May 19, 2010 — This year’s University of Virginia Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award recipients – undergraduates Courtney Mallow and Ben Chrisinger, and head swimming and diving coach Mark Bernardino – have contributed to the University community through tireless dedication, compassion for others and tremendous creativity. They will receive their awards at Valedictory Exercises on May 22.
Each year, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation sponsors the presentation of awards at 54 colleges in the southeastern United States to individuals who have served others, their institutions and their wider communities.
Created in 1925, the awards are given to distinguished fourth-year students and members of the University community in memory of the award’s namesake, a New York lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. The awards are intended to perpetuate the excellence of character and humanitarian service he epitomized.
Courtney Mallow
Courtney Mallow, a Jefferson and Echols scholar and student in the Jefferson Public Citizen program who double-majored in economics and environmental thought and practice, has been a “member and leader within the University since her first year,” her Sullivan Award citation reads.
