Scholarships

Langley Federal Credit Union, Newport News, Va., presented four members with the Galaxy Graduate $5,000 College Scholarship award. The four recipients were Alex Chen, Sydney Giblin, Benno Lee and Angela Zhang. Chen attended York High School and has been accepted to Stanford University where he will major in mathematics and physics. Giblin attended Jamestown High School and was ranked No. 1 in her class of 356. She will attend MIT to study aerospace and mechanical engineering. Lee attended York High School and New Horizon’s Governor’s School and plans to study electrical engineering and computer science. Zhang attended York High School and strives to work with the UN Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission studying tsunamis in order to minimize their effects.

Neighbors Credit Union, St. Louis, announced the 17th annual Clarence L. Hagemann Scholarship Contest winners. Neighbors awarded a total of $4,800 this year and has awarded a total of $31,100 over the past 17 years. The four scholarship winners were awarded $1,200 each. The recipients were Kacy Carr, Emily Martin, Kaitlan Prugger and Katherine Valli. Carr, Martin and Valli will attend Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., in the fall and Prugger will attend the University of Missouri-Columbia. The scholarship was open to all My.Bux members. My.Bux is for all Neighbor’s members between the ages of 13 and 19. Each participant had to submit and essay entry on: If you were given the opportunity to spend an evening with any person, living, deceased or fictional, whom would you choose and why.