Congratulations - MSC President, Zach Summers '22 Receives the Thomas H. Rountree Award
Established in 1966, the Thomas H. Rountree Award is presented to recognize and honor the most outstanding members of Memorial Student Center who have made a significant contribution to our mission and have brought prestige to the MSC through their leadership experience.
Persons receiving this award have provided programs, services and leadership development opportunities for the Texas A&M Campus community. They have exemplified the MSC core values, fostered social and cultural understanding to create community and provided an opportunity for students to learn from one another. They are persons of integrity, and their deeds and actions reflect pride and loyalty to the MSC.
This award is accompanied by $1,000 provided by the generosity of Ernen and Cheri Haby. Ernen ’81 was a past president of the MSC and Cheri ’80 was the Executive Vice President for Public Relations.
This year’s Rountree Award winner is Zach Summers. Zach is a senior computer science major from Houston. He began his experience in the MSC as an incoming freshman participant in the Conway-Fitzhugh International Honors Leadership Seminar.
He is a Brockman Scholar and continued his work in the MSC as a freshman in MSC Freshmen in Service and Hosting (MSC FISH). He worked in this committee for two years, then becoming the Executive Vice President for Business, which is responsible for shepherding our budgeting process and serving as the supervisor over our five resource teams that support our programming areas and administrative process, such as marketing, budgeting, and development.
Zach’s experience in the organization culminated by serving on the Executive Team as the 72nd MSC President.In this role, Zach was been instrumental in developing and executing the annual MSC goals. He exemplifies the Texas A&M and MSC core values and helps the department provide quality programs to the University community.
As it relates to his academics, Zach has secured three great internships through the years. After his freshman year, he worked for Astro Lab, Space Craft – designing artificial intelligence. After his sophomore year, Zach worked for Siemens Corporation, where he was a products management intern. Last summer, he worked with Microsoft Corporation, where he served as a programs manager intern, working with teams around the world, all from the comforts of his apartment in College Station. This work secured him permanently in Seattle where he will begin later this summer.
Congratulations to Zach Summers as the 2022 MSC Rountree Award recipient!