Foundation Supports Student With Scholarship

June 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Atlanta, Georgia - 6/2/2010 – The Dukes Foundation, one of Metropolitan Atlanta’s Transformational and Innovative Youth Mentoring Organization is pleased to announce their expansion into providing financial assistance for students throughout southeastern states.  An inaugural scholarship award in honor of a Distinguished Community Leader, the late Mrs. Eola Dukes will be presented on June 4,2010 at Scott’s Branch High School in Summerton, South Carolina.
Horace Dukes, Chief Executive Officer of The Dukes Foundation remarked recently; ‘Educators are people who teaches students to create blueprints for their lives. It is up to the individual what they design and build with them’ in his congratulatory message to the Scholarship Awardee.
The Scholarships are awarded to students accepted to college and enrolled in the upcoming semester.  They are required to follow a course of study to attain a degree in pursuit of a meaningful career and are encouraged to maintain a minimum GPA of 3.4 or equivalent.
Now housed in a modern facility, Scott’s Branch High in Summerton is a preemminent institution responsible for education reform. It was the source of Briggs v. Elliott  forerunner of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education. ‘We are excited and certainly appreciative of your Foundation's interest in our students and also for providing this scholarship.’ Bernard McDaniel, Sr., Principal of Scott's Branch High School said.
Hakeem Bennett, the Scholarship Awardee has maintained high grades throughout his High School years. He said that J.Paul Getty, David Brinkley and Horace Mann are some of the great people whose quotations that have inspired him. In making his scholarship qualification submission, he repeated his often-told desire to make a meaningful contribution to his community after achieving his academic goals. Mrs. Ida Bouldin and Ms. Debrann Dukes, Co-Chair of Mrs. Eola Dukes Scholarship Fund Management Committee confirmed the Committee’s selection of Hakeem earlier today.
He is also the valedictorian of his senior class at Scott’s Branch High School’s Commencement Ceremony this year. Bennett will be attending South Carolina State University next semester.
The honoree of the Scholarship Fund, the late Mrs. Eola Dukes was a Distinguished Community Leader, a Member of the NAACP Manning Branch, the YWCA, Queen of the South Chapter No. 304, O.E.S., and the Clarendon County Voter’s League. She was also very involved in the Church community holding several key positions at the Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church. An award winning Representative of The Avon Corporation and a twenty-eight years employee of the Sunbeam Corporation
DUKES FOUNDATION (CORPORATION) operates an active Youth Mentoring Services Program with the support of corporate entities and Philanthropic individuals. Utilizing their acronym D.U.K.E.S, Developing Urban Kids with Etiquette and Self-Esteem, the organization is committed to the application of their mentoring program to provide the tools, opportunities, and support to help talented ‘at-risk’ young men dream, achieve, and become healthy, successful adult. The platform was developed on the pillars of possessing good Self-esteem, Moral Character and Cultural Exposure. www.dukesfoundation.org
Contact: Tuqwan Jordan, Director, Public Relations email dukesfoundation@dukesfoundation.org 404-419-6452

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We are a Tranformational, Innovative Youth Mentoring Organization serving the Metropolitan Atlanta Georgia Region. Utilizing their acronym D.U.K.E.S, Developing Urban Kids with Etiquette and Self-Esteem, the organization is committed to the application of their mentoring program to provide the tools, opportunities, and support to help talented ‘at-risk’ young men dream, achieve, and become healthy, successful adult. The platform was developed on the pillars of possessing good Self-esteem, Moral Character and Cultural Exposure.