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NEWS RELEASE
Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu
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News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
2/4/2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES A scholarship in memory of longtime Winn Parish educator Lanis D. Carpenter has been established with a donation to the Northwestern State University Foundation.
The Lanis D. Carpenter Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to a freshman at NSU from Winn Parish based on financial need. The scholarship will rotate between graduates of Winnfield Senior High School, Calvin High School, Dodson High School and Atlanta High School.
Carpenter was a graduate of Calvin High School where he was an all-state player in basketball and baseball. He earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree and plus-30 at Northwestern.
After teaching and coaching in Huttig, Ark., for one year, he returned to Calvin High School in 1972. Carpenter taught and coached at Calvin until 1984. He then served as the school's principal until 1994. While serving as principal, he was named to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association's Executive Committee.
In 1994, he was named supervisor of secondary education in Winn Parish. Carpenter passed away in 1995. He posthumously received the LHSAA Distinguished Service Award in 1999.
"Our family has strong ties to Northwestern and this is one way to maintain what has become a family tradition," said John Carpenter, the son of Lanis D. Carpenter. "There are always students who need help to attend college. We want the scholarship to go to a hard worker who doesn't get a lot of support, but can succeed if they just get some help."
John Carpenter, along with his sister Holly Carpenter and mother Glenda Carpenter Melton, thanked numerous Winn Parish residents and friends of his father who contributed towards the scholarship along with Wayne Melton who managed and oversaw the scholarship funds.
"It was overwhelming that so many people wanted to show how they loved and appreciated my father," said Holly Carpenter. "Our family feels that it is very important to give back to Winn Parish which was a place my father loved. We were happy to create this scholarship at Northwestern because my father had such a good time there."
To make a donation to the Lanis D. Carpenter Memorial Scholarship, contact the NSU Foundation, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA 71497 or call (318) 357-4414. Donations should indicate they are for the Carpenter Scholarship.