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What: Top Annual
Evans Scholars Awards
When: Presented
at 2007 Evans Scholars
Summer Outing
Where: Medinah
Country Club in
Medinah, Illinois
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Scholar Honors
Minnesota, Missouri Scholars
Receive Top Awards in 2007
Leader of the Year
Doug Grom
Doug Grom, who graduated from the University
of Missouri in May 2007, was named
the Stuart B. Smithson Leader of the Year.
His outstanding leadership abilities have been
recognized by his chapter since his freshman
year, when he won New Scholar of the Year and
the Harold F. Ames Leadership Award.
The recognition continued in his senior year
when he was named Senior of the Year and
Scholar of the Year. He also won the Harold F.
Ames Leadership Award for an unprecedented
fourth year in a row – the first time in Evans
Scholars history that has occurred.
Grom, who caddied at The Ivanhoe Club, was
president of the Missouri Chapter and of the Evans
Scholars National Committee in 2006.
He received a bachelor’s degree in business
administration with an emphasis in finance and
real estate. He is now attending Chicago’s John
Marshall Law School, where he ranks in the top
30 percent of his class with a 3.33 GPA.
“This first year
of law school has
been challenging,
but I have enjoyed
it thus far,” Grom
said.
“I miss the atmosphere
and
camaraderie that
came with living in
the Evans House,
but it’s also exciting
to take on the
challenges that law
school brings.”
Grom is searching
for a summer
clerk job and said
he’s anxious for it
to warm up so he
Doug Grom accepts his Leader of the Year plaque from past
WGA Chairman Rich Peterson.
can go fishing and
golfing.
Scholar of the Year
David Molitor
David Molitor,
who graduated
in May 2007
with a perfect 4.0
GPA throughout
six of his eight
semesters at the
University of Minnesota,
was named
the 2007 Evans
Scholar of the
Year.
Molitor, who
caddied at Midland
Hills Country
Club, was ranked
David Molitor
No. 1 academically
among graduating
seniors in the Evans Program.
He received the Evans Scholars National
Committee Academic Achievement Award, the
Carleton Blunt Scholarship Award, six William
F. Souder Jr. Four Point Awards and the Harold
F. Ames Leadership Award.
Molitor, who was 2005 president of the Minnesota
Evans Scholars Chapter, is working on his
Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Boston.
Last summer, he worked as a research assistant
for a professor on a project attempting to understand
how the effects of governmental regulation
play out in the hospital industry.
In his free time, he enjoys tennis, juggling,
sailing and Scrabble. He also teaches a children’s
Sunday school class.
“My time as resident of the Minnesota House
was an excellent leadership opportunity and
helped teach me to balance leading an organized
personal life while keeping activities of the House
flourishing and in order,” he said.
“These lessons I learned and skills I built have
proved invaluable for dealing with the much
more intense loads of graduate study.”