Anthony Q. Sanders of Carthage is receiving the first Chip Rauch Memorial Scholarship at Mississippi State University.
The scholastic award in poultry science is made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde M. Rauch Sr. of Lexington, S.C. The couple pledged $15,000 earlier this year to endow an annual scholarship memorializing their son, Clyde ÒChipÓ M. Rauch Jr.
Sanders was awarded $2,000 for the 1996-97 academic year. A senior and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey S. Sanders, he is a President's Scholar and member of Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key national honor societies.
In addition to serving as a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Ambassador, Sanders is active in the Poultry Science Club.
At the time of his death last spring following a cerebral hemorrhage, Chip Rauch was a Mississippi State graduate student in poultry science and a graduate assistant in avian physiology.
ÒChip was a son to be proud of, a brother to look up to, a friend to all, and an industrious student with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge,Ó said the Rauches of their son.
Until fully endowed, the scholarship fund is receiving an annual stipend from the poultry science department.