Jeff Truitt of Marion Station is Awarded Comegys Bight Fellowship

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CHESTERTOWN, MD (05/14/2013)(readMedia)-- Washington College is pleased to announce that Jeff Truitt '14 of Marion Station, Md., has been named a recipient of a Comegys Bight Fellowship for the summer of 2013. A history major and philosophy minor, Truitt will be working at the Maryland State Archives, where he will research members of the Maryland 400, who fought at the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War.

The Comegys Bight Fellowship Program matches outstanding Washington College students with summer internships at some of the nation's leading historical and cultural institutions – and pays those students a stipend for their work. The program, offered through the College's C.V. Starr Center for the American Experience, annually provides up to ten students with high-level work and research experience on topics related to American history and culture.

On campus, Truitt is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society, vice president of the mixed martial arts club and a member of the men's soccer club. He also works for the C.V. Starr Center for the American Experience indexing and archiving oral history interviews. A graduate of Holly Grove Christian School, Truitt has received an academic tuition scholarship, the Quill and Compass Scholarship and Maryland House of Delegates, Senatorial and Distinguished Scholarships.

Founded in 1782 under the patronage of George Washington, Washington College is a private, independent college of liberal arts and sciences located in colonial Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore.