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Bettie Clark of Houston made a donation of $300,000 in scholarships to Southern Arkansas University in honor of her siblings Mary Alice Wallace and Billy Wallace, who attended the University and her youngest brother Robert James Wallace. Her parents, Carl and Ona Wallace attended SAU when it was the Third District Agricultural School.<\/p>\n
The scholarship money benefits the nursing program at SAU.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I went to nursing training down in Houston, I got to go on a scholarship and that is one reason I wanted to give something back,\u201d Clark, who became a Registered Nurse, said.<\/p>\n
As life progressed and she and her husband, the late McGinnis Clark found much success in the lumber industry in Houston, they decided they wanted to make an impact on others who were in the same situations they had been in as young people.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod had blessed me and my husband so much that we just wanted to help somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n
QUOTE TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n Monica Coker, a senior majoring in agriculture education from Ward hopes to become a teacher and work for the National FFA or Farm Bureau. QUOTE THREE<\/strong><\/p>\n Ashley Moss, famous at Southern Arkansas University for riding Molly down the sidelines at each football game has also made a name for herself as a competitor with the University rodeo team where she barrel races and team ropes. Moss of Sarepta, Louisiana, said the new make her life, and more importantly, the life of Molly and her two horses, a lot better. Valerie Norris of Fort Worth was drawn to Southern Arkansas University by a Presidential Scholarship that pays her tuition, room and board and a $500 stipend each semester. She is an accounting and finance major and plans to attend law school after graduation so she can one day work as a corporate attorney. QUOTE FIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n Al Torres, a senior from Corrigan, Texas said the hefty scholarships he received while attending SAU, including a full paid departmental music department scholarship he will use this year, is helping him fulfill his dream. His dream is to become a band director or music teacher. Annual Report Quotes Bettie Clark of Houston made a donation of $300,000 in scholarships to Southern Arkansas University in honor of her siblings Mary Alice Wallace and Billy Wallace, who attended the University and her youngest brother Robert James Wallace. Her parents, Carl and Ona Wallace attended SAU when it was the Third District Agricultural… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,276,76,195,310],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agriculture","7":"category-community-corner","8":"category-nursing","9":"category-rodeo","10":"category-scholarship-news","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHer scholarship is renewable up to four years and is frankly the reason she is able to be at Southern Arkansas University, she said.
\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be in college if I didn\u2019t have that scholarship. My family has never had the capabilities to pay for college so my siblings and I were told early on that if we hoped to attend we would have to find a way to get there ourselves. We have worked hard since the eighth grade trying to make the best grades we could and working on building relationships with people who could help us find the scholarship money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe other stables were falling apart so new stables were so badly needed,\u201d said Moss, who has been the mascot for the University for the past four years.
\nAfter graduation, Moss will continue professionally training horses. Her major is agricultural science.
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\nQUOTE FOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019ll take having to work on campus any day for extra spending money than worrying about loans for college,\u201d Norris said. \u201cThe financial aid was like having a big burden lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFor me the scholarships show me that all my hard work has finally paid off,\u201d Torres said. \u201cAnd being in band is something that has always been a part of my life and I can\u2019t see myself doing anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"