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June 4, 2008

RHS scholarships top $300,000

Banquet honors 53 college bound recipients with financial grants

Rusk High School students received approximately

Kristen Joyner, Stephen Halbert $300,000 in scholarships

at the annual banquet May 13 at the junior high cafeteria.

Scholarship recipients included:

Joey Marchetti, Cherokee County Electric Cooperative; Cherokee County Farm Bureau; Built Ford Tough/FFA; Cherokee County Wildlife Competition Scholarships for 2005 and 2007; Cherokee County Hay Judging Competition Scholarship; Cherokee County Forestry Competition Scholarship; Houston Livestock Show Rodeo Area Go Texan; Texas A&M Foundation of Excellence Award

Also, Texas A&M Thomas H. Barton; Mack Philbrick Memorial; Rusk Band Boosters; Southern Cherokee Federal Credit Union; Terry Foundation 2008 Scholar Award; Texas Education Agency Highest ranking student.

Pritesh Desai, Rusk Band Boosters ; Terry Foundation 2008 Scholar Award; Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship

Meagan Richey, Baylor University Provost Gold; Rusk Athletics Booster Club ; Southern Cherokee Federal Credit Union

Courtney Foreman, Meagan Richey David Robbins, Collin Carroll Memorial; Cherokee County Electric Cooperative ; Rusk Band Boosters ; RJSAA Frank Madden; Restorers for Christ; Rusk Ministerial Alliance; Texas A&M Keystone Aggieland; Texas Aggie Grant

Jared Colville, Austin Bank Employees' Children's Scholarship; Texas A&M University Lechner honors program

Cody Daniel, Jerry Smith Memorial Scholarship

Courtney Foreman, Austin Bank; Cherokee County Electric Cooperative; East Texas Communities Foundation; Citizens Bank State Employee's Children's Scholarship; Eastex Telephone Cooperative Assn.; G.W. Bradford Alumni Assn./J.W. Carter Legacy; Rusk Athletics Booster Club; Rotary Club; Southern Cherokee Federal Credit Union

Jerri Hill, Austin Bank scholarship

Bobby McDuff, Bacone University athletic scholarship

Jayanna Baggett, Beta Sigma Phi ; Abe Lang Rusk Lions Club scholarship; Rotary Club

Robyn Isaacs, Collin Norman Tony Guinn, Career Colleges and School of Texas

Adam Hicks, Cherokee County Electric Cooperative; Tyler Junior College Top Ten; Doug and Sally Jordan Memorial scholarship; Star Greenhand placement

Sierra Smith, Cherokee County Electric Cooperative; McLennan Community College softball scholarship; Jerry Smith Memorial

Kayla Thompson, Cherokee County Electric Cooperative; TJC dean's scholarship; RHSAA Judge Morris and Mauriette Hassell

Hallie Moake, Cherokee County Farm Bureau in memory of Maggie Dixon; Citizens Bank/TJC

Ryan Ross, Tyler Junior College cheerleader scholarship

Kristen Joyner, Citizens Bank /TJC Scholarship; Baseball/Softball Assn. Scholarship

Rachel Simmons, Citizens Bank/TJC; RHSAA Laura and Harmon Schochler Scholarship; Glen Stanley Lions Club

Chance Cleaver, Citizens Bank/TJC

Amy Serrato Melissa Blankenship, Clifford Harris Memorial Scholarship; Dallas Baptist University Christian Leadership Scholarship; Dallas Baptist University, first year Baptist Ministerial Scholarship; Dallas Baptist University Ministerial Scholarship; Rusk Band Boosters; RHSAA Chris Waddell; Rotary Club; Restorers for Christ

Robyn Isaacs, Euclid Lodge No. 45 A.F.&A.M.; JPF Land Services; Rusk Kiwanis Club

Hillary Hugghins, First United Methodist Church Raper ; Euclid Masonic Lodge No. 45 A.F. & A.M.; Rusk Band Boosters ; Texas A&M Lechner for the honors program

Lucas Turner, Euclid Masonic Lodge No. 45 A.F. & A.M.; First United Methodist Church Raper; Texas A&M Corp of Cadets; Rusk Band Boosters; Texas National Bank

Matthew Davis, G.W. Bradford Alumni Assn. J. W. Carter Legacy; Rusk Band Boosters

Lindsay Mills, Greg James Country Motors; SFA Academic Excellence award; Rusk Band Boosters

Anna Marie Nickle, SFA Academic Excellence award; Cory Wallace Lions Club Scholarship; Right to Life of East Texas; Cherokee County Retired School Personnel Scholarship

Adam Hicks Amber Jennings, Holly Jennings Memorial scholarship

Amber Welch, Holly Jennings Memorial; Forest Baptist Church; Leo Hicks Creosoting Co. award

Collin Norman, Holly Jennings Memorial; Rusk Band Boosters; Kiwanis Club; Restorers for Christ

Stephen Halbert, Baseball/ Softball Assn.

Denise Atkins, Jacksonville College commuter; Rusk Band Boosters

Adrian Fernandez, Jacksonville College commuter; RHSAA Alton and Paul Hubbard Scholarship; Texas National Bank

Katy French, Jacksonville College commuter scholarship; Rusk Band Boosters

Stevie Gesford, Jacksonville College commuter scholarship

Brittany Paddock, Jacksonville College commuter scholarship

Elizabeth Torres, Jacksonville College commuter; RHSAA Frank Summers Scholarship

Pritesh Desai Zachary Welch, Jacksonville College commuter scholarship; Rusk Band Boosters

Damion Hicks, JPF Land Service ; Rotary Club

Misty Watson, Lon Morris College dean's; Lon Morris College Scholar Dollars

Yara Cardoso, Lon Morris College Scholar Dollars

Brittney Rochelle Session, Lauretta Colston Stewart memorial; Woodville CME Church

Horrace Lewis, Patrick Wickware Memorial ; RHSAA Tom Sartain Scholarship

Benjamin Christopher, Rusk Band Boosters

Alicia Duran, Rusk Band Boosters; Jerry Smith Memorial Scholarship

Franch Hooper, Rusk Band Boosters

Jeremy Lavergne, Rusk Band Boosters

Shatira Polk, Rusk Band Boosters

Jacob Kyle Sinclair, Rusk Band Boosters

Taylor Watson, Rusk Band Boosters

Brittney Session Amy Serrato, RHSAA Bob Francis Scholarship

Rachel Mahaffey, Collin Carroll Lions Club Scholarship

Aaron Corley, Rotary Club; Southern Cherokee Federal Credit Union

Cambry Blakemore, Jerry Smith Memorial Scholarship

Kevin Kadlecek, University of Texas at Tyler Patriot Scholarship; 2006, 2007, 2008 Cherokee County Wildlife Contest Scholarship; San Antonio Livestock Show scholarship; Cherokee County Deer Assn. scholarship.