Learning briefs 9/10/09

Scholarships

* Blake Driskell of Cape Girardeau received the Associated General Contractors of Missouri Young Executives Club scholarship. Driskell is a civil engineering student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Honors, Achievements

* Rhonda Dunham of Cape Girardeau received a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Missouri in Columbia. Dunham is the principal at Franklin Elementary School has been employed by the Cape Girardeau School District for 14 years.

* Kara Marie Bollinger of Millersville graduated valedictorian from Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., with a degree in English. Bollinger was also recently inducted into the Delta of Missouri Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

-- From staff reports