Excellence in education

By Staff
Oct. 10, 2001
Meridian High School graduates Ashley Pierce and Kimberly Strawbridge are the 2001-2002 Charles Armstrong Scholars for their freshman year at Meridian Community College.
The $750 scholarships are funded by an endowment established by the Meridian Kiwanis Club and Alumni &Friends of MCC through The MCC Foundation. The late Armstrong was a Kiwanian and former principal of Meridian High School.
Pierce plans to be a registered nurse. Strawbridge is also interested in the medical field.
The Meridian Community College Foundation has announced recipients of six $1,000 scholarships funded by alumnus Frank Charles Winstead of Magnolia, Texas, as a tribute to his former teachers.
The 2001-2002 recipients are:
Elizabeth Anderson Woodall of Bailey received the Reva Breckenridge Memorial Science Scholarship. Woodall is a graduate of West Lauderdale High School and a secondary education major at MCC. She is a secretary of Phi Theta Kappa and the Wesley Foundation. She is a Big Brothers-Big Sisters volunteer.
Pamela Chatham of Meridian received the Mary Ann Bonney Riley Education Scholarship. Chatham is a graduate of Southeast Lauderdale High School. She is a freshman majoring in elementary education.
Layla Brewer of Meridian received the Marguerite Jenkins Memorial English Scholarship. Brewer is a graduate of Pickens Academy in Alabama. She is a sophomore working on a degree in English and hopes to teach on the secondary level. She is also a member of MCC's softball team.
Jennifer Robertson of Meridian received the Maude Reid Memorial History Scholarship. Robertson is a sophomore studying history at MCC. She is married and the mother of two children.
Lesley Deavers of Meridian received the Jack Shank Social Studies Scholarship. Deavers, a graduate of Clarkdale High School, was valedictorian of her class. She is freshman at MCC who plans to earn a degree in education.
Lee Rigdon of Collinsville received the Eli Pacetti Memorial Instrumental Music Scholarship. Rigdon plans to work on a degree in music at MCC. He is a graduate of West Lauderdale High School and a member of MCC's Community Band and Jazz Band.
DECATUR Curtis Beckman of Enterprise has been named computer network support technology instructor at East Central Community College.
Before joining ECCC's vocational-technical faculty, Beckman served as network administrator and computer operator at the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Meridian. He is a 1998 honor graduate of Meridian Community College, where he received an associate degree in computer information systems technology.
DECATUR East Central Community College sophomore Tiffany Chancellor of Enterprise was recently inducted into the college's Theta Xi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.
Membership in the organization is by invitation only. To qualify, students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking a minimum of 12 semester hours.