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Language & Education Division Awards
Outstanding Graduate
(Press
Release 05-19-06)
Hank Mooney, Office of Public Information
Carly Jones from Talihina received the Division
of Language and Education Outstanding Graduate award from Division Chairman
Billye
Givens during the 97th Eastern Oklahoma State College spring
commencement recently on the Wilburton campus. Jones has been very
active in Theatre Eastern participating in five productions and was the
student director of the 2006 Children’s Theatre Eastern Workshop.
She
has been Student Senate Vice-President, Vice-President of the
Characters Club, Vice-President and Student Senate Representative for
the Photo Club, President of the Spanish Club, President the Spanish
Club, Homecoming attendant. She is an avid young Democrat, active in
local and state politics, member of the Red Oak Church of Christ, listed
in Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges and recipient of Eastern’s
Citizenship Award. She will be transferring to Northeastern State
University to finish her Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration.
Eastern spring graduates are among
28,400 Oklahoma students from 25 state colleges and universities estimated
to earn degrees this year.
This academic year Eastern will have granted just over 325 degrees
and
certificates of completion not counting other agencies including the
Department of Corrections Academy and the Oklahoma Miner Training
Institute also located on the Wilburton campus. Eastern graduates ranged
in age from 19 to 57 this year.
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