Release date: Feb. 28, 2003
Contact: Deb Hammacher, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0644 or dhammac@emory.edu

Emory Selects Bobby Jones Scholars

Four Emory University seniors, Dylan Bird, Joel Boggan, Melissa Roberts and Kyle Wamstad, have been chosen to receive the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund Award for a year of study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. St. Andrews, founded in 1411, is Emory's sister institution.

"The pool of candidates was outstanding. Numerous votes had to be taken to determine those who were finally chosen," says William H. Fox, senior vice president for institutional advancement and chairman of the selection committee. "We would have been happy to send all 12 of our finalists, but ultimately, we had to choose four winners. To interview these outstanding students made us all very proud to be associated with Emory."

The Bobby Jones Scholarship, established in 1976, seeks to recognize individuals who will be excellent representatives of Emory at St. Andrews. Qualities required to fulfill this ambassadorship include intellectual excellence, a record of significant leadership, and academic interests that can be pursued through the offerings at St. Andrews. The scholars receive full tuition and a travel stipend for their year of study.

Recipients are selected by a committee composed of faculty, administrators, trustees of the Robert T. Jones Committee and former Jones scholars. The late Bobby Jones, an internationally renowned golfer, was an Emory University School of Law alumnus remembered by those who knew him as an extraordinary man of rare loyalty, compassion and integrity.

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