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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Dina Horwedel, Public Education Director, 303-426-8900
Denver, Colo.— Coca Cola, Inc. and the American Indian College Fund honored 46 American Indian scholarship recipients at its 2008-09 Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship banquet at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Conference in Missoula, Montana on March 29.
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 scholarship follows the student throughout their academic career while attending a tribal college.
Stephen Yellowhawk, an elementary education major and Coca Cola scholar who will graduate in May, delivered a speech to his peers about leadership and giving back to one's community.
The following students were honored at the event:
- Gene Adams, Liberal Arts, Salish Kootenai College
- Russell Andrew, Elementary Education, United Tribes Technical College
- Della Baptiste, Business, Stone Child College
- Alfonzo Bekis, Law Advocate, Navajo Technical College
- Jessie Bennett, Graphic Design, Institute of American Indian Arts
- Ashley Bierman, Elementary Education College of Menominee Nation
- Alvina Brookes, Law Advocate, Navajo Technical College
- Quentin Broken Leg, Associate in Building Trades, Sinte Gleska University
- Joyce Cochran, Business Technology, Fort Belknap College
- Eleanor Cole, Medicine, Northwest Indian College
- Raymond Corcoran, Computer Science, Stone Child College
- Iva Croff, Blackfeet Language Studies, Blackfeet Community College
- Naomi Deshampe, Early Childhood Education, Stone Child College
- Lyle Etsitty, Business, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
- Kristen Freeman, Nursing, United Tribes Technical College
- Lakisha Flores, Liberal Arts, Little Big Horn College
- Leah Fox, Allied Health, Fort Belknap College
- Dean Gillis, Business Administration, Haskell Indian Nations University
- Lucy Glascock, Culinary Arts, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
- Talia Graves, Arts and Sciences, Northwest Indian College
- Karl Habeck, Liberal Arts, Lac Courte Oreilles Community College
- Raymond Hite, General Studies, Northwest Indian College
- Majorie Juan, Childhood Development, Tohono O'odham Community College
- Deborah Kirk, Environmental Science, Haskell Indian Nations University
- Rhonda Littlewind, Computer Applications, Cankdeska Cinkana Community College
- Sharon Lopez, Education, Nebraska Indian Community College
- Issac Maki, Math and Science, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
- Kumiko Masquat, Liberal Arts, Little Priest College
- Erica Massey, Health and Fitness, Bay Mills Community College
- Janice Mendez, Business, Haskell Indian Nations University
- Ashlee Olsen, Elementary Education, Turtle Mountain Community College
- Tammy Proulx, Health and Fitness, Bay Mills Community College
- Cherise Sandoval, Vision Eye Care, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
- Heather Snell, General Studies, Ft. Peck Community College
- Simoine Seminole, Dakota Studies and Liberal Arts, Sisseton Wahpeton College
- Randall Stangler, Anishinaabe Studies, Leech Lake Tribal College
Sam Tanya, Fine Arts, Diné College
- Tyler Tarpalechee, New Media Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts
- Dustin Thompson, Office Technologies, Business Management, Sitting Bull College
- Jeffrey Turns Plenty, Mathematics, Little Big Horn College
- Gilma Whitedirt, Office Skills, Chief Dull Knife College
- Laura Whitford, Natural Resources, Blackfeet Community College
- Tadd Wilson, Information Technology, Salish Kootenai College
- Stephen Yellowhawk, Education, Oglala Lakota College
- Audrey Yellowhorse, Natural Science, Haskell Indian Nations University
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