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LILLY ENDOWMENT Community
2022 Lilly Scholars
The Wayne County Foundation is pleased to announce two students were selected to be 2022 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars representing Wayne County. Emily Cox from Lincoln High School and Garrett Walther from Centerville High School have been selected due to their exemplary academic achievement, service to others, and impactful extracurricular involvement. By the end of Emily’s junior year, she had a 4.30 grade point average. Some of her extracurricular activities include Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Key Club, Business Professionals of America, National Honor Society, as well as participating on Lincoln’s volleyball and tennis teams. Emily describes herself as a ‘passionate and goal-oriented’ individual.
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Emily plans to attend Indiana Wesleyan University to study nursing.
During Garrett’s time at Centerville, he compiled a 4.01 grade point average, participated in Eastern Indiana Model Legislature, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Indiana Junior Beef Cattle Association, 4-H, National Honor Society, and track and field. Since he was little, Garrett ‘lives and breathes his family farm in every instant’.
Garrett plans to attend Purdue University to study agricultural economics.