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BSU Student Overcomes Adversity, Graduates with Perfect GPA

Accounting major and Bowie native Audrey Marie Lugmayer will graduate Friday with a 4.0 GPA.

After take a year off to save for college so as not to burden her ill father with hefty tuition payments, accounting major Audrey Marie Lugmayer will graduate from Bowie State University on Friday with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Based on her “excellent” high school transcript, Bowie native and Bowie High School graduate, Lugmayer was accepted into the BSU Honors Program and was also the recipient of a university sponsored scholarship that covered all of her school expenses, according to a press release.

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While in school, she continued to work while taking a full-time course load, and still managed to make the Dean’s List every year.

“I wouldn't be in school without the Bowie State Honors Program,” Lugmayer said in a statement. “The accounting program is amazing here at Bowie State.”

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Though she was originally an elementary education major, she eventually changed her major to business administration.

“I realized I loved accounting – as much as you can love accounting,” she said. “I really do like the accounting work, the analysis, and everything that goes into it.”

Lugmayer is the head of the Omicron Delta Epsilon economics honors society. Her current accounting policy internship at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), where she has been since May 2011, will become a full time job after she graduates, according to BSU.

“I’m really, really glad I came here… I will definitely give back [to the university], especially to the accounting and economics programs, because they are doing a good job,” Lugmayer said.

Lugmayer will join approximately 600 other BSU students the 2013 commencement exercises at 11 a.m. on Friday at the Comcast Center in College Park. First lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address and also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.  


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