Volume 5 - Number 4

This year we are again deeply in debt of CU Classics alumna Ann Nichols who again provided us with a generous gift of $25,000 for undergraduate development. This year some of that money was used to help students cover the cost of attending the performance of the classical blockbuster Tantalus in Denver. Fourteen undergraduates took advantage of the offer to attend this theater extravaganza at only a fraction of the ticket price.

In addition, we have once again distributed money from Ann Nichols' gift in the form of undergraduate scholarships. This year we offered two scholarships to incoming students and two to current CU Classics majors. Jesse Vader, who will graduate from D'Evelyn High School in Jefferson County this spring, received one of our $4000 Ann Nichols Fellowships and will join us in the fall with plans to take a double degree in Engineering and Classics. Jesse has studied Latin for four years in high school and has completed the better part of his first year in college through transfer credits and advanced placement examinations. Quanna Cameron, a junior at CU, will receive the $4000 Distinguished Undergraduate Fellowship for the 2001-02 academic year. Quanna has been a steady and solid performer in Classics courses and has been actively involved in community outreach and Greek life on campus.

J. Kay Melton, also a junior, will receive the Herodotus Travel Grant for the fall of 2001. J. Kay, who is double majoring in Philosophy, has worked extensively in Classics, completing several years of Latin and Greek, fields he hopes to continue in graduate school. In addition, J. Kay joins Adam Kay as one of the outstanding Classics undergraduates who participated in the First Annual ASCW Student Symposium and whose work will appear in the forthcoming conference proceedings. J. Kay will use the Herodotus Grant to travel to Rome where he will participate in the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. J. Kay is the fourth student we have sent in four years to this prestigious and highly competitive program. Our faculty feels privileged to be teaching such a talented and enthusiastic group of undergraduate students.