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New Appalachian scholarships will benefit 12 Guilford County students annually

Hughlene and Bill Frank left money in their estate to fund scholarships for 12 students at Appalachian State University who graduated from high schools in Guilford County. Image courtesy of Appalachian State University.

A new scholars program at Appalachian State University will help support a dozen Guilford County-area students each year. 

Hughlene and Bill Frank left money in their estate to provide for the scholarships. They will benefit graduates of high schools located in the couple's home county of Guilford.

The Franks were long-time supporters of Appalachian State. Hughlene Bostian Frank was a student there in the late 1960s when the institution went from a college to a university. She was a member of the university's first graduating class.

This isn't the Franks' first major gift to Appalachian. They had previously supported the university's first nursing scholarship for nontraditional students and provided money for a writing series that bears their name. 

“The couple's lives were marked by their passions — education, community and creating opportunities,” Appalachian State Vice Chancellor for University Advancement Jane Barghothi said in a release.

In 2013, Hughlene Frank was given the Alumni Association's Outstanding Service Award.

University officials say the scholarship for Guilford-area students will cover about 75 percent of the 12 students' tuition and is renewable annually.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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