ASHEBORO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RECEIVES NEW CONE HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP

On Wednesday, May 24 Asheboro High School senior, Thalya Letterlough, was awarded the new Cone Health scholarship through the Asheboro City Schools Education Foundation. The scholarship was presented at the Senior Scholarship Awards Night at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of Asheboro High School. Letterlough is the current student body president at AHS and plans to attend UNC Chapel Hill. The scholarship was just introduced this year and is only awarded to a student who meets specific criteria set. After finalizing details to construct a new building for the Cone Health Cancer Center at Asheboro, Cone Health donated $150,000 to the Asheboro City Schools Education Foundation to establish a scholarship in their name. This new building will house all Cone Health Cancer services and resources for Randolph County. Starting this year, every year, a senior at Asheboro High School will be picked to receive the $2,000 Cone Health Scholarship for the school they choose to attend. The student picked to receive the scholarship must meet the criteria of being someone who serves the community, participates in an extracurricular activity, has good moral character, and has been accepted to a two-year or fouryear school.

As well as being the student body president, Letterlough previously served as the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior class president. She also participates in the Health Science Academy and is a part of the mathematics honor society, Mu Alpha Theta. She has also volunteered at Asheboro local hospital, Randolph Health, for the past two summers. She states, "I want to be able to make my future patients feel loved, cared and valued as my pediatricians made me feel." Congratulations Thalya!