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Tyler Marie Byrd awarded the Rosemary Medal Award at Collegiate School. Tyler will be attending Georgetown University in the fall of 2013. About the Rosemary Medal: Endowed in 1920 by the Bryan Family, the Rosemary Medal is presented to the senior girl who has best demonstrated the qualities of constructive leadership all areas of school life. Nominations for the award are made by the senior girls and the final selection is made by the faculty. This year’s recipient is a model of a well-rounded academic and she is on the short list of people in the world who, by their mere presence, personality and actions, make others look better. A four year class president and a leader in every avenue of school life, she has the ability to motivate others as a consensus builder and an unyielding enthusiast for their success. Dependable, positive, mature, fun-loving and hard-working, this year’s recipient, while petite, will have no trouble standing out as she moves on in life. Tyler is the overwhelming nominee of the senior girls and the US Faculty.
Tyra Z. H. Beaman selected a Gloucester Institute 2013 Moton Fellow. About the Moton Fellowship. The fellowships are named in honor of Dr. Robert Russa Moton, the Virginia-born author and educator who, among other things, succeeded Booker T. Washington as the head of Tuskegee Institute (now University) and delivered an address at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1922. Tyra is a rising sophomore at Spelman College in Atlanta, where she majors in political science and minors in Spanish. Tyra is incredibly active in her community both at home and at school. She is an acolyte, lector and youth choir member at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Richmond and served as freshman class president at Spelman. In high school, she participated in many organizations, just a few of which were Model United Nations, Student Congress, National Honor Society, and Future Business Leaders of America. Tyra believes “the Moton Fellowship has presented me unique opportunities to learn and absorb the academics and experienced intelligence of some of the nation’s best leaders, so I can continue their legacy by positively disrupting the status quo in order to improve our society.”
Madison Bussey Harris selected a 2nd Time for the famed Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles, California.
Madison auditioned with many from around the country for a relatively few slots in this much sought after summer experience. The Academy is a Four-Week Summer Intensive Program consisting of acting, singing, ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, flamingo, and African dance. Debbie Allen is Madison’s musical theater instructor for the summer program and this is an honor to have the school’s famous founder work with her in this capacity. (Debbie Allen is a famed actress, dancer, choreographer. Born in Houston, Texas, she is the third child of Pulitzer-winning poet Vivian Ayers, and dentist Arthur Allen.) Madison is a rising junior at the Governor’s School in Petersburg. She has been elected into the National Honor Society and has appeared in numerous musicals and theatre productions in Central Virginia.
