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Three RH students win music scholarships
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SAVANNAH — The Savannah Friends of Music awarded more than $55,000 to the region’s musical organizations and scholars, including three from Richmond Hill, at its recent annual awards luncheon at the Plantation Club on Skidaway Island.

This year’s grant recipients include American Traditions Competition, Armstrong Youth Orchestra, Esther Garrison School for Visual and Performing Arts, Rise Chorales, Savannah Music Festival, Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Savannah VOICE Festival and Sponsors of New and Talented Artists (Sonata).

Additionally, the Friends of Music awarded scholarship money to the following Richmond Hill students, who are listed along with their instrument, school they attend and summer music camp for which they will use the scholarship:

• McGregor Koenig, oboe, Richmond Hill Middle School, International Double Reed Society Double Reed Camp;

• Calie Peterson, piano, Richmond Hill High School, Piano Discoveries Camp at the University of Mississippi; and

• Hanna Suddath, voice, home-schooled, Savannah VOICE Festival’s Teen VOICE Camp. (Editor’s note: For more on Suddath, turn to Life on the Hill, page 9B.)

The scholarship winners were chosen by a committee that considered each applicant’s background, interests and accomplishments, placing more weight on how students described the positive impacts the summer music program would have on their musical experience.

"I must thank my hardworking board and members for all they do to raise funds to enable us to continue this tradition," said Raymond Patricio, the president of the Savannah Friends of Music.

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Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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