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New Class of Gale Scholars Inducted -- LISTEN TO WHOLE CEREMONY HERE
FIRST REPORTED 3:00pm 5/6/10 Sixteen new local junior high school students now have the chance to go to Knox and Carl Sandburg Colleges free, as long as they keep their grades up and get involved in their communities.

The two colleges and the Galesburg School District Thursday inducted the 16 into the annual George Washington Gale Scholars Program. Named after the founder of Galesburg and of Knox College, the program selects the Churchill and Lombard Junior High students through an application process. Once selected, if they successfully graduate from Galesburg High School and meet all the other requirements, they can attend Knox and Sandburg without cost.

Les Hunter is the Director of the Gale Scholars program, and says Thursday's induction ceremony is a day of celebration, even though the students have an eight-year task ahead of them.

"What that is, is a ticket to opportunity that you've earned and will continue to earn," Hunter said to the students. "You'll receive...a certificate (of induction), and I like to call that a ticket. And you'll continue to get that ticket punched along the way over the next eight years. Eight years from now, you will graduate and walk across the stage at Knox College. That ticket will give you opportunity; it will be a college degree."

Three Gale Scholars are graduating from Knox College this year.

The 16 students inducted this year will also receive mentoring as a part of their scholarship process, starting with a meeting Monday night at Galesburg High School they must attend.

The Gale Scholars program started in 1996. You can download all of Wednesday's Gale Scholars Induction ceremony by CLICKING HERE (mp3 format, approximately 23 minutes. NOTE: The presentation is in its entirety, aside from a pause while a train passed by the Gale House.)


(Les Hunter, Director of the Gale Scholars Program, speaks during Thursday's induction ceremony.)


(Shalane Worden, a Gale Scholar about to graduate from Knox College, speaks to the new class of inductees.)


(Aaron Barton, 2010 Carl Sandburg College graduate, speaks in front of Gale House Thursday.)


(Roger Brush, 2010 Galesburg High School graduate, will enter Carl Sandburg College in the fall as a Gale Scholar.)


The Gale Scholars 2010 Inductees, from Left to Right:

First row: Gene Denisar, Galesburg District 205 Superintendent; Tom Schmidt, Carl Sandburg College President; Michael Anderson Jr.; Brandon Mahnesmith; Kierra Klapp; Hailey Peoples; Amparo Moreno; Dr. Lori Sundberg, Carl Sandburg College Vice President; Roger Taylor, Knox College President.

Second row: Hannah Fox, Angie Olivas, Marlinn Myers, Shaquila Lewis.

Third row: Korrissa Rountree, Michael Moss, Kevin Quintanilla.

Fourth row: Tyler Longo, Stephen McAllister, Logan Godsil.

Not Pictured: Madgiel Mizrahi-Zarco.

(WGIL News Story and Photos by Will Stevenson.)
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