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Delta State Alumni Scholarships Continue to Grow

By February 8, 2013General

 

Photo: Front row L to R: Cassie Cummings, Amanda Upshur, Kourtney Winters, Mary Stover, Haley Liddell, Jessica Woods, Rachel Fuller. Back row L to R: Taylor Crippen, Zach Pinkerton, Victor Rather, Jr., Tyler Densford, Hugh Ellis Walker, Tyler Edwards, Trey Densford, Hayden Anthony, and Anna Laura Wood.

The Delta State University Alumni Association is committed to providing scholarships for students of alumni. The Hugh Ellis Walker Alumni Scholarship is a one-time $500 scholarship given to incoming freshman or transfer students whose parents are dues-paying members of the Alumni Association.  Over the past five years, 85 students have received these scholarships.

This year’s recipients are: Morgan Lott, Greenville; Zach Pinkerton, Cleveland;  Anna Laura Wood, Cleveland;  Kourtney Winters, Moorhead; Chase Aguzzi, Cleveland; Madison Allred, Southaven;  Elizabeth Bellipanni, Indianola;  Mary Kendal Champion, Belzoni; Taylor Crippen, Olive Branch; Cassie Cummings, Grenada; Trey Densford, Olive Branch; Tyler Densford, Olive Branch; Tyler Edwards, Southaven; Rachel Fuller, Cleveland; Victor Rather, Jr., Oxford; Haley Liddell, Carrollton; Benjamin Pickard, Biloxi; Kelsey Rich, Southaven; Julia Simmons, Grenada; Mary Stover, Southaven; Kassidy Tally, Raleigh; Amanda Upshur, Leland; Hayden Anthony, Anguilla; and Jessica Woods, Scott.

The scholarship is named for Hugh Ellis Walker, a 1952 graduate of Delta State. In 1969, he joined Delta State as alumni secretary, serving in that post until 1987 when he was named executive director of the Alumni-Foundation. The Hugh Ellis Walker Alumni-Foundation House was dedicated in his honor in 1996. Mr. Walker recently met the 2012-2013 recipients of the scholarship.

“It was a pleasure to meet those who received the alumni scholarship,” said Walker. “We need more. The more we have, the more students we can bring in. I’m proud to be a part of this project.”

To meet this year’s recipients, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzajOtgMLqs

For more information, contact the Alumni Association at 662-846-4660 or www.deltastate.edu/awww.deltastate.edu/alumnilumni. Make sure to follow the Alumni Association on Facebook: Statesmen Graduates, Twitter: @DSU_Alumni, and Tumblr: www.dsualumni.tumblr.com.