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Welcome to the Honors Program website.  The website is designed to assist both prospective students research the program and current Honors Program students locate useful information related to the program. Alumni are also welcome to stay connected through their own webpage. 

If you are a prospective student, click here for the online or paper applications.

If you would like to see additional features, please feel free to contact me.

Jack W. Rhodes, Ph. D.
Director

 

Honors Program News:

● “Creating a Future Day by Day” by Dr. Jack Rhodes

● College Bowl Tournament Results are in!  The Citadel team finished 10th out of 15 teams.  Congratulations to our players:  Greg Vitello, J D Lathers, Dan Walters, Joe Strain and Leland Hart.

● Pictures from the Senior Luncheon are now available under the Photos link.

 

● Class of 2008 

   Craig Albers plans for after graduation include hiking the Appalachian Trail for a week. He then will be heading to Greenville, SC to work for Flour Daniels as a Design Engineer.  His initial project will be to work on control systems for the new nuclear reactors that are built in the US. Fluor will be building the first new nuclear plant on US soil in south Texas sometime in the next 5-10 years pending final government approval. He will also be the head coach for the Hardrock Pee Wee Wrestling club in Greenville, SC which is for kids kindergarten to 6th grade.

   Matthew Butsick plans to work as a civil engineer for the Department of Transportation for the summer and the attend law school in August. He plans to combine an engineering undergraduate degree with a Juris Doctorate in a career as a patent lawyer.

   Sean Callahan will be commissioned into the U.S. Army on May 2, 2008 as a 2nd Lieutenant.  He will be going into the Chaplain Corps and will be classified as a Chaplain Candidate until he graduates from seminary.  He will be attending seminary for a Masters of Divinity at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.  It will take approximately 3 years to complete the degree program, and upon completion, he will be placed in an Active Duty unit as a Chaplain.

    Michael Horger will be studying to take the DAT during the month of May.  Then he will be moving to Seattle, Washington the first part of June to take a job with Iverson Genetic Diagnostics.  He is hoping to attend MUSC’s Dental School in June 2009.  Michael has received the following awards while at The Citadel: Gold Stars; Deans List; Commandants List; President’s List; Outstanding Senior Biology Major; Who’s Who among American Colleges and Universities; The Major William M. Hutson Award; and the Thomas Francis McGarey Award.

   Jon Kelley will attend the University of Florida PhD program in Electrical and Computer engineering (with a teaching assistantship and alumni fellowship). He received gold stars again this year.

   JD Lathers has been admitted to the Master of Arts program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for Fall 2008 at the Bologna, Italy campus. He has also received a CAORD/DoS grant to study intensive Turkish for two months this summer.

   Scott McLaughlin held the position of The Citadel ASCE Student Chapter Treasurer, 2007-2008 and Regimental ITS Officer. He will be attending Auburn University pursuing his M.S. in Civil Engineering. He has received a full scholarship, a research assistantship, and a $2,500 fellowship.

   Aaron Nelson received gold stars first semester and will be receiving the cadet medal of merit at the end of this year. He also has been awarded a $15,000 scholarship to Charleston Law and plans on attending there in the fall.

   Christopher Raterman will be working as a tax associate with Dixon-Hughes in Charleston, SC. He is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and will graduate Cum Laude.

   Brendyn Reinecke plans to work for Albemarle, a chemical plant in Arkansas, as an electrical engineer.

   Katie Richesin will be spending part of the summer teaching in the Iringa district of Tanzania.  Her subject matter will be determined by the needs of the community.  She will then be going into the US Army as a 2LT in chemical. She has also been awarded the George C. Marshall Award.

   Jonathan Rodriguez will be stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, May 20th as a cadre member for LTC (Leadership Training Course).  On August 3rd, he reports to BOLC II (Basic Officer Leadership Course).  Once that is completed, he will report to Military Police Basic Office Course.  When all his schooling is completed, Jon will be stationed to the 18 MP Brigade in Mannheim, Germany.  While at The Citadel, Jon made Dean’s list three times.  He received The Military Order of the World Wars Award.  He is also a member and Vice President of the Spanish Honor Society at The Citadel Sigma Delta Pi; and is a member of The Citadel Political Science Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.

   Daniel Strickland will start in the fall with Deloitte in Atlanta, where he plans to work towards his CPA.

   Franco Villongco has been awarded one of three of this year’s Reves awards, which is granted by The Citadel’s Mathematics Department. He is currently a second-round finalist for the SMART fellowship. He plans to attend Columbia University to pursue a master’s in operations research.

   Gregory Vitello held the following positions his senior year: 4th Battalion Executive Officer, 4th Battalion Academic Officer, and Senior Class President. He was awarded Commandant’s List (3rd) and Presidents List (3rd) and after graduation he plans to work for Santee Cooper in Moncks Corner, SC as an Electrical Engineer.

   Wesley Wilson plans after graduation to pursue a Masters in Civil Engineering. He has held the position of Hotel Company Commander, was a member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honors Society), and was a Summerall Guard. He has made gold stars twice and Dean’s List every semester as a cadet. He is graduating Magna Cum Laude.

    Tara Woodside will be taking the summer off before deciding upon her professional options.

 

· Class of 2009

   Ian Johnston is studying through the University of Virginia in Valencia, Spain. He intends to study in Venezuela for the months of May and June and then backpack through Central America, arriving in Mexico City on August 16, 2008.

 

· Class of 2010

   Bob Fraser received an Olmstead Travel and Cultrual Immersion Program Grant to spend 2 months abroad in Germany at the Goethe Institute in Freiburg from May 5th until June 26th, 2008.

   Dan Walters also spent the summer of 2007 on a Star of the West Fellowship at Peking University in the People’s Republic of China studying Mandarin Chinese and hopes to spend this summer in Amman, Jordan learning Modern Standard Arabic.

Three Honors Cadets were accepted to the Washington Semester Fellowship for the Fall of 2007:

   Nathan Otto worked for Congressman J. Gresham       Barrett ‘83 as a staff assistant and gave tours of the US Capital.

   David Mayo worked for the Heritage Foundation.

   Dan Walters worked for SC Senator Lindsay Graham and the Department of Homeland Security.

 

·  Class of 2011

   Three Honors Cadets have been accepted to the Washington Semester Fellowship for Fall 2008:

   Noah Koubenec

   George Martin