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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 15, 2005 -  Contact: Sandra Faux or Joseph Giomboni King’s College Public Relations Office, (570) 208-5958.

ELIZABETH STELLA OF KING'S COLLEGE

NAMED McGOWAN SCHOLAR

July 15, 2005 – King’s College junior Elizabeth Stella is recipient of the full-tuition  William G. McGowan Scholarship for the 2005-06 academic year. Stella is majoring in international business and Spanish.

Stella, from Exeter, Pa., is a member of the Aquinas Society, the King’s College honor society; and Epsilon Chi Omicron, the international honor society in International Business. She will study in Rome, Italy, this summer as part of the King’s College-John Cabot University Study-Abroad program. Stella completed an internship with Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania last summer.

The scholarship is a full-tuition award named in honor of William G. McGowan ’52, a native of Ashley who went on to a successful business career as the founder and chairman of MCI Telecommunications.  

The McGowan Scholarship is awarded to full-time students who are pursuing their primary major with the McGowan School of Business, are entering their senior year at the college, have achieved a minimum G.P.A. of 3.0, and have submitted an essay on the contributions McGowan made to today’s business world or to the telecommunications field. In addition, candidates for the scholarship must be nominated by at least one faculty member of the business school.

King’s College is a Catholic College sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross

From left: Frank J. Pasquini, vice president for Institutional Advancement; Rev. Thomas O’Hara, C.S.C., president; Elizabeth Stella, McGowan Scholarship recipient; and Rev. Jack Ryan, C.S.C., director, Willliam G. McGowan School of Business.