WC Names Warner Scholar
Erica McDaniel ’05, an environmental studies major with
a minor in creative writing, is the 2005 recipient of the William
Warner Scholarship, a $2,000 award that acknowledges excellence
in environmental writing.
 The
scholarship was established five years ago by the Friends of
Washington College in the name of William Warner, in recognition
of his achievements in the genre of natural history and environmental
writing. Warner is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beautiful
Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, published
in 1976. His more recent work, Into the Porcupine Cave and Other
Odysseys, published by the National Geographic Society in 1999,
explores the experiences that shaped his life as a naturalist
and writer. He has been a Senior Fellow of the College since
1985.
McDaniel, who writes poetry and essays about nature, was nominated
for the prize by professors Robert Day and Donald Munson.
“Erica’s writing is of the kind that would meet
with William Warner’s approval,” says Day. “She
is loving about both words and what in nature those words observe.
We thank William Warner and his family, along with other contributors
to the Warner Scholarship Fund, for their support. Washington
College is better for it; our excellent student Erica McDaniel
is better for it.”
“I am grateful to all of those who were instrumental in
getting me this award,” she says. “I wasn’t
expecting it, and as well as being an honor to get an award
named for William Warner, it helps me out with tuition.”
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