Association of Alumnae honors grad

The Association of Alumnae announced its senior merit awards earlier this month at the organization's annual meeting. The Continuing Education Award was given to Elizabeth Wolf for her "high level of commitment to studies" in the Continuing Education Program of the College of General Studies, according to Binnie Donald, chairperson of the association's Awards Committee. Wolf, a 34-year-old social science major, worked part time through her education while raising two children. She has also applied to law school after achieving a 3.86 grade point average in her CGS classes. "Studying at Penn was beyond my wildest dreams," Wolf wrote in her application for the award. Engineering senior Shelly Bowers, four-year varsity starter for the women's basketball team, received the Fathers' Trophy, which is given to an outstanding female scholar-athlete. Bowers, who hails from Allentown, Pa., is graduating with a degree in bioengineering. She has served as a lab technician at the Institute for Environmental Medicine and developed a toy for cerebral palsy patients as part of her senior engineering design project, according to Ruth Fields, who presented the award to Bowers. On the court, Bowers was ranked fifth highest on the University's all-time scoring list with 1,083 points. She averaged 4.4 assists per game on this year's season and had a career scoring high of 24 points in a game. The Fathers' Trophy was created in 1945 by a group of fathers of female University students as a companion award to the Class of 1915 trophy, which goes to a male scholar-athlete. The Fathers' Trophy is on display in Weightman Hall. "Pennsylvania offered me the perfect niche between varsity athletics and top notch academics," Bowers wrote in her application for the Trophy. Both women were honored with silver plaques at the association's meeting May 9.

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