Hannah Page of Jackson was awarded the Founders' Medal at recent commencement ceremonies for Millsaps College. The Founders' Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon a Millsaps student, is awarded annually to the graduating senior with the highest quality index for the entire college course. Winners of the Founders' Medal must also achieve a grade of excellent on their comprehensive examinations.

Page is also the winner of this year's Frank and Rachel Anne Laney Award. In order to satisfy Millsaps curriculum requirements, all graduating seniors must submit reflective essays about the value of their liberal arts education. Based upon its excellence in thought and expression, one winning essay is selected each year as the recipient of the Frank and Rachel Anne Laney Award. In order to pass down the wisdom of the graduating seniors, the winning paper becomes required reading for incoming freshmen the following year.

Page, 19, graduated early from college and has maintained a 4.0 grade point average throughout her college career. "It's surprising and exciting," Page said. "It's certainly an honor. Millsaps has meant so much to me."

During the summer months, she will travel to the Yucatan with other Millsaps students and professors to aid in the excavation of an ancient Mayan city. The trip offers the opportunity to conduct environmental research and participate in other field studies.

Other academic honors include selection for Phi Beta Kappa; the Frances and L.B. Jones Award in Anthropology; and the Chi Omega Social Science Award. Page is a member of Millsaps Anthropology Club and Alpha Psi Omega (a dramatic arts honorary). She also served as a tutor for the Millsaps Writing Center and participated in the Ford Teaching Fellows Program, which is designed for upperclass students with an interest in college teaching.

Page is the daughter of Bill and Judith Page of Gainesville, Fla.