May 12, 1999
Educational Opportunity Program honors students at banquet
Outstanding students in the University of Washington’s Educational Opportunity Program will be honored at the EOP banquet, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 13 at the Convention Center.
For a quarter century, students admitted to the UW through EOP have accounted for more than half of all African American, Native American and Hispanic American students to earn UW degrees.
The 29th annual ceremony will honor, among others, Lorne Murray, an African American senior in microbiology who has been offered admission to medical schools at Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of California, San Francisco, Harvard and the UW. He will attend Harvard.
An award also will be made to Ivan Barron, a Mexican American senior who will serve as a research assistant at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard this summer, and who is the recipient of a $30,000 public policy and international affairs fellowship for graduate study. Barron is a vice president in undergraduate student government–one of seven EOP students to be elected to the top nine student offices in 1998.
Elizabeth Alexander, a Caucasian student who grew up on a farm in eastern Washington that was lost to the family after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, also will receive an award. With no help from her family, and as a single parent, she struggled to go to college and to survive years of adversity. She is graduating in June and will be attending graduate school.
