McDaniel College graduate Turner Conrad of McAllen commissioned second lieutenant

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WESTMINSTER, MD (06/01/2011)(readMedia)-- Turner Conrad of McAllen, Texas, 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.

Conrad, son of Philip Conrad and Desiree Killgore, received a four-year ROTC scholarship in 2007 to attend McDaniel College, where he earned a degree in Biology. During his college career he attended Army Air Assault School, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and participated on the Green Terror Ranger Challenge team. In the summer of 2010 he traveled to Fort Lewis, Wash., to attend Warrior Forge. Conrad branched into the Medical Service Corps and will go to San Antonio, Texas, for a Ph.D. program in Microbiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in August.

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.