A group gathers in the board room at VGCC to celebrate the creation of a new scholarship honoring Ann Rose Allen. Seated, from left: Guild volunteer Dorene Hedrick, Guild president Anne Bunch, Ann Rose Allen, Gean Bobbitt and Nancy Moody; standing, from left: Pat Tharrington (friend of Mrs. Allen), volunteer Janet White, VGCC President Dr. Stelfanie Williams, Daniel Allen of Fuquay-Varina (grandson of Mrs. Allen), Rob Allen of Fuquay-Varina (son of Mrs. Allen), Sarah Falkner and Susan Adcock (friends of Mrs. Allen), and VGCC Endowment Fund Director Eddie Ferguson.
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Volunteers from the Guild Gift Gallery at Maria Parham Medical Center recently presented $25,000 to the Vance-Granville Community College Endowment Fund that will create a new scholarship. This scholarship — the seventh established by the Guild Gift Gallery in recent years — honors the original volunteer coordinator of the hospital gift shop, Ann Rose Allen of Henderson.
The new gift continues a tradition of the organization’s generous support for education. The volunteer-operated Guild Gift Gallery offers convenience items and gifts as a service to both patients and visitors at the hospital. Profits from sales are used to provide scholarships to people entering the health care professions. The new VGCC scholarship will assist deserving students in programs such as Nursing, Radiography, Medical Assisting and Pharmacy Technology.
Allen organized and coordinated the original hospital gift shop in its former location. “It is with pleasure that the Guild Gift Gallery honors Ann Rose Allen with this scholarship,” said Guild president Anne Bunch of Henderson. “She is a driving force behind the success of our gift shop. Ann gave her time and talent to provide a service to our community. It is quite appropriate that we honor her with this scholarship, which will benefit others for years to come.”
“Mrs. Allen’s legacy of community service is an inspirational example to all of us, and especially to the students who will receive this scholarship on their way to careers of service in health care,” said Dr. Stelfanie Williams, the president of VGCC. “We are grateful to all of the Guild Gift Gallery volunteers for their continued commitment to Vance-Granville, which will support students for years to come.”
Because the scholarship, the “Ann Rose Allen/Guild Gift Gallery at Maria Parham Presidential Scholar Award,” is endowed, it will be awarded in perpetuity. Such gifts have allowed the VGCC Endowment Fund and Scholarship Program to award more than 7,000 scholarships to students since 1982. Scholarships have been established by individuals, businesses, civic groups, churches and the college’s faculty and staff to assist deserving VGCC students. Tax-deductible donations to the VGCC Endowment Fund have often been used to honor or remember a person, group, business or industry with a lasting gift to education. For more information, call (252) 738-3409.