Roop Atwal Receives Scholarship at Randolph-Macon Academy

2014 Feb 7

Roop Atwal, the daughter of Jaspreet and Sukhdev Atwal of Front Royal, was awarded The William H. '33 and Ethel Garber Flight Scholarship and The Earl Sherman Memorial Scholarship at Randolph-Macon Academy's Scholarship Recognition Ceremony held on November 22, 2014.

The William H. ’33 and Ethel Garber Flight Scholarship was established in July of 1998 to provide meritorious students with financial assistance to participate in the R-MA Flight Program. Scholarships are awarded each year based upon overall merit and a competitive essay. The scholarship is named in honor of William H. Garber ’33, a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps, and his wife Ethel Garber, who earned her private pilot’s license after her 50th birthday. This scholarship fund was established by Ethel Garber to honor her deceased husband and to share her joy of flying with the young adults at R-MA. The Earl Sherman Scholarship was established and endowed by Mrs. Jean Neese and family in memory of Earl Sherman, Mrs. Neese’s father and great-grandfather of 2nd Lt. USMC Alonzo Neese, III ’01. This scholarship is awarded for exemplary character, to include a single, outstanding act that exhibits strength of personal character and integrity or a pattern of regular and consistent acts that exhibit strength of personal character and integrity.