TCTC announces Smith Scholarship Recipients

Pendleton resident and former Tri-County Technical College Foundation board member Jim Smith and his wife, Marjorie, center, are longtime supporters of the College. Recently they met with Tri-County students who are the recipients of two of the five scholarships they have endowed at the College over the years. The first scholarship they endowed in 1997, the Five Smith Sister’s Endowed Scholarship, is in honor of their five daughters, Jamie Ellers, Wendy Kress, Melody Lutz, Allison Quarles and Shannon Tollison. Amy Merritt, of Starr, a University Transfer major, fourth from left, and Charity Martin, of Central, an Early Care and Education major, far right, are recipients of the Five Smith Sisters’ Endowed Scholarship. In 2013 Mr. Smith endowed a scholarship in honor of his wife. Jessica Kinard of Pendleton, an associate degree Nursing major, left, is the recipient of the Marjorie C. Smith Endowed Scholarship.