Thirty-two Coker University students received $137,000 in scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, a public charity that provides support for the education of female students in nine Southeastern states. 

Pictured top left to top right: Diamond Moore, Shaiyana Brown, Siobahn Guzman, Tiffany English, Alera Jackson, Delaney Buddenborg, Kirsten Faulk, Allison Cassidy, Addison Vaughn, Chelsa Sellers, McKenzie Jordan, and Kali Tomlin.
Pictured bottom left to bottom right: Alex Williams, Allissa Young, Brandi Davis, Selena Chason, Alexis Green, Hannah Quick, Madison Hodge, Alyssa Brown, Lena Hall, Jherrymiah Go, Chevez Smith, and Maggie Sims.

The Lettie Pate Whitehead scholarship program provides scholarship grants for deserving female students with financial need at more than 200 colleges, universities and schools. More than 10,000 students receive scholarships each year. The foundation was created by Conkey Pate Whitehead, Mrs. Whitehead’s youngest son, in honor of his mother. It was chartered in 1946 for the “aid and benefit of poor and deserving Christian girls and women” in nine states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The Foundation has awarded more than $767 million in grants since inception.

“For many students, a college education is only attainable with the help of scholarships,” said Coker University President Dr. Natalie Harder. “Coker University is grateful to the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation for its continued generous support of women from the southeastern United States.”

Coker University’s 2020-2021 Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation scholarship recipients are: Anna Atkinson, Alyssa Brown, Shaiyana Brown, Delaney Buddenborg, Allison Cassidy, Selena Chason, Brandi Davis, Tiffany English, Georgia Everidge, Kirsten Faulk, Jherrymiah Go, Alexis Green, Siobhan Guzman, Lena Hall, Madison Hodge, Alera Jackson, McKenzie Jordan, Sydney Lucas, Dekeshia Massey, Diamond Moore, Sydnee Nieves, Hannah Quick, Lillia Rodriguez, Chelsa Sellers, Maggie Sims, Chevez Smith, Ashley Tarlton, Kali Tomlin, Addison Vaughan, Marian Watford, Alexandra Wiliams, and Allissa Young.

For more information about Coker University, please visit www.coker.edu. For more information about the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Scholarship Program, please visit https://lpwhitehead.org/grants-program/scholarship-program.