Milestone: Elks award annual scholarships

Sequim Elks Lodge No. 2642 awarded 10 Sequim High School graduates scholarships with a total amount of $11,000 at its regular meeting on May 10. Each student was awarded $1,000 or $1,500 each by the local lodge.

Back row, from left, are Doug Metz, Elks Scholarship chairman; Kaylee Gumm who will attend Middlebury College with a business major; Sydney Lestage, Western Washington University major in neuroscience; Nicole Anders, College of St. Scholastica, exercise physiology and physical therapy; Konnor Parrish, Washington State University, civil engineering; Elizabeth Rosales, Western Washington University, kinesiology; Jim Headley, Exalted Ruler, Sequim Elks.

Front row: Adrienne Haggerty, Highline College, master’s degree in health sciences; Evan Chatters, Digipen Institute, computer science; Dusty Wessel, Clover Park Technical College, interior design; Morgan Bingham, Southern Virginia University, biochemistry; and not pictured, Tatum Jensen, Seattle Pacific University, medicine. In addition, Wessel was awarded a $2,500 grant from the Washington State Elks Association and Chatters was awarded a $1,900 grant from the Washington State Elks Association.