Thiel College student, alumna and administrator win annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards

Posted February 17, 2021 Print

GREENVILLE, Pa.-- Three members of the Thiel College community will be recognized with the institution’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18.

Terri Eddy ’19 won the Alumni/Community Service Award. Anthony E. Jones Jr. was named the Faculty/Staff Service Award winner. Stacy Reecks ’21 was awarded the Thiel Student Service Award.

The third annual event’s theme is “The Celebration of Mindfulness, Love and Kindness.” Students, faculty and staff members, alumni and community members are eligible for Martin Luther King Jr. Thiel College Community Service Awards. Recipients will be recognized at an online celebration at 7 p.m. Feb. 18.

Zoom meeting link for the 7 p.m. Feb. 18 Online Celebration.

Director of Faculty Development & Diversity Initiatives at Eastern Kentucky University Roger Cleveland, Ed.D. will deliver the keynote address for the event.

Reecks is a senior neuroscience major from Fort Washington, Md. She is a 2017 graduate of Oxon Hill High School. She is president of the Black Sisters Connected student group and the Organization of Black Collegiates. She is a member of Active Minds and Neuroscience clubs and worked in the Office of Admission as a member of the Thiel Team. She helped organize the College’s Virtual March on Washington in August of 2020.
Eddy is the youngest member of the College’s Board of Trustees. She is an accountant with Ernst & Young. As a student, Eddy was president of the Student Government Association Executive Board. Following graduation, she moved on to the Thiel College Alumni Association Board of Directors. After her tenure there, Eddy was appointed to the Board of Trustees. Eddy was the Class of 2019 salutatorian and was active in the Organization of Black Collegiates, business and accounting club, sophomore honor society, National Society of Leadership and Success, and Alpha Chi honor society, one of the top academic honorary societies on campus. She was recognized as student of the month in her senior year and was awarded the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Outstanding Senior Award.
Jones—born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio—has been the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Thiel College since 2018. He leads efforts to foster and maintain an increasingly inclusive environment that welcomes, embraces, supports and celebrates diversity in all its forms at Thiel College. In 2020, Jones helped organize the Virtual March on Washington and TC’s Courageous Conversations series, which featured alumni and speakers from the region and country discussing topics of diversity. Jones also led an update to the College’s online anti-racism resources and oversees the international student affairs office.