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Purdue NewsIncoming freshmen Tasha Foster of Lafayette and Jamillah Sherls of Gary, Ind., will receive $2,500 and $1,000, respectively. Foster plans to major in food science. Sherls plans to study business management.
The scholarship committee renewed awards for Erika Anderson of Gary, Ind., and Joneé Ward of Lafayette . Anderson, a mechanical engineering major, received her first $2,500 Silance Scholarship before the 1995-96 academic year. Ward, an accounting major, received her first $1,000 Silance Scholarship before the 1996-97 school year.
The scholarships were established in 1994. Silance, who died in 1988, stipulated that part of the proceeds from her estate be used to establish a scholarship fund for deserving undergraduates. Silance received a bachelor's degree with distinction in 1932 and a master's degree in 1933, both from Purdue. She taught English, mathematics and other subjects at Roosevelt High School in Gary, Ind.; Fisk University in Tennessee; and Sumner High School in St. Louis, where she lived for many years before returning to Lafayette, where she was active in the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Federated Women's Club.
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