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St. Olaf College junior Kristina Alton receives Manson A. Stewart Scholarship

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May 22, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? St. Olaf College junior Kristina L. Alton, Red Wing, Minn., is one of six undergraduate college and university students who have been awarded Manson A. Stewart Scholarships by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Alton is a classics and English major who will be the departmental Latin tutor next academic year at St. Olaf College. She also recently won second prize ($200) in the college?s first annual Loomis Latin Translation Contest, and is a student editor for the St. Olaf Media Relations Office.

Each Stewart Scholarship winner receives $1,000 as well as a year?s membership in the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and a year?s subscription to The Classical Journal.

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South is an organization of university, college, secondary and elementary teachers of Latin, Greek and other studies that focus on the world of classical antiquity. Founded in 1905 at the University of Chicago, it is the largest of the regional classical organizations.

Students nominated for the Stewart Scholarship must be sophomore or junior classics majors at a college or university in the association area, and must plan to take a minimum of two courses in ancient Greek or Latin during the next year.

Alton is the third St. Olaf College student to receive a Stewart Scholarship since the competition began in 1995. Catherine E. A. Kusske, a 1997 graduate who is pursuing a master?s degree in China Studies at the University of Washington, won the scholarship in 1996. Paul P. Moran, a 2000 graduate who is studying for a Ph.D. in classics at the University of Virginia, received the scholarship in 1999.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.