The Brown County Lions Club awarded college scholarships to five graduating seniors of Brown County High School.
The students were chosen based on their service to school and community, their character, academic ability and the special circumstances of their lives. The five, one-year awards are for $1,000 each and are provided through fundraising projects and scholarship endowments by the Brown County Lions Club.
Kara Adams spent her childhood enjoying the outdoors, observing the variety of life around her and wondering about how life worked and thrived. That curiosity developed into an appreciation of the sciences in school, and a summer program in an Indiana University research lab has led her to select career study in biochemistry in college. At BCHS, Kara was in National Honor Society, student council, Science Honor Society, History Club, Robotics Club and participated in Science Olympiad competition and the Academic Super Bowl. She volunteered for events and worked at the concession stand for Brown County Parks and Recreation for four years. Adams has lived with and overcome migraines and doctor visits to graduate third in her class. She will attend Purdue University this fall.
Tanner Bowman, through his high school years, has earned money working for others and on his own in a variety of ways, and is graduating in the top 11 percent of his class. He is an Eagle Scout and is close to qualifying for his private pilot license. He has volunteered with the music center, Brown County Playhouse, junior high We the People Team and the state park clean-up. He’s a member of 4-H, the Bald Eagles pilot group, was an Indiana Senate page, on the Indiana Legislative Youth Advisory Council and a participant in the Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders. At BCHS, Bowman was production manager and sales manager at Eagle Manufacturing, was editor of both the newspaper and yearbook, was a founding member of the History Club, a member of National Honor Society and student council, and was captain of the social studies academic team and the interdisciplinary academic team. He will double-major in aviation management and professional flight technology at Purdue University with a goal to fly commercially.
Bella Hobbs has been passionate about all things artistic since elementary school, and she has immersed herself in the Brown County studios and shops and developed an appreciation for design and the printed word. She put these skills to work in the community and school, volunteering to design advertising and lead children’s crafts for Dance Marathon’s Winter Workshop, format pages for the Shadows yearbook, as well as design and post weekly game times for fall sports. Hobbs has also volunteered at Mother’s Cupboard, the Eagle Classic and the Hilly Half and works with Encounter Life Ministries with children and youth. At BCHS, she is a four-year member of the soccer team, a sprinter and pole vaulter on the track and field team, and is also a member of the National Honor Society and student council. She will attend Indiana Wesleyan University in the fall as a member of the John Wesley Honors College to pursue a double major in visual communication design and strategic communication.
Holli Terrill smiles when she talks about her chosen profession and career. And better, confident smiles are what she hopes to see from her clients when she begins work as a dental hygienist. Terrill has worked toward her college experience in two ways at BCHS by being employed to earn her own money in retail sales at The Candy Dish in Nashville and studying five days a week in the C4 dental program offered at school. C4 provides instruction and practice, and that head start on her college dreams has convinced Terrill that a dental career is right for her. She will seek a four-year bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene at the University of Southern Indiana.
Mica Selby has grown up in a family with lots of children, and she began her babysitting experiences at a young age. She loved all of it, including work with a brother disabled in an accident. In high school, she discovered C4 classes in early childhood education which have given her the opportunity to earn her child development associate credentials, a national recognition that will allow her to work with preschool-aged children in daycare programs. At BCHS, she earned that recognition by working the required hours at the Van Buren Elementary preschool with the teachers there. Selby has also earned varsity letters in cross country and the school dance team, and was on the unified track team and prom committee. The first in her family to attend college, Selby will major in early childhood education at Ivy Tech Community College for an associate’s degree and then explore continuing education opportunities.
