CHS graduates earn $453k in scholarships, awards

Clarendon High School graduating seniors were recognized having been offered approximately $452,674 in scholarships, awards, and grants during commencement exercises May 23 at the Harned Sisters Fine Arts Center.

There may be more awards not reported for the Class of 2025, and some students may not use all the awards they were offered.

The following are awards that have been announced:

Joshua Mason Allred received a Texas Tech Merit Scholarship for $6,000 per year for four years, grants of $7,000 per year for four years, and an Onita Thomas Memorial Scholarship for $200.

Lauren Denise Ceniceros will receive a WTAMU Merit Scholarship of $1,000, the Lions Club Scholarship of $500, and grants of $10,545.

James Dalton Coles was awarded a Tarleton Scholarship of $2,500 per semester, McMurry University of $15,000 per year, an Alaska Fairbanks award of $5,000 per year, an Out of State Tuition Waiver for $300 per semester, and Grand Canyon University award of $6,000 per year.

Maloree Kait Wann received the Texas Tech University Thoma Scholarship for $90,000 for Full Tuition, a TTU Federal Pell Grant of $740, a TTU Dean’s Offer of $1,200, the TTU Bagley Foundation End Scholarship for $2,000, the TTU FR Pres Merit Scholarship $6,000, the TTU CASNR Gen AG & NR Scholarship of $500, the Bill Talley Scholarship of $1,000, and the Walter Knorpp Salutatorian Scholarship to Clarendon College.

Emily Grace Clark was awarded the Panhandle-Plains Higher Education Foundation Windmill Scholarship of $3,000 per year for four years, a Hardin-Simmons University Trustee Scholarship for $22,000 per year for four years, the WTAMU Merit Level Scholarship $6,000 for one year, the Ministerial Alliance Scholarship of $150, and the Walter Knorpp Valedictorian Scholarship.

Shelbi Kayann Coles received an LCU Scholarship for $9,000 per year, a WTAMU Distinguished Merit Scholar Level Placeholder $500 per semester, and Harden Simmons award of $18,000 per year.

Kennadie Leigh Cummins received a Vernon Athletic Scholarship of $16,072, The Pinky McCully Scholarship of $500, a Rock Crossing Baptist Church Scholarship for $500, the Jim & Pat McAnear Scholarship for $400, and the Ministerial Alliance Scholarship of $150.

Tandie Renae Cummins was awarded a Vernon Athletic Scholarship worth $16,072, Small charitable foundations scholarship of $1500, the Jim & Pat McAnear Scholarship of $400, and the Ministerial Alliance Scholarship of $150.

Hayden Elia Elam received the WT Merit Scholarship for $1,500.

Benjamin Allen Homer Estlack was the recipient of a Texas Tech Presidential Scholarship for four years for $26,000, the James E. Sowell Engineering Scholarship for four years for $26,000, a Texas Tech Alumni Scholarship for $3,000, the Donley County Retired School Personnel Association Scholarship of $350, an Onita Thomas Memorial Scholarship for $200, and the Panhandle Press Association Scholarship $1,000.

Grant Renner Haynes was awarded a West Texas A&M Scholarship of $1,000, a TCAAA Scholarship of $2,500, a Texas Big Game Scholarship of $2,500, the Donley/Hall County Farm Bureau Scholarship for $500, the Texas Farm Bureau Scholarship of $3000, a Jim & Pat McAnear Scholarship of $400, the Bill Talley Scholarship for $1,000, and the Ministerial Alliance Scholarship for $150.

Bryce Alan Williams received an academic award of $14,000, an athletic scholarship of $9,000, the John Michael Morrison Scholarship of 1,000, the Greenbelt Electric Scholarship of 1,000, and a Jim & Pat McAnear Scholarship for $400.

Chelsea Shayne Wright will receive a WTAMU Academic Merit Scholarship for $1,500, a Rynlee Dawn Burrow Memorial Scholarship, and a Dalton O’Gorman award.

Daniel Allen Estlack will receive a Onita Thomas Memorial Scholarship of $200.

Jaythan Joseph Green received the Homer Estlack Memorial Scholarship for $500, a John Tom Morrow Masonic Scholarship of $500, and the Gret Betts Masonic Lodge Scholarship for $500.

Riley Rose Jantz will receive a Distinguished Merit Scholar Level Placeholder Scholarship of $1,000 and a Federal Pell Grant of $7,395.

Koltyn Wesley Shields got an Onita Thomas Scholarship of $200.

Erin Jade Wagner received the John Tom Morrow Masonic Scholarship of $500.