January 20, 2022 Vol. 22, No. 36
In This Issue FOUR SEASONS
Hudson Football Memorial Scholarship winners named
Four Seasons, by Kevin Box, in real life is located in front of the Center for Transformative Learning on the UCO campus, but this week is hidden somewhere in our paper. Email contest@edmondpaper.com with the correct location to be entered in the weekly drawing. For more information, see page 4.
LibertyFest memories sought See page 4
FRIDAY, January 21 Sunny High 39° Low 23°
SATURDAY, January 22 Partly Cloudy High 46° Low 23°
SUNDAY, January 23 Sunny High 53° Low 31°
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Winning this year’s Shelby Hudson scholarship are Royce Coleman and Adian Parson. From left, are Royce Coleman, Coach Logan Thomas and Adian Parson Royce Coleman and Aidan Parson, of Edmond Memorial High School, class of 2022, recently received the sixteenth annual Shelby Hudson Football Memorial Scholarship late last year during the Bulldogs annual football banquet. The $4,000 tuition based scholarship that each will receive will be paid to the college or post-secondary studies of the recipient’s choice. The scholarship was established Aug. 2, 2005 in honor of Davis and Lisa Hudson’s son, Shelby who was a 2003 EMHS graduate, and is awarded annually to two players who display the qualities and characteristics that Shelby exemplified as a Bulldog football player. These include personal motivation and character, heart
and desire to excel, drive and determination to accomplish goals, and perseverance in the face of all obstacles. “We are extremely pleased and honored to be able to make this scholarship available to these two outstanding young men. Both Royce and Aidan had outstanding careers in football as well as in the classroom, as both are very competitive and therefore they will be very successful in life,” Davis Hudson said. Upon graduating from EMHS this spring, Royce plans to attend University of Oklahoma majoring in Biochemistry Pre Med, while Aidan plans to attend Oklahoma State University and receive his degree in the field of engineering. Shelby was participating in his
annual training camp with the Oklahoma National Guard when he drowned in Lake Tenkiller on May 24, 2005, while working on a unit moral activity. Since the inception of this tuition base scholarship, 31 recipients have been awarded $99,000.00. States where recipients have attended college beside Oklahoma are, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas. The Edmond Public Schools Foundation administers the scholarship. The tax-deductible donations for the fund may be sent to 1001 West Danforth Road, Edmond, Oklahoma 73003. For questions contact Deanna Boston, Executive Director of the foundation, at 405-340-2819.