OXFORD — A senior at Miami University heads to Oxford, England, next year as a Rhodes Scholar. Anne Kafoure, 22, of Westerville, was one of 32 students from across the country named a Rhodes Scholar Sunday. Miami is the only Ohio university — and one of only four Midwestern schools — to have a student win the award this year.

        Ms. Kafoure, a triple major with a 4.0 grade point average, graduates with honors from Miami Dec. 14.

        She is the first winner from the school since 1948, university officials said.

        The Rhodes Scholar program provides for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England; Ms. Kafoure leaves next fall.

        “It's a wonderful graduation present. It's still a little bit surreal right now but I'm very excited and thrilled,” Ms. Kafoure said Sunday. “Every candidate I met was very inspiring. It was an hon or just to be in their company.”

        Ms. Kafoure majors in creative writing, English literature and women's studies. She also has been named to Phi Beta Kappa, is a Summer Scholar and received the Greer/Hepburn Senior Prize in English.

        She published and illustrated a children's book in 1994 about humpback whales, The Whale Dancers, written for two undergraduate magazines, served as a summer orientation leader, worked as a campus tour guide and is a Benjamin Harrison Scholar.

        Ms. Kafoure, who plays three musical instruments, plans to become a college professor and return to the states after completing the Rhodes program.

        “All the things I do I have a passion for,” she said. “I see my time at Oxford as real intense foundation building.”

        Rhodes scholarships were created in 1902 to recognize intellectual ability, integrity and leadership potential.

        Last year, Bradley J. Henderson of Loveland, a University of Chicago student, was named a Rhodes Scholar.

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