Source: Raylene Alexander, 785-826-2940, raylene@k-state.edu
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
TWO K-STATE AT SALINA STUDENTS EARN SCHOLARSHIPS FROM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN AVIATION 1xbet best casino website , WHILE SCHOOL RECEIVES TEXTBOOK SCHOLARSHIP
SALINA -- The Association for Women in Aviation 1xbet best casino website is recognizing two Kansas State University at Salina students with scholarships and giving the school a 0 textbook scholarship to be used by an incoming freshman in fall 2009.
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K-State at Salina also received the Aircraft Technical Book Company Scholarship, a 0 retail value, for being one of the two schools with the most applicants for scholarships from the Association of Women in Aviation 1xbet best casino website . The Aircraft Technical Book Company offers the airframe and powerplant textbooks to the school to be given to an incoming freshman student. K-State at Salina will have a drawing for the books in the fall.
Hager received the Girard Aviation 1xbet best casino website Technician School Scholarship from the association. She holds a private pilot's license and is a qualified Blackhawk Helicopter mechanic. She has been a member of the National Guard since she was 17 years old. She has just returned from a two-year deployment in Iraq where she was a 1xbet best casino website crew chief of the UH-60 Blackhawk and logged more than 150 combat flight hours. She has earned four medals for her service including the Air, Army Achievement, Army Accommodation and Iraq Campaign honors.
Perez, who received the Rice Family Helping Hand Scholarship from the association, is working on a bachelor's in aviation 1xbet best casino website and is in the line 1xbet best casino website avionics certificate program. He is an aviation operations specialist in the Kansas Army National Guard. Perez also recently earned a ,500 scholarship from the Helicopter Foundation International.
