Tompkins awarded Lynnette Kiesling Shanton Scholarship
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Courtesy of Fairfield Local Schools-
Alexis Tompkins was named this year’s recipient of the Lynnette Kiesling Shanton Scholarship.
Lynnette Kiesling Shanton was a 2002 graduate of Fairfield Local High School. In December 2015, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer and passed away victoriously in Christ on June 23, 2017.
During her time at Fairfield, Shanton participated in volleyball, basketball, softball, National Honor Society, band, choir, 4-H and was honored as homecoming queen while maintaining a 3.925 GPA as her class’s salutatorian.
She furthered her educational career at the University of Rio Grande, earning academic and athletic scholarships, playing four years of varsity volleyball and then working as a graduate assistant while completing her master of education degree in Mild-Moderate Intervention Specialist. Her teaching career consisted of Bright Local Elementary (Mowrystown), Enchanted Care Learning Center (Hilliard) and Green Elementary (Gallipolis), where she earned the 2016-17 Teacher of the Year award for Gallipolis City Schools.
To honor her memory and contribution to the Fairfield community, a $1,000 scholarship is being awarded to a Fairfield college-bound senior who exemplifies the character, work ethic and attitude that Shanton so faithfully demonstrated on a daily basis.
Past recipients include Ashley Sowards and Bennett Hodson.
If you wish to create a scholarship memorial for Fairfield students, please contact Mike Morrow, Treasurer, in the district office at (937) 780-2221.
Lynnette Kiesling Shanton was a 2002 graduate of Fairfield Local High School. In December 2015, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer and passed away victoriously in Christ on June 23, 2017.
During her time at Fairfield, Shanton participated in volleyball, basketball, softball, National Honor Society, band, choir, 4-H and was honored as homecoming queen while maintaining a 3.925 GPA as her class’s salutatorian.
She furthered her educational career at the University of Rio Grande, earning academic and athletic scholarships, playing four years of varsity volleyball and then working as a graduate assistant while completing her master of education degree in Mild-Moderate Intervention Specialist. Her teaching career consisted of Bright Local Elementary (Mowrystown), Enchanted Care Learning Center (Hilliard) and Green Elementary (Gallipolis), where she earned the 2016-17 Teacher of the Year award for Gallipolis City Schools.
To honor her memory and contribution to the Fairfield community, a $1,000 scholarship is being awarded to a Fairfield college-bound senior who exemplifies the character, work ethic and attitude that Shanton so faithfully demonstrated on a daily basis.
Past recipients include Ashley Sowards and Bennett Hodson.
If you wish to create a scholarship memorial for Fairfield students, please contact Mike Morrow, Treasurer, in the district office at (937) 780-2221.