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SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS — Blakeslee Nettleton Chase and four recipients of Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarships for Business were among those honored recently at the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation’s annual Donor-Scholar Reception. The DSLCC Educational Foundation hosts the event to recognize the donors who make the scholarships possible and the recipients for their educational excellence. Pictured, from left, Lisa Schoppmeyer, Ashlie Harris, Jared Wallace, Mrs. Chase, Amber Bess, and Hunter Suthers. (Photo Courtesy DSLCC Educational Foundation)
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS — Blakeslee Nettleton Chase and four recipients of Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarships for Business were among those honored recently at the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation’s annual Donor-Scholar Reception. The DSLCC Educational Foundation hosts the event to recognize the donors who make the scholarships possible and the recipients for their educational excellence. Pictured, from left, Lisa Schoppmeyer, Ashlie Harris, Jared Wallace, Mrs. Chase, Amber Bess, and Hunter Suthers. (Photo Courtesy DSLCC Educational Foundation)
DONOR-SCHOLAR RECEPTION — The DSLCC Educational Foundation recently honored donors and 2012 scholarship recipients at a reception held on the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Clifton Forge campus. Nearly 275 donors, scholarship recipients, parents, faculty and staff attended the annual event. The DSLCC Educational Foundation hosts the event to recognize the donors who make the scholarships possible and the recipients for their academic excellence. (Photo Courtesy DSLCC Educational Foundation)
DONOR-SCHOLAR RECEPTION — The DSLCC Educational Foundation recently honored donors and 2012 scholarship recipients at a reception held on the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Clifton Forge campus. Nearly 275 donors, scholarship recipients, parents, faculty and staff attended the annual event. The DSLCC Educational Foundation hosts the event to recognize the donors who make the scholarships possible and the recipients for their academic excellence. (Photo Courtesy DSLCC Educational Foundation)
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CLIFTON FORGE – The Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation recently honored scholarship donors and recipients at a reception on the College’s Clifton Forge campus.
About 275 donors, recipients, family members, faculty, and staff attended the annual reception.
DSLCC President Dr. Richard Teaff welcomed the group and expressed his appreciation for the outstanding support donors continue to show towards the Educational Foundation and the College.
“The academic programs at DSLCC are critical to the economic growth and improved quality of life in our region,” Teaff said. “The college remains committed to expanding access to education, improving student success, and being a major partner in economic development. DSLCC has had an impact on the lives of those here today in more ways than you realize,” he continued.
“With the help of our donors, the college and the Educational Foundation are helping to change the lives of service-area citizens by enabling them to successfully pursue post-secondary education, achieve positive life outcomes, and to build brighter futures,” Teaff added.
Educational Foundation President Richard Crowder, introduced foundation board members and thanked the donors for helping the Foundation in its mission to “Build Lives…Build Futures…Build Hope for service-area residents.”
He noted that, since 1980, through the generosity of individuals, businesses and organizations, the Educational Foundation has awarded more than one million dollars in scholarships to students who have made DSLCC their college of choice and explained that, in addition to funding scholarships and purchasing classroom equipment, the Educational Foundation also funds professional development opportunities for faculty members enabling them to broaden their expertise and enhance the curricula by awarding grants to full time faculty members.
A highlight of the afternoon was the announcement of the recipient of the fourth annual William T. and Langhorne C. Wilson Cup for Character, Scholarship and Community Service.
Established by Bill and Lang Wilson of Covington, the silver cup and monetary award is presented to a second-year student with at least 30 credit hours at DSLCC and a minimum 3.0 grade point average who exhibits outstanding character, scholarship, and service to his/her community.
In the Wilson’s absence, Richard Crowder and Lynda Thompson presented the award to Guy Richards of Covington.
Following the introduction of donors and the 2012 scholarship recipients by Foundation Director Lynda Thompson, student speakers, Carolina Hartley, Mark Hepler, Rebekkah Pauley, and Fran Carrillo-Kuenzer told the group that attending DSLCC has had a positive effect on their personal, educational, and occupational goals.
