Auers named 'Outstanding Senior' at UGA

Auers named 'Outstanding

Senior' at UGA

Cadet Colonel Thomas Auers

was one of 21 seniors at the University of Georgia named to this year's

"Outstanding Senior" list. Auers has achieved academically as

well as being a leader with the Air Force ROTC program at the university.

He has been on the dean's list or the president's list every

semester since attending UGA.

It was Auers' accomplishments

in the ROTC program that helped him achieve the honor of being named an

Outstanding Senior. In the past two years, Cadet Auers has been awarded

several Air Force related scholarships, including the Hardman Scholarship

Award, the First Command Educational Foundation Scholarship, the Bank

of America Scholarship Award and the Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom Scholarship

award. All of these scholarships were awarded for outstanding leadership

and academic achievements.

Auers has recived several other

Air Force awards including Distinguished Graduate from Field Training

in the summer of 2002 which is awarded to the top ten percent of the cadets

attending training during that period. Auers was named Commander of the

detachment this past semester which is the highest rank that can be attained

as a cadet. Upon his graduation this spring, Thomas will be commissioned

a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

Cadet Col. Auers is a 2000

graduate of Sandy Creek High School where he recently spent the day speaking

with the cadets of the JROTC program. He is the son of Loren and Libby

Auers of Fayetteville.

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