Katie Reilly wins Morehead Cain Scholarship
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BYFIELD, MA (06/21/2011)(readMedia)-- Katie Reilly, a 2011 graduate of The Governor's Academy, was recently selected as a recipient of the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the nation's first and foremost merit award program.
In addition to covering all expenses for four years of undergraduate study at UNC, the Morehead-Cain features a distinctive program of summer enrichment experiences. Over four summers, scholars have the opportunity to complete an outdoor leadership course, carry out public service in the United States or abroad, conduct research at sites across the world and gain experience in private enterprise. Reilly will spent several weeks in Wyoming this summer.
Since its founding in 1945, the Morehead-Cain has been a model for countless merit awards throughout the United States, including the University of Virginia's Jefferson Scholars Program; Duke University's Benjamin N. Duke Scholars Program; and Emory University's Woodruff Scholars Program. As set out in the program's founding documents, selection criteria for the Morehead-Cain are leadership, academic achievement, moral force of character and physical vigor. Morehead-Cain recipients are chosen solely on the basis of merit and accomplishment, not financial need.
In the past nine years, 12 Morehead-Cain Scholars have won Rhodes Scholarships to England's Oxford University.
Reilly was a high honors student who was actively involved in the campus community. She was a member of the Cum Society, the Academy's honor society, and won the Peter W. Bragdon Headmaster's Cup at graduation. She was a peer advisor, a member of the varsity tennis team, sang in the chorus, served as editor of The Governor, the Academy's award-winning student newspaper, and spent last summer doing research at Harvard Medical School as part of the Academy's Catalyst Summer Science Program. She is the daughter of Mark and Gaylyn Reilly of Boxford, MA.
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