RELEASED: July 23, 2009

DANVILLE, KY—Centre College recently announced its collaboration with the James Graham Brown Foundation to launch the Brown Fellows Scholarship Program. As a result of the collaboration, Centre College has awarded 10 premiere "full-ride-plus" scholarships in the first year of its Brown Fellows Program.

Click here to check out the recent Louisville Courier-Journal story about the Brown Fellows scholarship program.

Brown Fellows will receive scholarships covering tuition, room and board and will be provided four summer enrichment experiences, beginning the summer before their first year at Centre. The 2009 inaugural class of Brown Fellows will participate in a two-week trip to Panama to study leadership issues surrounding the expansion of the Panama Canal. Summer enrichment experiences in subsequent years will be organized around themes of service, research, international study and leadership.

This group of students has already established an extraordinary record of accomplishment. Their entering test scores place them among the top one percent of all students in the nation. Many of them were members of prestigious honor groups, including: the National Honor Society (one student was president); National Spanish Honor Society; speech and debate teams; and academic teams. This group includes a University of Louisville Book Award winner; a member of the Quick Recall Small School National Champion team; a member of the Speech and Debate State Champion team; a member of the All-Star Debate Team; a First Team Academic All State varsity athlete; a National Latin Exam Award Winner; and a Louisville Youth Orchestra member.

The 2009 Brown Fellow recipients are:

Bethany Nicole Carson, Allen High School, Allen, Texas

Robert Eugene Carter, Lexington Catholic High School, Richmond, Kentucky

James Andrew Howard, Western Hills High School, Frankfort, Kentucky

Ibrahim Khan Jadoon, Model Laboratory School, Richmond, Kentucky

Cara Patricia Monical, Clear Lake High School, Houston, Texas

Natalie Elaine Pope, South Oldham High School, Crestwood, Kentucky

Anne Elizabeth Roessler, Sycamore High School, Cincinnati, Ohio

Kevin J. Sar, DuPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, Kentucky

Katherine Elizabeth Smalley, Ensworth High School, Pegram, Tennessee

Cole Robert Steber, Danville High School, Danville, Kentucky

Centre is the only private college in Kentucky selected for a Brown Fellows Program; the foundation has also initiated a Brown Fellows Program at the University of Louisville.

Says John Roush, Centre College president: "We are excited to welcome this first class of Brown Fellows to Centre. The chance to be a pioneer is one not to be missed, and these young men and women will help to set the stage for the program, set the stage for the student and scholars who will follow them in the decades to come. Centre College's earned reputation for educating the brightest and best in Kentucky and the nation is further enhanced by the Brown Fellows Program."

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Founded in 1819, Centre College is ranked among the U.S. News top 50 national liberal arts colleges. Consumers Digest ranks Centre No. 1 in educational value among all U.S. liberal arts colleges. Centre alumni, known for their nation-leading loyalty in annual financial support, include two U.S. vice presidents and two Supreme Court justices. For more, visit http://www.centre.edu/web/elevatorspeech/

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