The Departmental Citation in MELC is an award recognizing undergraduate excellence in the fields of the Department. It is awarded in May at the time of graduation, usually to a graduating senior. In some years, the Department has chosen not to award a citation. Some of the recipients listed below have gone on to successful professional careers in public service, business, and academic research and teaching.
Departmental Citations
1956 Mildred Dickeman
1957 Virginia Chan
1958 Christopher Rand Jr.
1959 Mary Elizabeth McCulloch
1960 Julie Anderson Scott
1964 Karin Westlind Carter
1965 Charles Frank Vittor Jr.
1967 Kenneth Eugene Bryant
1968 Sandra Kay Simons
1969 Cynthia Louise Hall
1972 Yoko Tamabechi
1973 Patricia Biondo
1974 Semha Ruchwarger
1975 Karle Sue Lapsley
1976 Janet Lee Koss
1977 Robert Keith Englund
1978 Tracey Edward Twarowski
1979 Jonathan Philip Roth
1981 Sandra Grace Kelly
1982 Theodore Joseph Kennel & Michael Milton Chamberlain
1983 Saul Daniel Brenner, Franklin Dean Lewish, & James Wilfred Petersen
1984 Joseph David Young
1985 Brian Paul Muhs
1986 Brian Martin Adilman
1987 Gwenyth Eve Thompson
1989 John Theodore Solomon Senouf
1990 Lewis Olentheus Woods III
1991-2008 information unavailable
2009 Jaimee Kathleen Comstock-Skipp
2010 Hadel Marwan Jarada
2012 Patricia Eunji Kim
2014 Jordan Bach-Lombardo
2016 Karlene Dee Ann Shippelhoute
2019 Mathew Madain
2020 Gilad Zeev Barach
2021 not issued
2022 Ariana Noor Dideban & Nada Ashraf Lami
2023 not issued