Three WHS students receive $20K scholarship

Three Wrangell High School students are a step closer to their dream of a college degree as they each received a $20,000 scholarship to pay for post-high school education and living expenses.

The Sasayama Scholarships, which is named in memory of Tadao Sasayama, the first president of Alaska Pulp Corporation, are given to a choice group of WHS students each year – and the 2013 recipients were named on Monday, May 6.

Seniors MiKayla Stokes, Loranzo Silva and Haley Reed will each receive $5,000 a year for the next four years as they attend colleges and universities around the Lower 48.

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