Morgan Hill resident Rebecca Blessing was among more than 1,500 St. Olaf College students recognized for academic achievement at the college’s annual Honors Day convocation May 5. Blessing is a junior at St. Olaf, a Northfield, Minn.-based four-year college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Honors Day recognizes St. Olaf students who have achieved a grade-point average of 3.3 or higher on a 4.0 scale. The convocation also cites St. Olaf students who have been awarded scholarships and fellowships, including Goldwater and Fulbright scholars, senior members of leaership and academic honor societies and students elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the national scholastic honor society.
St. Olaf is an academically rigorous, nationally ranked liberal arts college.