Oxford - Well over 50 scholarships, awards, and grants to undergraduate students were announced on April 29 at the annual Scholarships and Awards Convocation held by the Department of Music and presided over by its chair, Dr. Ricahrd Green.
"This is one way that the department can show its appreciation to those students who go the extra mile in their personal work and make special contributions to the department in any variety of ways," says Greg Phillips, a member of one of the committees that determined this year's winners.
Many of the awards, scholarships, and grants are given in the name of a particular individual and are sponsored by family and friends of individuals. Several scholarships are sponsored by foundations or organizations.

Presser Scholar. The most prestigious of the awards, the Presser Foundation Scholarship, was awarded to senior vocal major Sean Lair, a native of Stanford, Kentucky. The award, based upon scholarship, professional promise, and departmental worth, carries with it a monetary award and the title of "Presser Scholar."
Coordinators for the convocation were music professors Gary Speck and Kay Edwards.

Awards
• The Presser Foundation Scholarship: Sean Lair
• The Alice Mattmueller Alexander Memorial Voice Award: Mark Aiaken
• The Alumni Music Award: Philip Jennings
• The Dr. Richard Cambridge Memorial Award : Caitlin McDevitt
• The Cynthia Boeke Fisher Award: Carolyn Feree
• The Pamela Fox Music History Award: Anny Stevens-Gleason
• The Friends of Opera Award: Jessica Dyer, Bryn Vertesi
• The Hill Composition Prize: Steve Mullan, Andrew Goldie
• The Christopher B. Huff Memorial Award: David Powell
• The Elizabeth Lane Award: Adrienne Cantrell, Aaron Dozeman
• The Lois D. Lehmkuhl Owl Award: Paige Wiggins
• The Music Teachers National Association Achievement Award: Isaac Howell
• The Ohio Music Teachers Association Award: Whitney Lock
• The Pamela Eileen Poccia Award: Paul McCalla
• The Elizabeth Pottieger Cello Award: Sara Beth Schaeper
• The Fred Wilson Puff Memorial Award: Justin Shawver

Scholarships
• The George Barron Scholarship: Scott Padden, Emily Wait
• The Jeffrey D. Blank Scholarship: Laura Pacholka, Kyle Sunday
• The Nina J. Boyd Music Education Scholarship: Jacqueline Childs, Nick Pearson,
Devin Rodgers
• The Richard A. Steuk Music Award: Elyse Cote, Rachel Harney, Jonathan Lentz, Kelly McGraw, Ashley Mitzel Kyle Phillips Sara Beth Schaeper, Brian Smith, Emily Venneman, Melody Weigand
• The Nina J. Boyd Music Education Scholarship: Claire Otis
• The Frances Cole Memorial Scholarship: Brian Smith
• The Campus Owls Scholarship: Ricardo Palmenzano
• The Louise Glasgow Erickson Piano Scholarship: Kelly McGraw, Mathew Kenickelly
• The Virginia Pearce Glick Music Education Scholarship: Mallory McDonald, Kyle
Phillips
• The Darrell & Wilma Grothen Music Scholarship: Caia Black, Charlotte Loflin,
Steven Mullan
• The George R. and Galen Glasgow Hoxie Scholarship: Justin Dahlem, Joseph
Stepec
• The Andrew Hummel Memorial Scholarship: Claire Otis, Charles Slife
• The Alberta Lutz Ittel Music Education Scholarship: Ryan Bouts, Rachel Harney, Caitlin Myers, Heather Roberts
• The Lacy/Strimple Highland Band & Drum Scholarship: Theodore Parshall, Valerie Peeler
• The Lois D. Lehmkuhl Owl Award: Philip Jennings
• The Nina Palmer Quay Memorial Scholarship: Claire Otis
• The Mary Evans Rees Scholarship: Virginia Lohrmann, Jessica Walzer, Elizabeth Yingling
• The Richard L. Schilling Music Education Scholarship: Michael Misko, Brad Pipenger Elizabeth Yingling
• The Steven Shumway Cello Scholarship: Rebecca Yoder, Jeni Berencek
• The Jane Scott Hayes Telfaire Music Education Scholarship: Charlotte Loflin
• The Barbara J. Tuttle Memorial Scholarship: Peter Boyer, Emily Moses