June
15, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Eddie
Dominguez
(805) 756- 5838
Cal Poly Announces 2005 Quest for the Best Leadership Award Recipients
SAN LUIS OBISPO
-- Cal Poly has announced the recipients of the 2005 Land Family
Quest for the Best Awards.
The annual awards recognize student leaders in each college who
exemplify core values of excellence, stewardship, collaboration,
integrity and community through academic achievement and volunteerism.
Recipients
are nominated by faculty, staff and campus leaders and are selected
based on an application and interview. One student from each college
and Associated Students, Inc. is selected to receive a Quest for
the Best award, and one of those seven students receives the highest
honor: the university-wide Land Family Quest for the Best Award.
The 2005 recipient of the university-wide Quest for the Best award is Mandi Bartleson of Fortuna, an agricultural science major who was also the College of Agriculture Quest for the Best award recipient.
Other 2005 Quest for the Best award recipients are:
- Elizabeth
FitzZaland, a city and regional planning graduate student
of Sidney, British Columbia, representing the College of Architecture and Environmental Design - Michael
Jurewicz of San Ramon, a business major, representing the
Orfalea College of Business - Kristen
Salinas of San Rafael, a civil engineering major
representing the College of Engineering - Ashley
Wolf of Carlsbad, a journalism major representing the College
of Liberal Arts - Susan Becker
of San Luis Obispo, a mathematics major representing
the College of Science and Mathematics, and - Tylor Middlestadt
of Albany, Ore., an architectural engineering
student representing the Associated Students Inc.
All of the students received cash awards and commemorative gifts and plaques. Bartleson, recipient of the University-wide Honor, will also receive the equivalent of one year's tuition.
The awards are the result of the blending of the Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Land Outstanding University and Community Service Award, established by alumnus Jeff Land (Bus '80) and wife Carla Land in 1986, and the Quest for the Best Award, initiated in 2000 by Cal Poly's Office Vice President for Student Affairs.
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