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Congratulations

WAYNE REAVES,

LARRY MANNION,

& BILLY GRAHAM

HALL OF

FAME

GIADA AWARDS

MEMBERS
Give us a call or Presented By Sandra Gresham
come into the office GIADA Awards $12,000 in Scholarships

so we can help ALYCE HAMMER JAREN MENDEL ASHLEY DAWSON
you renew your Father: John Hammer, US AUTO Father: Steve Mendel, Central Auto Father: Keith Dawson, Moss Curtain

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Alyce is very Jaren Mendel is Ashley is the
excited to be a junior at the eighteen year
honored with a University of old daughter
GIADA Schol- Georgia, major- of Keith and
arship! Alyce ing in Account- Wanda Daw-
attended Park ing. As a UGA son, as well as
Tudor School, freshman, Jaren the oldest out
where she was started Karma of three sib-
actively in- Coffee, a stu- lings, Katie and
volved in Stu- dent run pay it Noah Dawson.
dent Council forward kind- She attended
and was the chair of New Student Services. ness initiative where students receive a free Vidalia Heritage Academy all her life, and
Alyce was the captain of the volleyball team cup of coffee in exchange for performing a graduated third out of her class there. In the
and a member of the Cum Laude Society. random act of kindness. He holds a second fall, she will begin attending the University
She is also a long time delegate of the Mod- degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of Georgia, where she will pursue a Mas-
el United Nations, and was elected to travel of Taido and started a student Taido club at ter's Degree in mathematics education so
to The Hague last winter as a photographer UGA where he will be teaching Karate. He she can one day teach and encourage high
for the Press Corps. One of Alyce's favorite is the President of Challah for Hunger, a school students. She is blessed to receive
high school experiences was volunteering student organization raising awareness and this scholarship, which will help her fulfill
in Iowa for Habitat for Humanity. In the money for hunger relief in Athens. Jaren was her dreams at UGA.
fall, she will be attending Southern Meth- recently appointed as UGA Kind Ambassa-
odist University with a plan to major in dor for Kind Bars, whose mission is to spread
International Studies. Alyce would like to kindness on campus. His summers are spent
thank her family for all their love and sup- working with children at Camp Barney
port and cannot wait to see where life takes Medintz in the North Ga. where he special-
her next! izes in outdoor leadership, rock climbing,
and nature skills. He is an avid singer-song
writer and enjoys playing guitar.
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