50 garner Armfield scholarships | Mt. Airy News

DOBSON — Fifty college students have been awarded scholarships by the Edward M. Armfield Sr. Basis Faculty Scholarship Program throughout a ceremony that came about on the Shelton-Badgett North Carolina Heart for Viticulture & Enology on the campus of Surry Group Faculty in Dobson just lately

These scholarships, over a four-year interval, can be contributing $766,000 to the tutorial pursuits of the students.

SCC President Dr. David Shockley welcomed the scholarship recipients, their households and mates together with college directors from native excessive faculties. SCC Basis Govt Director Sheila Franklin launched visitor speaker Jewel Parker, who was a 2015 Armfield Scholarship recipient.

Parker spoke concerning the significance of schooling and her time as a pupil at Surry Group Faculty and receiving the Armfield Scholarship, which helped her switch to Appalachian State College to main in historical past with a minor in girls’s research. Parker went on to earn a grasp’s diploma in historical past and is pursuing a doctorate diploma on the College of North Carolina at Greensboro.

“The Armfield Scholarship allowed me to switch to a college with my affiliate diploma. I accomplished my normal schooling necessities at Surry Group Faculty,” Parker stated. “Now, my instructional aspirations are maybe distinctive within the sense that I made up my mind as a first-year pupil at Surry Group Faculty that I needed to go to graduate college.

“I’d say that most individuals in all probability don’t decide that attending graduate college is one thing that they need to do till a lot later of their faculty schooling, but when the Armfields had by no means donated cash and if I had by no means obtained a scholarship, I wouldn’t have had that cushion of getting had my undergraduate diploma paid for, and it could have made getting into and financing a grasp’s program that rather more troublesome.”

Bedford Cannon, nephew of Edward M. Armfield and founding board member of the Edward M. Armfield Sr. Basis, spoke on behalf of the Armfield Basis Board of Administrators. Mindy Oakley, govt director of the Armfield Basis, introduced a particular award in honor of Bedford Cannon as he retires from the board.

The Bedford Cannon award is introduced to the Armfield Scholar with essentially the most excellent scholarship utility annually. It supplies a further $2,000 scholarship per tutorial 12 months supplied a 3.zero GPA is maintained. Kailey Myers of the Surry Early Faculty Excessive Faculty was introduced because the winner of the inaugural Bedford Cannon Award.

The 2022-2023 Edward M. Armfield Sr. Basis Faculty Students are:

Millennium Constitution Academy: Max Oakely;

Mount Airy Excessive Faculty: Paxton Reece, Jessica Sawyers, Amelia Radford, Devyn Joyce, Saverio Lennon and Kylie Hollingsworth;

East Surry Excessive Faculty: Haley Chilton, Rose Craven, Megan Hutchens, Alyssa Johnson, Hannan Johnston, Citlali Martinez-Arellano and Samuel Whitt. Whitt additionally obtained the John C. McKenzie Award, which is known as in honor of a revered worker of Mr. Armfield, is awarded to the top-ranked scholarship applicant from East Surry Excessive Faculty and contains a further $1,000 scholarship per tutorial 12 months;

North Surry Excessive Faculty: Callie Allen, Raegan Amos, Maleigha Brintle, Nydia Cabrera Cabrera, Madalyn Edwards, Ronald Hudson, Isabella Jones, Colby Mitchell and Jacey Ward;

Surry Central Excessive Faculty: Austin Cave, Brady Edmonds, Jacob Edmonds, Mia McMillen, Katelyn Patterson, Sebastian Sanchez Aguilar, Kennedy Smith, Jaylyn Templeton and Dante Watson;

Surry Early Faculty Excessive Faculty of Design: Britza Chavez-Arellano, Nancy Garcia Villa, Abigail Garza, Jennifer Hernandez, Peyton Jones, Jacob Mills, Kailey Myers, Chloe Snow and Jonathan Williams;

Elkin Excessive Faculty: Addison Blackwelder, Laura Sofa, Emerson Gonzalez, Luis Hernandez-Matul, Daniel Islas, Thomas McComb, Kayla Nguyen and James Owings;

Surry Group Faculty: Jordyn Coe.

The Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Basis has awarded $13.eight million in scholarships to college students graduating from the general public excessive faculties in Surry County since 2005. Annually, scholarships are awarded for college kids at East Surry Excessive Faculty, North Surry Excessive Faculty, Surry Central Excessive Faculty, Mount Airy Excessive Faculty, Surry Early Faculty Excessive Faculty, Elkin Excessive Faculty, and Millennium Constitution Academy. Scholarships are given to college students who can be attending four-year schools and universities or Surry Group Faculty, and to college students at Surry Group Faculty who can be transferring to a four-year college to finish their undergraduate diploma.

Scholarships vary in worth from $3,600 per 12 months for Surry Group Faculty attendees to $12,500 per 12 months for college kids attending higher-cost non-public schools and universities. Scholarships are renewable for one further 12 months for Surry Group Faculty college students or college students transferring from Surry Group Faculty to a four-year establishment, and for 3 further years for college kids attending four-year faculties instantly out of highschool.

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Fifty college students have been awarded scholarships by the Edward M. Armfield Sr. Basis Faculty Scholarship Program throughout a ceremony that came about on the Shelton-Badgett North Carolina Heart for Viticulture & Enology on the campus of Surry Group Faculty in Dobson just lately. These scholarships, over a four-year interval, can be contributing $766,000 to the tutorial pursuits of the students. The Edward M. Armfield Sr. Basis has awarded $13.eight million in scholarships to college students graduating from the general public faculties in Surry County since 2005.