Brooklyn College Student Receives 2000 Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship

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May 15, 2000

Brooklyn College Student Receives

2000 Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship

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Alice Newcomb-Doyle (718) 951-5882

Brooklyn, N.Y. -- Marcia Lillian DeVoe, a classics major at Brooklyn College, is the recipient of a 2000 Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship, a substantial award granted to college juniors of exceptional academic promise who plan to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Ms. DeVoe is the only student from a public urban college to receive the award this year. She is also the second Brooklyn College student honored with a Beinecke Award. In 1993 Christopher A. Lee, Class of '94, received a Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study.

Each year approximately eighty colleges and universities are invited to nominate a student for a Beinecke Scholarship, and a maximum of twenty scholarships are awarded.

Ms. DeVoe, who holds a 4.0 academic index, is a member of the Ford Colloquium, a rigorous honors program at Brooklyn College that helps students prepare for graduate school and for careers in research and college teaching. Among her many ambitious projects is an archaeological dig in Iceland that she will participate in this summer.

"At 18, I left my hometown of Missoula, Montana, to study art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where I was a drawing major," said Ms. DeVoe. "It wasn't long after that I found myself sitting in my studio on Sunday mornings studying Latin, instead of drawing. I had heard that the Classics Department at Brooklyn College was strong, so I made the decision toenroll."

"Marcia's passionate devotion to scholarly work has placed her on a par with other exceptional students from the best schools in the nation," said Ellen Belton, dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College, who nominated Ms. DeVoe. "I am thrilled that she will have the financial support she deserves to continue her studies."

The Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship Program was established in 1971 by the Board of Directors of the Sperry and Hutchinson Company. The scholarship was created to honor Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke, who assumed leadership of the company in the 1920s. Each scholar receives $2,000 prior to entering graduate school to offset costs associated with the application process. Upon entering graduate school, a Beinecke Scholar receives a stipend of $15,000 for each of two years of graduate study.

Brooklyn College, founded in 1930 and located on a twenty-six acre tree-lined campus in Flatbush, is one of the eleven senior colleges of the City University of New York. It enrolls 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students who are representative of the diverse population of Brooklyn and New York City. The school is nationally known for its core curriculum, which has been hailed as one of the "bright spots" in American higher education.
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