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May 15, 2007

Bishop Armstrong award winner named

MITCHELL – Amy Price, Marquette, Neb., was named the 2006-07 recipient of the Bishop Armstrong Award for Peace and Justice at DWU during the Baccalaureate service on May 5.

Price participated in three Peru Mission Trips, serves regularly at the Love Feast at First United Methodist Church, serves at the Saturday lunches at the Salvation Army, reads and sings in area retirement homes, provides leadership to the St. Dysmus worship service at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, and organizes the Freezin’ for a Reason night on campus each November. Price also served as a youth chaperone and confirmation mentor at First United Methodist Church.

The Bishop Armstrong Peace and Justice Award was established by the DWU Board of Trustees in honor of the 12 years Bishop A. James Armstrong served in the Dakotas. This award is presented each year to students or staff whose life has demonstrated the relationship between religious faith and issues of peace and justice.