Study-abroad photo-contest winners announced

RELEASED: March 15, 2007

To see larger versions of the winning photos, click here: First Place, Second Place, Third Place.

DANVILLE, KY—The 2007 Study-Abroad Photo Contest was the biggest and most successful in the school's history. The four judges (selected from faculty, staff and a former and current student) reportedly had a difficult time picking the top 20 from the more than 120 entries.

Improvements to the contest this year include larger cash prizes and displays for the College and larger community to enjoy.

Winning photos will be on display for two months at The Hub Café in downtown Danville and in Grace Doherty Library on campus. The top photographers received a cash prize. Winners also get all the coffee and tea they can drink at The Hub while their work is on display.

"We tried to make the students' work visible to the community," said senior and international program intern Molly Buckley who spearheaded the contest's improvements. "Displaying the winning photos at The Hub will allow the community to see what's going on with study abroad at Centre, and also gives the winners a little more fame."

First-place honors and a $100 prize went to senior Adam Allen of Knoxville for his photograph taken of a young girl in Nicaragua. Second place ($50) went to junior Darcy Wheaton of New Albany, Ind., with her picture of Norman Foster's Dome at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany. In third place ($25) was junior Molly Reynolds of Brentwood, Tenn., for her picture of the Catacombs in Paris.

Honorable mentions went to senior Mark Mallman; sophomore Jing Zhang; junior Lauren Medley; junior Shannon Rosado; junior Stephanie Beard; sophomore Laura French; junior Beth Huss; senior Anna Cable; junior Ashley Dickens; junior Beth Tipton; senior Catherine Heil; senior Hillary Eason with two entries; senior Lauren Holditch; junior Leslie Hast; senior Mark Mallman; and senior Michael Samford.

More than 80 percent of all Centre graduates study abroad, putting Centre in the top five of the 3,500 colleges and universities in the country. Centre operates residential sites for its own students in England (London), France (in Strasbourg, across the Rhine River from Germany), and Latin America (in Merida, Mexico).

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