Lions Club scholarship --

The Lions Club of Richmond Hill recently announced that Garrett Stigall of Richmond Hill High School has been selected as the recipient of a $1,000 Lions Club Scholarship for 2020.

Stigall will be attending the University of Georgia to pursue engineering and business administration degrees and will enter college with one year of credits already completed. He is the son of Jennifer Grover and the late Greg Stigall. He was selected from a field of talented and accomplished student applicants.

Chamber scholars

The Richmond Hill Bryan County Chamber of Commerce announced last week that Garrett Stigall and Chae Yun Yoo are winners of the Chamber’s $2,500 scholarships for 2020.

This is the third year the Richmond Hill/Bryan County Board of Directors has given the CTAE/ WBL (Career, Technical, Agricultural and Education/ Work-Based Learning) Scholarships, according to a press release.

Phi Kappa Phi

Harrison Bocook and Kimberly Hickman of Richmond Hill were recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Bocook was initiated at University of Georgia. Hickman was initiated at Georgia Southern University. The two are among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.

Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership.

Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.