El Dorado News-Times
Arkansas Scholars were recognized as part of the El Dorado High School Class of 2015 Honors Day awards ceremony, at the EHS Auditorium on Monday.
Each of the 79 Arkansas Scholars students was presented with a certificate of achievement for meeting the designated criteria and a red honor cord for commencement, according to Lila Phillips, executive director of the El Dorado Education Foundation.
The Arkansas Scholars program is sponsored by the Union County Community Foundation, the El Dorado Education Foundation and the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce.
The Arkansas Scholars program was established to encourage and reward academic achievement among the state’s high schools. The El Dorado Chamber of Commerce Arkansas Scholars committee works with EHS to help implement the program’s goals and objectives.
In order to be designated an Arkansas Scholar, a student is required to meet four individual criterion in grades nine through12: grades (semester grades no lower than a C); attendance (95 percent or better); curriculum (three years of science and social sciences and four years of English and math); and commitment (complete high school education in eight consecutive semesters).
The Arkansas Scholars Class of 2015 for EHS includes: Sean Allen, Kaitlyn Baier, Preston Bennett, Laura Bledsoe, Jamie Boggs, Robert Joseph Boshears, Tyronda Brown, Thomas Buckman, Preston Bugg, Linda Carillo Diego, Diamond Carroll, Cesidia Castro, Emily Chandler, Kalyn Clark, Jansen Connor, Jasmin Cotoco, Ronald Culver, Oriana Davis, Harshil Dudhia, Kolton Dumas, Morgan Eddleman, Marissa Ellison, Gabriel Floss, Jacoby Foster, Johnathan Grant Garrison, Harleigh Gathright, Aaron Gaul, Chardesia George, Jonah Haney, Michaela Harris, Trenton Harter, Heather Hastings, Kaitlyn Hastings, Lashadra Hayes, Emily Herren, Baylee Holt, Spencer Hughes, Destanee Hymes, Myrline Jackson and Tanisha Jackson.
Others are: Zachary Jacobson, Seth Jolley, Mary Catherine Lansdell, Franco Leon, Eric Luebanos, Jamila Maxwell, Georgia Miller, John West Miller, Ashleigh Ogden, Austin Olivier, Keelie Porter, Jovana Radic, Ricco Rainey, Andrew Reames, Ernest Reed, Tyler McKenzie Reep, Hannah Ritz, Mary Kathryn Rockett, Lacey Rogers, Casar Sanchez, Taylor Scarlet, John Schonefeld, Aixa Schrader, Mary Shultz, Madeline Skinner, Lawson Smith, Brittany Stanchfield, Trey Talley, Mary Tharp Talpas, Brandon Thomey, Brandon Trostle, Arthur Watkins, Andrew Grey Watson, Kennedy Webb, Madison Whatley, Ashley White, Brian Tanner Williams, Scott Williams and Kobie Willis.