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FCHS seniors recognized with scholarships
The senior recognition night last week didn’t draw a huge crowd, and the number of scholarships were down over previous years.
But the enthusiasm was strong.
Guidance Counselor Melanie Copeland said the financial impact of COVID-19 on donors had cut into the number of scholarships.
Still, based in large part on the financial total of monies that students had qualified for, more than $400,000 in grants, awards and scholarships was earned by the Class of 2021, sponsor Leigh Smith said.
The senior recognition night featured one unique moment, due to the fact that the class was the first in the 14-year history of the school to have spent all their years on the Eastpoint campus,
Recognized were all the graduates who had attended classes since Kindergarten on that campus. They included Rileigh Boatwright, Layla Chisholm, Andrea Cooper, Kristin Estes, Cade Evans, Camron Evans, Marci Kelley, Caitlin Kuhner, Cheyenne Lawson, Stephen Malone, Tony Millender, Landen Millender, Jennifer Owens, Grace Patterson, Destanie Proctor, Sarah Segree, Ashton Shaw, Breaunna Shiver, Sydney Shuman, Michael Square, Makayla Varner and Charlee Winchester,
Receiving scholarships, their presenter and the amount, were:
Apalachicola Bay Charter School (Melanie Copeland) two $500
awards to Jadyn Luberto and Abigail Johnson
Apalachicola Bay Rotary Club (Cliff Butler) $1,000 award to Abigail
Johnson
Becasa Creative Careers Scholarship (Melanie Copeland) $500
award to Elizabeth McAnally
Centennial Bank (Melanie Copeland) two $500 awards to Brycin
Huckeba and Marci Kelley
Delta Kappa Gamma (Joy Floyd) $500 award to Jadyn Luberto
Florida Education Association (Melanie Copeland) $100 to
Jana Strunk
Franklin County Food and Nutrition Association (Shelly
Ingram) $500 award, in memory of Tammy Nichols, to Rebecca Shiver
Franklin County School Board (Stacy Kirvin) five $1,000
awards to Marci Kelley, Jadyn Luberto, Calea Dively, Sydney Shuman and Jana
Strunk
Franklin County Sheriffs Office (Cliff Carroll) $500 award
to Madison Smith
Friends of the Franklin County Public Library (Kathleen
Oman) $1,000 Eileen Annie Ball Scholarship to Devin Daniels
George E. Weems Memorial Scholarship (David Walker) three
$1,000 awards in memory of Douglas Creamer, to Layla Chisholm, Marci Kelley and
Eulalia Gregorio
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Florida
(Melanie Copeland) $1,000 award to Abigail Johnson
HCOLA (Brenda Ash) two $300 awards to Jarvis Turrell and
Lamarius Martin
Loretta Taylor Memorial (Cliff Carroll) $1,000 award to Abigail
Johnson
Perry and Young. P.A. (Randy Howell) $500 award to Marci
Kelley
Susan McClendon Memorial Art Scholarship (Ellen Ashdown)
$500 award to Calea Dively
Take Stock in Children (Melanie Copeland) four-year
scholarship to Elizabeth McAnally
Trinity Outreach Award in memory of Myra Ponder (Martha
Harris) New laptop computer, to Elizabeth McAnally
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.