Greer High student receives Dorothy Marron Memorial Scholarship Award
Christi Easter of Greenville, has been selected as a recipient of American Leprosy Missions’ (ALM) 2008 Dorothy Marron Memorial Scholarship.
Easter, a senior at Greer High School, has wanted to be a missionary since her first mission trip at the age of five when she visited the Dominican Republic and shared her toys with the children of an orphanage there. She plans to attend USC Upstate and become a Mid-Wife. According to Easter, she chose this career because “no matter where you go in the world people are having babies.”
Greenville-based ALM established The Dorothy Marron Memorial Scholarship fund to benefit graduating Greenville County high school seniors seeking to serve the disenfranchised and afflicted peoples in developing countries of the world.
“The young people receiving this award will be characterized by their friends and family for their acts of service to others,” said Christopher J. Doyle, President of ALM. “ALM hopes this scholarship will encourage those students who are already living a life that is more about others than themselves.”
Two students will be chosen annually as recipients of the $2,000 scholarship. Seniors graduating from public or private schools as well as home-schooled students are eligible. Recipients will be able to apply for renewal for up to three years.
American Leprosy Missions is the oldest and largest non-profit organization in the United States providing holistic cure and care to people affected by leprosy and related conditions. For more information about ALM’s worldwide ministry, please visit www.leprosy.org. For scholarship information please call 241-1753.
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