At the July 2019 meeting, the PFRA Scholarship Committee awarded three collegiate scholarships to highly-academic daughters of three Plano firefighters. Congratulates to the 2019 PFRA Scholarship Award recipients Hannah Willits, Addyson Miller, and Katelyn Cardwell.
Once again this year, the PFRA application review committee had a very difficult time being able to select only three recipients as the entire pool of candidates were all outstanding. The committee sends their appreciation to everyone who submitted an application and we know all these students will have a very successful education and career ahead of them.
Hannah Willits, is the daughter of FF/engineer Chris Willits. Hannah graduated this past May from Plano East Senior High School with a GPA of 3.8 out of 4.0 and was in the top third of her class of 1317 students. Hannah has enrolled and registered to take 16 hours at Collin College in the Fall. She plans to go to there for one year and then transfer to the University of North Texas to pursue her goal of becoming a Special Education teacher, which she says she has wanted to become one since she was in the eighth grade.
Addyson Kate Miller is the daughter of Captain Jack Miller at Station 10B. Addyson graduated from Crandall High School with a GPA of 4.1667 out of 5.0 and ranked in the top 10th of her class of 234. She will be majoring in Elementary Education as a full-time student at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, AR in the Fall playing while also playing college softball.
Katelyn Cardwell is the daughter of Battalion Chief John Cardwell. Katelyn graduated from Lovejoy High School with a GPA of 4.108 out of 5.0. She is enrolling this week at Texas Tech University and plans to major in English and minor in both Legal Studies and Spanish. Once she receives her undergraduate degree, she plans to “pursue a law degree and ultimately practice family law.”