Pages

description of blog

This photo was taken by our daughter, Sarah Timmons, or my wife, depending on who you ask. We were in Rehoboth Beach, DE on Easter Sunday, 2011.


Several years ago, on the way home from a family vacation, I picked up a notebook and quickly recorded an incident that had occurred involving our son. Eventually, I used that story to illustrate something about my spiritual walk as a believer in Christ. Thus began a deliberate attempt to document the significance of everyday events. Almost any ordinary circumstance in daily life can become fodder for another story. This, almost by definition, lends itself to a blog.

Of course, many of the entries here are just ordinary diary style stuff... the stuff of ordinary blogs. Good grief, I don't want to be ordinary.


Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Michael C. Ferguson Scholarship

Our Sarah just got some good news.  She received a $1,000 Ferguson Scholarship to be used towards her college education.  The awards are based on DCAS scores from last year (when Sarah was in the eighth grade). The following is straight out of the Sussex Central High School Web Site:

Fourteen Indian River School District students were awarded Ferguson Scholarships from the State of Delaware for exemplary performance on the 2012 Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System (DCAS).

 Sixteen scholarships totaling $16,000 were awarded to district students who earned high scores on the reading and math portions of the DCAS. Each scholarship is worth $1,000 and can be used once the student begins post-secondary education.

 Statewide, 299 scholarships were awarded to 279 students. There were 20 students who earned multiple scholarships.

 The scholarship program is named in memory of Michael C. Ferguson, former Deputy Superintendent and Acting Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction and former state budget director.

Sarah earned her scholarship for her performance on the math portion of the test.  The funny thing is, Sarah says she really doesn't like math that much.
Posted by at
Labels:

2 comments:

Sherry Mitchell said...

Congratulations to Sarah; must be good genes:)

January 20, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Brent Timmons said...

Yup...She got her mother's hard work ethic.

January 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)