Class of 2025
William Boyd
William Boyd majored in math and physics; he received the Math Department Outstanding Senior Award for the Class 2025. In the summer of 2024, he interned for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Air Force Research Lab Scholars Program, where was awarded the AFRL Scholars Program’s Outstanding Scholar Award for his work on Optical Frequency Combs for Free Space Communications. His team won first place at the 2025 Military Operations Research Society Conference for their presentation on optimal distribution of unmanned assets in the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy. William received an Anna Sobel Levy Fellowship for graduate study and will attend Reichman University’s International Institute for Counterterrorism.
Eoin Clarke
Eoin Clarke was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he lived with his family until moving to New York, where he spent most of his youth. Clarke majored in Political Science, concentrating in International Relations and Military Affairs, and Intelligence and Security Studies. Clarke was also a Chinese minor and was fortunate to spend the summer between his Knob and sophomore year in Taiwan studying language and culture. He is a 2nd LT in the Army as a Military Intelligence Officer. While with the Distinguished Scholars Program, he wrote a paper entitled “What Wins Wars?,” which studied the first and second Iraq wars to determine the x-factor that caused such a great success in the former and resulted in a quagmire in the later. He has entered the Army to pursue greater things and plans to pursue a master’s and eventually a PhD in Political Science or Intelligence and Security Studies.
James Ives
James Ives is a Finance major who earned triple minors in Mandarin, Data Science, and Applied Statistics. He was a member of the Honors College and had a 3-year AFROTC contract. James spent the summers of 2022 and 2023 studying Mandarin in Taiwan through ProjectGO. In December 2023, he helped co-lead a group of 6 cadets to Rwanda and Kenya for a service project building mountain bike trails while also continuing his research on China’s Belt and Road in East Africa. At the beginning of the summer of 2024, James traveled to England to help a member of Parliament with his reelection campaign and finished summer break by working a Finance internship in Charleston. James was the Co-Portfolio Manager of The Student Managed Investment Funding, actively overseeing a $2 million portfolio for The Citadel Foundation and Trust. After graduation, James commissioned as a finance officer in the United States Air Force.
Andrew Palmer
Andrew Palmer is a Lieutenant in the Air Force and currently serves as Gold Bar Recruiter at the 347th Recruiting Squadron in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He graduated as the First Honor Graduate and had triple-majors in Political Science, with a focus on International and Military Affairs, German, and History. He also minored in Economics. He received an Air Force ROTC four-year scholarship and a Citadel Scholars scholarship. He was in the Honors Program and was a Citadel Hurling Team member. Andrew spent the fall semester of 2022 in London working as an intern for the Margaret Thatcher Centre and worked in Parliament and for the Institute of Economic Affairs. During the 2023-2024 school year, Andrew organized a service project to Rwanda where he built four mountain bike trails in the countryside while also examining the genocide in the context of failed peacekeeping. In the summer of 2024, he continued his research into peacekeeping, traveling to Bosnia and the United Kingdom, where he looked at primary sources regarding British policy towards the Rwanda and Bosnia peacekeeping missions. His DSP project focused on the lack of American interests in the Rwandan genocide, and he hopes to continue this project in grad school looking at a comparison between the conflicts in Rwanda and Bosnia. After his year as a recruiter, he will attend pilot training.
Gage Timberlake
Gage Timberlake is from Orlando, Florida, and majored in Criminal Justice. He commissioned as an Infantry Officer in the US Army National Guard and plans on attending law school. At The Citadel, he was editor for The Gold Star Journal; a cadet in Army ROTC; and a member of the Honors Program, the 1842 Scholars Cohort, and the Inn of Court. Gage enjoys playing the bass, doing rugby, and running in his free time. In the summer of 2023, Gage had an undergraduate student internship with the Office of the Florida State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit (Orlando DA). He was a member of the Honor Court and the Ranger Challenge team.
Frederick Vogel, Jr.
Frederick S. Vogel, Jr. came to The Citadel as an Eagle Scout from McLean, Virginia. He majored Electrical Engineering and minored in Chemistry. He was an active member of The Citadel’s Honors College, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi. During the summer of 2023, Frederick volunteered at the South Carolina Brain Institute of Health, assisting doctors and nurses treating veterans with various forms of dementia. As a member of several interdisciplinary teams, he has conducted research with the Rhodes Engineering Research Center and MUSC’s Orthopedic Bioengineering Laboratory. As a student in the Clemson-Citadel BS/MS program, Frederick has explored his interest in bioengineering through several graduate courses at Clemson’s MUSC campus. In the summer of 2024, he volunteered in The Citadel’s free Kenyan medical camp, which treated more than 10,000 patients. His free time is spent rock climbing, playing soccer, cooking, and reading books primarily from late 19th century Russia. In the summer of 2025, Frederick’s paper (of which he was the lead author) on right heart failure was published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. After commissioning in the U.S. Air Force, he will attend the Uniformed Service University Medical School.
Sam Wilson
Sam E. Wilson was a Citadel Honors Program student double-majoring in English and History and minoring in International Criminal Justice. He is from a small town in Iowa called Carlisle and attended The Citadel on a U.S. Army scholarship. Upon graduation, he commissioned into the United States Army as an Infantry Officer. During his time at The Citadel, Sam earned the “Star of the West Award” for being the best-drilled cadet in the South Carolina Corps of Cadets. In May of 2023, Sam participated in an exchange with the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands, where he conducted field training with its cadets and met with US-NATO representatives. He was selected for a Killam Fellowship through Fulbright Canada, and in the fall of 2023, he studied at the Royal Military College of Canada. Sam served the South Carolina Corps of Cadets as the Regimental Commander for the 2024-2025 school year.
Class of 2024
Grace Cooper
Ashlyn Howard
Richard Milling
Railija Neiders
Rohan Shah
Benjamin Stemmet
Joseph Stilwell
Class of 2023
Blake Garwood
Austin Miles-Curtsinger
William Moran
John Morris
Benjamin Race
Elissa Reckdenwald
Trevor West
Class of 2022
Will Jensen
Ashley Ruiz
Martynas Tendzegolskis