Clary Sawyer, a Denison University senior from Menlo Park, Calif., was honored with the Kussmaul Award, given jointly by the Granville Chamber of Commerce and Denison University, at a lunchtime ceremony on Wednesday, April 15, at the college’s Knobel Hall in the Burton D. Morgan building. Sawyer was presented with the award, which recognizes Denison University students who have contributed most to the friendly relations between Granville and the college, by Steve Matheny, director of the Granville Chamber of Commerce, and Seth Patton, vice president for finance and management at Denison.
Sawyer was nominated for the Kussmaul Award by Jesse Yeager ’10, assistant director for Admissions at Denison. In her nomination Yeager wrote, “In her role as a YoungLife Licking County leader, Clary has spent hundreds of hours selflessly serving the students in the Granville High School community. For all four years of her time at Denison, Clary has shared her life with the students at the Granville High School, conducting weekly Bible studies, meeting for coffee, and hanging out with them after-school, at school dances, and football games.” Yeager added, “On campus, Clary has served as a resident assistant for first-year students and is a member of EDIT, Denison’s Eating Disorder Intervention Team.”
Sawyer is a communication major with double minors in Women's & Gender Studies and Anthropology & Sociology. After commencement, she will be working as a psychiatric care technician at the Ohio State Medical Center in the Harding Psychiatric Hospital. Sawyer plans to pursue a master’s in social work.
Matheny and Patton presented Sawyer with an award certificate and a check for $300. Other nominees for the award include Stacey Adams ’15, nominated by Carrie Messner of Village Core Fitness; Megan Leigha Hart ‘15, nominated by Dwight Davidson, of United Church of Granville; Ankita Rachel Henry, also nominated by Dwight Davidson, of United Church of Granville and Erin Worden ’17, nominated by Susie Kalinoski, of the John W. Alford Center for Service-Learning.