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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TEXAS WESLEYAN STUDENTS SELECTED AS HATTON W. SUMNERS SCHOLARS

Natalie Wayman, Jonathan Towne, and Robert Meyer, students at Texas Wesleyan University, have received the Hatton W. Sumners Scholarship. This generous scholarship is given on behalf of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation to foster the development of citizen scholars and citizen leaders. The scholarship also provides a number of enrichment activities, including private access to speakers at the Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series; participation in a variety of public policy, leadership and civic participation programs; and access to several educational and internship opportunities in Washington, D.C.

Natalie Wayman graduated from Crowley High School. She earned her associate’s degree from Weatherford College in 2007, where she was a note taker for the legally blind. She has coached select volleyball teams for the past three years and gives private basketball lessons. Wayman, a junior, plans to graduate from Texas Wesleyan in 2009 with a degree in history with secondary education certification. She hopes to teach and coach at the high school and eventually college level.

Jonathan Towne graduated from L.D. Bell High School. At Texas Wesleyan, he is the recording secretary for Kappa Alpha Order, a social fraternity, and a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, a national honor society for college freshmen. He has participated in several fundraisers for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Towne is a junior majoring in political science.

Robert Meyer, a 2006 graduate of Calvary Christian Academy, will receive an associate’s degree from Tarrant County College this summer. He is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for two-year colleges. Meyer has volunteered several hundred hours over the last several years teaching preschoolers and tutoring younger students. He is a junior business major at Texas Wesleyan in the accounting BBA/MBA program and plans to sit for the CPA exam upon graduation.

Hatton W. Sumners represented Texas in the United States Congress from 1913 until his voluntary retirement in 1947. Established in 1949, the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation is dedicated to the study and teachings of the science of self-government, to the development of leaders with a sense of community responsibility, and to the maintenance of the American constitutional principles and the quality of life afforded under those principles. In support of this policy, the Foundation established an endowed scholarship program at Texas Wesleyan in 1994.