Eamon Penland Receives Public Service Certificate

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Eamon Penland and Dr. Christopher Howard

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA (04/11/2011)(readMedia)-- Hampden-Sydney College senior Eamon Caldwell Penland (left) recently received the prestigious James Madison Public Service Certificate from Dr. Christopher B. Howard, President of Hampden-Sydney College on behalf of the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest. The Public Service Certificates are presented to seniors who have successfully completed a two-year concentration of classes, internship, and research and who are seriously considering careers in public service.

Eamon was Lieutenant Commander and Alumni Relations Chair for the social fraternity Sigma Nu. He was a founding member of SHARC (the Sigma Nu Hampden-Sydney Animal Rescue Community). Last summer Eamon interned with a microfinance organization in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has since started a microfinance organization on campus, the Financiers for International Development Association, an organization that hopes to start funding loans through KIVA.org. Eamon has been accepted into the Phoenix Project's Social Innovation Program at George Mason University.  A foreign affairs major, he is a graduate of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, SC, and is the son of Rob & Lori Penland of Charlotte, NC, previously of Columbia.

A private college for men, Hampden-Sydney is ranked in the top tier of liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. The College is known for its liberal arts curriculum, the Honor Code which stresses individual and collective responsibility, and a focus on the needs of young men.