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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, September 25, 2007
CONTACT Aubrey Streit, (785) 227-3311, ext. 8274
BETHANY COLLEGE STUDENT WINS NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
 LINDSBORG, Kan.—Cody Whetstone, Lindsborg, Kan., has won a $1,000 scholarship from Lambda Iota Tau, an international English honor society. Professor Linda Lewis sponsors Bethany’s Lambda Iota Tau chapter. She nominated Whetstone for the scholarship, which is awarded based on student scholarship, promise for future scholarship, character, service leadership and writing.
Lambda Iota Tau awarded only three scholarships nationally.
Whetstone’s winning submission was a deconstructionist study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Double. The paper will be published in the society’s journal.
“Cody is an outstanding scholar, leader, actor, writer, director and campus citizen,” Lewis said. “He is most deserving of this honor.”
In his third year at Bethany, Whetstone is majoring in English and secondary teaching. He plans to pursue a career in teaching, and also is considering graduate study.
Whetstone, who has minors in theatre and philosophy, is active in the Bethany College theatre department. Two of his dramas, The Chrysalis State and Down a Glass Elevator, were produced in the 2006 spring one-act festival on campus. He has starred, among other roles, as Tartuffe, Creon in Antigone, Matt in Talley's Folly, Sam Byck in Assassins, Jerry in The Zoo Story, and Mortimer in The Fantasticks. He has worked on set design for five plays and lighting design for seven.
In addition, he has directed several community theatre performances in Lindsborg, most recently last summer's Broadway RFD production of Damn Yankees.
Whetstone is an accomplished writer. He is a film columnist for the Messenger, Bethany's student newspaper. Last spring, his essay about the French Quarter after Katrina was published in the collection Louisiana in Words.
Whetstone currently is secretary of Bethany's student congress.
Before attending Bethany, he studied film production at the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California.
Lambda Iota Tau is an international honor society for juniors and seniors majoring or minoring in literature. Undergraduate members must be in the upper 35 percent of their class in cumulative grade average and have attained at least a full B average in at least 12 semester credit hours or 18 term hours of literature.
Local chapters of the organization may nominate one student annually for the award. Whetstone is the fifth student from the Bethany College English department to win one of the scholarships in the last ten years. Past winners include Stephanie Bahr and Heather Klaassen.
Bethany College, established by Swedish Lutheran immigrants in 1881, is a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The mission of Bethany College is to nurture and challenge individuals in their search for truth and meaning as they live lives of faith, learning and service. Bethany College is on the Web at www.bethanylb.edu.
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