Members of the Class of 2007 were honored April 29 with academic, activity, and leadership awards at the annual Senior Investiture and Honors Convocation.

Receiving the top senior awards were Jason Fratto, who was awarded the Bates Prize for the most outstanding male graduating senior; Theresa Hess, who received the Mary Ward Lewis Prize for the most outstanding female graduating senior; and Scott Morrow, who received The John A. Alexander Medal for the top senior athlete.

This year, the College awarded its first Vox Magna Clara Award to Melissa Wilson. Established in 2007 by the Dundes family in celebration of the life of Alan Dundes, an internationally known professor and folklorist, the award recognizes a senior in Sociology who notably demonstrates enthusiasm for the discipline and the potential for tackling social problems through leadership and community involvement.

The Board of Trustees gave alumni career and service achievement awards to Mary Lynn Durham ’70, College trustee and business attorney with a broad base of representation for national and international, industrial and financial companies; William H. Roj ’70 the president and CEO of ERICO, a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of precision-engineered specialty metal products; and Joan Dowell Winship ’68, the executive director of the International Association of Women Judges and a recognized expert in international issues including human rights, gender, global higher education and international organizations.

“There was a process here that remains something of a mystery,” Durham told members of the College community of her education at McDaniel. “I hope that by testing truth you too will have been surprised, stretched and challenged.”

This PDF file provides a complete list of all the award winners.

Class President Chelsea Phillips is invested in academic regalia as a symbolic representative of her peers.

Bates Prize winner Jason Fratto and Mary Ward Lewis Prize winner Theresa Hess

Trustee Alumni Award winners Mary Lynn Durham, William H. Roj and Joan Dowell Winship

44 members of the Class of 2007 were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.