Page, Heaston reign over homecoming festivities

Accounting senior Shannon Page elected by SIU students for Homecoming Queen.

Shannon D. Page of Chicago and Marlon P. Heaston of Covington, Tenn., reigned over the 2007 homecoming festivities at Southern Illinois University Carbondale this past weekend.

Page, a senior majoring in accounting, was one of five candidates as was Heaston, a senior majoring in health education with a math education minor. Students voted for the king and queen Oct. 2 and the Student Programming Council coordinated the contest as well as the homecoming parade.

Page is treasurer for Fatal Fusion Dance Group Inc., Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and National Association of Black Accountants Inc. and is also active in Alpha Lambda Delta and the Center For Academic Success at SIUC. She's the Ethel Samples Scholarship recipient, on the Deans' List and active in Hopewell Missionary Baptist church, Adopt-A-Spot, and National Day of Service. She is an administrative assistant in the College of Business and Administration at SIUC.

Heaston is a member of the Saluki football team, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and involved in the Undergraduate Student Government and the Center for Academic Success. He's earned a number of awards including an athletic scholarship, the W.E. and L. O'Brian Academic Award, the Alpha Phi Alpha Academic Award, All Gateway Academic Team and Deans' List. His community service activities include working with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Just Read Program, March of Dimes, Go to High School Go to College, Martin Luther King breakfast, a Voteless People is a Hopeless People, and as Marion High School freshman football defensive coordinator.