They also stressed that scholarship help from the Educational Foundation is helping them to change their lives as they prepare for brighter futures through their education at Dabney Lancaster and that they likely would not have had the opportunity for post-secondary education without the Foundation’s help.
A 2009 graduate of Rockbridge County High School, Hartley is the recipient of the Dorothy Ayers Memorial Nursing Scholarship.
She is a second-year nursing student at the college.
Hepler, the recipient of the LewisGale Hospital Alleghany Nursing Scholarship, is a non-traditional student from Covington and will graduate from the DSLCC nursing program next spring.
Pauley, a 2012 graduate of Bath County High School is the recipient of a Carter Scholarship and a DSLCC 50th Anniversary Scholarship.
Carrillo Kuenzer of Eagle Rock is the recipient of a Vaughn Family Scholarship and the Louise Kern Lemon Memorial Nursing Scholarship and will graduate from the nursing program next spring.
In closing, Scholarship Chairman Donna Vaughn, congratulated the recipients and thanked the donors for their outstanding contributions to the service area communities in providing affordable access to an education that is vital to both and individual’s and area’s success.
“As you look around the local communities, you will see many former DSLCC students who have built rewarding and successful careers right here at home,” said Vaughn. “We see them every day – as the owners/operators of successful local businesses and the CEOs, vice presidents, and managers of area banks.
“They’re our high school and elementary school principals, teachers, and guidance counselors; they are the nurses in our hospitals and they play a large role in many of our local industries; they are, in short, people who have made and are continuing to make a positive difference in our local communities,” Vaughn concluded.
Scholarship recipients recognized included: Evelyn Abouakil, Elizabeth Cook Memorial Scholarship; Zachary Ailstock, Merle Weaver Reid Scholarship; Michael Austin, Martha Hudson Nursing Scholarship; Taylor Barger, Mae S. and Raymond E. Tucker Memorial Scholarship and the Martha P. and Clyde E. Griffith Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Naomi Barker, MGW Communications Scholarship; Brey Batten, DSLCC Educational Foundation Board of Directors Scholarship and the Josh Patterson Forestry Scholarship; Kristen Bennett, Raymond L. Claterbaugh, Sr. Memorial Scholarship; Amber Bess, Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarship for Business; Kayla Buchanan, Carter Scholarship; Deshanta Calloway, Regional Literacy Scholarship; Frances Carrillo-Kuenzer, Vaughn Family Scholarship and the Louise Kern Lemon Nursing Scholarship; Jordan Carroll, MWV Scholarship and DSLCC 50th Anniversary Scholarship; Jodi Clark, Bubbles, Bands, and Brunch Scholarship for Continuing Students; Crystal Cole, Harry and Virginia Walton memorial Scholarship and Judy M. Deeds Memorial Scholarship.
Whitney Crawford, Carter Scholarship; Harley Crummett, Ethel Mae Grimes Dorsey Scholarship; Stephen Demma, Steve Adams Memorial Scholarship; Roxanna DePriest, Marion and Cecil May Scholarship; Lauren Dudley, Elizabeth Cook Memorial Scholarship; Tyler Dudley, Rockbridge Area Wildlife and Forestry Association Scholarship; Madeline Duff, Carter Scholarship; Jacob Fairburn, DSLCC 50th Anniversary Alumni Scholarship and Barry Hillsman Forestry Scholarship; Logan Figgers, Bubbles, Bands, and Brunch Scholarship for Continuing Students; Christy Ford, Elizabeth Cook Memorial Scholarship; Chelsea Fridley, Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarship; Jordan Fry, BARC Electric Co-Operative Scholarship; Tyler Gibson, Bubbles, Bands and Brunch Scholarship for Continuing Students; Samantha Gray, Bubbles, Bands and Brunch Scholarship for Continuing Students; Callie Hale, Julia E. Edmunds Scholarship and Mark W. Lockhart Memorial Scholarship; Ariella Hall, DSLCC Honors Scholarship; Richard Hamm, Jr., Vaughn Family Scholarship; Ashlie Harris, Helen F. Dickson Scholarship; Carolina Hartley, Dorothy Ayers Memorial Nursing Scholarship.
