SMU President’s Scholar
Dr. R. Gerald Turner, mentor
2004-2005

MELINDA WRENN SCHMIDT

Wrenn is a senior from Lexington, South Carolina, majoring in Theatre Studies and History. She would like to pursue a career in the Peace Corps, working with the Bond Street Theatre Company recently returned from a stunning year abroad (2003-2004) studying at Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland and traveling in Europe. Wrenn hopes to join the Peace Corps somewhere in Eastern Europe after finishing at SMU. Her goal is to do humanitarian work through theatre. Wrenn loves to sew, run, read, watch a good film, thrift shop, and knit like a granny.

HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

• Voted “Most Likely to Become a Super Hero”
• South Carolina Governors School of the Arts and Humanities Inaugural Class 2001
• International Peace Essay Contest Honorable Mention

SMU ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

• Mustang Scholar
• Meadows Artistic Scholarship
• Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
• Invitation to Apply for Departmental Distinction in History
• Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
• National Society of Collegiate Scholars
• SMU-in-Dublin Study Abroad Program
• Numerous SMU Theatre Productions
  Separate Ways, Co-Director and Creator
  Romeo & Juliet, performance
  Madman & the Num, performance
  The Children’s Hour
  Mud
• Kitchen Dog Theatre Professional Dallas Theatre
  Heaven, performance
  King Lear, assistant stage manager
• Robert Stewart Hyer Honor Society

Contact: marinabug@yahoo.com