2006 Claremont National Scholar Recipients

2006 Claremont National Scholarship Recipients

Susana Bonis was Director of Development and Communications at Families in Schools, a nongovernment organization in Los Angeles. She has worked as a management/program analyst at high levels of the U.S. Department of Education, on issues ranging from strategic planning to preparing tomorrow’s teachers to use technology. She was a Fulbright teaching assistant at Eotvos Loran University in Budapest. She received her MAT from American University and her BA summa cum laude with a double major in English and history from George Washington University.

Victoria Bryan is the co-founder and former Managing Director of STOP-GAP, the nationally acclaimed nonprofit theater company that uses theater as an educational and therapeutic tool. One referee called STOP-GAP “quite a legend in drama therapy.” She is currently an adjunct faculty member at California State University, Long Beach, where she recently completed an MA in art history. She has previously served as Director of Programs for Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been a writer, actor, producer, and photographer for six television series. She holds a BA from Antioch University and a Diploma in stage management from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

Fay Elanor Ellwood was a researcher and teaching assistant at the Claremont School of Theology and Pomona College. She holds an MA from the Claremont School of Theology, where she won the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence and a Presidential Scholarship, and a BA in English literature from Goucher College, where she became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was the student commencement speaker. Her research continues to transcend the boundaries between literature and religion, in particular prophetic voices in biblical and 20th century poetry.

Yvonne Flack received a BA with a double in English literature and in biology at Redlands University, where her many honors include a Presidential Scholarship and a Regent’s Scholarship. Her senior thesis explores parallels between biological mimicry and mimesis in art. She has acted in plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, and she has been a research intern at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. As one of her biology professors writes, “Yvonne represents a rare case of someone who truly has a foot in each of C.P. Snow’s Two Worlds.”