Carolina Holbrook of Cullman received the Perry Academic Award at Mississippi College at the institution’s Honors Convocation.

The Perry Academic Awards were established by Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Perry (Marion Walter Perry, ’32 and Effie Elaine McDonald Perry, ’33) for the purpose of recognizing scholastic achievement at Mississippi College. Academic awards, in the form of gold medals, are awarded to not more than seven seniors per year from the following majors: biological sciences, business administration and business education, including accounting, computer science, and marketing; chemistry; history; English; languages; mathematics; physics; arts and music; medical technology and nursing; education and psychology; kinesiology (formerly family and consumer sciences) and interior design; communication; sociology and social work.

Consideration for the awards are with emphasis on academic performance with all nominees having not less than a 3.5 grade point average. Academic excellence will receive 75 percent consideration and 25 percent for qualities of leadership, citizenship, creative ability, activities, and moral character.

Mississippi College, affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention, is a private, co-educational, Christian university of liberal arts and sciences serving more than 5,100 students, from 40 states and more than three dozen countries. Founded in 1826, Mississippi College is the oldest institution of higher learning in Mississippi, the largest private university in the state and America’s second oldest Baptist college.