Military kid receives scholarship

Posted August 5, 2009 at 12:12 pm and filed under Education, Faces and Places.

Staff reports

Ashley Matthews of Garner received a $1,500 college scholarship awarded at Fort Bragg South Post by the Scholarships for Military Children Program. Fort Bragg South Post is one of 257 commissaries operated worldwide by the Defense Commissary Agency.

Ashley Matthews

Ashley Matthews

Matthews will attend Trevecca Nazarene University in the fall. Her school and community activities include mission trips, cheerleading (captain), honors choir, school praise team and Capital Area Teen Court.

Matthews’ scholarship at Fort Bragg South Post was funded through the generosity of Kimberly Clark Global Sales.

More than 6,000 students applied for the scholarships worldwide.

Applicants for the 2009 program were required to maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average, participate in voluntary school and community activities, demonstrate leadership qualities and write an essay on the topic “What would you place in a time capsule to help people opening the capsule in the next century understand military life today?”

The Scholarship for Military Children Program was initiated in 2000 to award scholarships to graduating high school seniors or college-enrolled students. The scholarship program is open to qualified sons and daughters of members of the U.S. Armed Services including active duty, retirees and guard/reserves, as well as children of deceased military personnel.

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