Greensburg Senior Recognized As Winner of Dominion's Award of Achievement
PITTSBURGH - Greensburg Salem High School senior, Quindelyn
Cook has lots to smile about. The college-bound student was recently selected
as one of this years' winners of Dominion's annual Award of Achievement Collegiate
Grant competition.
Quindelyn, who maintains a perfect 4.0 grade point average,
will receive a $2,000 second place grant. Dominion's Award of Achievement grant
program was established in 1989 and has since awarded over $70,000 in grants
to African American students in pursuit of higher education.
Quindelyn's extracurricular and community service activities
include: President of the National Forensic League, member of the National Honor
Society, Physics Club, serving as a tutor for Big Brothers Big Sisters. She
also attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Healthcare. Quindelyn will
attend Duke University in the fall of 2003 to study Pre-Medicine.
The other 2003 winners are:
Olivia Benson- winner of the $3,000 first place grant.
Olivia is a senior at Aliquippa High School located in Aliquippa, Pa.
Kevan M. Matthews - winner of the $1,000 third place grant.
Kevan is a senior at Woodland Hills High School located in Churchill, Pa.
The winners were selected from a field of 35 applicants
throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. From those, an independent review committee
chose five finalists based on academic profile, letters of recommendation and
a personal interview.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers of energy,
with a diversified and integrated energy portfolio that includes 24,000 megawatts
of generation and 6.1 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves.
Dominion also serves 5 million retail energy customers in nine states. For more
information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at www.dom.com.
