Selected students receive $1,000 each toward their college education.
By CSD Staff
The National Advisory Group (NAG) has announced the five winners of the 2015 John MacDougall/NAG Memorial Scholarship.
The winners are Emily Harris, Louisville, Ky., Thorntons; Ashley Hernandez, Key West, Fla., Dion Quik Marts; Rachel Hudson, Amarillo, Texas, Toot N’ Totum; Maxwell Klyczek, Hollywood, Fla., Tom Thumb Food Stores; and Margaret Valentine, Watertown, N.Y., Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes.
Each winner will receive $1,000 for his or her college education.
“The National Advisory Group is extremely proud to award these scholarships to five deserving students of NAG members. NAG has a long tradition of supporting higher education and helping to groom the convenience store industry’s next-generation leaders,” said John Lofstock, NAG’s executive director. “I would like to also personally thank our member companies and supplier partners for their contributions to the NAG Scholarship fund. Over the past 20 years, we have awarded more than 100 scholarships to offset the escalating cost of higher education.”
Earlier this year, the award was renamed the John MacDougall/NAG Memorial Scholarship to honor the late John MacDougall, founder of Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes.
MacDougall was a longtime supporter of both NAG and higher education.
About The Winners
• Emily Harris is attending the University of Alabama this fall, majoring in biochemistry. She is graduating from Bullitt East High School in Mt. Washington, Ky.
• Rachel Hudson is starting her second year at Texas Tech University, majoring in pre-nursing. She is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma and a University Medical Center volunteer.
• Maxwell Klyczek is attending Florida State in the fall, majoring in international business. He graduated from Chaminade-Madonna College Prep School, where he was a member of the English, Spanish and Science Honors Society, and co-captain of the soccer team.
• Margaret Valentine is attending Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. in the fall, majoring in biological sciences. She will be graduating from Watertown High School, where she’s active in varsity softball and swimming and serves as student council treasurer.
• Ashley Hernandez is expected to graduate from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2017. She is studying nursing, and is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Delta Delta Delta and the National Society of Leadership.
Applicant Requirements
The NAG scholarship program was started in the late 1990s and has distributed nearly $100,000 to deserving students. The fund is financed through annual dues collections by NAG members.
To be eligible for the scholarship applicants had to be convenience store employees or children of convenience store employees who had a minimum of one-year employment with a NAG member company.
Eligible applicants also had to plan to enroll in a full- or part-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited two-year or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school.
Applicants who are current students or who have attended school within the past three years must have maintained a minimum 2.5 grade point average.
NAG’s program follows standard Scholarship America recipient selection procedures, including past academic performance and future potential, leadership and participation in school and community activities, work experience and an outside appraisal.
