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Seniors picked up more
than $300,000 in scholar-
ships Monday at the Kings
Mountain . High School
Awards night at B.N. Barnes .
Auditorium.
Civic organizations,
churches, local colleges, the
U.S. armed services and in-
dividuals in the community
together awarded nearly 100
‘scholarships to scores of stu-
dents at the event, which fea-
tured dozens of presenters
and speakers.
The awards night also
recognized athletic achieve-
ments, students with perfect
attendance and academically
excellent underclassmen.
American Legion Out-
standing Senior Boy: Phillip
Quinn. Outstanding Senior
Girl: Carsyn Bolin. Kiwanis
~ Good Citizen: Jonthan Long.
Ralph Schuessler Award:
Paula Goforth. State Em-
ployees Credit Union Schol-
arship: Kellie Ford. Dover
Foundation Scholarships:
Michael Cerjan and Wilson
Rikard. Dean B. & Carolyn
L. Westmoreland Scholar-
ship: John Bridges.
Coach Blalock Scholar-
ship: William Sellers. Coach
Bill Bates Scholarship to
Gardner-Webb University:
Wilson Rikard. Gardner-
Webb University Scholar-
ships: ‘Emily Bell, Dustin
Gilbert, Cody Griffith, Re-
bekah Miles, Wilson Rikard,
Will Sellers, Jane’t Stewart,
Paige Stiles. LeGrand-Ware
Scholarship: William Sell-
ers. Joseph B. Freeman
Scholarships: Dustin
Burgess, Taylor Hollifield,
Jane’t Stewart. Gardner-
Webb University Junior
Scholars: Madison Pillado
and Adam Satterfield.
Cleveland Community
College Scholarships: Tyler
Herndon, Joseph Glenn
Lewis, Kaitlyn Saldo. U.S.
Marine Corps Awards:
Michael ~~ Cerjan, Jada
Mauney, Logan McGill, and
Emily Whitaker. Kings
Mountain Student Scholar-
ships: Kellie Ford, Wilson
Rikard, William Sellers. Ki-
wanis Club Scholarship:
Kaitlyn Saldo. Desman
Thompson Scholarship:
Phillip Quinn.
Kings Mountain Rotary
Club Scholarships:
Wyneisha Bell, - Andrew
Buchanan, Kellie Ford,
Phillip Quinn, Wilson
Rikard. Bridges Hardware
Career and Technical Educa-
tion Student of the Year:
Jonathan Long. Myra Mc-
Neely ' Scholarship from
Cleveland County Arts
Council: Tyshawn Gardner.
Sandy Kistler Memorial
CTE Scholarship: Tyler
Reller. Shelby Negro
Woman’s Club Scholarship:
Daria Hart. Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc. Scholar-
ships: Alicia Reid and Jes-
sica Smith.
Kings Mountain Hospital
Auxiliary Scholarships: Kel-
lie Ford and Wilson Rikard.
Audacian Club Scholarship:
Daria Hart. Mt. Olive Baptist
Church Educational Assis-
tance Awards: Jordan Elliott
and Jessica Smith. Grover
Woman’s Club Scholarships:
Kaitlyn Saldo and Alyssa
White. . PEO Recognition
Award: Emily Whitaker. Ce-
cilia Music Club Scholar-
ship: Emily Bell. First
Baptist Lawndale Church
Scholarship: Naeemah
James.
Male Athlete of the Year:
Markel Hemphill. Female
Athlete of the Year: Cassie
Morton. Female Moun-
taineer Career Athlete:
Alyssa White. Male Moun-
taineer Career Athletes:
Jonathan Clark and William
Sellers. Chuck Gordon Ded-
ication Award: Phillip
Quinn.
North Carolina Division
of Veterans Affairs Scholar-
ship: Brianna Stewart. Salem
College Heritage Scholar-
ship: Daria Hart. ADK Helen
Logan Memorial Teachers
Scholarships: Carsyn Bolin
and William Sellers. Delta
Kappa Gamma Beta Epsilon
Chapter Scholarship: Carsyn
Bolin. Principal’s Pick Art
Award: Landon Keeter. Lutz
Foundation Scholarships:
Phillip Quinn and Jonathan
Long.