Also, Jordan Hayslett, Bubbles, Bands, and Brunch Scholarship for Continuing Students; Katie Hepler, Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarship for Business; Mark Hepler, LewisGale Hospital Alleghany Nursing Scholarship; Katelyn Hinebaugh, Time Backels Scholarship and Colin P. Ferguson Honorary Scholarship; Katrina Hoke, DSLCC Administration of Justice Book Scholarship; Stephen Hosey, Highlands Community Bank Scholarship; Daniel Humphreys, Bubbles, Bands and Brunch Scholarship for Continuing Students; Trevor Hunnicutt, Virginia Firefighters Foundation Scholarship; Christy Lanahan, Kay Reynolds Ray Memorial Scholarship; Kelsey Leighton, Linda Rose Scholarship; Tyler Linkenhoker, MWV Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship; Tammy Loan, Stuart Thomas Memorial Scholarship for Massage Therapy; Erich Mann, nTelos Foundation Scholarship; Lisa Marshall, Vivian N. and Robert F. Sutphin Scholarship; Ashley Meadows, Jesse A. Wright Memorial Scholarship; Larissa Moore, Alleghany Highlands chamber of Commerce and Tourism Scholarship and Curtis A. Smith Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1033 Scholarship; Kelsey Nelson, Edward Pennell Brooks OCC Scholarship; Heather Newmarker, Thomas N. Warren Scholarship; Kate O’Connor, Madonna Hepler Nursing Scholarship; Patrick Olson, Vaughn Family Scholarship and Betsy P. Saville Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Bryder Osbourne, Jr., H. Watts Steger, III Bank of Botetourt Scholarship; Rebekkah Pauley, Carter Scholarship and DSLCC 50th Anniversary Alumni Scholarship; Marco Ramirez, Richard W. Rusk Scholarship for Sustainable Energy; Sharee Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Cook Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Sulin Richmond, Regional Literacy Scholarship; Guy Richards, Betty Andrews memorial Nursing Scholarship.
Also, Tammy Caul Carter Scholarship; Lois W. Morgan Nursing Scholarship; Samantha Roberts, T. Kenneth 7 Karin R. Ellis Scholarship; Jordan Saville, Vaughn Family Scholarship and Vaughn Family Scholarship; Emily Seelke, Marion and Cecil May Scholarship; Clyde Selman, Regional Literacy Scholarship and Virginia Firefighters Foundation Scholarship; Chelsea Slagle, Lancaster Scholarship; Casey Smith, Elizabeth Cook Memorial Scholarship and First National Bank Scholarship; Chase Smith, Edward Pennell Brooks OCC Scholarship; Shannon Staton, Elizabeth Cook Memorial Scholarship; Hunter Suthers, Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarship for Business, Kaitlin Tallman, Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Scholarship; Hannah Taylor, Covington-Hot Springs Rotary Scholarship and Dabney S. Lancaster Memorial Scholarship; Jessica Thrift, L. Paul Wiggins Memorial Scholarship; Casey Tomlin, News-Gazette Scholarship; Jared Wallace, Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarship for Business; Cortnie Walton, Curtis A. Smith Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1033 Scholarship, George N. Chucker and Edith Raab-Chucker Scholarship and Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarship; Brandon Webb, Charles F. Hileman Honorary Scholarship; Shannon Whalen, Walter L. and Marie P. Johnson Nursing Scholarship; Laura White, Ethel Mae Grimes Dorsey Nursing Scholarship; Courtney Whitehead, DSLCC Honors Scholarship.
Thompson also recognized Earl Dodrill, Program Head for Workforce Services and Continuing Education, as the recipient of the Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hammond, Sr. Faculty Development Grant.
Dodrill, was awarded the Hammond Grant last spring to travel to Haiti to establish a summer exchange program with Haitian students studying at the Business Technology Institute in Haiti.
While in Haiti, Mr. Dodrill taught the Haitian students non-credit classes over a four-day period, and six of the students traveled to DSLCC this summer to participate in a variety of classes taught by DSLCC faculty.
