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The Community Foundation is excited to announce the recent creation of two new scholarship funds. Caswell County Schools Scholarship Fund and Virginia Ann Miller Garmon Memorial Scholarship Fund are The Foundationâs new funds of 2021.
Caswell County Schoolsâ March 2021 donation aims to encourage Bartlett Yancey Senior High School graduating seniors to earn a bachelorâs degree for the purpose of teaching school in Caswell County.
âThis is a need that the Caswell County Schools perceived, and we agree that the scholarship will be beneficial to Caswell County,â said Community Foundation Executive Director Kathy Milam. âSupporting pathways for local students, and encouraging them to remain in the area to teach, will help teacher recruitment long-term.âÂ
Area Donors Establish Two New Scholarships with Community Foundation
The Community Foundation is excited to announce the recent creation of two new scholarship funds. Caswell County Schools Scholarship Fund and Virginia Ann Miller Garmon Memorial Scholarship Fund are The Foundationâs new funds of 2021.
Caswell County Schoolsâ March 2021 donation aims to encourage Bartlett Yancey Senior High School graduating seniors to earn a bachelorâs degree for the purpose of teaching school in Caswell County. âThis is a need that the Caswell County Schools perceived, and we agree that the scholarship will be beneficial to Caswell County,â said Community Foundation Executive Director, Kathy Milam. âSupporting pathways for local students, and encouraging them to remain in the area to teach, will help teacher recruitment long-term.â
Standing next to the traffic circle at the entrance of Halifax County High School at a reverse toy parade Monday are event coordinator Feleshia Ballou-Thornton, also known as âFee Blu,â her sister Selena Ballou, Dr. Mark Lineburg, superintendent of Halifax County Public Schools, Fee Bluâs business manager Angela Knight, Maurice Miller of the Men of Sinai, Jackie Morris and Ballou-Thorntonâs mother Mary Wright. Kneeling in front is Cavell Phillips of the radio station 106.5 The Beat.
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