Volume 6, Number 49 • 28 Pages
MARCH 25,2004
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Maggie Shoobridge
IREDELL CITIZEN
McLain Mallory is used to
winning. She is the all-time lead
ing scorer for the Statesville High
School Lady Greyhounds, won
awards for her harp performances,
was the Superintendent’s choice
for Governor’s School and has
now claimed the highly coveted
2004 Morehead Scholarship.
The scholarship was just as covet
ed in 1975 when her mom, then
Mary Sherrill, was one of the first
women to receive it. Until that
year the scholarship was awarded
only to men. Mary’s photograph,
which hangs with other Morehead
winners in the hall of SHS, will
soon be joined by her daughter’s.
Although McLain is interested in
healthcare and her mother is a
pharmacist, she never felt any
pressure to follow in her mother’s
footsteps; they are both leaders,
one of the main attributes looked
for in an individual when award
ing the honor.
The winners for this year were
selected through an intensive nom
ination and interview process that
began last fall when more than
1,500 high school seniors nation
wide and in Great Britain were
nominated.
The 40 selected were chosen for
their capacity to lead and motivate
fellow students, scholastic ability
and extracurricular attainments,
moral force of character and phys
ical vigor.
“This was by far the most compet
itive selection process in the histo
ry of the Morehead Program,” said
Charles E. Lovelace, Jr., executive
director of the Morehead
Foundation. “This year’s finalist
,group was so accomplished and
talented, it was extremely difficult
to select only 40.”
With this scholarship, McLain will
enroll as a freshmen at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
next fall and will have the oppor
tunity for international travel and
internships as well as summers full
of adventure and learning. It starts
this summer when the scholarship
pays for McLain’s Outward Bound
trip, but she is not exactly sure
where to as yet.
“I may be snow sledding in Alaska
or kayaking at the coast,” she said.
“I put in for my 10 top Outward
Bound choices and should hear
this month where I will be for
three weeks this summer.”
With her attitude, wherever she lands,
she is sure to come out on top. She
offers the following advice to
youngsters hoping to follow in her
footsteps.
“Find something you love to do
and pursue it fully,” she said.
Don’t do anything halfway.”
Morehead Scholar, McLain Mallory, is shown beneath a photo of her mother, Mary Sherrill Mallory,
and other Statesville High School Morehead recipients. She is the daughter of James and Mary Mallory.
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