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February 27, 2015 Counselors, The Danville Boyle County Scholarship Foundation Board has made some changes to the application. I have outlined the changes as well as some criteria that we wanted to make all of the participating schools aware. PLEASE use the updated DBSF Application that is attached or posted on the DBCF website. Application Changes
If you as a counselor decide that you are accepting the applications from the students for submission to the DBSF Board, please make sure they are post marked April 1st. Encourage the applicants to notify their appraisal writers that there is a deadline for receiving the Appraisal form, as well as, to mail them directly to the DBSF Board. If we do not receive two (2) completed appraisals from a student, we will notify you so that you can follow up with the student. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 859-583-5386 or tensgal22@gmail.com. I would appreciate it if you would not give my contact information directly to the students. Sincerely, Lauren Serey DBSF Scholarship Chair |
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Danville-Boyle County Scholarship Foundation announces winners
Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:02 am The Danville-Boyle County Scholarship Foundation has awarded 67 scholarships totaling $34,500 for the academic year 2014-2015. Recipients received the monetary awards July 10 at Danville Country Club. Students and parents attended the awards reception. The foundation, formerly an affiliate of the Dollars for Scholars Foundation, is comprised of local community volunteers whose sole purpose is to provide local scholarship support. During its 11 years of operation, the foundation has awarded more than $300,000 to 550 students from this area. The foundation also manages the John Arnold Memorial Scholarship, the Benjamin Bright-Moran Memorial Scholarship, and the American Association of University Women Bradley Memorial Scholarship. The John Arnold Scholarship went to Kneisha Johnson, a graduate of Danville High School; the Benjamin Bright-Moran Scholarship went to Danielle Mason, a graduate of Boyle County High School; and the AAUW Virginia and Frances Bradley Memorial Scholarship went to Malyssa Hicks, also a graduate of Boyle County High School. Other scholarship recipients were Taylor Walker-Smith, Jacob Crowell, Bryce Marshall, John Henderson, Benjamin Hunt, Samantha Allen, Leah England, Alivia Harris, Daniel Crall, Lakin Wren, Hannah Robertson, Micayla Kelly, Lauren Richards, Heather Sublett, Alyssa Porter, Benjamin Kendrick, Kaitlyn Jackson, Stephanie Oliver, James Lane, Taylor Stewart, Haley McCowen, Holli Hester, Savannah Hobbs, Kylie Cooper, Ashleigh Koch, Kathryn Combs, Hannah Sims, Nicholas Serey, Whitney Alford, Cierra Hawkins, Miranda Wray, Zachary Tarter, Brendon Ballard, Bailey Carson, Sabrina Hendricks, Makensie Wray, Shayla Smith, Lindsey Dadisman, Shante Glover, Paul Robertson, Joshua Singleton, Ashley Dadisman, Logan Cortis Bailey Fowler, Zachary Wilson, Dazhon Jackson, Mary Hubbard, Frances Lackney, Justice Leavell, Laken Grey, Brianna Walls, Collin Pierson, Kyaira Prewitt, Essence Grey, Asia Burgess, Ace Ray, Kayla Todd, Alyssa Martin, Evan Cole, Cody Boone, Destinee Meeser, Morgan Cooper, Logan Ellis and Anna Morrow. Many of the scholarships are sponsored by individuals and businesses within Boyle County, and the foundation conducts an annual golf scramble as a fundraiser each year. This year’s golf scramble will be Sept. 8 at Danville Country Club. For more information, contact the foundation at 141 N. Third St., Suite 1, Danville, KY 40422 or at www.dbcscholarship.org. or info@dbcscholarship.org. |
John William Hudson Jr.
