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SFU business student wins BC's highest scholastic award
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June 4, 2002
SFU Business student Bailey Klinger is this year's recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II scholarship, the BC government's highest scholastic award. It is granted on the basis of academic distinction and the likelihood of the recipient making a substantial contribution to a chosen field of study. Klinger, a graduate of Immaculata High School in Kelowna, achieved a grade point average of 4.17 out of a possible 4.33 in a faculty renowned for its tough grading. His high grades also earned him the business administration faculty dean’s undergraduate convocation medal.
Just 22 years old, Klinger has achieved much more than high grades at SFU. He participated in a one-semester exchange program at Hanzehogeschool, a university in the Netherlands, and also spent eight months in a co-op education work term at Surrey Metro Savings.
On campus, he was marketing team leader with international student program AIESEC, participated in SFU's small business consulting group, chaired the SFU campus crime stoppers, and was also a member of the men's vollebyall club.
An honours undergraduate student with a business major and an economics minor, Klinger intends to puruse a career in economics. "I'd like to become involved with an organization like the World Bank, to be involved in poverty reduction and the promotion of economic development of third world countries," he says.
This summer, he hopes to obtain an eight-month work term in a developing country through the United Nations Development program. Following that, he will attend a three-month Spanish immersion school in Guatelama before returning to university in the fall of 2003 to pursue graduate studies in economics. He's hoping to be accepted by either Harvard or Oxford.
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Just 22 years old, Klinger has achieved much more than high grades at SFU. He participated in a one-semester exchange program at Hanzehogeschool, a university in the Netherlands, and also spent eight months in a co-op education work term at Surrey Metro Savings.
On campus, he was marketing team leader with international student program AIESEC, participated in SFU's small business consulting group, chaired the SFU campus crime stoppers, and was also a member of the men's vollebyall club.
An honours undergraduate student with a business major and an economics minor, Klinger intends to puruse a career in economics. "I'd like to become involved with an organization like the World Bank, to be involved in poverty reduction and the promotion of economic development of third world countries," he says.
This summer, he hopes to obtain an eight-month work term in a developing country through the United Nations Development program. Following that, he will attend a three-month Spanish immersion school in Guatelama before returning to university in the fall of 2003 to pursue graduate studies in economics. He's hoping to be accepted by either Harvard or Oxford.
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CONTACT
Marianne Meadahl/Julie Ovenell-Carter, Media & PR, 604.291.4323