A18 • July 2017
Hoover Sun
Hoover chamber gives out $16,500 in scholarships to 2017 graduates By J O N AN D ERS O N The Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce this spring handed out $16,500 worth of scholarships to four students from Hoover and Spain Park high schools. Spain Park senior Sungkyung “ Luci” Shin received the $4,500 Matthew & D r. Abby Allen Scholarship to help her attend the U niversity of Alabama at Birmingham and study dentistry. The Allens donated $2,500 for that scholarship, and the Hoover chamber board of directors contributed another $2,000. Matthew Allen is the advertising sales manager for Starnes Publishing, which produces the Hoover Sun and 28 0 Living, among other community newspapers. Three other students received $4,000 each: Spain Park senior Madeleine Bell-Colpack ( headed to the U niversity of Montevallo to study the environment) and Hoover High seniors Kyndrah Moore ( going to U AB to study mass communications) and Julia Sasser ( going to Troy U niversity to study nursing) . Here is a bit more about each of the scholarship recipients, according to information provided by the chamber: S u n g k yu n g “ Lu c i ” S h i n : She moved from Korea to the U nited States when she was 3, first living in eorgia until coming to Alabama for this school year. Her father is pastor of the Korean Presbyterian Church, where she is the pianist and translates the Korean sermons to English for English-speaking members. She has a 4. 4 A and has the highest SAT score ( 1,3 3 0) of the Spain Park Class of 2017. She was on the tennis, swim and cross-country teams at Spain Park, was a homecoming princess, was student council treasurer, president of the Rotary Interact Club and a member of the National Honor Society and Beta Club. She also played cello for the Armstrong Atlanta Y outh O rchestra, O lathe Symphony O rchestra and Emporia State U niversity O rchestra, and she worked in a nail salon while taking five Advanced lacement classes. She wants to be a dentist for poor third-world countries.
The Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce gave out $16,500 in scholarships to four students from Hoover and Spain Park high schools this spring. On the front row, from left, are Hoover City Schools Assistant Superintendent Tera Simmons, Hoover High students Kyndrah Moore and Julia Sasser and Spain Park High students Sungkyung “Luci” Shin and Madeleine Bell-Colpack. On the back row, from left, are Hoover chamber President Jerome Morgan Jr., scholarship committee chairman Paul Dangel and chamber member and scholarship donor Matthew Allen. Photo by Jon Anderson.
Ma d e l e i n e Be l l - C o l p a c k : She spent four years in the law academy at Spain Park and was on the mock trial team as a defense attorney. She also took advanced theater and competed in the state Trumbauer Festival for three years. She also was involved in the D iamond D olls support group for the Spain Park baseball team. She wants to work for timber companies, making their clear-cutting practices sustainable, and she wants to help pass laws to require green space in all growing cities. Kyn d r a h Mo o r e : She has been involved in the Hoover High law academy and was on the mock trial team for two years. She was in the math and Spanish honor societies and
was class president in the Student overnment Association, and she has tutored math students the past two years. After her mother died last year, she has worked more than 3 0 hours per week with her father at Jake’s Soul Food Restaurant while maintaining good grades and many school activities. J u l i a S a s s e r : She was a junior and senior class officer and has served on numerous committees to help with the prom, an annual 3 K race and The Forgotten Initiative to help foster children. She was on the Hoover swim and dive team and Student Athlete Advisory Committee and was in the Hoover irls Club, ational Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society
and Hoover Belles. She volunteered with The Wellhouse ministry to help victims of sexual e ploitation and se trafficking and was a leader on the Hoover High School prayer team. She also has served as a swim coach, instructor and lifeguard at the Hoover Y MCA and takes care of children after school to earn extra money. She also had an internship to work with cancer patients at the Kirklin Clinic through the Hoover High School health care academy. Paul D angel, the chamber’s scholarship committee chairman, said the chamber increased its scholarship amounts this year from $1,500 to at least $4,000 to have more of an impact in helping students.