Quincy University senior receives Lincoln Academy Student Laureate

QUINCY — The Lincoln Academy of Illinois named Quincy University senior Parker John Lymenstull of Oswego as a recipient of the prestigious Lincoln Academy Student Laureate award.

The Lincoln Academy Student Laureate program recognizes excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities by seniors from each of Illinois’ four-year, degree-granting colleges and universities, and one student from the community colleges in Illinois. Each fall, The Lincoln Academy presents an outstanding senior from each of these institutions with the Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award.

In a press release, QU President Brian McGee said, “Thanks to the exceptional work of the Lincoln Academy, a graduating senior at Quincy University is recognized each year for outstanding academic achievement and character. We are delighted that Parker Lymenstull is this year’s Lincoln Academy honoree. Parker exemplifies all that is good about a Quincy University education.”

Lymenstull is an accounting major and communication minor at QU. He serves as a student ambassador and an accounting and economics tutor. Lymenstull provides play-by-play for the GLVC Sports Network for QU baseball and was on the men’s bowling team his first three years and is now their student manager. He has been president of QU’s Institute of Management Accountants Club.

“The award means the world to me,” Lymenstull said. “It represents all the hard work I have put into my schoolwork, and to be honored by QU, which has given me so much, is a tremendous honor I will never forget.”

This is the 50th year The Lincoln Academy has celebrated students’ excellence in leadership and service in Illinois. Each student was presented an Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award certificate, a Lincoln medallion, a challenge coin and a $1,000 check from The Lincoln Academy, at the ceremony at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Springfield on Nov. 4.

“There are too many people I would need to thank to fully show my appreciation to all those who have helped me along the way, but I need to give my parents, Roger and Heather, a special shoutout,” Lymenstull said. “They both have inspired me to put my best foot forward in all aspects of my life, and I owe every little bit of success to how they raised me.”