Shauna Ruud accepted a $5000 SAWD College Scholarship. Shauna is seen here with her father, Brian Ruud, and Scott Hill with Jack Link’s Beef Jerky.
2011 SAWD College Scholarship Winners
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hanks to the support of The SAWD Education Fund and Annual Silent Auction, The Southern has been able to provide college scholarships for Southern member employees and their families. The Southern was pleased to announce at the 2011 Southern Showcase and Annual Meeting the winners of the 2011 SAWD College Scholarships. This year the applicants were asked to write an essay on the topic, “If you, as a member of the “Social Networking Generation” could influence its future, what would you change in sites like Facebook and Twitter and their usage?” We had 41 applicants in 2011, all with creative and very interesting essays. Choosing just three was not an easy task for the SAWD Scholarship jury! The three $5000 scholarships were won by Katharine Zolot who
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attends University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, whose father is Samuel Zolot with Lorillard Tobacco, Heather Flesher at the West Virginia U. School of Medicine, whose father is Jeff Flesher with Sledd Co., and Shauna Ruud from Northland College, whose father is Brian Ruud with Jack Link’s Beef Jerky. Daniel Muldrew who attends Mountwest Community and Technical College won the $2000 Technical School Scholarship. Daniel is also a Sledd Co. family member. We want to congratulate these scholarship winners! The Southern will be announcing the 2012 winners at the Southern meeting in New Orleans this May/June. Best of luck to all who applied writing an essay on the topic “Should Tobacco Be Legal?” (Read Shauna’s winning essay on page 67.)
SAWD 2012