The Dennis Boe Award
Angela Summers
lates that she was in the Math Lab “all the time,” spending 3
to 4 hours at a time with a tutor, and used the Writing Center for every major research paper.
This honors student tells us that she has a stuttering
problem, and was home schooled, then moved to the TCC
Faculty Director
learning environment, which had small classes and much
Southeast Campus
support from faculty for techniques to assist her. Caroline
“self treats” her stuttering and refuses to let it “block me
CELT Director
from performing at my level” and states
that it has “morphed into a challenge.”
“The Great Plains Honors Council
sponsors the Dennis Boe Award to
Caroline Ainsley Jennings: She says that it gives her the “chance to
let other people know about it
showcase and reward outstanding
First Time TCC Winner
(stuttering) and being at TCC, I face it
scholarly work by the honors proof the Prestigious Boe Award ‘head on’ and had to be ‘up front’ about
gram/college students of its member
it and take responsibility for it.”
institutions” (Lynn Greene). This
award is a cash prize and an engraved
The TCC Honors Program helped
plaque for each of the winning stuprovide a foundation to provide her
dents. Caroline presented her paper
with the preparation to speak at the
to 300 conference participants last
Great Plains Honors Conference.
April at the Great Plains Honors
Caroline still keeps in touch with
Council Conference at West Texas A &
the honors students she attended clasM University.
ses with at TCC. She feels that “faculty
I was fortunate to have the
here understood and worked with me
opportunity to interview Caroline this
for strategies and also to develop confipast semester. She is now studying
dence.”
English at OSU, Stillwater (as an honCaroline is very proud of her parents and the help
ors student) and would like to go on to graduate school to
and support they have given her; dad helped with math
teach English at the college level. Last year she won the
problems and mom helped her to stay organized. She has
Boe Award for her paper “Behind the Veil: The Hidden
three siblings: one sister is a lawyer, her brother is a preAfrican in Lydia Maria Child’s “The Quadroons.”
med student at OSU, and a 15-year-old sister is living at
Caroline was an Honors student at TCC and she
home.
credits TCC faculty for “giving me the confidence to take
Her interests had been l