Amelia Feathers may be gone, but she is most definitely not forgotten. Betty Jo Spence has made sure of that.
Spence was a teacher, mentor and a friend to Feathers, who passed away in January 2005. Spence created the Amelia Feathers Memorial Scholarship which was awarded Thursday night for the first time ever to Dre’Van Platt, [...]

Local grads cashed in in a big way on post-secondary school opportunities, thanks to their high marks, leadership skills and community involvement.
Colby Ramsay, who graduated from Penticton secondary school, tops the list with the $140,000 Morehead Scholarship he won to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The scholarship covers all the costs [...]

Three private colleges in Connecticut will add a total of $75,000 to their scholarship funds to settle allegations of questionable arrangements with a student loan agency, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
Trinity College, Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University all denied any wrongdoing but agreed to abide by a code of conduct that would no [...]

American Water, the largest water services provider in North America, today announced recipients of the 16th annual James V. LaFrankie Scholarship Awards. The awards were distributed across the nation to college-bound children of full-time American Water employees who demonstrate an interest in water-related industry occupational fields.
Out of 69 applicants, American Water chose seven high school [...]

More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]

One hundred and sixty-six students from 25 Greater Cincinnati high schools have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. Three other semifinalists are home-schooled.
They are among 16,000 students nationwide to advance in the competition for about 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards worth $33 million that will be announced in the spring.
About 90 percent of the semifinalists typically [...]

Cadet Captain Christina Antonietta Zarrilli was awarded for the second year in a row the Chief Flying Eagle Scholarship to attend a Civil Air Patrol National Special Activity.
The Native American Flying Eagle Clan presents annual scholarships to cadets for Civil Air Patrol’s (CAP) intense summer training programs and encampments. The Clan recognizes CAP’s [...]

Pratt&Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. company, in partnership with the Tuskegee Airmen Inc., awarded Joshua S. Cunningham of Columbia, South Carolina, the 2006 Golden Eagle Scholarship. The four-year, $20,000 award recognizes a high school senior who has demonstrated an aptitude for aerospace technology and aviation.
Pratt&Whitney, a world leader in the aerospace industry, will fully [...]

The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith has released the names of almost 300 new scholarship recipients at UA Fort Smith for fall 2006.
The students, by town of residence, include:
Ada, Okla.:
Tisha L. Campbell of Ada, Okla., has received an Ed Ballman Foundation Scholarship at UA Fort Smith. She is the daughter of Clayton and Dahlra [...]