CONWAY, Ark. (October 28, 2020) — At this year’s virtual
American Model United Nations (AMUN) Conference, held Oct. 23-25, Hendrix
College won seven awards, including a “Best Overall Delegation” Award for
Exceptional Representation of Japan. The team brought home the same honor last
year, when they represented Austria, and the previous year, when they
represented Italy.
Because limitations of the virtual conference platform meant
that delegation sizes needed to be cut in half, the Hendrix team also
represented Côte d’Ivoire at this year’s conference.
“We were fortunate to have been able to pick up Japan, which
another school had dropped,” said politics and international relations
professor Dr. Daniel J. Whelan, who coached the team. “And because they moved
the conference from November to October — basically a month earlier than
normal —
I had to re-engineer the entire course. I was concerned the students
would not have nearly enough preparation time, but they rose to the challenge
and met it brilliantly.”
The following Hendrix students received individual
Exceptional Representation Awards for committee work:
- Raven Johnson ’23 for the General Assembly First
Committee (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Max Parker ’21 for the General Assembly Second
Committee (Japan)
- Maya Kreczmer ’23 for the UNESCO Executive Board
(Japan)
- Olivia Larson ’23 for the FAO Governing Council
(Japan)
- Kailey Miller ’21 for the Historical Security
Council of 1967 (Japan)
- Rachel Allen ’22 for the Historical Security
Council of 1990 (Côte d’Ivoire)
The other students, and the simulations/country they represented,
included:
- Gideon Drake ’23, General Assembly Second
Committee (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Maggie Kleck ’22, General Assembly Third
Committee (Japan)
- Katlyne Gilliam ’21, Commission on Narcotic
Drugs (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Grace Wiggins ’21, Commission on Narcotic Drugs
(Japan)
- Lauren Capes ’21, Human Rights Council (Japan)
- Thalia Fort ’22, Historical Commission of
Inquiry (Japan)
Olivia Kelley ’21 served as the Permanent Representative for
Japan, and Charlie McMahon ’21 served as the Permanent Representative for Côte
d’Ivoire. These peer leaders were in charge of strategy and logistics for the
delegations as a whole at AMUN.
About 70 UN Member States and Observers were represented at
this year’s virtual conference.
“This is the first time Hendrix has won seven awards,
breaking our record of five set just last year,” Whelan said. “And it was very
pleasing to all of us to have won a ‘Best Overall Delegation’ award three years
running. I couldn’t be prouder of the hard work all the students accomplished.”
At AMUN 2021, Hendrix will represent Austria and New
Zealand.
About Hendrix College
A private liberal arts college in Conway,
Arkansas, Hendrix College consistently earns recognition as one of the
country’s leading liberal arts institutions, and is featured in Colleges That
Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges. Its
academic quality and rigor, innovation, and value have established Hendrix as a
fixture in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings. Founded in 1876,
Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. To
learn more, visit www.hendrix.edu.