Mr. John Hudson was a crucial part of developing Danville / Boyle County Scholarship. I got to know John through my father John Lockhart who also believed in this scholarship program. Mr. Hudson will be missed but not forgotten thanks to all of his hard work. Brian Lockhart ___________________________________________________________________ John William Hudson Jr., of Danville, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Born Oct. 26, 1940, in Greeneville, Tenn., he was the son of the late John William and Margorie Cates Hudson. He also was predeceased by his grandparents, Keith Peak and Mary Sherfey Hudson and Arthur Alexander and Lola Burke Cates. John attended public schools in Jefferson City, Tenn., and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Tennessee
where he was a three year letterman on the football team. He went on to
play in the Senior Bowl and the Blue-Grey Bowl prior to joining the BC
Lions professional football team in Vancouver, British Columbia. John retired from a career in education, most recently as superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville. He also was superintendent of the Central North Carolina School for the Deaf and the South Dakota School for the Deaf in Sioux Falls, S.D. As a teacher and coach he led the Tennessee School for the Deaf to national championships in football and track and field. He also taught at the Louisiana School for the Deaf. After retirement, he served two terms as magistrate on the Boyle County Fiscal Court. John was a member, deacon and elder of The Presbyterian Church, past president of the Danville Rotary Club and a past member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. During the Kentucky Bicentennial Celebration in 1992, John was chosen to portray Gov. Isaac Shelby and rode a horse into many Kentucky towns during the celebration. Along with many other civic activities, John was instrumental in the founding of the Dollars for Scholars scholarship program. John is survived by his wife of 51 years, Charlotte Adams Hudson; a daughter, Bechinger Hudson Martin of Murfreesboro, Tenn; two sons, John William Hudson III (Shelley) and Thomas Wyatt Hudson, both of Nashville; five sisters, Jane Evelyn Hudson, Mary Lola Skeen (David), Lillian Elizabeth Gardner, and Marjorie Keith Helton (Les), all of Jefferson City, Tenn., and Julie Ann Warren of Centreville, Va.; and two granddaughters, Bechinger Taylor Martin and Sydney Charlotte Martin. The funeral service will be 4 p.m. Saturday at The Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Jim Stewart and the Rev. Tommy Taylor will officiate. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. Saturday prior to the service. A memorial stone will be placed in Rocky Valley Baptist Church Cemetery, Flat Gap, Tenn. Memorial donations are suggested to the Danville-Boyle County Scholarship Foundation Inc. (formerly known as Dollars For Scholars), 141 N. Third St., Danville, Ky. 40422, or the charity of one’s choice. The online memorial and guestbook is provided at www.stithfuneralhome.net. |
Report 2012 Annual DFS Golf Event
Twenty teams competed at the beautiful Danville Country Club, Monday September 10 at a 9:30 am shotgun start with excellent weather to greet the players. The Club served lunch and when play was completed, the scores of three teams were awarded gift certificate prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd places.
Third place went to the team of Scott Bischoff, David Todd, Bart Johnson & Darrell Engle, with a net score of 53.37 strokes. Second place went to the team of Ken Garcia, Alex Acosta and Brian Lockhart with a net score of 52.62 strokes. First place went to the team of Jason Hurt, Troy Wheeler, Charlie Hester and Curt Demrow with a net score of 51.75 strokes. Congratulations to the winners.
Special event winners were as follows: Closest to the pin on #2, Leroy Horn. Closest to pin on # 9, Mickey Glover. Straightest drive on #11, Gary Lane. Closest to the pin on #12, Dennis McWilliams. Closest to the pin on #16, Blake Davis.
This annual golf outing, sponsored by The Danville/Boyle County Dollars for Scholars Foundation, raises funds for scholarship support for young people of the community. This year’s event will provide scholarship support in 2013. Corporate sponsors @ $500 were Danville Office Equipment, Charlotte & John Hudson and Steve & Mimi Becker. Teams sponsored by business or others were Kentucky Trust Co., Selfrefind, McKinney Brown Funeral Home, Preston Pruitt Funeral Home, Hugh Hines III, Equipment Sales & Rentals, United Structural Systems and Bluegrass Team.
Many hole sponsors participated. They were: Ace Hardware, Bowlarama, Bottle Shop, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Montgomery, Prudential-Geurrant Real Estate (2), Perryville Furniture Outlet, Beto & Bogardus, A 1 Concrete, Tye Financial Group, Webster Orthodontics, Campbell’s Sanitation, Edward Jones-Joe Bunch, Commonwealth Urology, Danville Office Equipment, Hometown Tire, Inter County Energy, Jim-N-I Storage, Kirby's Signs, M& K Asphalt, Northwestern Mutual, Packs Nursery, Sears of Danville, SDS Service, State Farm Ins, Terry Taylor, Clay Stuart, John & Shelley Hudson, R. R. Donnelley, Jill Wildenberg, Lexington Cut Stone, Sheene Electric, Logan Company, Coldwell-Banker VIP Realty, Rich Ketelhohn, Papa John's, Bluegrass Biomedical, Kentucky Trust Co., Major's Floor Covering, Campbell's HVAC, Barber Cabinet Co., Ayres Custom Homes and Wilcher’s Porter Paints.
Additionally, Burke’s Bakery, Barb Lockhart, Jordan’s Wallcovering & Framing, Maple Tree Gallery, Frame Cellar, Farmers National Bank, Centre College Athletics, Danville Office Equipment, Baskin-Robbins, Inter County Energy, Troy Pence, Louisville Slugger Co. and others provided food and items for prizes.
