Subscribe to our new Fayette Front Page Daily Newsletter!
You'll receive a daily email with links to the articles
we've posted on the site and on our blogs, a sprinkling of events of note
and maybe even a joke, tip or quote!
Welcome to the
Fayette
Front Page... a better side of news for the citizens of Fayette County!
First to bring you complete daily community news you can use. Enjoy some
of the best news in the county and the state of Georgia!
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as
sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as
effects.
- Henry Melville
The
Fayette Front Page offers a FREE page to all non-profits!
Visit the
Directory to see
more civic groups and non-profits. If you'd like to add your
non-profit organizations information to the site please
send us an email!
Six essential qualities that
are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy,
wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
5/3/08 (11:04 p.m.) Students in the Air Force Junior ROTC program at Sandy Creek
High have earned military scholarships each year since the program was
implemented. This year is no exception with two students earning full
scholarships and one gaining admission to West Point.
Sean Williams and Frank Conenna have been offered full
four-year Air Force ROTC and Navy ROTC scholarships, respectively. Williams, who
is among less than 10 percent of eligible candidates receiving the Air Force
ROTC scholarship, can use it at any college with an Air Force ROTC program.
Conenna will use his Navy ROTC scholarship to attend the Citadel in the fall.
Darius Stodghill has successfully gained admission to the
United States Military Academy at West Point. He as been accepted to attend the
preparatory school and will start classes this fall.
These
top Air Force Junior ROTC cadets are all smiles after news of their
scholarships. (L-R) Sean Williams, Frank Conenna and Darius Stodghill.
Selection for these scholarships is very competitive and
requires the student to have a well-rounded background and be strong in
academics. All of these students started the scholarship process in the first
semester of the 2007-2008 school year. The typical military scholarship
application process includes completion of an online application; submission of
transcripts, SAT/ACT scores and extracurricular activities; a personal essay on
interest in a military career; performing specific exercises in a physical
fitness test and a one-on-one interview with a military officer.
Over the six years that the AFJROTC program has been in place
at Sandy Creek, students have earned 24 military scholarships valued at almost
two million dollars.
“It has been a pleasure working with these students for four
years and great to see their hard work pay off. I am proud of each of them and
I know the families are also very proud of their accomplishments and excited
about their promising future,” says Colonel Doug Pearson, senior aerospace
science instructor.
Seed Newsvine
