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| Lawton Community Foundation and Noon Lions Club Scholars, front row: Amanda McNeil, Kaitie Hardin, Whitney Longacre; second row: Ellen Adams, Samantha Fleming, Sara Melrose; third row: Joel Dean, Andre Butler, Howard Hughes, Zackary Neely (not in picture: Chad Harwell). |
11 Lawton area high school seniors awarded $19,000 in scholarships
The Lawton Community Foundation together with the Lawton Noon Lions Club awarded $19,000 in scholarships to 11 seniors from the Lawton, Duncan, Elgin, Frederick, Cache and Altus school districts. Recipients and their families were honored at a special breakfast event Tuesday, May 11 at the McCasland Ballroom in the McMahon Centennial Complex on the Cameron University campus. Billy Taylor, Goodyear-Lawton plant manager, was the guest speaker.
2010 Lawton Community Foundation Scholarship recipients:
Lawton Senior High School - Howard Hughes and Kaitie Hardin
Eisenhower Senior High School - Ellen Adams
MacArthur Senior High School - Joel Dean and Samantha Fleming
Duncan High School - Chad Harwell
Frederick High School - Whitney Longacre
Elgin High School - Sara Melrose
Cache High School - Andre Butler
Altus High School - Zackary Neely
2010 Lawton Noon Lions Club Scholarship recipient:
Elgin High School - Amanda McNeil
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| Guest speaker Billy Taylor, Goodyear-Lawton plant manager, visits with Lawton Community Foundation Trustees Gene Love and George Bridges and past Trustee Kenneth Easton. |
Recipients of the Lawton Community Foundation Scholarships received awards in the amount of $1,500 each. The Lawton Noon Lions Club also presented a scholarship of $1,000 per year for four years. The Lawton Community Foundation scholarship committee selects the scholarship recipients with the assistance of the high school counselors and a committee at each school.
"The Trustees of the Lawton Community Foundation are pleased to support this scholarship program," says Gene Love, president of the Lawton Community Foundation. "It is our goal to encourage Lawton area students to attain the highest level of education and training, and we hope Lawton area residents will help support the program so it continues to meet the educational needs of our community."
The Lawton Community Foundation began its scholarship program in 2001 and has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships since the program's inception. In 2004, the Lawton Noon Lions Club joined the efforts by establishing a permanent scholarship endowment fund with the Lawton Community Foundation.
For more information regarding the Lawton Community Foundation Scholarship program, please call 580/353-4747.
