttle service will run at that time to Johnson Commons Ballroom and photographs will be taken in the lobby of the Ballroom, beginning at 4:15 p.m. Following the dinner at Johnson Commons Ballroom, if you and your guests parked at the Ford Center, the shuttle service will return you to the Ford Center by 7:10 p.m.
For shuttle transportation, please park at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts and board the shuttle to the Paul B. Johnson Commons for the Taylor Medal Dinner. After the dinner, the shuttle will take you to the Ford Center for the Honors Convocation. Alternatively, you may park at Paris-Yates Chapel and walk to the dinner. Dinner will begin by 5:00 p.m. and conclude by 7:00 p.m
Additional inquiries may be directed as follows:
Christine Wallace
University and Public Events Director
662-915-5203 or via email: cswallac@olemiss.edu
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Each year, the University of Mississippi recognizes excellence in teaching by presenting the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award at Honors Convocation. Each recipient receives a personal plaque from Chancellor Daniel W. Jones during Honors Convocation, as well as the satisfaction of being recognized for a job well done. Recipients’ names are engraved on a plaque listing previous winners, which is displayed in the J.D. Williams Library.
Previous Award Winners
William Eickhorst – 1966 (deceased)
Frank Anderson – 1967
Harry Eugene Perry – 1968 (deceased)
Joel Blass – 1969
Will St. Amand, Jr. – 1970
Miklo Bencze – 1971 (deceased)
Ronald Borne – 1972
Paul Oliver – 1973 (deceased)
Jere Hoar – 1974
Gloria Kellum – 1975
Charles Nevin Jones – 1976 (deceased)
Harvey Lewis – 1977
Vaughn Grisham – 1978
James Mengert – 1979
John Winkle, III – 1980
Kwang Sik Yun – 1981
Bill Champion – 1982 (deceased)
Ron Bartlett – 1983
Jeanette Phillips – 1984
James Davis – 1985
Guff Abbott – 1986
Natalie Schroeder – 1987
William Staton – 1988
Rodney Phil Malone – 1989
David Sansing – 1990
James Vaughan – 1991
Daniel! Mattern – 1992
Ràymond Liebau – 1993
Robert Weems – 1994
Billy Barrios – 1995 (deceased)
Kenneth Sufka – 1996
Colby Kullman – 1997
Morris Stocks – 1998
Mary Stuckey – 1999
Faye Gilbert – 2000
Ronald Schroeder – 2001
Ron Date – 2002
Tonya Flesher – 2003
Wade Waters – 2004
Mark Wilder – 2005
Laurdella Foulkes-Levy – 2006
David Wilson – 2007
Gregory Schirmer – 2008
John R. Neff – 2009
Kelly G. Wilson – 2010
Ethel Young-Minor – 2011
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