McDaniel College graduate Thomas Boehm of Sea Cliff commissioned second lieutenant

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WESTMINSTER, MD (06/01/2011)(readMedia)-- Thomas Boehm of Sea Cliff, N.Y., is one of nine McDaniel graduating seniors commissioned May 21 as a U.S. Army officer. Members of the ROTC Green Terror Battalion, the second lieutenants gave their first salutes during the college's 91st ceremony, featuring keynote speaker Lieutenant General (ret.) Otto Guenther, class of 1963 and a member of the McDaniel College Board of Trustees.

Boehm, son of Richard and Marian Boehm, received a four-year ROTC scholarship in 2007 to attend McDaniel College, where he earned a degree in Political Science and International Relations. During his college career he completed Army Airborne School, participated on the wrestling team for four years and was a team captain for two years. He was treasurer and a player on McDaniel's club rugby team for three years. He is a member and officer of Kappa Delta Rho national fraternity and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society. In the summer of 2010 he traveled to Fort Lewis, Wash., to attend Warrior Forge followed by Cadet Troop Leader Training at Camp Casey, Korea, where he led a Mechanized Infantry Platoon. Boehm branched into the Infantry and will attend the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, Ga., in March 2012. He is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division in Fort Bragg, N.C.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel's spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., is an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, the Amtrak station and Baltimore-Washington international airport.