DATE: May 12, 2009

CONTACT: Joy Smith, 864-656-0471
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WRITER: Angela Nixon, 864-656-0382
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Easley resident receives Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Clemson

CLEMSON — Lindsey Sporrer of Easley received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Clemson University at Commencement May 8.

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is given annually “in recognition of the recipient's influence for good, excellence in maintaining high ideals of living and genuine and disinterested service to others.” The award, named in honor of the first president of the New York Southern Society, was established by an agreement between the society and Clemson University.

Sporrer received her degree in management at the ceremony.
 
Sporrer was elected Clemson’s Homecoming Queen in 2007. A student in the Calhoun Honors College, she is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. She is a Palmetto Fellows Scholar, a Sonoco Scholar and a Frank A. Burtner Scholar. Sporrer is an active member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and received the Nick Lomax Rising Star Award from the Division of Student Affairs in 2007. She also was a member of Student Senate. She has volunteered for Relay for Life, St. Jude’s Up Til Dawn, Anderson Interfaith Ministries, Ronald McDonald House and Clemson Child Development Center.