James P. Messina, a 2007 graduate of the Bromfield School, was honored May 20 at Wagner College’s annual Senior Awards Banquet. Messina won the Jack J. Boies Award for Creative Writing, which is given to a student for excellence in creative writing, and the Socrates Prize, which is given to a student for outstanding thought that has application to human concerns in a community.
Messina, who majored in philosophy and minored in biology and English, was enrolled in the Honors Program and admitted to Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society. He worked as a resident assistant. His senior thesis was titled, “Framework, Foundations and Value in Cummiskey’s ‘Kantian Consequentialism’.”
Messina will pursue a master’s degree in philosophy at Georgia State University on a full-tuition scholarship. He graduated from Wagner cum laude. Wagner College is a U.S. News & World Report Top 25 regional university on Staten Island in New York City.
