Preisel earns
Leader Advancement
Scholarship at CMU
MOUNT PLEASANT — Katelyn Preisel of Attica has been awarded a Leader Advancement Scholarship from Central Michigan University.
Preisel, the daughter of Jim and Kim Preisel of Attica, received the four-year, $2,000-per-year scholarship based on a distinguished record of leadership and service during her years at Imlay City High School.
Leader Advancement Scholars reside in the leadership residence hall and complete eight courses with a specialized leadership emphasis. In addition, she will participate in and take leadership roles in student organizations, attend leadership events and trainings, engage in community service activities, join university committees, plan campus events, mentor freshmen scholarship recipients, and more throughout the four-year scholarship period.
Preisel also will have the opportunity to complete CMU’s new leadership minor, an interdisciplinary program that incorporates several of the special courses for scholarship recipients and features leadership theory and fieldwork courses. It is the first and only leadership minor at a four-year, public university in Michigan.

Bingo pays off for
area high schoolers
LAPEER — Seven local students received scholarships of $500 each from the Lapeer Oddfellows Lodge #94, that collected the funds from its Friday night Bingo games at the lodge.
The scholarships and 14 endowments were given to Oddfellow family members during a banquet July 19. The event drew 118 people and was attended by Tony Poma, Grand Master of Michigan from the Eastpointe Lodge and Gary Schultz, Grand Herold of Michigan from the Lapeer Oddfellows.
Scholarship winners and their high schools are: Kevin Vayko, Almont; Robert Ladner, Dryden; Morgan Iloncaie, Imlay City; Jacob Wells, Lapeer Community; Holly Flones, Lapeer West; Natalie Matuszczak, North Branch.
Endowment recipients are; Tracy Howland, David Welling, Daniel Boucher, Milton Leitner II, Jennifer McCormack, Jennica Graustein, Tracy Atwell, Bradley Low, Andrew Boucher, Eric Hunt, Elizabeth Hudson, Holly Smith, Brooke Granstein, Jennifer Woodworth. — R.A.

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