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By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 02:46 p.m., October 22, 2007
Updated 02:46 p.m., October 22, 2007
Miller scholarship
A scholarship that honors a Lyon County Sheriff’s deputy who died in 2006 has been awarded at Garden City Community College for the first time. Amanda Scully of Garden City was chosen as the first recipient of the John E. Miller Memorial Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is for students studying criminal justice. First preference goes to students from Lyon County, but there were no Lyon County applicants this year.
John Miller, the son of the Rev. Thomas and Priscilla Miller of Emporia, was a criminal justice graduate of the community college, where he received the Alvin E. Dewey Scholarship. He attended the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center and graduated from Friends University in Wichita with a degree in criminal justice.
He joined the sheriff’s department in 1994 and was promoted to deputy in 1998. He died at his home Aug. 4, 2006, after a brief illness.
His parents established the scholarship at the school.
They said last week that they were happy with the selection of Scully as the scholarship’s first recipient. She is 28, the mother of two daughters and the money will allow her to pursue her studies without working full-time. She intends to continue through to a law degree and work as a prosecutor.
Thomas Miller said she was just the sort of student the family wanted to help with the scholarship.
Enters massage
program
Ashley Swihart of Emporia has enrolled in the massage therapy program at the Pinnacle Career Institute. The Institute, located in Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo., trains students for careers in the business, electronics, medical and wellness fields.