For Release
Nov. 1, 2003

Myrtle Beach resident receives prestigious scholarship award

          Citadel Cadet Jonathan Martin Black today was awarded the Col. Loring K. Himelright Scholarship for his outstanding performance as a civil engineering student.

          Himelright, for whom the scholarship is named, is a former civil engineering department head. The scholarship fund was created following his retirement in 1981. The fund provides an annual scholarship for a senior in civil engineering. Faculty members choose each year's recipient of the $1,500 scholarship.

          Black received a plaque from Col. Dennis J. Fallon, dean of engineering, and a check during a homecoming weekend ceremony Saturday, Nov. 1.

          Black is president of The Citadel Chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers and, a member of Phi Kappa Phi and a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society.

          A 2000 graduate of Calvary Christian School, he is the son of Mr. And Mrs. Martin Gregory Black of Hunters Trail in Myrtle Beach.

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