Mattawan grad named a 2012 Rhodes Scholar

Spencer B.L. Lenfield of Paw Paw, a Harvard University senior studying history and literature, has been named a 2012 Rhodes Scholar, a distinction that comes with a scholarship to the University of Oxford in England.

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports tt Harvard, Lenfield has won top distinction as a scholar of the humanities since his freshman year. He is an accomplished pianist and poet. He has won prizes for his work on Flaubert and Virginia Woolf, and has been editor-in-chief of a student literary magazine.

Lenfield, a graduate of Mattawan High School, was born in Seoul, South Korea, and was adopted as an infant by David and Valerie Lenfield of Paw Paw. He said he couldn't ask for more caring and supportive parents and they were the first ones he called.

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"I told them on speaker phone and they were so excited," he said. "My mom started shouting and my dad was excited, too. I was all smiles."

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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette