December 12 , 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY
A Calvin nursing student has won a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman
International Scholarship.
Jessica Miller, a 20-year-old sophomore from Colorado Springs, will use the
$4,000 Gilman (one of only 400 given to almost 1,200 applicants) to participate
in Calvin's development studies semester in Honduras.
"I'm very honored and very excited to have received the scholarship," says
Miller, "and I'm really excited to be going to study in Honduras. I want to do
missionary nursing, and I want to do third world development, so I think this
is an opportunity to learn what the problems are in a third world country."
Miller, who runs track and cross country at Calvin, gained her yen for unusual
destinations in the three years she spent with her family as missionaries in
Latvia just after the fall of the Soviet Union.
"That's what made me want to be a missionary -- seeing the needs in another
culture and wanting to be a part of solving them," she says.
Miller will spend her spring semester in Honduras following a January interim
during which she will be managing and facilitating high ropes courses.
"I'm a white water rafting guide back home in the summer, and we want to
branch out into climbing," she explains.
For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/gilman-winner.htm
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