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8 receive scholarships at CCAF fall graduation

  • Published Nov. 9, 2009
  • By Susan Griggs
  • Keesler News staff
KEESLER AFB, Miss --   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.

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