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Citadel News Service

Office of Public Affairs

FOR RELEASE
November 7, 1998

 

Cadet Rhett Blackmon Receives 1998 Colonel Loring K. Himelright Scholarship

          At a surprise ceremony held during The Citadel's homecoming weekend on Nov. 7, 1998, Cadet Rhett Blackmon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Blackmon of Charlotte, N.C., was awarded the Colonel Loring K. Himelright Scholarship for his outstanding performance as a civil engineering student.

          Col. Himelright, the former civil engineering department head for whom the scholarship is named, presented Cadet Blackmon with a plaque and a check. The Colonel Loring K. Himelright Scholarship Fund was founded by civil engineering alumni upon the retirement of Col. Himelright in 1981 to establish a scholarship in his honor for distinguished civil engineering students. The scholarship fund currently provides an annual scholarship award to a rising civil engineering senior as selected by the department faculty in the amount of $1000.

          Cadet Blackmon is currently president of The Citadel's chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineering.

 

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