Ada High School graduate Sydney Hartford is among several Ohio State-Lima student scholars recognized this week for scholarly work, overall achievement and service to the campus.

She received the university’s theatre department award. Her citation follows: 

Sydney tackled her work on stage, in the classroom, and behind the scenes with equal amounts of talent, hard work, humility, intelligence and dedication. 

While she has played a number of leading roles in Ohio State Lima productions, Hartford exemplifies the ensemble spirit in her acting, approaching the work with an open mind and heart, and helping to create an environment where all her fellow actors feel valued and important. 

Aside from her production work on campus, Hartford has been actively involved with our campus choral groups, becoming one of the student leaders of REEDefined, our student-led acapella group.

She also is one of the few theatre students in the past years to develop a research project for the Lima Undergraduate Research Forum, combining her passion for acting with her interest in psychology.