ABAC STUDENTS SELECT MR. AND MS. BALDWIN

Brett Tucker and Philippa Ruth Mpunzwana have been selected by their peers as Mr. and Ms. Baldwin for 2003 at Abraham Baldwin College. The students were selected in a campus-wide vote for the most prestigious non-academic honors awarded to ABAC students.

Tucker and Mpunzwana were two of 29 students selected for Who=s Who at ABAC by a student-faculty committee. To be eligible for nomination, students must have completed at least 30 semester hours at ABAC with at least a 2.5 cumulative grade point average. From that list, the students at ABAC voted for Mr. and Ms. Baldwin.

Tucker, an agriculture major from Ocilla, serves as president of the ABAC Ambassadors and is a member of the Baptist Student Union (BSU) and Phi Theta Kappa. He served on the Open Campus Day committee and the ABAC Ambassador Selection committee.

Tucker assisted in the production of the ABAC Beauty Revue and was one of the five finalists in the Mr. ABAC competition. He also helped to host the Board of Regents’ visit to ABAC and assisted with the annual Homecoming festivities. Tucker is active at Northside Baptist Church. The son of Tony and Laura Beth Tucker, he plans to attend the University of Georgia after graduation from ABAC and pursue a degree in ag business.

Mpunzwana, a fashion merchandising major from Waycross, is the vice president of the Student Union and a senator in the Student Government Association (SGA). She is also a member of the Family and Consumer Sciences Club (FACS), the Resident Hall Association (RHA), and Phi Theta Kappa.

Mpunzwana has served on various committees, including Athletic Affairs and Technology Affairs, and was also the Student Affairs Committee Chair. She is a tutor and desk assistant in the Writing Center of the Academic Assistance Center (AAC). Mpunzwana has also volunteered her time to work in the concession stand at basketball games and at the SGA trash pick-up. The daughter of Philip and Chipo Mpunzwana, she plans to attend Georgia Southern after graduation from ABAC.

Other ABAC students named to the list this year were D. J. Bradshaw, an agriculture major from Clayton; David C. Brady, a wildlife technology major from Thomasville; Candice Clark, an agriculture major from Rochelle; Scott Thomas Dawson, a forest resources major from Sylvester; Mary Beth DeMott, a family and consumer sciences education major from Moultrie; Carolyn Dennard, a nursing major from Tifton; Jeanine Dorminey, a mathematics major from Tifton; Kimberly Fletcher, a criminal justice major from Tifton; Lisa Collins Folsom, a nursing major from Moultrie; Jacquelene Michelle Honeycutt, a business administration major from Tifton; Jeannie Hutchinson, a pre-veterinary medicine major from Hawkinsville; Melanie T. Johnson, an information technology major from Moultrie; Stacey Marie Jones, an agriculture education major from Folkston; and Kristi D. Jordan, a nursing major from Tifton.

Others students included on the list were Ben Kennedy, an agriculture education major from Reidsville; Kristin MacKenzie, a journalism major from Fitzgerald; Mitzi Marshall, a wildlife management major from Dahlonega; Robert McDaniel, Jr., an agriculture major from Blue Ridge; Martin Mitchell, a secondary education major from Bluffton; Marcus Pollard, a wildlife technology major from Senoia; Todd Howard Reece, an agriculture major from Ellijay; Amanda Richards, a music major from Chula; Lakevius S. Robinson, an exercise science major from Ocilla; John William Rodman, a journalism major from Tifton; Elizabeth Shirley, a secondary education major from Blackshear, Terrance Singleton, a business administration major from Tifton; and Jennifer Lynne Wood, an interior design/fashion merchandising major from Jonesboro.

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