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Rachel Azar, a senior marketing and accounting major at King’s College, has been selected as the recipient of the William G. McGowan Scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Azar, of Allentown, is a consistent Dean’s List student and a member of the Aquinas Society, Beta Gamma Sigma and Mu Kappa Tau honor societies. She was also the recipient of a King’s-sponsored Moreau Scholarship. She recently completed a summer internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Florham Park, N.J. She is the vice president of Student Government, treasurer of the campus chapter of the Columbiettes and a level two certified tutor. The McGowan Scholarship is a partial-tuition award named in honor of William G. McGowan, a 1952 graduate of King’s who went on to a successful business career as the founder and chairman of MCI Communications Corporation. The scholarship is awarded to a full-time student who is pursuing a major within the McGowan School of Business. Candidates must be entering their senior year; achieved a minimum grade-point-average of 3.0.; and be nominated by at least one faculty member of the business school.
Geordan Grieco, a Bucknell University junior, has been named the recipient of the Olive B. Barr Scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year. This is the second year Grieco has received the scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2008 with a testamentary gift from Olive B. Barr, a 1931 graduate of Bucknell, and resident of Forty Fort at the time of her death in 2001. The scholarship reflects Barr’s belief in the importance of providing an educational opportunity for students with demonstrated financial need in the liberal arts curriculum. Grieco is the son of Cathy Funk and George Grieco, both of Williamsport. He is a 2007 graduate of Williamsport High School. A management major, Grieco is a member of the Global Residential College, Bucknell Business Leaders and Bucknell Buddies, an after-school tutoring program in the local school districts. He is also involved with the Student Philanthropy Group, PFLAG and Bicycles against Poverty, and works as a student supervisor/quality control manager for Bucknell’s student calling program.