Four scholarships from the UFA Alumni Association were awarded at the Proctor High school Award Ceremony on Thursday June 8, 2000.

Three were from the fund at the Community Foundation of Herkimer-Oneida Counties, Inc. The fourth was from our treasury for a girl we thought deserving.

The criteria for the scholarships are considerable improvement in academic performance in the junior and senior years, based on earlier grades and involvement in community service.

The UFA Boosters Scholarship is for a student athlete from the $5000 remaining in the Boosters Fund at the close of UFA.

The scholarship winners are:

Sheena Stockton, a girl that was failing freshman year turned herself around and doubled courses in her sophomore year, went to night and summer shools. In her junior year she started nursing at BOCES, joined the basketball cheer leading team and received all A's! She graduated with a Regents Diploma. Sheena is the student that was awarded through the association treasury.

Ruben Semaia, had a difficult tenth grade, by not attending school and receiving all F's. He was able to reflect on his past and has evolved into a mature and hard working young man, and has been pretty much an A student for the past two years. He plays Varsity football for Proctor and is employed full time as supervisor at a local restaurant. Reuben has been accepted at Springfield College in Massachusetts.

Myrhieah Ecola is a talented artist, receiving above average grades in Advanced Placement courses. Active in the Drama Club and Photography Editor for the 2000 yearbook. She has volunteered at the Utica Zoo and Presbyterian Home. She lost her mother in the last two years and has had to move out of her home. She is looking forward to a career in the arts.

The Athletic Scholarship went to:

Tressa Rahn. She is in the top twenty of her class, the Honor Society and other school activities, active in sports, playing softball and chosen as an independent all-star. She volunteers at United Cerebral Palsy, her church, the Relay for Life Run. She plans to attend Albany College of Pharmacy.