Nov 23, 2008 1:25 pm US/Central
Carrollton Native Named Rhodes Scholar
DALLAS (AP) ―
A pair of Texans at prestigious East Coast universities have been named 2009 Rhodes Scholars.
Stephen Hammer of Carrollton and Malorie Snider of the Houston suburb of Friendswood were among 32 men and women nationally named Sunday as Rhodes recipients.
Hammer is a senior Classics major at Princeton University in New Jersey. He serves in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He is a campus leader in the Presbyterian ministry and plans to pursue a master's in theology.
He was valedictorian of Newman Smith High School in Carrollton in 2005 and will graduate from Princeton in 2009.Snider is a senior majoring in biological anthropology at Harvard University. A day after she was named a Rhodes Scholar, Malorie Snider had an early Thanksgiving dinner with her extended family on Sunday in Friendswood. She has to return to Harvard on Monday morning, and this year, she has a lot to celebrate.
"It's kind of a blur, actually," said Snider, 21, who grew up in Friendswood. "It's a combination of excitement, feeling overwhelmed, not comprehending what's going on, and thinking about all these possibilities that have suddenly opened up to me."
Snider plans to study medical anthropology at Oxford, delving into an interest that has been growing during her undergrad studies.
"I'm interested in the way scientific fact and cultural and social beliefs and constructs interact," said Snider. "I'd like to have a more thorough understanding of the way cultural practices affect the way people perceive medicine and the ways their bodies react."
Snider said her family was ecstatic, especially her father who did not go to college himself and "worked so hard to provide for my education."
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