PIC and SuperX Work Together to Build Scholars

                                                       6-1-94

PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL AND SUPER-X
WORK TOGETHER TO EDUCATE FUTURE PHARMACISTS

     The Private Industry Council and the SuperX Corporation are
offering scholarships and jobs for the fourth year in a row to
Columbus area high school graduates with interests in
pharmacology.

     With the help of Jobs for Columbus Grads and Columbus Public
Schools, the program identifies hard-working, interested students
and provides them with full tuition and expenses plus a part-time
job working at an area SuperX while they attend college.  After
college, the are guaranteed a position as a professional
pharmacist at a SuperX Store.

     Steve Wing, who is in charge of SuperX management training,
has seen 27 students through the program since its inception.

     The 1994 SuperX scholarship recipients are Teyana Moore,
Terrill Moses and Yolanda Hardy.  All three have chosen to attend
The Ohio State University.

     Even though Teyana Moore had her pick of scholarships, she
chose to be a part of the SuperX program because it would not
only pay her way through school, but also guarantee her a part-
time job in her field during school and a professional position
after graduation.

     In addition to her job at SuperX, she has worked in the
pharmacy at Childrens Hospital and has completed the pharmacy
program at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center.  She credits
her teacher, Clarence "Buddy" Littrell at Fort Hayes, for showing
her that she could find the resources to become a professional
pharmacist.  Her scholarship will pay her way through Ohio
State's pharmacy program.

     Terrill Moses has been interested in science since he was
eight years old and previously spent two summers in an Ohio State
research program.  Terrill has chosen the path of pharmacology
because of its growing importance in the community.  He will
transfer to Ohio State's pharmacy program after finishing his
first two years at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

     Terrill isn't the only one going back to school with the
help of his scholarship.  With his new self-sufficiency, the
scholarship has opened the opportunity for his mother, a
certified medical assistant, to send herself back to school to
earn her medical degee.

     Yolanda Hardy had her choice of three different scholarships
as a graduating senior from Eastmoor High School, but Yolanda's
interests have always been in career as a pharmacist.  Yolanda's
severe childhood asthma caused her to become interested in
pharmacology because of the various side-effects of her
medication.

     She continued to show her interest as a teenager by
volunteering for six years in the "Youth to Youth" program to
caution against drug abuse through puppet shows she put on for
small children.  The program toured nationally, and Yolanda and
her puppets performed in New York, Washington, D.C., and various
cities in California.  In addition to this, Yolanda took honors
course work in chemistry and biology in high school.

     Her scholarship money will support her study in the pharmacy
program at Ohio State.  For Yolanda, the most important feature
of the program is the guarantee of a job after graduation.  "Five
years down the line," Yolanda says, "I won't just have my
credentials, I'll have a job."

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This news release was written and distributed by the Private
Industry Council of Columbus and Franklin County.  For more
information on the program, contact Linda Syguda at the Private
Industry Council at 228-3907.


[Submitted by: REIDV  (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
Fri, 01 Jul 1994 12:35:56 -0500 (EST)]
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