WALLACE DUAL ENROLLMENT STUDENTS RECEIVE HONORS AT DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMAN OF HOUSTON COUNTY AWARDS
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: October 12, 2012
Several
Wallace College dual enrollment students received honors at the recent
2013 Distinguished Young Woman of Houston County Scholarship
Program. The event is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Dothan.
Contestants
are judged on panel evaluation, which is a discussion with the judges,
fitness, talent, self-expression, and scholastic achievement.
Jean
Elizabeth Miles won the overall scholarship prize of $3,750.00. She
also took top honors in the self-expression and scholastic achievement
categories. Miles
will compete this January in Montgomery for Distinguished Young Woman of
Alabama.
Other
WCC dual enrollment honorees are Jessica Bennett, self-expression;
Hannah Brady, Lauren Slingluff Waid Spirit Award; Theresa Fabbrini, Top
Eight Honoree; Emily
Kingry, scholastic achievement; Maddie Lamere, Top Eight Honoree, Be
Your Best Self essay, talent, and scholastic achievement; and Sheridan
Pike, Top Eight Honoree, fitness.
Miles
is a dual enrollment student at Rehobeth High School. Brady is a
student at Houston County High School and attends dual enrollment
classes at Ashford High School.
Bennett, Fabbrini, Kingry, Lamere, and Pike are students at Northview
High School and attend dual enrollment classes on the Wallace College --
Dothan campus.
To be eligible to enroll in dual enrollment classes at WCC, high school students must be in grades 10, 11, or 12, and have a B
average in completed high school
courses. For additional information on the dual enrollment program,
contact Lynn Lamere, dual credit coordinator, at (334) 556-2627.
For more information on the Distinguished Young Woman Program, go to www.ajm.org.
