Margaret Evelyn Hollister, a biology and chemistry major from Moseley, won the Sally Barksdale Hargrett Prize for Academic Excellence and the Dan Daniel Senior Award for Scholarship at Commencement May 8 ­ only the second time in more than 20 years that a student has won both awards for graduates.
     Margaret, now a student at the VCU-MCV School of Medicine, graduated with a GPA of 3.942 (only two B's) and was a member of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies, the Honors Program, and the Honor Board, and was a Longwood Scholar and a Longwood Ambassador. She plans to become a pediatrician. She' from a Longwood-oriented family: her late grandmother, Katie Derrenbacker, was a 1917 Longwood graduate; her late aunt, Rachel Derrenbacker, was a 1919 graduate; one sister, Katherine, graduated from Longwood last year (she attends Regent University law school); and another sister, Rachel, is a rising sophomore.
     Also at Commencement, Dr. Kenneth Perkins, Associate Professor of Sociology, received the Maria Bristow Starke Award for Faculty Excellence; Dr. Christopher Bjornsen, Assistant Professor of Psychology, the Junior Faculty Award; and Dr. E.T. Noone, Professor of Mathematics, the Student Faculty Recognition Award.
     Professor Giles Constable, the speaker, a noted medieval historian at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Lieutenant General Samuel Wilson, the president of Hampden-Sydney College, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. General Wilson is a former member of the Longwood Board of Visitors.

     
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