Grace Allison received the Myra Traxler Memorial Scholarship presented in late May at the Ada senior recognition event.
Grace will attend Otterbein University and will major in elementary education. With Grace are her parents, Scott and Arlene, with Don Traxler. The scholarship is in memory of Don’s wife, Myra, who died in 2007.
One Ada junior and three juniors from Hardin Northern are local delegates to Buckeye Girls State thanks to sponsorship of the Ada American Legion Post. Each of the delegates will be seniors in the fall.
Foss-Agin-Meyer Post 185 will sponsor the following girls:
• Paige Jochims – Ada HS
• Kennedy Hall – Hardin Northern
• Jadi Herrod-Gonzalez – Hardin Northern
• Madison Wilch – Hardin Northern
A copy of the commencement program, attached with this story lists:
• class members
• honors diploma
• National Honor Society
• Apollo Career Center grads
• students with 3.5 grade point average or higher
Members of the Ada High School class of 2021 graduated on Sunday, making them the 138th class to pass through the local school system.
Class officers are: Trent Ennis, president; Jacob Morgan, vice-president; Kesewa Akyeampong, secretary;, Megan Light, treasurer and class advisor, Melody Veltri.
One family. Three generations. Three valedictorians.
Sunday’s graduation was a special event for each Ada High school graduate. But for Jacob Thaxton, a member of the class of 2021, its significance was part three of a very interesting family celebration.
Jacob became the third-generation member of his immediate family named a class valedictorian.
The threesome with Jacob, includes his mother, Julie, a 1996 Allen East graduate, and his grandfather, Jeffrey Anderson a 1971 Ada High School graduate.
The Ada Lions Club honored this year’s scholarship recipients on May 26.
As the selected recipients were announced they shared their plans and thanked the club for their scholarship awards. The Ada Lions Club provided a meal to all scholarship recipients and their families.
Madison Wright, recipient of one of last year’s Lions’ scholarships also attended the meeting.
The Club awarded five scholarships this year for a total of $5,750. One special scholarship award was given in memory of 50-year Ada Lions member, Jerry Dearth, who served many years as treasurer of the organization and who died this year. Alexandra Bates received this scholarship award.
