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Tomas family endows scholarship at SCC

 

 

SYLVA – In his role as president of Southwestern Community College, Dr. Don Tomas has seen up close the impact a hand-up can have on students as they work toward college degrees.

That’s the main reason he and his wife, Allison, are setting up the Allison and Don Tomas Endowed Scholarship Fund In Memory of Amy DuBose McGehee and William Joseph Tomas through the SCC Foundation.


 
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