The grant was established by Jack A. Hammond, Sr., and his wife, Mitzi, to encourage current, full time DSLCC faculty to seek educational travel experiences that will enable them to enhance and broaden the curricula at DSLCC.
Donors or scholarship representatives in attendance were: Linda Adams, Steve Adams Memorial Scholarship, Teresa Hammond, Executive Director, Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Scholarship and Greg Madsen, President; Thomas Ayers, Sr., Terry Brackman, Donna Salyers, and Barbara Entsminger, Dorothy Ayers Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Dr. and Mrs. John Backels, Tim Backels Scholarship; Michelle Crook CFO and Duaine Fitzgerald, senior vice president, Bank of Botetourt, Bank of Botetourt H. Watts. Steger, III Scholarship; Donna Sloan and Lisa Schoppmeyer, Bubbles, Bands and Brunch Scholarships for Continuing Students; Colin Ferguson, Colin P. Ferguson Honorary Scholarship and Ethel Mae Grimes Dorsey Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Helen Jean Fitzgerald, Helen F. Dickson Scholarships; Annette Anderson and David Kleppinger, Covington-Hot Springs Rotary Scholarship; Donna and Steve Vaughn, Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarships and Vaughn Family Scholarships for Non-Traditional Students; Clydette and Tom Lobred and Patti Spinner, Martha P. and Clyde E. Griffith Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Jack Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hammond, Sr., Faculty Development Grant; H. C. Rhodes, Highlands Community Bank Scholarship; Lucy Pederson, Charles F. Hileman Honorary Scholarship; Sargeant David Legg, Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Scholarship; Harrison Fridley and Tina Dressler, Martha Hudson Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Elizabeth and Lloyd Lipscomb, Dabney S. Lancaster Memorial Scholarship; Greg Madsen, CEO and Robin Broughman, director of nursing, LewisGale Hospital Alleghany Nursing Scholarship; Billy and Bonnie Lockhart, Mark W. Lockhart Memorial Scholarship; Ron and Bonnie Smith, MGW Communications Scholarship; Rebecca Johnson and Heather Woodie, MWV Scholarship and MWV Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship; Linda Marquardt, Lois W. Morgan Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Blakeslee Nettleton Chase, Carolyn B. Nettleton Scholarships for Business; Monroe and Leona Patterson and Lilly Burns, Josh Patterson Forestry Book Scholarship; Lindsay Brooks and Janita McNemar, Regional Literacy Scholarship; David Reynolds Kay Reynolds Ray Memorial Scholarship for Non-Traditional Students; Lin Koch, Rockbridge Area Forestry and Wildlife Association Scholarship; Ted Wiseman, Linda Rose Memorial Scholarship; Norma Ellis, Betsy P. Saville Memorial Nursing Scholarship; Robert Sutphin, Curtis A. Smith, 116th Infantry, VFW Post 1033 Scholarships; Robert and Vivian Sutphin, Vivian N. and Robert F. Sutphin Scholarship; Anne McMennamy, Stuart D. Thomas Scholarship for Massage Therapy; Jean and Ed Kenny and Leigh Ann, Gary and Tucker Keener, Mae S. and Raymond L. Tucker Memorial Nursing Scholarship; David and Karyn Warren, Thomas N. Warren Scholarship; Dawn Wilson, Harry and Virginia Walton Memorial Scholarship;
Incorporated in 1980 as a non-profit organization, the Educational Foundation each year invites students from high schools in the College’s service area-Alleghany, Bath, northern Botetourt, and Rockbridge Counties, and the cities of Buena Vista, Covington, and Lexington-to apply for merit scholarships. Scholarships also are available for continuing students who have completed at least 24 credit hours at DSLCC and for the non-traditional student who did not seek to pursue post-secondary education immediately upon graduation from high school but now needs to enroll in the college to gain marketable job skills, facilitate career enhancement or successfully change career paths.
In addition to the thousands of dollars awarded in scholarships each year, the Educational Foundation also assists the college with the purchase of technologically advanced classroom equipment and funds professional development opportunities for full time faculty members.
For more information, please contact Foundation Director, Lynda Thompson by phone at 863-2837 or by email at lthompson@dslcc.edu.
