January 11, 2010

FULTON -- Sarah Buchheit of Perryville, a sophomore; was recently named to the Fall 2009 Dean's List for exemplary academic performance at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

The Dean's List recognizes those Westminster students who have shown high academic performance during the past semester. To be included on the Dean's List, a student must have a 3.60 semester grade point average with at least 12 hours completed that semester.

The Dean's List for the Fall 2009 semester included 175 women and 139 men for a total of 314 students. Among the honorees were 69 freshmen, 73 sophomores, 60 juniors and 112 seniors. There were 46 international students on the list.

"On behalf of the entire Westminster College community, I want to congratulate these students who have received recognition for their academic excellence this semester," says Westminster President Barney Forsythe. "At Westminster we pride ourselves on preparing graduates to be leaders for life. These students represent the best of the best. In light of the challenging academic program we offer here at Westminster, having such a consistently high number of students on the Dean's List demonstrates what a quality student body we are privileged to teach here."

Founded in 1851, Westminster College is one of the Midwest's best private liberal arts colleges, according to the rankings of U.S.News & World Report. Forbes magazine just selected Westminster as the Top Value College and University in Missouri. The Princeton Review recently named the College as one of the best colleges and universities in the Midwest for the eighth straight year. Newsweek-Kaplan named it "One of the 372 Most Interesting Schools in America." Westminster has also been recognized as one of 240 Colleges of Distinction and CosmoGirl magazine named the school one of the Top 100 American Colleges for women. This selective college for men and women is situated on an 86-acre residential campus with small class sizes taught by top-notch instructors.

Westminster College is internationally recognized for hosting major leaders such as Sir Winston Churchill who made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster in 1946. This one historic moment has led to a steady procession of world leaders bringing their messages to Westminster over the years, including four U.S. Presidents, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Lech Walesa. The Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States on campus, the only museum in North America totally devoted to Churchill's life and work, underwent a $4 million renovation last March and is now a state-of-the-art interactive showcase, symbolizing Westminster's educational mission to graduate the world's future "leaders of character."

To learn more about Westminster College or the Winston Churchill Memorial, people can visit the College web site at www.westminster-mo.edu.