The Brundidge Rotary Club hosted the 15 applicants for the club’s 2014 Rotary Scholarships at its Wednesday meeting.
Chip Wallace, chair of the club’s scholarship committee, said all applicants are outstanding and are deserving of the scholarships.
“But we can only award six scholarships and it’s going to be tough to make those decisions,” Wallace said.
Wallace introduced the applicants to the club membership at the luncheon meeting. Each applicant was then interviewed by the scholarship committee.
Seniors from five area high schools applied for the scholarships. The high schools represented are Pike County, Ariton, Goshen, Pike Liberal Arts and Zion Chapel.
The applicants are Pike County  – Terrance Cochran, Justin Davis and Alkeyra McKinney; Ariton – Callie Reeder, Emily Snyder and Erika Sullivan; Goshen – Lynze Price; Pike Liberal Arts – Ellie Barron, Caleb Gray, Kailee Taylor and Thomas Woodham; and Zion Chapel – Kaitera Jinright, Veronica Kidd, Chancy Marler and Jessica Rhodes.
Wallace said five of the scholarships are memorial scholarships that honor the memory of members of the Brundidge Rotary Club.
“The first memorial scholarship that we awarded was in memory of Ralph Dickert,” Wallace said. “Later, we added a second scholarship and then another and another. We now award five scholarships in memory of club members who were dedicated to the ideals of Rotary and to the community.”
Scholarships are awarded annually in the memory of Ralph Dickert, Harold Rodgers, Robert Godwin, Wilburn Howard and Reynolds Wallace, Jr.
The sixth scholarship is awarded in memory of Sara Spano, a philanthropist from Georgia .
A member of the Brundidge Rotary Club who remains anonymous initiated the scholarship.
The receipients will be announced at a later date.