The Danville/Boyle County Dollars for Scholars Foundation Board of Directors, Ted Baker, Steve Becker, Jim Sullivan, Evelyn G. Page, Nellie McKnight, John Hudson, Barbara Lockhart, Bill Owens, Lauren Serey, Bill Shaver and Tom Tye, wish to thank all who participated and contributed to this year’s event. |
Foundation has awarded $170K in scholarships in seven years
New program offers more opportunities for scholarship donors, recipients
New program offers more opportunities for scholarship donors, recipients By HERB BROCK Scholarships often do more than provide money. They also can tell stories. Take the story told by a scholarship established under the auspices of Dollars for Scholars, a new local “clearinghouse” for scholarships. It’s the tale of the short but inspirational life of John C. Arnold. Arnold was about as active as any member of the Danville High School Class of 1986. “He played soccer, ran cross country, was in the band and acted in plays, and also held his own in the classroom,” said his sister Mimi Arnold Becker of Danville. “He was just a well-rounded high school student and all-around good kid.” And he also was a young man with a very serious asthma condition – one that took his life less than a year after he had graduated from DHS. “He went on to (the University of Kentucky) and was doing OK in school. He didn’t participate in a lot of activities like he had in high school, instead focusing his attention and energy on his classes,” said Becker, adding that her brother carried a small oxygen tank in a flight bag at all times.” In March 1987, Arnold was heading home from Lexington to Danville when his breathing became labored, he had to pull off onto the side of the road. After years of bravely battling the asthma, the disease finally had taken it’s toll. Arnold died in the car before rescue personnel could get to him. But Arnold came back to life, in a sense, on Saturday night on the stage of Newlin Hall in the Norton Center for the Arts at Centre College. The occasion was the commencement of DHS Class of 2003 and, during the ceremony, one of the graduates, Mitch Massaro, was given a scholarship memorializing the ’86 DHS grad – the first John C. Arnold Memorial Scholarship, established and endowed by Mimi Arnold Becker and the rest of the Arnold family. The ceremony was doubly special but was also bittersweet for the Becker and Arnold families. Not long after the Arnold scholarship was awarded, his nephew, Paul Becker, who is the son of Mimi and Steve Becker, received his diploma. Just before the graduation, however, Becker’s father, Paul Arnold, the patriarch of the family, died. “How wonderful it was to see my brother and my son honored at the same ceremony. It was an occasion we will always remember and cherish,” Mimi Becker said. “It also helped ease the pain of losing Dad.” Under rules for the scholarship, Massaro will receive a total of $4,000 for four years as long as he remains in good standing at the college he will be attending. He will receive $1,000 a year; it is renewable on a year-to-year basis for four years. The committee that oversees the awarding of the Arnold scholarship is comprised of John Arnold’s former music teacher, Alice Clarke; his former soccer coach, Gary Reynolds; and DHS counselor David McAfee. The Arnold scholarship is the first scholarship awarded through the Dollars for Scholars program. According to its founders, Dollars for Scholars is a new and different kind of scholarship program for Boyle County donors and recipients. The wide array of post-secondary scholarships are offered local high school graduates, including those awarded by the colleges they will be attending, those given by various social-service clubs and those memorial scholarships awarded during graduation ceremonies. An example of a recently-established scholarship similar to the Arnold scholarship is one set up a couple of years ago in the honor of the late philanthropist Lottie Ellis. Under the Hudson-Ellis Scholarship Fund, which is overseen by the Bluegrass Community Foundation in Lexington, one local male and one local female high school graduate receives a $4,000 scholarship that is renewable annually. A more wide-ranging umbrella-like scholarship program that is virtually the same as Dollars for Scholars was established last year in Lincoln County and already “hundreds of thousands of dollars” have been donated to scholarship set up under the program’s auspices, said Dollars for Scholar president, Bill Erwin. The Lincoln program “essentially is what ours will be like” in that it is of, by, and for local people and will offer or serve as a conduit for a number of different scholarships, Erwin said. The Hudson-Ellis program is different in that it offers a single scholarship with specific rules for two students a year and, while decisions on award winners are made by a committee of local people, it is overseen by a Lexington organization, he said. “Dollars for Scholars is a program that is founded and funded by local people, overseen and managed by local people and for local students, “ Erwin said. “It’s a grassroots program that offers local people to give tax-deductible gifts at the local level.” Dollars for Scholars offers more opportunities for both donors and recipients, he said. “Donors can donate to existing scholarships or help establish, endow and design new ones or simply give their money without designating where or for whom it goes,” Erwin said. “Scholarships can be general and offered to students at local high schools or they can be very specific, given to a certain school based on field of study, extracurricular activity or economic condition. They will be students going to technical or trade schools as well as college. “Some scholarships will be based on academic merit, others