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Showing posts with label Jack Buck Scholar-Leadership Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Buck Scholar-Leadership Award. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Meadows wins Buck Scholarship

Southeast Missouri State University awarded the Jack Buck Scholar-Leadership Award to a high school student from Chesterfield, Missouri at a luncheon yesterday.

Erin Meadows is active in her community and school, and she has also excelled in the classroom and in theatre and dance.

Carole Buck, wife of the late Jack Buck, attended the luncheon to present the award to Meadows.

The award, which was the first scholarship to be established in memory of Buck, recognizes a student in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area who has demonstrated outstanding character, academic achievement and the potential to be a leader in the community.