The Virginia Scholars Award was presented to Bridgewater College senior Kathleen Leigh during the annual awards ceremony on May 1.
The award honors an outstanding woman at each of Virginia’s four-year colleges and universities who has demonstrated a potential for distinctive service in any field of education. The award includes the winner’s name added to a plaque in the Jessie Ball DuPont Center for Teacher Education at the college, a certificate and a book, The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong.
Leigh is an English major with secondary education and English Language Learners (ELL) endorsements. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Leigh of Bridgewater, Va.
She is a member of the Philomathes Society, Bridgewater’s scholastic honor society, and Alpha Chi, a national scholastic honor society. She is a member of the college’s Flory Honors Program and Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE). She serves as a tutor in the college’s Writing Center.
Leigh completed an honors project, “Engaging Struggling Readers with YA Literature.”
She is completing her student teaching at Fort Defiance High School and will graduate on May 14.
Five seniors were selected as a Virginia Teacher of Promise, an organization that recognizes the best prospective teachers in the United States. Recipients become part of a larger Teachers of Promise network, whose purpose is to discover, recognize and grow the next generation of great teachers.
Selected from Bridgewater College were: Cassidy Burkholder, Janie Layne, McKenzie May, Andrew Summers and Megan Wenger.
Burkholder, an English major, is the daughter of Kenton and Jennifer Burkholder of Bridgewater, Va. Layne, a liberal studies major, is the daughter of Donna Graber and Greg Graber of Grottoes, Va. May, a family and consumer sciences major, is the daughter of Kent and Cynthia May of Bridgewater, Va., Summers, a history and political science major, is the son of Robert and Cheryl Summers of Stephens City, Va., and Wenger, a liberal studies major with a minor in Spanish, is the daughter of Frankie and Kay Wenger of Fulks Run, Va.
Bridgewater College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Founded in 1880, it was the state’s first private, coeducational college. Today, Bridgewater College is home to more than 1,800 undergraduate students.
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