will not. Some scholarships will be based on economic need, others will not. They can be for average students who do not have college potential. They can be for students who may have the wherewithal to pay for college but deserve to be awarded a scholarship based on their superior academic performance.” Erwin noted that there are several scholarships available to local students but many of them “go to the same students.” “A lot of the criteria for many of the scholarships are the same or similar and that means many of them go to a handful of students,“ he said. “The goal of our program is to serve as a local clearinghouse for scholarships and to help develop a number of different kinds of scholarships. “We want to create the situation where just about any local high school graduate can go to a college or a trade school or any other post-secondary education program that wants to.” A single application process will be developed whereby students seeking or being nominated for scholarships may have their names put on a list and then be considered for several scholarships at the same time, said Erwin. Dollars for Scholars, whose vice president is former Kentucky School for the Deaf superintendent John Hudson, has three boards – publicity and marketing, headed by Jenny Watkins of the Idea Farm; fund-raising, headed by former Pikeville College President Bill Owens; and awards. Also involved in the program are the counselors at the local high schools and Danville school board member Steve Becker, Mimi’s husband and Paul’s father, and Preston Miles of the Boyle County school board. A big role is being played by local banker Greg Caudill, who is in charge of fund-raising. Erwin noted that already $1,000 has been raised, and several fund-raisers are being planned. But the program’s first product – the John C. Arnold scholarship – was entirely funded by the late DHS grad’s family. While Erwin hopes many other local people use Dollars for Scholars to create similar scholarships, he doubts there will be one that can match the Arnold scholarship for its emotional impact. “The (Arnold scholarship) is about a young man who was seriously hampered by a disease but made the most of the short life he was given,” he said. “Thanks to the Arnold family, John Arnold’s inspirational life will live on every year for years to come.” Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2003 |
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Arnold scholarship 'means a lot' to Hoover
Arnold scholarship 'means a lot' to Hoover By HERB BROCK Adam Hoover is the 2004 recipient of the John C. Arnold Memorial Scholarship. Hoover, son of Tom and Lynn Taylor Tye and Kerry Hoover, all of Danville, graduated in May from Danville High School and was ranked as one of the top three students in the DHS class of 2004. For his outstanding academic record and involvement in numerous extracurricular activities, he recently was awarded the $1,000 memorial scholarship from the Danville/Boyle County Dollars for Scholars Foundation. Hoover, who will be attending George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in the fall, is the second recipient of the Arnold memorial award; Mitch Massaro, a member of the 2003 DHS graduating class, was the first. Massaro's scholarship was renewed for his second year in college. Hoover, Massaro and the winners of 17, $500 Dollars for Scholars scholarships were honored at a ceremony Wednesday night at the Toy Box Deli. Hoover was both honored and humbled at receiving the Arnold award, named for a 1986 DHS graduate who died of an illness a year later. "It's quite an honor to receive this scholarship, and it means a lot knowing the kind of person that John Arnold was," said Hoover. "I had heard but didn't know that much about him until I got the scholarship. Since then I have learned a lot about him and his life and found out he was an outstanding person." The person who provided most of Hoover's education on the subject was Hoover's mother. Tye attended Danville High School with Arnold's brother, Paul Arnold, and sister, Mimi Arnold Becker. "I was in the same class as Paul, and Mimi and I were in the band together," said Tye. "I've been a close friend of the Arnold and Becker families for years - close enough to feel the hurt they all suffered when John died," said Tye. John Arnold was about as active a student as any in his class at DHS. In addition to performing well in the classroom, he played soccer, ran cross country and was a member of the marching band. "He was just a well-rounded high school student and all-around good kid," said Mimi Arnold Becker. Asthma took his life Arnold also was a young man with a very serious asthma condition - a condition that took his life less than a year after he graduated from DHS. Following graduation, Arnold went on to attend the University of Kentucky. He made decent marks in his classes but decided not to participate in extracurricular activities. He carried a small oxygen tank in a flight bag at all times, and wanted to conserve all of his energy for academics, according to Becker. In March 1987, during the second semester of his freshman year
at UK, Arnold was heading from Lexington to his home in Danville when
his breathing became labored. He pulled over to one side of the road. He
died in the car before rescue personnel could reach him. "He made the most of his life and did it while battling a
serious illness," said Hoover, who also played soccer at DHS as well as
being a member of the school's forensics and academic teams and active
in the National Honor Society. "He's quite a role model." And thanks to
his mother, Hoover now knows the man behind the model. Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2004 |
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