Hudson Memorial Scholarship awarded

Following the death of Principal Carl Hudson during the 2022 school year, MHS staffers created the Carl Hudson Memorial Scholarship, a $1,000 scholarship offered to two minority students who write outstanding essays as part of the application process.

Senior Markeese Hunt is one of the two scholarship recipients this year.

“I was actually pretty happy that I get to share a part of him with me,” Hunt said.

Hunt wrote his scholarship essay on the educational difficulties he faced throughout high school.

“Well, I wrote about my challenges from freshman year to now, with me not taking education seriously to now knowing that it’s very important to me,” Hunt said.

Hunt said he was excited for the role the scholarship would play in his future at Missouri Baptist University where he will play football.

Rhonda Costa, administrative assistant for the Freshman Office, has a close connection with Hudson’s family.

Costa said she helped Hudson’s family contact Lisa Nieder, administrative assistant to the Activities Office, and Paula Ake, college counselor, in order to help set up the scholarship.

“The application process is really about you as a person, things that would make you be like Mr. Hudson,” Costa said.

Students had to submit an application to a committee composed of Costa, the principals and the college counselors.

The Hudson family prefers that each year a boy and girl is picked, and so far the council has held to this trend.

Kilea Jenkins, senior, is the second recipient this year.

“The whole goal of it is to really do a scholarship that really is just about the people and their personality and their perseverance and everything that