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June 6, 2006

Local resident receives Birmingham-Southern College achievement award

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern graduate student Patrick Michael Higgins of Hoover is the recipient of the Dyson-Wagnon Masters Academic Honor Award presented during the college’s 2006 Honors Day Convocation.

The award, named after former BSC staff members David Dyson and Constance Wagnon, recognizes a student in the college’s Master of Arts in Public and Private Management program who has achieved the highest grade-point average.

Higgins graduated from the MPPM program May 27. He is employed by BellSouth.