| May 14, 2001 |
Contact: Lindsay
M. Moss |
MACON Ñ Mercer University student Stacey Copelan of Greensboro received the Michele Cartagena Spirit Award at the Greek Convocation held April 20 in Macon. This award commemorates Michele Cartagena, a Mercer student who was killed in 1997, and is given annually to one Greek woman who displays leadership and a positive attitude in their own organization, throughout the Greek system and on the Mercer Campus as a whole. Copelan, a rising senior majoring in English, is a member of the Chi Omega sorority. She is the daughter of Martha and Raymond Copelan of Greensboro. Founded in 1833,
Mercer is a 7,400-student, comprehensive, Baptist-affiliated university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees through the College of Liberal Arts, the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics, the Tift College of Education, the School of Engineering, the Walter F. George School of Law, the School of Medicine, the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, the Southern School of Pharmacy and the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology.
Mercer University has campuses in Macon and Atlanta and at four extended education centers located in Douglas County, Covington, Griffin and Eastman. The University also operates the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins and the Mercer University Press in Macon. For the past 11 years, Mercer has been ranked among the leading universities in the South by U.S. News and World Report.
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