Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Autumn 2013 | Page 10

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Four seniors receive Alumni Association scholarships
The Wheaton College Alumni

Association Board of Directors presented
four students with Senior Scholarship
Awards for the 2013-14 academic year.
The winners were announced at Honors
Convocation on May 1.
Lillian Chou ’14— a violin and piano
performance double major with elective
studies in biochemistry. She served as
concertmaster of the Wheaton College
Symphony Orchestra, taught violin in the
Community School of the Arts, and was a
2012 chamber music groups competition
winner. In addition to accompanying
children’s choirs, soloists, and her church’s
worship team, she participates in Senior
Music Ministry, performing for the
residents at Windsor Park Manor. After
graduation, she hopes to pursue graduate
studies in music and possibly the sciences,
as well as give music lessons and perform
with chamber music groups and worship
teams. She says she is also interested in
“opportunities for research and medicine,
teaching English, and missions, especially
serving [in Taiwan].”
Clara Kent ’14— an anthropology major
with a certificate in Human Needs and
Global Resources (HNGR). She served
Board members (standing, l to r): Donna Peterson Nielsen ’93, Erin
Hoekstra ’04, Paul Klobucher ’96, Kirstin Skytte Lindquist ’87, David
McDowell ’68. Awardees (seated): Clara Kent, Lilian Chou, Elizabeth
Loewer. Not pictured: Matthew McMillan, who was studying in Hungary.

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as a teaching assistant for the B.R.I.D.G.E.
program and for the sociology and
anthropology department, managed
events for the Solidarity Cabinet, and
worked with Student Ministry Partners,
traveling to Indonesia one summer and
later coordinating trips for other students.
Clara spent this June in Warsaw, Poland,
on a fellowship with Humanity in Action.
Afterward she went to Amman, Jordan,
for a six-month HNGR internship
with the Caritas Jordan organization,
serving Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
After graduation, she plans to work in
Washington, D.C. “One day, I’d love to
be involved in international initiatives,
possibly working with an organization
like the U.N.,” she says.
Elizabeth Loewer ’14— a psychology
major with a minor in Christian
education. She served on the cabinet
for Mu Kappa, the campus organization
for missionary kids, and participated in
Gospel Choir and Psi Chi, the Psychology
National Honor Society. She also worked
as a teaching assistant in the education
department and a peer consultant for
ESL and graduate students in the Writing
Center. After a spring BreakAway trip to

His Mansion, she returned there for a
summer internship. She hopes to pursue
graduate studies in counseling and serve
in member care for foreign missionaries.
“I would love to work with MKs as they
make the transition to college life in the
U.S., or on staff in residence life at an
overseas boarding school for MKs.”
Matthew McMillan ’14— a mathematics
and physics double major. Co-president
of Wheaton’s math club, Arithmos, and
teaching assistant for the mathematics
and physics department, Matt spent
last spring studying mathematics in
Budapest and this summer interning
at University of California-Berkeley
in geometry, topology, and operator
algebras. He previously interned at the
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and
has conducted plasma physics research
with Associate Professor of Physics Dr.
Darren Craig. “I have strong interests in
philosophy and theology, and have spent
considerable time in discussion with
friends and acquaintances, and reading on
my own,” he says, adding that he plans
on pursuing graduate studies and possibly
an academic career in mathematics,
physics, or philosophy.

Scholarship renamed in memory of Josiah Bubna
Last fall the Class of 2011 renamed their scholarship fund in honor of classmate Josiah Bubna
’11, who passed away on July 7, 2012. The Class of 2011 Josiah Bubna Memorial Scholarship
provides financial assistance to international students planning to attend Wheaton. According
to class president Paul Nelson ’11, the seniors wanted to highlight the value of international
student perspectives enriching the Wheaton experience for the community as a whole.
“Starting a scholarship fund for these students seemed a powerful way to help ensure that an
international presence continues to be a part of our alma mater,” he says.
The son of missionaries Joel and Elin Bubna, Josiah grew up in Côte d’Ivoire, speaking
French as his first language. In college, he played football, managed advertising for the Record,
and earned a double major in international relations and business economics with a minor in
French, graduating with honors. He spent a year working with Samaritan’s Purse in Japan and
planned to go to Liberia.
“To give an opportunity to international students to attend Wheaton College not only makes
sense; it fits the message of Josiah’s life,” said Joel and Elin Bubna.