[412]10 SENIORS WHO HAVE OVERCOME OBSTACLES EARN SCHOLARSHIPS AT MTSU

Release date: April 21, 2008

News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919

10 SENIORS WHO HAVE OVERCOME OBSTACLES EARN SCHOLARSHIPS AT MTSU


(MURFREESBORO) — Ten Middle Tennessee high-school seniors who have overcome hardships and tragedy and then find success in life will be saluted Tuesday, April 22, during the 10th annual Neill-Sandler Scholars at MTSU Awards Banquet.
The invitation-only event will start at 6 p.m. in the Kennon Sports Hall of Fame.
The students were nominated by their schools and school systems, and have endured tough times. Despite their situations, each has excelled in the classroom and on college entrance examinations, and exhibited leadership in and out of school.
Scholarships provided through the Neill-Sandler Foundation and The Danner Company, a Nashville-based business led by Ray Danner, will go to deserving students from the Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Rutherford, Warren, Williamson and Wilson county school systems, and Tullahoma City Schools.
This year’s Neill-Sandler Scholars at MTSU will include Lacey Parchman of DeKalb County High School; Courtney Ashburn of Huntland High School in Franklin County; Kristen Bay of Lebanon High School; Amy Elizabeth Hutton of Warren County High School; Macie Mayberry of Tullahoma High School; Mistee Harris of Riverdale High School in Rutherford County; Ashley Ramsey of Cannon County High School; Matthew Bain of Cascade High School; Kenneth James Trader of Brentwood High School; and Bridget Snell of Coffee County Central High School.
One scholarship winner will receive the $10,000 Ray and Judy Danner Scholarship. Another will receive the $7,500 Elizabeth and Sidney McPhee Scholarship. Each of the other eight winners will receive a $5,000 scholarship.
Kippy Todd, assistant director for annual giving and donor relations in the Office of Development, said 95 recipients have benefited from the scholarships since 1999. An annual golf tournament, usually held the first Wednesday in October, helps raise scholarship funds.
For more information, visit mtsu.edu/~devofc/neill-sandler.htm.
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