Congratulations Gracie Newell!!

I am late in announcing the recipient of the scholarship this year because honestly we just couldn’t decide. In an effort to make the decision less painless, I enlarged our committee thinking a clear favorite would emerge but that didn’t seem to help the situation. Today as I drove home from work I continued to debate back and forth between the top 3 or 4 essays. Honestly, I could have thrown them up in the air and picked one at random out of the 3 or 4 and would have been satisfied with any one of those being the “winner”. I would like to thank everyone who submitted an essay. One in particular reminded me so much of Christian. He would have told the story a little differently and with a different outcome but I am quiet sure he was in that same situation a time or two. Some advice Christian would give you ….. don’t hide out in the boathouse….. jump in the lake and swim for it. They aren’t going to go in the lake after you. 🙂

This year the Christian Shane Andreacchio Scholarship is being awarded to Gracie Newell. She is a graduate of Southeast Lauderdale High School. She was recently accepted into the Pharmacy Program at Ole Miss. We wish Gracie the best as she starts the next chapter of what is going to be a great novel!!