Sonneman Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Getting an education is extremely important in my family because it signifies hard work. No one in my immediate family has attended college yet and I would like to be the one that ends this cycle and graduates college. College is also important in my family because they believe that this will ensure that I will have a stable future and this is crucial to me.

Athletics has helped shape who I am as a student and as a person. To be selected for the Carl Montavon Memorial Scholarship would be a great honor that I would feel privileged to receive. Carl Montavon was a huge supporter of athletics among high school students, and I am as well for multiple reasons. Not only have the sports that I have participated in helped me physically and socially, but educationally as well. Participating in multiple sports helped motivate me to keep up my GPA for future college recruiting, and fueled my competitive drive into striving and succeeding to become valedictorian of my high school’s graduating class. Athletics taught me responsibility and respect. Not only do I value others opinions, but I make sure

Moreover, I often volunteer to do service in my community. I have been doing volunteer work for Walk for Hunger since from 2011. Also I participate many times in school food bank, which school donates food to families who need help. It was a wonderful experience because I was able to help out my community in a positive way. I like to be there for people who are in need because it shows people that I am a caring and loving them.

I would like to express my thanks to the Buster Bynum Education Scholarship for allowing me the opportunity for financial assistance through your scholarship program. Being the second child in my family to attend college, I know that college can be expensive. At the age of seventeen, I am the youngest of six children. I learned from my family that they will give me all the love in the world, but when it comes to money I have to earn it. For the past three years I’ve earned my gas and spending money working a part-time job laying sod for Mid-South Enterprises LLC. I am confident that my parents will help as much as they possibly can financially, but with the assistance from scholarships my out of pocket tuition cost can be less.

I am honored and appreciated to have been selected to receive the Jim & Phyl Woodhouse Endowed Scholarship, in the amount of $1000.

The summer of my freshman year I took a trip back to Ghana, my homeland. While I was there, I worked with some volunteer doctors at a local orphanage. My time was spent playing games with the children, helping then with their homework and just spending time with them. I assisted the doctors with a routine check-up for the children and even held the hand of a little girl while she was getting her shots. It was an enlightening experience that furthered my passion for

An experience that has made a profound impact on my life was when I directed and completed a community service project to fulfill a requirement for the Eagle Scout Award in the Boy Scouts of America. In order to competently act as coordinator for this service project, I had to develop both my interpersonal communication and leadership capabilities to a proficient level. Besides improving my professional skills, this project gave me the opportunity gain hands on experience working with groups of people who had varying skill levels. So, not only did these skills allow me to complete the project successfully, they have also proven incredibly useful throughout my academic career.

When I was 5 my life changed completely. My sister and I were abandoned by our mother and father. I was then raised by my aunt and uncle along with my grandparents. I was taken in and loved as if I was their own. I want to show them and myself that no matter what happens in life that I can succeed and accomplish anything I set my mind to. Therefore, I am pursuing an Associates degree and the first generation in my family to go to college first generation in my family to go to college.

In 2010 I had the opportunity to serve the people of South America while learning simultaneously to speak a foreign language fluently. I was able to provide assistance to families that were struggling financially, physically, and mentally and help them better their circumstances. I had the opportunity to provide food, shelter, and counsel to families and individuals who could not have done it on their own. It brought me great satisfaction because I saw life styles change and families grow closer together. Being able to see people better their situation and improve their lives brought me overwhelming feeling of satisfaction and joy.

In the fall of 2015, my twin sister and I started at Texarkana College. With the help of Texarkana College’s Presidential scholarship, we were financially able to set out to be the first in our family to graduate college. With finances always being a family struggle I grew

I have volunteered our local chart choose around my neighborhood that have partnered up with the Houston food Bank . Once a month on a Saturday the Houston food Bank sends a truck full of food and the church distributes the food to people in need around the neighborhood. I along with others would work behind the scenes and package all the food into a box and prepare for it to be distributed. Volunteering for this cause was super fulfilling. Regardless the hot weather I would wear again I knew that it was going to such a good cause. Just imagining a family who would otherwise struggle to have a meal to eat would now have a whole feast f have a whole feast ready on their table for their families.

I have two older brothers, one little sister, and one little brother. I want to be the first to not only attend a college but also to graduate and earn a degree. My older brothers never went or finished college. I want to be an example for all siblings that higher education is a necessity and is not for anyone else but yourself. The impact I hope to have in the future due to my drive is to have all my siblings earn a degree in any higher education program.

I am sincerely honored to be a recipient of the William D. Kavan Scholarship for fall, 2017. I'd like to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your generosity. Your gift will allow me to continue with my higher education and fulfill my lifelong dream of obtaining my undergraduate degree. Specifically, your gift of scholarship enables me to continue working towards completing concurrent major programs – a B.S. in Political Science, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (concentration on Justice Studies and Sociology). I am particularly proud of being recognized on the Dean’s List last semester, my first term spring 2018 GPA of 4.22, and my recent induction into the Alpha Iota Sigma Honor Society.

I would do anything for my family. I have already had one older sister graduate from IUPUI less than a year or so ago and a younger sister who is in her junior year of high school with a world of endless possibilities ahead of her. Although there are only three of us in total it is still a huge expense to pay for college. Both my parents have student loans to pay off and now that I work I am paying off my own student loans. I know my family has financial issues so although they are my parents I will give them money to pay for things such as my student loans or sometimes a car payment one or twice. I would do anything for my family because they are the biggest support in my life when it comes to following my dreams. I do not have many siblings

I take pride in my experience at a shelter for the less fortunate because I learned so much about life in just a few hours. I believe if it was not for this experience I would not be the person I am today. This experience molded me into a better person.