Scholarship established at MC in memory of Rebekah Carter
August 28th, 2006 - Posted in Education, ScholarshipThe Rev. Rick and Nedra Carter, parents of the late Rebekah Carter, a 2001 graduate of the Mississippi College School of Nursing, have established the Rebekah Carter Scholarship Fund in her memory.
Rick Carter is associate pastor of First Baptist Church in Laurel and has served in the position of minister of music, most recently in Greenville.
The Carters served as missionaries to Argentina for six years.
Rebekah Carter was an exemplary and distinguished student at MC.
She received two of the highest honors a student can achieve at Mississippi College in her senior year: the MC Hall of Fame and Miss Mississippi College.
Additional honors included Alpha Lambda Delta, national honorary scholastic fraternity for freshmen; vice president, Baptist Nursing Fellowship; BSU Leadership Team; Dean’s list honor roll student all four years; Fellowship of Christian Athletes; soccer, and intramural athletics soccer; Laguna Social Tribe; Mortar Board; resident assistant; a member of SCOUTS; Judicial Council; senate; SGA, secretary, junior and senior years; Student Nurses’ Association; Mu Kappa secretary; Shawreth Social Fraternity Sweetheart; and Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities. She was elected by the student body as Homecoming 2001 Maid of Honor her senior year.
As a defender on the women’s varsity soccer team, Rebekah Carter was selected as an All-Conference Academic in 1997 and Most Improved Player.
Guidelines of the scholarship fund state that the earnings will be used for student aid.
Recipients will be selected from students who are majoring in any major at Mississippi College with the intent of using their degree to further the kingdom of God, and the student must display the ideals of Mississippi College.
Donations to this scholarship fund can be made to the Rebekah Carter Scholarship Fund, Office of Advancement, Box 4005, Clinton, Ms. 39058.