Christopher Wrightson, a rising senior majoring in Management Information Systems with minors in Philosophy and Computer Science has been named the William G. McGowan Scholar at Loyola College in Maryland for the 2008-09 academic year. The scholarship carries a full year of tuition. 

Wrightson, of Baltimore, MD, is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the Sellinger Scholars academic business honors program and received Loyola’s Sophomore Business Achievement Award. He serves as the business manager for Loyola’s student-run newspaper, The Greyhound, and has been named to the Dean’s List every semester since his freshman year. 

The McGowan Scholarship Fund at Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business and Management was established in 1998 by the William C. McGowan Charitable Fund, which is committed to promoting, nurturing and creating educational opportunities, especially in the business field; developing the gifts and talents of the young; and funding health care and medical science research. 

McGowan was the founder and Chairman of MCI Communications Corporation and, until his death in 1992, led the telecommunications industry as a pioneer in the application of new technologies, the emergence of competition in the industry, and the creation of innovative services. He received an honorary doctorate from Loyola in 1991.