Annie Emswiler of Bay City Receives Leadership Award from Southwestern University

GEORGETOWN, TX (04/19/2013)(readMedia)-- Annie Emswiler of Bay City has received the 2013 Sophomore Leadership Award from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. The award was presented at the university's 15th Annual Student Leadership Banquet April 16.

Award recipients are nominated by students and faculty members and are then sent a list of questions to answer, including their personal philosophy of leadership. The winners are chosen by members of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society.

In her definition of leadership, Emswiler wrote: "Leadership is sharing experience, but being frank about your ignorance. It's making the journey with others, rather than climbing to the top and throwing down a rope. We have all made different choices, journeys and sacrifices that inform our outlook on the world, and a leader is someone who can recognize that and integrate it effectively rather than enforcing their own perspectives. Leadership is not proving that you know everything; if anything, it's proving you don't. It's proving you are willing to share, and grow, and walk hand in hand with others."

Emswiler is majoring in Feminist Studies and English at Southwestern and is involved with the Coalition for Diversity and Social Justice, SU Planned Parenthood, SU Allies, the N.E.S.T. (A homeless youth shelter in Georgetown), and the Inside Books Project in Austin, Texas.

She is the granddaughter of Kurt and Shirley Swogger.

Southwestern University is a selective, nationally recognized undergraduate liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1,400 students. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in Texas. For more information on Southwestern, visit www.southwestern.edu.