Wednesday, January 21, 2004
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
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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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