The purpose of the Ambassador Award is to honor, promote, and recognize the individuals who:

• Have provided sustained volunteer or other services that significantly benefited the college and community, or through philanthropic work to Cowley College.
• The award may be given to friends, alumni, faculty, staff, or administrators of the college for service and/or support of the college.
  

We encourage you to submit a nomination for the Ambassador Award. Nominations will be collected throughout the year. The Ambassador Award will be presented at the Endowment Banquet.
Click here for an on-line Nomination Form for Cowley College Ambassador.

View past receipients of the Ambassador Award: 2010-2011 l 2009-2010 l 2008-2009.

2011-2012 Ambassadors

The Cowley College Ambassador Award was presented to Peg Williams. The award recognizes individuals who have provided sustained volunteer or other service, or through philanthropic work to Cowley College.

Williams, who graduated from Arkansas City Junior College in 1967, serves as the manager in the Oscar Kimmell Dormitory. She has worked closely with the school’s Foster Parent program and has adopted more than 80 student-athletes over the years.

Williams was shocked to hear her name called as the recipient of the Ambassador Award.

“I am extremely honored, the college is my home,” Williams said.

She has worked in several capacities at the college since beginning her employment at the school in 1980. Williams originally worked in financial aid before going to work in the school’s athletic department.
After going back to school and earning a teaching degree from Southwestern College, Williams taught secretarial science classes and helped develop the computer application class at Cowley College. She would teach for 19 years at the school before going to work for the school’s TRIO program, where she spent four years prior to retiring in 2007.

Even in retirement, Williams worked part time in the school’s business office. She came out of retirement to take over full-time as the dorm manager in the Oscar Kimmell Dormitory in February of this year.

“I don’t know what it was about Cowley, but I just fell in love with the place,” Williams said. “It has been that way since I first walked through the doors to the school in 1965.”