Eastern Montgomery High graduate Allison Jones has won the Rev. George Ducker Memorial Scholarship for her leadership and academics.
Allison Jones of Shawsville, a 2020 graduate of Eastern Montgomery High School, has been awarded the 2020 Reverend George Ducker Memorial Scholarship, presented by New River Community Action.
The $1,000 scholarship is presented annually to the graduating high school senior who has excelled academically and displayed strong leadership in her community. The award is given in memory of the late Rev. George Ducker, who served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Radford, was a member of the Radford City School Board and was a member of the NRCA Board of Directors from 1986-1992.
Jones had earlier received the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award and the Rotary Club Student Award for her academics. She was also named to the New River Community College President’s List for the college classes she has taken through dual enrollment.
Jones’ Eastern Montgomery High School extracurricular activities include the Interact Club, the Beta Club, the YOVASO, Help Save the Next Girl, the EMHS newspaper, the Photography Club and the girls’ Varsity tennis team.
In addition to school activities, Jones has volunteered for the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and the Meadowbrook Public Library and has interned with Linking Individual Needs in our Community. She is an active member of the Cambria Pentecostal Holiness Church where she helps teach the Teen Bible Class, volunteers to cook and serve meals to the homeless and supports the Operation Christmas Child drive.
Jones will attend Radford University in the fall and join her sister as part of the first generation of college students in her family.
