The Ada Kiwanis Club awarded five scholarships to the following Ada High School seniors at the Senior Awards Dinner held May 13 at the Ada High School.

Recipients were: Alexis Amburgey, Tessa Coulson, Cort Everhart, Quinn High and Gabrielle Roll.

An additional scholarship will be presented Hope Hazelton at a later date. John Berg, president of the club, presented the awards.  

He noted that the main thrust of Kiwanis International is to help the children of the world and seems fitting that the Ada Kiwanis Club would choose to make the annual presentations.

He said the first club scholarship was awarded in 1964 when the club hosted the Ada High School National Honor Society students at a special meeting in the O.N.U. ballroom. That evening, 18 senior students are honored. The 1964 dinner was under the direction of then Kiwanian Richard Sunderman, guidance counselor at Ada High School.

Ada High School senior Miriam Hall was the club’s first scholarship recipient.

Berg noted that the club’s scholarship program was discontinued for a few years and then revived and it has continued for the last several years.

The Ada Kiwanis Club was founded in 1924 and is in its 91st year of service to the Ada community.