The Singing River Health System Hospital Auxiliaries recently awarded $8,250 in scholarships to local students pursing degrees in health care.
The Ocean Springs Hospital Auxiliary awarded $5,000 in scholarships, providing five local students with $1,000 each. April Alford, Andrea Fetters, Kimberly McMillian, Brandon Phillips and Deborah Ross were chosen as recipients.
Alford is a nursing student at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC); McMillian is studying Billing and Coding at the same school. Fetters is studying nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Phillips is studying medicine at University of Mississippi. Ross is attending Virginia College of Biloxi to become a surgical technologist.
The Singing River Hospital Auxiliary also awarded five $500 scholarships and one $750 scholarship. The recipients of $500 scholarships are Rosalyn Clausell, Katherine Carter, Angela Hardwick, Courtney Bourn and Lamario Henderson. Alethea Grant, a nursing student at MGCCC, was awarded the $750 Sean Cooley Memorial Scholarship.
Clausell is pursing a degree in nursing at USM. Carter and Henderson are students and MGCCC, and both plan careers in radiology. Hardwick will attend William Carey University to study nursing, and Bourn plans to attend the Cardiac and Vascular Institute of Mobile to become an ultrasound technician. Grant is pursing a degree in nursing at MGCCC.
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