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5 Bright Students Win Shelby Lions Club Scholarship
Five Shelby Township residents heading to college this fall will have a little extra cash for books this year.
Five of Shelby Township’s brightest and best students were awarded $1,000 scholarships to help them get through their first year of college.
The recipients are as follows:
- Sarah Marks - Graduated from with a GPA of 3.618 and is attending Oakland University. Marks said she wants to be a mathematics teacher.
- Julie Roberts - Graduated from Eisenhower with a 3.606 GPA and is attending University of Detroit Mercy and will be studying civil engineering.
- Chris Brown - Graduated from Eisenhower with a GPA of 3.615 and is attending Wayne State University to study criminal justice.
- Linda Camaj - Graduated from with a 3.773 and is attending University of Michigan. Camaj will be studying medicine, and wants to be a physician.
- Cameron Herringshaw - Graduated from the Utica Center for Mathematics and Science with a GPA of 4.099 and is attending the University of Michigan to be a physician.
Every year, four students win the Shelby Lions Club's $1,000 scholarships. But the chairperson for the Shelby Township Scholarship Committee, 41-A District Court Judge Douglas Shepherd, said this year, the Lions Club was able to expand the scholarship to five recipients.
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“We thought there was a great need with the economy as it is, and we awarded an extra scholarship,” he said.
The scholarship is for students who exhibit a strong academic background as well as outstanding public service credentials.
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Requirements for the scholarship were that all students are Shelby Township residents, attended a public school and were a senior in high school during the 2010-11 school year.
The students were asked to provide school transcripts, a letter of recommendation and an essay explaining how the scholarship would help them achieve their future career goals.
And since volunteer work is one of the Lions Club’s core principals, the students had to prove their dedication to their community.
Applications for the 2012 scholarship will go out sometime in February or early March, according to Shepherd.
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