Scholarships presented

The Scottish Rite Masons of the Valley of Steubenville presented $7,000 in scholarship money and framed scholarship certificates to seven local students during a dinner ceremony held May 7 and featuring entertainment by the Country and Bluegrass Extravaganza. Scholarship recipients and their colleges included, front, from left, Madeline R. Metcalf, Valley of Steubenville Scholarship, John Carroll University; Hanna L. Westlake, Valley of Steubenville Scholarship, Kent State University; and Haley Gorney, Abbott Scholarship, University of Akron; and back, Paige Benline, Abbott Scholarship, Ohio University, Lancaster; and Luke A. Dillahunt, Valley of Steubenville Scholarship, Lee University. Thomas Lancaster, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Matthew R. Craven, Ohio University, also were Valley of Steubenville scholarship recipients. Scottish Rite Masons emphasize fraternal relations and philosophy within Freemasonry. Their 109 geographical units of the Northern Jurisdiction of Scottis h Rite include more than 360,000 members in a 15-state region.-- Contributed
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