Wendell prize offers opportunities
Spencer Lenfield ’12 never thought he’d be able to travel abroad as an undergraduate, until he won the 2010 Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize, an annual award that identifies the most promising and broad-ranging scholar in Harvard’s freshman class. During the next two summers, he used the $17,000 award to study art history in Paris and to tour Britain by rail. Now a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, Lenfield says the Wendell changed his path as a student. “Winning the Wendell award really woke me up,” he said. “I realized that there were lots of other opportunities available through Harvard that never would have even been on my radar screen before. I remember telling a friend of mine, who was a few classes ahead of me, that I’d won the award, and she responded that it was huge because it meant that I could be in the running for the Rhodes...