This award recognizes underclass students studying composition, an instrument and/or conducting. The award was established by family and friends as a memorial to Andy, who died of cancer shortly before commencement in 1987. He was an accomplished composer of New Age music, and 11 of his pieces were recorded under the Turtle Creek Records label and released in June 1987. His father, art professor emeritus W. Franklin Boggs (1945-1977), painted the album’s cover art. His mother is Sondra Spongberg Boggs, class of 1961.