David H. Winton Baccalaureate Award
The David H. Winton Baccalaureate Award is presented to the graduate who ranks highest in scholarship among those in the graduating class.
Huong Thu “Jenny” Nguyen
Jenny is an accounting major and first-generation college student from Hanoi, Vietnam. As a sophomore, she earned the class academic award for ranking highest in scholarship among her classmates. This year, she earned the Accounting Baccalaureate Award for excellence in her major.
Jenny took full advantage of academic and co-curricular opportunities during her time at Colby-Sawyer. As a four-year member of the Cross Cultural Club, she brought international and domestic students together for cultural events and experiences, including the annual International Festival. During her junior year, she helped oversee $500,000 in real assets in the college’s student-managed investment fund and traveled with her classmates in the Investment Management Class to Manhattan to tour financial institutions and meet with industry experts. She also completed an internship with Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Jenny is a member of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society and Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society in business, management and administration. She’ll begin her career in accounting and analytics as a staff accountant at Noble Supply and Logistics in Boston.