Excellence in Education
By Staff
Jan. 2, 2003
The 2002-2003 Alumni and Friends Scholarship recipient for the fall and spring semesters at Meridian Community College is James Followay. The $900 scholarship is funded through the MCC Foundation.
A sophomore, Followay is in the Industrial Maintenance Program. His freshman year was spent learning the building industry through the Construction Trades Program.
He is a member of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. Followay is a member of New Hope Baptist Church and is employed part time at Hardin's Bakery. He is a graduate of Clarkdale High School.
Erica Evans has been selected to receive the Linda and Billy Howard Computer Technology Scholarship for the spring semester at MCC.
The $600 award is funded by the MCC Foundation. The Howards, owners of Howard Industries in Laurel, were recent guest speakers for the President's Roundtable Luncheon at MCC.
A graduate of Meridian High School, Evans is a freshman in the University Transfer Program. She has been listed in Who's Who Among America's High School Students.
Evans is a member of the MCC Chorus and president of the Youth Department at Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Her plans include obtaining a degree in computer engineering and telecommunications.
David Allen Threatt has been selected as one of the Jack Shank Scholarship recipients for the fall and spring semesters at MCC.
The $1,000 award is funded through the MCC Foundation. Audrey and Sterling Keith, former Meridian residents who live in Hope, Ark., chose this means to honor Shank.
Threatt is a graduate of Meridian High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society. He was selected for Who's Who Among American High School Students and was listed on the honor roll.
Threatt has attained the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America and has participated on mission trips with his church. A language major, Threatt aspires to work in naval intelligence. He is employed part time at Foodmax.
Lara Marie Boles and James O. Ryals IV have been selected to receive the 2002-2003 Tommy Webb Business Scholarships for the fall and spring semesters at MCC.
The $1,000 awards are funded through the MCC Foundation from an endowment established by a bequest from the estate of Laura S. Webb. Norma Webb has also contributed to this memorial endowment.
Boles, a graduate of Meridian High School, is a sophomore in the University Transfer Program. She is president of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year college students.
Boles is pursuing a degree in the field of nutrition and plans to continue her education to the master's level. She serves as a teacher assistant and is employed part-time at Anderson's Pharmacy.
Ryals is a graduate of Meridian High School, where he served as president of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America and vice president of the National Vocational/Technical Honor Society.
He is a freshman majoring in business with additional emphasis in the field of electronics. Ryals has placed in skills competitions on the regional level. He is a member of the Sageville Methodist Church and is employed part time with Twin States Electric Co.
Dave C. Hicks, a senior at Lamar High School, has been named a Mississippi State Finalist for the ninth annual Wendy's High School Heisman Award.
Hicks shares this honor along with 20 other finalists from the state of Mississippi.
The National Awards Program, created by Wendy's, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City, recognizes and honors high school senior men and women who demonstrate excellence in three areas: academics, community service and athletics.
Hicks was honored at a December luncheon at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.
