Victoria Electric Cooperative (VEC) has awarded $1,500 scholarships to 20 graduating seniors.

Criteria Criteria considered include a student’s diversification of skills/hobbies/interests, their past civic and volunteer efforts, demonstrated leadership attributes, and grade point average. Applicants were also required to submit a 500 word essay which covered experience from their life and how it influenced their development. Scholarship winners were selected by the Scholarship Committee at Victoria Electric Cooperative based on open competition among all applicants. The panel of independent judges was composed of VEC members.

“All of the recipients are very active in school and extracurricular activities, as well as active in their volunteer efforts in our community. All have excellent grades and VEC is very pleased to award them scholarship funds to assist them in continuing their education,” said Charolette Whitley, HR & Communication Manager.
The Victoria Electric Cooperative youth scholarship program is funded entirely by unclaimed capital credit money that would normally have to be turned over to the state. “We at VEC absolutely love supporting our area youth, particularly their dreams to further their education
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We wish them the best in their future endeavors,” said Whitley.

Scholarship recipients graduating from Calhoun High School are:
● Morgan Harkey, Texas A&M, Biomedical Science
● Tarah Munsch, Tarleton State University, Bachelors of Science in Nursing
● Savannah Lane, UT or Texas A&M, Bachelor of Finance and Master’s in Real Estate
● Geraldine Tavola, UT Austin, Pre-Med & Bachelor of Science in Microbiology