ACHIEVERS

Excellence award

American Farmers & Ranchers (AFR) has received a 2021 Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Regents Business Partnership Excellence Award. The award highlights successful partnerships between higher education institutions and businesses. AFR was nominated by Connors State College (CSC) in recognition of their longstanding partnership.

In early 2021, AFR gifted $10,000 to the CSC Development Foundation. The endowment will fund a tuition scholarship award for the CSC Top Agricultural Student each year. The scholarship is named in honor of the first president of the Oklahoma Board of Agriculture and CSC's namesake, John P. Connor.

Scholarship recipients

The Greater Oklahoma City Panhellenic Alumnae Association has announced the recipients of a $1,500 scholarship for 2021.

This year's award recipients are: Daisy Aguilar, Putnam City High School; Reagan Baskin, Deer Creek High School; Elyse Cronic, Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School; Julia Doan, Mustang High School; Molly Moore, Crossings Christian School; Rachel Puckett,

Deer Creek High School; Karen Santillan, U.S. Grant High School; Faith Seay,

Edmond North High School; Carys Stringer, Oklahoma School of Science & Mathematics; and Claire Williams, Deer Creek High School.

The association was established in 1935 and began its scholarship program in the l960s to promote higher education among Oklahoma high school senior women.

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