Golden LEAF Scholar-
ship: Taylor Hollifield. Carl
F. Mauney Memorial Schol-
arship: Andrew Buchanan.
Parker Hannifan Scholar-
ships: Andrew Buchanan
and Mike Cerjan. Jim
Scruggs Scholarship: Paige
Harrison. Kings Mountain
Woman’s Club Sallie
Southall Cotton Scholarship:
Jonathan Long. Bethware
Progressive Club Scholar-
ship: Hannah Wyte. DAR
Good Citizen: Andrew
Buchanan.
DAR Endowed Scholar-
ship: Andrew Buchanan.
DAR Christopher Columbus
History Essay Contest win-
ner: Erica Carpenter. K.M.
Hall of Fame Scholarships;
Wyneisha Bell, Jonathan
Clark, Taylor Hollifield, D.J.
Moody, Phillip Quinn, Wil-
son Rikard and Alyssa
White. Cleveland County
Adv. Manufacturing Acad-
emy Certificates: Tyler Mar-
tin and David Story.
Cleveland County Realtors
Jim Chitty Scholarship:
Wyneisha Bell. Nashville
Auto Diesel College Select
Scholarship: Chandler Bell.
Chuck Earley Tech Prep
Scholarship: Tyler Reller.
Settle Community Scholar-
ship: Kellie Ford. Shelby
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Scholarships awarded to KMHS students
Exchange Club Ace Awards:
Kayla Heisler & Jessica
Henderson. Wendy’s High
School Heisman Athlete
Awards: Wyneisha Bell and
Phillip Quinn. :
Perfect Attendance
Awards: Olivia Blalock,
Tevin Friday, Markel
Hemphill, Vincent James Jr.,
Anthony Samuel Jr., William
Sellers, Larry Stacey Jr.
Other senior scholarships
and awards:
$250 renewable Ministe-
rial Board Scholarship:
Emily Bell. $1,000 N.C.
Baptist Scholarship: Emily
Bell. $300 FCA Scholarship:
Carsyn Bolin. Swimming
scholarship to Lenoir-Rhyne
University: Riley Brock.
$4,500 IAPD Charitable
Foundation Scholarship: An-
drew Buchanan. $12,000 an-
nual Academic Scholarship
to Wingate University: Han-
nah Chapman. $6,500 N.C.
Need Based Scholarship:
Hannah Chapman. $500
Theatre Scholarship to
Lenoir-Rhyne University:
Justin Chapman. $1,500
Curtiss Wright Scholarship:
Kellie Ford.
$2,370 North Carolina State
University merit grant: Kel-
. lie Ford. Eugene Lang
Scholarship & Scholar
Award Scholarship to Eu-
gene Lang The New School
for Liberal Arts in New
York: Kayla Heisler.
$10,000 annual merit schol-
arship to Mars Hill College:
Katie Holland. $1,000 N.C.
Baptist Scholarship: Katie
Holland. $12,000 annual Ac-
ademic Scholarship to
Wingate University: Taylor
Hollifield.
$55,000 Merit Scholar-
ship to the Art Institute of
Raleigh/Durham: Naeemah
James. $13,500 annual Aca-
demic Scholarship to
Wingate University: Jamie
McGinnis. $1,000 N.C. Bap-
tist Scholarship: Jamie
McGinnis. $14,000 annual
Academic Scholarship to
Wingate University: Jordan
McMillin, $12,000 annual
Academic Scholarship to
Wingate University: Kaitlyn
McNeilly.
$12,000 annual Aca-
demic Scholarship to
Wingate University: Sydney
Morris. $9,000 annual Aca-
demic Scholarship to Lenoir-
Rhyne University: Taylor
Norman. $1,500 Wells Fargo
Scholarship: Phillip Quinn.
$8,000 annual Provost
Scholarship to- Montreat
College: Jack Peddycord III.
$500 Kings Mountain
Touchdown Club Scholar-
ship: Wilson Rikard. $1,000.
N.C. Baptist Scholarship:
Wilson Rikard.
Baseball Scholarship to
Gardner-Webb University:
Will Sellers. $1,000 N.C.
Baptist Scholarship: Will
Sellers. $500 Ben Beam
Scholarship: C.J. Warren.
