Macoupin medical scholarships awarded

The Carlinville Area Hospital Auxiliary presented $1,000 scholarships to two Macoupin County high school seniors during its semi-annual dinner meeting on May 9. Scholarship program leader Karen Lanzerotte introduced Gillespie High School’s Shelby Geisler and North Mac’s Olivia Thoroman as this year’s winners. They were chosen from among 17 Macoupin County high school applicants.

Both young ladies have chosen nursing as their career in medicine. Each read her qualification essay expressing the reasons for pursuing a medical career at the college level. Geisler said in her narrative that she wan...