CHE student earns academic scholarship
September 13, 2016
Chemical engineering student Priscilla Symmes (second from left) receives a scholarship from the USS Little Rock Association. Joining her are chemical engineering department head Bill Elmore (far left), her mother Susan Symmes and Bill Stankiewicz, president of the USS Little Rock Association.
Mississippi State University chemical engineering student Priscilla Symmes was recently honored with an academic scholarship from the USS Little Rock Association.
The Captain Kent R. Siegel Memorial Scholarship Award is given to descendants of former crewmen of the USS Little Rock. Symmes, a junior from Huntsville, Alabama, received the $1,000 scholarship a year after her sister Lauren won the same award. She is the granddaughter of the late Alfred King, who served on the USS Little Rock from 1945-47.
“This scholarship honors my grandfather for his service on the USS Little Rock,” Symmes said.
The USS Little Rock was commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1976. It now resides in Buffalo, New York, where it is open to the public at the Buffalo Naval and Military Park.
The USS Little Rock Association scholarship program was started in 2001.
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By: Jailaih Gowdy