| Coca-Cola Scholarship recipient Larry P. Madden (Stockbridge-Munsee), a humanities major at the College of Menominee Nation gives a speech to his peers during the annual banquet at the 2012 AIHEC Student Conference.
“I am here to express my humble gratitude, not only for myself, but all of Indian Country…for the efforts of the Coca-Cola Company, who has taken the time to just rememeber us; because we are often forgotten in the field of academics,” he said. |
The Coca Cola Foundation and the American Indian College Fund honored 36 American Indian scholarship recipients at its 2011-12 Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship banquet at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota.
The Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship was established to provide $5,000 for tuition and fees and to fund unmet need for a student’s first year in college. If students maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average and show strong participation in campus and community life the first year and beyond, the scholarships are renewed every year throughout the students’ tribal college career.
The following Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship recipients were honored at the event: - Aaniiih Nakoda College
Jeremy Richey, Biology - Bay Mills Community College
Barbara Chaplin, Accounting
Francis Gardner, undeclared - Blackfeet Community College
Nancy Augare, Office Administration - Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Felicia St. Pierre, Liberal Arts - Chief Dull Knife College
Zackery Donnafield, General Studies - College of Menominee Nation
Larry P. Madden, Humanities - Diné College
Felix Delmar, Elementary Education - Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
Chad Auginash, Electric Utility Technology - Fort Berthold Community College
Robin Fox, Nursing - Fort Peck Community College
Jayde Clampitt, General Studies - Haskell Indian Nations University
Janice Mendez, Business Administration - Ilisagvik College
Kivvaq Nungasak, Office Administration - Institute of American Indian Arts
Jessie Bennett, New Media Arts
Tyler Tarpalechee, Moving Images/Creative Writing - Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Terri Curtis, Liberal Studies - Lac Courte Oreilles Community College
Carla Miller, Natural Resource Management with Emphasis on Renewable Energy - Leech Lake Tribal College
Jackie Blue, undeclared - Little Big Horn College
Richard McCormick Jr., undeclared - Little Priest Tribal College
Jared Keokum Doxey, undeclared - Navajo Technical College
Leann Goodluck, Registered Nursing - Nebraska Indian Community College
Vance Cook, Jr., undeclared - Northwest Indian College
Talia Graves, Transfer Degree - Oglala Lakota College
Tiffany Shortbull, Social Work
Virgil Mclaughlin, Social Work - Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
Nicole McMullen Nedwash, Liberal Arts - Salish Kootenai College
Shelley Schenderline, Psychology - Sinte Gleska University
Lucelia Fire Cloud, Nursing A.A.S LPN - Sisseton Wahpeton College
Autumn Wiggins, Early Childhood Development - Sitting Bull College
Sterling Chase, General Studies - Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Abran Chapo, undeclared - Stone Child College
Simone Friede, Elementary Education - Tohono O’odham Community College
Nacho Flores, Liberal Arts Linguistics - Turtle Mountain Community College
Macey Racine, Office Administration - United Tribes Technical College
Lora GreyBear, Business Administration - White Earth Tribal and Community College
Neomonie White, Business |
