F.C. Residents Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation

Falls Church residents recently earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation.

Scot Bellamy graduated with Bachelor’s degree in economics from Hampden-Sydney College, where he was one of 236 men who graduated in the school’s 2016 class. Harrison Coon recently received an Army ROTC scholarship at a formal ceremony at Gonzaga College High School.

Megan Ganley, a student at Virginia Tech, was initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Takumi Nemec, a 2016 graduate of The Citadel with a Bachelor’s degree in history, was commissioned into the U.S. Army in a ceremony on Friday, May 6.

Mikhail John Sasner Terman graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology at Haverford College. Terman, a 2012 graduate of George Mason High School, defended his senior thesis “Group Dynamics, Religious Group Relations and Terror Management Theory” and sang with the Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr while in college.

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