The campaign is directed by the Sallisaw Committee for Excellence, a group of local community leaders supporting the scholarship program for the CASC Development Foundation. Committee chairman is Buddy Spencer.
"Our goal this year is to raise $30,000 to provide 45 scholarships to Sequoyah County students who will be entering college next fall at the Sallisaw campus," Spencer said. "All of the money raised provides scholarships for high school graduates from within the county, so the funds raised here will stay here, and benefit our own young people."
Other members of the Committee for Excellence are J.T. Stites, Gary Schaefer, Don Elwick, Delores Mitchell, Jerry Hetherington, Bill Baker, Jerry Smith, Gary Folsom, Roger Sharp, Mike Neer, and Garry Ivey, CASC Development Foundation chief executive officer.
"The CASC Development Foundation is very grateful for these committee members who have stepped forward to help benefit the students in Sequoyah County," Ivey said. "We use 100 percent of the money to provide scholarships for entering freshmen at the Sallisaw campus, and at least two graduates from each high school in the county will have an opportunity to receive a scholarship. Scholarships will be for $660, which is about half the cost of tuition for one year at CASC."
The Committee for Excellence has already received a big boost in this year's scholarship drive...a $5,000 pledge from the Sallisaw Improvement Corporation, presented by Gary Schaefer to help kick off the campaign.
On May 28, the Committee for Excellence will host the second annual Scholarship Golf Tournament at Shadow Creek Country Club in Sallisaw, with all proceeds from the event going to the scholarship program.
For further information about the tournament, contact Folsom at (918) 775-6977 or Ivey at (918) 647-1212.