$500 Cleveland County
Farm Bureau Scholarships:
Austina Dean & Taylor Hol-
lifield. N.C. State Park
Scholarship nominees: Kel-
lie Ford and Phillip Quinn.
Morehead-Cain Award
Nominee to UNC-Chapel
Hill: Kellie Ford. Nominee
for Charlotte Observer All-
Star Scholar Senior of the
Year Scholarship: Michael
Cerjan. Nominees for Char-
lotte Observer All-Star
Scholars for Kings Mountain
High School: Andrew
Buchanan and Michael Cer-
jan.
The Shelby Star’s Distin-
guished Senior Awards:
Tyler Thompson for Foreign
Language; Justin Chapman
for © Performing ' Arts;
Jonathan Long for Career-
Technical; Kayla Heisler for
Language Arts; Dustin
Burgess for Science;
Michael Cerjan for Mathe-
matics; Michael Brunswick
for Social Science; and
Ethan Anderson for Visual
Arts.
The following 34 seniors
each received a $500 A.
Mickey Church Scholarship
from the Cleveland County
Educational Foundation for
having achieved a 4.0 cumu-
lative weighted GPA: Yese-
nia Abrego, Ethan Anderson,
‘Matthew Allen, Wyneisha
Bell, Carsyn Bolin, Sara
Borov, Michael Brunswick,
Andrew Buchanan, Dustin
Burgess, Michael Cerjan,
Justin Chapman, Kelsie
Davis, Courtney Elmore,
Kaylee Faile, Kellie Ford,
Daria Hart, Taylor Holli-
field, Chase Hullender,
Chelsie Humphries,
Da’Zohna Jarrett, Jonathan
Long, Jada Mauney, Re-
bekah Miles, Logan McGill,
Jamie McGinnis, Jordan
McMillin, D.J. Moody,
Phillip Quinn, Tyler Reller,
Wilson Rikard, Jane’t Stew-
art, Emily Whitaker, Stephe-
nie Wright and Hannah
Wyte.
The following under-
. classmen have either already
attended the following pro-
grams this school year will
be attending the them this
summer or next school year:
Governors School of
North Carolina: Will Boyles.
North Carolina School of
Science and Mathematics:
Ivette Fernandez. Summer
Ventures in Math and Sci-
ence: Will Boyles, Katie
_ Ellis, Morgan Short, Made-
line Skeith. Broyhill Youth
Leadership Camp: Erica
Carpenter, Mallory Harris,
Rachel Mower, and Tanner
Orders. Tarheel Girls State: -
Elaina Francis and Alayna
Pearson.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Phillip Quinn receives scholarship at KMHS Awards Night.
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Jada Mauney receives award at Kings Mountain High School
Kaitlyn Saldo receives award at KMHS Awards Night.
North School
Pep Rally
On Tuesday, May 28, North Elementary School students and staff participated in a Pep Rally
to encourage third and fourth grade students to do well on their EOG tests. Each grade level
presented an individual cheer. Teachers and support staff also presented an encouraging
cheer. Students participated in songs and chants cheering students to work hard to “Pass the
EOGs!”
Kings Mountain High School freshmen received awards at the Feshman Academy Awards
ceremony May 23 at B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
Students recognized at KMHS
More than 100 9th grade
students accepted awards at
the Freshman “Academy
Awards” ceremony at Kings
Mountain High School on
May 23.
Recognitions included:
students achieving a mini-
mum 3.75 GPA, Scholar
Athletes, Perfect Attendance,
and those earning Microsoft
certification in Word, Potv-.
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erPoint, and Publisher soft-
ware programs.
Eustacia Smith, Taylor
Davis, Hannah McComas,
Jensen Fleisher, Gwen Hop-
per and Erin Calhoun won
“Starring in a Leading Role”
awards from the Freshman
Academy.
Peyton Lemmons, Emily
Howe, Hunter Ward, Kate-
lyn Tinsley, Kassie Horn and
Photograph courtesy of KMHS
| Freshman Academy Awards
Zavier Roberts picked up
“Starring in a Supporting
Role” awards.
Rounding out the cere-
monies, Cheyenne Davis,
Cody Cordle, Amber Sellers,
Austin Sipes, Marco Vargas
and Chance Frederick col-
lected “Rising New Star”
awards.