Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Dain Garrett Scholarship awarded to nontraditional student at USI
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Anthony King of Evansville, Indiana, is the 2007 recipient of the Dain Garrett Scholarship, a $1,000 scholarship presented during the College of Liberal Arts Honors program at the University of Southern Indiana. The scholarship is named for Dain Garrett, an outstanding USI honor graduate from Carmi, Illinois, who died in 2003. It is awarded annually to a current student who excels academically and has overcome a hardship to continue his/her college education. As a student, Garrett earned many of the significant scholarship awards from the USI History Department and combined the monetary portion of the honors to fund this scholarship. In addition to the money received for his academic work, Garrett also added graduation gift money to the award fund. Donations from individuals who supported Garrett’s efforts continue to increase the fund. King, 41, is a graduate of Reitz High School who has returned to school as an adult when health problems forced him to reconsider his career in the construction industry. A natural love of history and a desire to share his knowledge in the classroom led him to choose social science secondary education as his major. While continuing to work, King has carried a 12-hour class schedule each semester for the past five years. He also has taken classes during the summer, during the height of construction season. And he and his wife Julie have a son in college, a daughter at Reitz High School, and a son at Helfrich Park School. Dr. Tamara L. Hunt, the chair of the Department of History at USI, explained that King was one of the students affected by a change in state licensure requirements that went into effect in July 2006; not only did some of the courses he’d taken no longer count towards the major, but the new requirements meant he had to take several additional classes that had been added. Despite this and other personal setbacks, King persevered, and he is now scheduled to do his student teaching in fall 2007. Contributions to the Dain Garrett Scholarship are accepted by the USI Foundation in Evansville, Indiana. |
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