8 receive scholarships at CCAF fall graduation

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  • By Susan Griggs
  • Keesler News staff
Seven Community College of the Air Force graduates and one current student received scholarships at the fall CCAF graduation ceremony Oct. 27 in Welch Auditorium. 

Winners of the $400 Pitsenbarger Award sponsored by the Air Force Association and $100 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University excellence awards are Master Sgt. Josef Albert, 338th Training Squadron, and Staff Sgts. Ruth Celestine, 81st Medical Support Squadron; Starr Haywood, 81st Aerospace Medicine Squadron; Joshua Lowe, 81st Medical Group; and Shamika McNair, 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron. 

In addition to Sergeant Haywood, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College presented $100 awards to Staff Sgts. Creighton Cope, 334th TRS, and Cecilia Toomey, chapel. 

The Keesler Chiefs Group presented a $200 award to Senior Airman Timothy Brady Jr., who recently took his first CCAF course.