From staff reports
Five Beaufort area high school seniors each received a $1,000 scholarship grant through the Lt. General George I. Forsythe Rotary Scholarship Program at the Rotary Club of Beaufort’s May 18, luncheon meeting.
The five recipients were: Anuj Patel (Beaufort High School), Anna Brown (Beaufort High School), Emma Grace Dinkins (Beaufort Academy), Bailey Herron (Beaufort High School), and Quintilian S. Fields, Jr. (Whale Branch Early College High School).
Fields was not able to attend the ceremony as he was participating in the South Carolina High School state track meet.
The Lt. General George I. Forsythe Scholarship is presented annually to graduating seniors from Beaufort County high schools north of the Broad River in memory of Forsythe, a member of the Beaufort Rotary from 1972, when he completed a distinguished 33-year military career, until his passing in 1987. Certificates of recognition were presented to the recipients by the Rotary’s scholarship chair, retired Brigadier General Barney Forsythe, son of the late George Forsythe, and a Rotarian since 2006.
Patel, ranked fifth in her class, will attend Georgia Tech to study engineering and construction; Brown, ranked first in her class, will attend Duke University to study chemistry; Dinkins, ranked fourth in her class, will attend the University of South Carolina to study nursing; Bailey Herron, ranked seventh in her class, will attend Wofford College to study biology and Spanish; and Fields, ranked third in his class, will attend the University of South Carolina Beaufort to study public health.
