The Shadow
ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA (VR) – College scholarships totaling $84,000were awarded recently to six seniors at Alleghany High School bythe Augusta Schultz Grubbs Charitable Trust Scholarship Committee. The announcement was made by Clifton Forge attorney R. Meade Snyder, Trustee of the Grubbs Trust. The 2026 scholarship is for $3,500 per academic year for four years, a total of $14,000 for each recipient.
Recipients of the scholarships and the schools they will attend this Fall are: Victoria Lynn Campbell (Virginia Tech), Kylie Faith Forbes (Radford University), Taylor Nicole Jenkins (Radford University), Carter Anthony Nicely (Virginia Tech), Ezekiel Odell Saville (Virginia Tech), and Brenden Kenneth Seckner (University of Virginia).
The scholarship is awarded on the basis of merit in academic achievement, citizenship, leadership, extra curricular activities and community involvement. Recipients must have a grade point average in the top ten percent of their graduating class at Alleghany High School. Other requirements, stipulated by Mrs. Grubbs when she established the Trust, are that the recipients must major in mathematics, biology, engineering, a physical science, computer science, any technical science developed since 1992, English or pre-medical school studies for students who intend to
become physicians.
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 Railroad.
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 to the Trust of $1.1 million. At the time of her death, Mrs. Grubbs also 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.
