Chatham’s Cox, South Hill’s Davis Are VMDAEC Scholarship Recipients

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The Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives’ (VMDAEC) Educational Scholarship Foundation awarded 30 scholarships, each in the amount of $1,000 to selected students whose families receive electricity from electric cooperatives in those three states.  Recipients were awarded these scholarships based on a competitive screening process and are chosen based on three major criteria:  financial need (40 percent); academic achievement (40 percent); and community involvement (20 percent).  These grants can be used to pay for tuition, fees and books.

Selected to receive the scholarships from Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative’s membership were Victoria Cox and Javon  Davis.  Cox is a graduate of Chatham High School and will attend Virginia Tech. She is the daughter of Lisa and Keith Shorter of Chatham.  Davis, who is a graduate of Park View High School, is the son of Roslin Davis and Brian Bullock.  He will attend Virginia Commonwealth University.

The scholarships are named in honor of Worth Hudson, the first chairman of the VMDAEC Educational Scholarship Foundation and former chairman of the Board of Directors of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative.  Since its inception in 2000, the Foundation has awarded 319 scholarships totaling $228,500.

Founded in 1944, VMDAEC is the trade association for Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative and 14 other electric cooperatives that serve Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.  It is based in Glen Allen, Va., and provides safety and employee training, governmental relations, communications, including the publication of Cooperative Living magazine, and other services to its member cooperatives.