The Shadow
Four seniors at Alleghany High School have received $48,000 in scholarships from the Augusta Schultz Grubbs Charitable Trust Scholarship fund.
Receiving scholarships are Dawn M. Dulaney, Mariana L. Keener, Kasey S. McAllister and Abigale L. Moody.
The scholarships are for $3,000 per academic year for four years totaling $12,000 for each student. The recipients were named during a ceremony held in the AHS library Thursday conducted by Clifton Forge attorney James D. Snyder, administrator of the scholarship program.
In the past 12 years, the Grubbs Trust has awarded $801,500 in scholarships to Alleghany High School seniors.
The scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit in academic achievements, citizenship, leadership, extra curricular activities and community involvement. Recipients must have a grade point average in the top 10 percent of the graduating class.
Other requirements stipulated by the late Mrs. Grubbs when she established the trust are that the recipients must major in mathematics, biology, a physical science, computer science, any technical science developed since 1992, pre-medical school studies for students who intend to become physicians, engineering or English.
The four recipients will attend the following schools this fall: Dawn Dulaney, Bridgewater college; Mariana Keener, Christopher Newport University; Kasey McAllister, Christopher Newport University and Abigale Moody, University of California at Davis.
Mrs. Grubbs, who died at age 93 in 1997, came to Clifton Forge in 1923 as a young teacher. She taught elementary grades at Moody School, later Clifton Forge Elementary West, for 30 years. She retired in 1953 and married Lee A. Grubbs, retired general superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Mr. Grubbs also served on the board of the former First National Bank of Clifton Forge from 1924 to 1968 and was board chairman from 1956 to 1968.
Mrs. Grubbs continued to live in Clifton Forge after her husband died in 1971. She maintained a keen interest in the field of education and kept up with current developments. Mrs. Grubbs’ concern for education led her to create the Charitable Trust to motivate and benefit top students, resulting in her bequest of $1.1 million.
At the time of her death, Mrs. Grubbs left $1.1 million to Virginia United Methodist Family Services for the care of children who are assisted by it, and $1.1 million to Virginia United Methodist Homes for financial assistance to residents in its retirement homes.
