Sun 21 Nov 2004
Congrats to Williams Senior Marissa Doran, who becomes the third Eph Rhodes scholar in the last two years, further solifidying Williams’ substantial lead in terms of liberal arts colleges with the most scholarship winners. Does anyone have the total figure? If I recall, even before the last two years, Williams was first, Reed second, and the rest pretty far behind, but I haven’t seen the actual numbers in some time.
More on Marissa:
Marissa C. M. Doran, Duxbury, is a senior at Williams College and a history major. Marissa is a Truman Scholar, won an award for community service, is active in theater, music, and politics, and was the first U.S. citizen to participate in a government-sponsored program in the Belgian Parliament. She is also the first Williams undergraduate to co-develop a Williams course. Marissa will do the B.A. in Modern History at Oxford
November 21st, 2004 at 7:06 pm
For those interested in knowing more about Doran, she is writing a history thesis on “The Carter Administration and U.S. Responses to Oil Crises of the 1970s”; the course she co-developped was for the Williams-in-NYC project; she won a Truman Fellowship; she rowed crew (at least at some point); and is an (very) occasional participant on WSO.
Congratulations to Marissa and to any Ephs who made it to the interview stage.
November 23rd, 2004 at 12:54 am
“Doran is the 37th Williams student to win a Rhodes in the 101 years of the program and the third to do so in the last two years.”
–From the williams.edu article on Marissa
November 23rd, 2004 at 6:50 am
Thanks Noah. Reed is in second, with 31 (but only 2 since 1978), so it looks like Williams has a pretty comfortable lead. Not sure about Amherst …
November 23rd, 2004 at 4:51 pm
Amherst’s website says that it has had 5 in the last 20 years as of 2000. That seems WAY too low so i’m not positive that it’s correct. Swarthmore seems to have had 29.