WCC Announces Elliot Scholarship Winners

Wilkes Community College has announced honors for fifteen students, who have received the Gertrude Elliot Allied Health Scholarship.

This year’s recipients are Amy Clautter, Ashleigh Douglas, Amber Whitley, Melia Inscore, Andrea Hawkins, Kasey Durham, Connie Caudle, Melissa Poe, Kristin Moxley, Christy Sturgill, Jennifer Blair, Kayla Billings, Julia Brannock, Shelia Malteva, and LeAnne Price.

The Gertrude Elliott Allied Health Scholarship was established at Wilkes Community College by Drs. Tom and Karolen Bowman. They are personally involved in the scholarship process and work with WCC officials to select the scholarship recipients each year. To date the scholarship has helped 82 students with over $107,000 in scholarship money.

Gertrude Webster Elliott graduated from Davis Hospital School of Nursing in 1954. She worked briefly at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem before returning to Wilkes County to work for Wilkes General Hospital in the Emergency Room until her death in 1988. Gertrude will always be remembered for her loving care to the many patients she served and for her devotion and love of the nursing profession.

Contributions to the Gertrude Elliott Allied Health Scholarship may be sent to WCC Endowment Corporation/Gertrude Elliott Scholarship Fund.