1998

Myers scholarship recipients East Central Community College freshman Heathe r Anderson (third from left), a graduate of Philadel– phia High School and Mark Eakes (fourth from left), a graduate of Neshoba Central High School, are the first recipients of the Ben Myers Memorial Scilolarships to attend ECCC. Also pictured are, from left, Randall E. Lee, ECCC dean of students; and M, ers' parents Jewel Parks and Glenn Myers, both of Philadelphia. The scholarships were established by family members and friends of the popular 1997 ECCC graduate who lost his life in an automobtle acctdent on July 9, 1998. While a student ·at East Central, the Dean's List scholar was selected "Mr. ECCC" and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, War– rior Corps, and various other organizations. He was a so a member of the Warrior golf team which won the Region 23, Division Ill Champtonshtp his sophomore season . Ben was a 1995 graduate of Neshoba Central High School where he served as student body president and was voted "Most Outstanding Senior." An accounting major, Myers was a senior at the Unive'rsity of Mississippi where he was a Dean's List scholar and a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes·and the Ambassadors, a vol– unteer student recruiting group. Recipients of the Ben Myers f'v1emorial Scholarships receive $500 and must be a high school graduate from either Nashoba Central, Philadelphia or Choctaw Central. For more information contact the ECCC Dean of Students Office, phone 635-211 1 or call toll free 1-877- G0-2-ECCC ext. 204.

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