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KU senior from Lawrence advances to regional competition for Rhodes scholarship

Anne Isabel McEnroe

LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas senior from Lawrence has advanced in the competition for one of 32 prestigious Rhodes scholarships, which provide tuition and living expenses for graduate study in Great Britain.

As a regional finalist, Anne Isabel McEnroe will be interviewed by a panel of Rhodes representatives Nov. 17 and 18 in Kansas City, Mo. KU competes in a region that includes Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Mississippi. Two winners will be named from each of the 16 regions after the interviews are completed Nov. 18.

The Rhodes Foundation selects 32 scholars annually. KU students have won 25 Rhodes scholarships since 1904, more than all other Kansas colleges and universities combined.

Rhodes scholarships were first offered in 1903. The scholarships may be used only at Oxford University.

McEnroe is preparing for a career teaching classics at the university level. Her goals include helping her classics students recognize links in their studies to recent history and contemporary life. McEnroe will graduate in spring 2007 with majors in classics and English literature. She has an Undergraduate Research Award to examine the influence of Virgil’s poetry on the writing of St. Augustine from his conversion to Christianity through old age. Her proposal received a J. Michael Young Award for one of the top research proposals in the humanities. A National Merit Scholar, McEnroe is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. At KU, she volunteers as a Latin tutor and for Audio-Reader Network, a radio service for blind and print-disabled individuals. While studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh, she volunteered with the Oxfam bookshop and the Sisters of Mercy project to serve meals to the needy. McEnroe was secretary for Sellards Scholarship Hall and co-president of the KU Classics Club. She is the daughter of Bruce McEnroe and Michelle Tamburini, and is a Lawrence Free State High School graduate.

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