MOULTRIE, Ga. — For Spring Semester 2017, which began on Jan. 9, the Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) Foundation awarded 64 scholarships totaling more than $37,000 to SRTC students. These funds assist students with education related costs such as tuition, fees, clinical scrubs, dissection kits, books, and much more.

“The SRTC Foundation is proud to offer so many scholarships each semester,” commented Amy Maison, vice president of institutional advancement, marketing and public relations. “Scholarships provide financial support to students who need assistance with tuition, books, and other fees. By offering more scholarships for students, the foundation and the college hope to improve the job skills, technical training, and educational level of the citizens of the community.  These funds are only made available because of the generosity of our donors. We sincerely thank and appreciate each of you. Without you, many of our students would not be able to afford books, tuition, or program related supplies.”

The students who received scholarships included: Vonteaic Anderson – Sabal Trail, Chandler Bearden – Jump Start Recruitment, Sarah Bennett – Gap and Tift County Student, Sheila Butler – Sabal Trail, Macey Conger – Gap and Growing Nurses Recruitment, Rebecca Davidson – Colquitt County Student and William Howard Flowers and Maury Tice Flowers/Archbold Medical Center, Aushika Dawson – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Jeffrey Demps – Non-Traditional Student, Shirley Deya – Albert and Esther Thomson and Debbie Griffiths, Kelsey Drabenstot – Sabal Trail, Allison Eason – Gap, James Evarts – Mitchell County Student, Sarah Farmer – Kathryn Read, Melanie Green – Mitchell County Student, Autumn Hanks –  Colquitt County Student, Michael Harper – Mitchell County Student, Suzannah Heald – Thomas County Student, Jamie Heath – Thomas County Student, Carole Hester – Grady County Student, Taylor Hodges – Sabal Trail, Signe Hyatt – Bill and Lillian Raney, Latisha Jenkins – Sabal Trail, Hilliary Jones – Albert and Esther Thomson and Mitchell County Student, Savannah Joslyn – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Justin Joyner – Turner County Student, Diana Kennedy – Kiwanis Club of Thomasville, Latisha Knolton – Non-Traditional Student, Takara Lopez – Sabal Trail, Mackenzie Mobley – Gap, Kaitlyn Palmer – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Anthony Pickels – Albert and Esther Thomson, Gary Pitts, Jr. – Thomas County Student, Amanda Plummer – Sabal Trail, Meagan Poppell – Sabal Trail, Alison Powell – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Jinna Proctor – Sabal Trail, Felecia Richardson – Tift County Student, Tamara Rinck – William Howard Flowers and Maury Tice Flowers/Archbold Medical Center, Logan Roberts – Worth County Student, Amaretto Russell – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Grady County Student and William Howard Flowers and Muary Tice Flowers/Archbold Medical Center, Sarah Sammons – Albert and Esther Thomson, Bridget Sangfield – Albert and Esther Thomson, Stephanie Sculley – Gap and Thomas County Student, Cathleen Sessions – Mitchell County Student and William Howard Flowers and Maury Tice Flowers/Archbold Medical Center, Shanna Sheppard – Sabal Trail, Ashley Small – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Heather Stinson – Gap, Shirley Thomas – Colquitt County Student, Renee Trawick – Sabal Trail, Annette Turner – Sabal Trail, Ashley Ward – Growing Nurses Recruitment, Miranda Wider – Growing Nurses Recruitment, and Brianna Williams – Colquitt County Student and William Howard Flowers and Maury Tice Flowers/Archbold Medical Center.

The SRTC Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to promote the cause of higher education and expand educational opportunities to the students of SRTC. The Foundation strives to create scholarships and endowments and assist in the financing of capital improvements and other college-related expenses.

A few of the scholarships offered and awarded this semester were:

• The Non-Traditional Scholarship was established to encourage enrollment in and completion of a technical certificate of credit, diploma, or degree in a field typically considered gender-specific. Non-traditional occupations are careers in which less than 25 percent of a gender is represented in the workforce. These careers often pay higher salaries, include challenging work, offer opportunities to develop new skills, and possess the possibility of advancement potential.

• The county-specific scholarships were designed to help students from SRTC’s seven-county service delivery area, consisting of Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift, Turner and Worth counties.

For more information on scholarships, how to give, and how to apply, please visit the website at www.southernregional.edu/scholarships or contact the Institutional Advancement Office at (229) 227-2415.