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PAGE 2A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. MAY 27. 2021
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Scholarship recipients from
Pickens High
Caroline Angelisanti
Brooke Bell
Breana Brooks
Pete Bryant
Suzanne Cassels
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Cora Gartell
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Sam Stout
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A Unit of the Technical College System of Georgia. Equal Opportunity Institution.
What can a Big Canoe
Chapel scholarship mean to a
graduating high school sen
ior? Ask Jennifer Mullinax,
MD. Dr. Mullinax grew up in
Jasper where she attended
Pickens County public
schools from grades K-12.
Her Big Canoe Chapel schol
arship helped launch her to
the University of Georgia,
then on to the Medical Col
lege of Georgia. She then
spent three years of pediatric
residency at Sacred Heart
Hospital in Pensacola,
Florida, and another three
years of subspecialty training
in pediatric hematology/on
cology in New Orleans. She
is now a general pediatrician
at Charles Henderson Child
Health Center in Troy, Ala
bama. To this day she says, “I
am so grateful for the Big
Canoe Scholarship in helping
me get a start on fulfilling my
dreams of going to college
and becoming a doctor.”
Dr. Mullinax is not alone.
On Sunday, May 2, forty-
nine Pickens and Dawson
county graduating seniors
joined Dr. Mullinax and over
2,400 other students who
have been awarded Big
Canoe Chapel scholarships
totaling over $2.7 million
since 1982. Recipients have
chosen schools from Harvard
to Georgia Tech, UGA to
John Hopkins and hundreds
of others, large and small.
Included in the general
grants were awards from The
Joe Dodd Memorial Scholar
ship, established in 2018, and
received by Molly Muenchen
of Dawson High School and
Sam Stout from Pickens
High. Both students will play
college level sports in soccer
and football at Valdosta State
and Reinhardt University, re
spectively.
The Sally Shannon Me
morial Scholarship, estab
lished in 2020 by her brother,
are given to two well-
rounded students who dis
play a high degree of
proficiency in math and who
plan to focus on math or a
math related field. This
year’s awards were given to
Magnus Hodgson of Dawson
High School and Brett
Menard of Pickens High.
The iPhone/iPad scholar
ships were established in
2016 and are awarded to
Dawson and Pickens County
seniors who are planning to
major in some field of com
puter science. The recipients
this year were Caleb Rober
son from Dawson High
School and Sadie Phillips
from Pickens High.
Reverend Len Walker
presided at the awards event
with an inspirational mes
sage, and music was pro
vided by Piper Duncan, a
student from Pickens High
School.
Dr. Mullinax had one
other reminder she passed
along to this year’s students.
“Follow the Lord with all
your heart.” And, Big Canoe
Chapel says, “Amen.”
Chattahoochee
TECHNICAL COLLEGE
It's the perfect
time to take the
next step.
Amicalola EMC
awards scholarships
to 131 area students
On April 27, Amicalola
EMC awarded $131,000 in
scholarships to outstanding
high school seniors from
Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer,
Lumpkin and Pickens coun
ties. Normally, a banquet
would have been held for all
students and their parents. A
little creative thinking and
technology resulted in a vir
tual presentation using Go-
ToMeeting™, a software
program that enables users
to meet via the Internet in
real time.
Each of the 131 winners
had previously received a
package from Amicalola
EMC, which included some
small gifts and an invitation
to participate in the online
event. A total of 124 stu
dents joined in online to
hear the presentation.
All scholarships are
funded using unclaimed
property, in accordance with
O.C.G.A. 44-12-236. Am
icalola EMC would like to
say congratulations to the
winning seniors of the Class
of 2021! We are proud to
support these young adults
as they strive to continue
their education and we wish
them much success in their
future endeavors.
Win n ers from Pickens
County include:
Caroline Angelisanti
Brooke Bell
Pete Bryant
Matthew Campbell
Suzanne Cassels
Katie Derrosa Guerro
Ashley Edwards
Parker Lleming
Cora Gartrell
Ella Gregg
Jessi Griffin
Ally Harper
Reagan Harwood
Kealy Hillhouse
Katlyn Hulsey
Alyssa Hutcheson
Caroline Jordan
Meredith Klein
Brett Menard
Owen Moss
Addie Nichols
Makayla Odum
Sarah Parks
Cassidy Richards
Michael Rumsey
Caroline Shoffer
Clay Shoffer
Colton Smith
Tempe Solomon
Landon VanSant
Madelyn Watkins
Hunter White
Carson Nix
Emma Sebastiani
Evan Stancil
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IMAJ has found no evi
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As of this writing, IMAJ
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of related identity theft since
the date of the incident
(March 8, 2021).
IMAJ mailed notification
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on May 5, 2021, which let
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outlined the specific personal
information that could have
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concern this incident may
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