Witt named Grove City College Senior Man of the Year

GROVE CITY, PA (05/02/2011)(readMedia)-- The 2011 Grove City College Senior Man of the Year award was presented to William "Chuck" Witt of Dillsburg, Pa., on April 30 during the Parents' Weekend Recognition Convocation on campus.

The award for Senior Man of the Year is presented jointly by the leadership honoraries Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa as a service to Grove City College. The selection is made on the basis of scholarship, leadership and service. The candidates were voted upon by the students and faculty. It is one of the highest honors that the College can bestow. Former recipients of this prestigious honor have gone on to become leaders in faith, education, business, law and healthcare.

Witt is the son of William and Kathryn Witt. The mechanical engineering major has been a member of numerous honoraries such as Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board, Chi Alpha Sigma, Scroll and Key and Round Table. Witt is a Grove City College Swezey Research Fellow, who has worked at Harvard University alongside Dr. Erik Anderson, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and has written for two publications, "Journal of Fluid Mechanics" and "Marine Technology Society Journal."

As a varsity soccer player and team captain, Witt has been recognized for his efforts on the field and in the classroom by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, ESPN, CoSIDA and the Presidents' Athletic Conference. Witt is an active member of the campus community, involved in the Religious Activities Committee, Athletes in Action, Alpha Epsilon Chi housing group, Inner City Outreach: Memphis, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Ski and Snowboarding Club. He has served as a student assistant and grader and worked on an independent study to design a wind turbine that could power astronomy telescopes on the Intramural Fields. His research was later published and presented at a conference for the American Society of Engineering Education.

Finalists for Man of the Year were: Daniel Hanson of Danville, N.H.; David Janssen of Hospers, Iowa; Peter Jantsch of Beaver Falls, Pa.; and Chris Marasco of Washington, Pa.

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Grove City College has been listed as one of 100 "Best Value Colleges for 2009" by The Princeton Review. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has named Grove City one of 50 All-American Colleges, ranking it high for increasing students' civic literacy. Grove City College has been named a Best Value and one of the best colleges in America by U.S. News & World Report. The Young America's Foundation calls Grove City one of the Top Conservative Schools in the country. Founded in 1876, it is located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa. With an enrollment of 2,500 students, Grove City is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. It is an advocate of the free market economic system and accepts no federal funding. Tuition is about half the national average for private colleges.

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