Top left to right: Haleigh Isanhart from Boyd Buchanan School, Dylan Vagts from Central High School, Nathan Tucker from Gordon Lee High School, Samantha Donde from Tullahoma High School. Bottom left to right: Brooke-Anne Celina Crews from Fannin County High School, Kimberly Jenkins from Armuchee High School, Sidney Pierce from Gordon Lee High School
Nonprofit regional blood center Blood Assurance has announced the high school senior recipients of the organization’s 2017 Crystal Green Memorial Scholarship, in memory of Dade County High School graduate Crystal Green. The students will be awarded $1,500 each that will be paid directly to each student’s college or university for tuition, fees, and other educational expenses as may be required.
Crystal Green Memorial Scholarship recipients include the following:
• Brooke-Anne Celina Crews, Fannin County High School
• Samantha LeAnn Donde, Tullahoma High School
• Alexis Pettengill, Towns County High School
• Hannah Green, Towns County High School
• Breanna Stone, Dade County High School
• Ashton Smith, Calhoun High School
• Dylan Vagts, Central High School
• Haleigh Isanhart, Boyd Buchanan School
• Kimberly Jenkins, Armuchee High School
• Nathan Tucker, Gordon Lee High School
• Sidney Pierce, Gordon Lee High School
• Nicole Locker, Riverside Christian Academy
“We are honored to present the Crystal Green Memorial Scholarships to these students because of their dedication to creating a greater awareness of the constant need for blood,” said Mindy Quinn, marketing manager for Blood Assurance. “High schools students represent a large portion of our blood supply, and we thank the scholarship recipients for creating that awareness within their high schools. We wish them the best in all of their future endeavors.”
The scholarship program was established in 1999 in memory of Crystal Green, a graduate of Dade County High School. Ms. Green was a student at Georgia Southern University before suffering a setback with aplastic anemia, a blood disorder. After hundreds of hours of platelet transfusions and a bone marrow transplant, Ms. Green passed away in 1998 shortly after turning 21 years old. Each year, 12 scholarships for $1,500 are awarded to selected scholarship applicants judged on a written application, high school transcript, school and community service, letters of recommendation, and a marketing plan for a blood drive.
For more information about the Crystal Green Memorial Scholarship, visit www.bloodassurance.org/youth-programs.
For more information on Blood Assurance, donating blood or hosting a blood drive, call 800-962-0628 or visit www.bloodassurance.org.