The 2019 Grove City College Senior Man and Woman of the Year awards were presented, respectively, to Daniel Gibson ’19 and Rachel Beidelman ’19 on Thursday, May 2 during the College’s annual Honors Convocation.
The awards are presented jointly by the leadership honoraries Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa as a service to Grove City College. The selections are made on the basis of scholarship, leadership and service. The candidates were voted on by students and faculty.
Gibson, a Mechanical Engineering major from Ivyland, Pa., demonstrated leadership and service in his fraternity, Omicron Xi, the Student Government Association and Orientation Board. He has been involved in campus life through intramural sports, Homecoming Court, Whose Line is it Anyway? and as a host and emcee of the Upperclassmen Talent Show and All College Sing. He volunteers with a local church’s middle school youth group and has been a member and team leader on mission trips. He also served as a research assistant to Dr. Erik Anderson.
Beidelman is a Finance major from Lewis Center, Ohio. A campus leader, she is senior class president and a senator of Social Affairs on Student Government Association. She served as rush chair and alumni secretary of Gamma Sigma Phi sorority as the secretary for the Financial Management Association. She has also served on the Executive Committee of Orientation Board and is part of the New Life campus ministry group. On campus, she worked in the Office of Alumni and College Relations.
The senior awards are the highest honors that the College can bestow on students. Their names are recorded for posterity on a memorial plaque on a boulder outside Harbison Chapel on campus. Former recipients of this prestigious honor have gone on to become leaders in faith, education, business, law and health care.
Nominees for Senior Woman of the Year included: Laura Buchanan, Hope Cooksey, Krista Heckman, Emily Paszko and Morgan Ziegler.
Nominees for Senior Man of the Year included: Josh Barham, Nate Curry, Ethan Fry and Bryce Kulik.