Samuel Mortimer was one of seven students honored as a Torchbearer during the University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s Chancellor’s Honors Banquet. The Torchbearer award is UTK’s highest student honor.
Mr. Mortimer is the son of Allen and Suzanne Mortimer, and a graduate of Hixson High School.
The fifth-year architecture student is an advocate for issues of environmental and social concern. As Student Government Association senator for the College of Architecture and Design, he led a drive to change the HOPE Scholarship. Working with university administration, he successfully lobbied the state legislature to see that HOPE Scholarships were extended to cover the final year of studies for students in five-year programs.
He also served as lead designer for a UT team participating in the Environmental Protection Agency’s P3 Competition, which earned a top honor nationally for the sustainable design project.
At the commencement service for the College of Architecture and Design, he was chosen by his peers to deliver the student address for graduates receiving the Bachelor of Architecture degree.
He also received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, awarded to a graduating senior of each school of architecture who has displayed “leadership, performance, service for their school and promise of professional merit.”
Price is delegate to leader seminar
Rachel B. Price, a teacher at Orchard Knob Middle School, was a Delta Kappa Gamma Society delegate to the Xi State organization’s Advanced Leadership Development Seminar held near Nashville. Participation was limited to 15 members from across the state.
The organization is a professional honor society for women educators.
Artists honored in TACA show
Chattanoogans Shadow May, Denice Bizot and Susan Parry were award-winners at the 39th annual Tennessee Association of Craft Artists’ spring craft fair in Nashville.
Ms. Bizot was named the show’s Best New Exhibitor while the other two artists were honored with Merit Awards.
Pauls wins Peace Scholarship
Landon Pauls, a freshman at East Hamilton High School, was awarded the 2010 Okinawa Peace Scholarship by Youth for Understanding. He is the son of Susan and Don Pauls.
The 15-year-old is one of 10 students in the United States selected to receive the 2010 Okinawa Peace Scholarship among applicants from across the country.
Landon is a member of the football and baseball teams at EHHS and has a 4.0 grade-point average.
As a scholarship recipient, he will spend six weeks in Okinawa, Japan, during this month and July as an exchange student. He will reside with a host family and attend high school there. The student said he hopes to study architecture and play baseball while in Japan.
Youth for Understanding is a nonprofit organization that helps organize exchanges of high school students from countries all over the world. Its goal is to enhance an understanding of exchange students’ cultures to promote tolerance and peaceful global cooperation.
HCA receives ethics recognition
Ethisphere Institute, an international think tank for the promotion of business ethics, has named the Hospital Corporation of America to its list of the world’s 100 most ethical companies for 2010.
HCA is the parent company of the three Parkridge Health System facilities in Chattanooga: Parkridge Medical Center, Parkridge East Hospital and Parkridge Valley Hospital.
Kennedy named dental officer
Dr. Dale Kennedy, a local dentist at Dogwood Dental Care, has been elected vice-president of the American Academy of Dental Practice at the 2010 annual meeting in California.
Dr. Kennedy has served on the board of directors of the academy as well as secretary, president and member of the East Tennessee Academy.
College honors presented
* Julia St. Goar has been initiated into Agnes Scott College’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, the second oldest chapter in the state of Georgia. She is the daughter of Edward St. Goar and Rebecca St. Goar.
* Georgia Southern University selected 62 students for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.”
Regional Georgia residents among them were Amber R. Bryan of Ellijay, Amanda S. Johnson from Calhoun, Hannah Jumper from Dalton and Sasha Anne Marlin from Ringgold.
McCallie’s Smith wins contest
What started as an extra-credit report for his U.S. History class turned into an award-winning essay for McCallie School junior Austen Smith.
Austen won the national essay contest sponsored by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, and received a week-long, expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to attend the Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar.
Students were asked to write on “a major Supreme Court decision you believe to be pivotal in our nation’s history.” Austen’s winning entry was Marbury v. Madison, which helped set judicial review.
Austen is the son of Tom and Lauran Smith. He is one half of McCallie’s top debate team and returns from the National Debate Tournament June 18, one day before he is to be in Washington, D.C.
You, Davies win scholarship
McLean Davies and Melissa You, both juniors at Dalton High School in Dalton, Ga., won the Dalton Education Foundation’s Karen Lightbody Kirkman Memorial Piano Scholarship.
Lowell Kirkman presented the awards in memory of his late wife along with Kevin Wright, Dalton Education Foundation president. Both winners received a crystal “piano trophy” and a certificate. Scholarship checks to pay for piano lessons will be sent to their piano teachers: Laurel Im and Lou Anne Pope.