{"id":284,"date":"2015-09-23T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=284"},"modified":"2016-03-03T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:20:33","slug":"texasbank-of-brownwood-president-to-present-five-tstc-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"TexasBank of Brownwood President to Present Five TSTC Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/f4927be8001\/a8d4b20b-4a3b-470e-a29a-16493ad01500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(BROWNWOOD) &#8211; Gregory Dodds, President and CEO of TexasBank of Brownwood, presented five TSTC students with $1,000 scholarships on Monday, Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The bank has donated $5,000 annually to TSTC for several years. This year the bank asked that the money be disbursed at the rate of $1,000 each to five worthy Brownwood students.<\/p>\n<p>The five students selected, Joshua Barron, Irene Holmes, Dawn Pinkard, Mariolis Ragland and Laura Weaver, were selected based on merit and financial need.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Barron, a fifth semester Software &amp; Business Accounting student, said he has plans for the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will help with books, tuition, gas back and forth to campus, and program materials,&#8221; Barron said.<\/p>\n<p>TSTC in West Texas Provost Eliska Smith said these kinds of gifts are something that really helps the students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scholarships like these not only help the students with tuition, but also with unexpected expenses that they may need help covering to stay in school,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;We&#8217;re thankful to Mr. Dodds and TexasBank of Brownwood for supporting TSTC and our students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dodds serves as a Board Member for The TSTC Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BROWNWOOD) &#8211; Gregory Dodds, President and CEO of TexasBank of Brownwood, presented five TSTC students with $1,000 scholarships on Monday, Sept. 21. The bank has donated $5,000 annually to TSTC for several years. This year the bank asked that the money be disbursed at the rate of $1,000 each to five worthy Brownwood students. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brownwood","category-westtexas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}