Landis scholarships awarded by Berkeley Medical Center auxiliary

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – Carole Daley, president of the WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center Auxiliary, recently announced the 2018 Landis Health Professions Scholarship recipients.

Three of the eight recipients are graduating seniors while five are re-applicants from previous years. All scholarship recipients have been awarded a $1,000 scholarship to the college/university they will be attending this fall.

The new recipients are Sierra Infinger and Kaylee Ruffner from Martinsburg High School and Sydney Pennington from Hedgesville High School. Infinger will attend Shepherd University this fall majoring in nursing. Ruffner will be majoring in biology/pre-med and Pennington nursing, both at WVU.

The five re-applicants include Makenna Casto, Nazene Hunter, Valerie Benavides Miranda, Raven Powers, and Sydney Shaw.

The Landis Scholarship program was established by the auxiliary in 2003 as a result of an endowment from the Virginia Landis Estate. The $1,000 scholarship is given to qualified and selected students graduating from the four Berkeley County public high schools studying nursing, pre-med, pharmacy, or dentistry.

Recipients are eligible to re-apply for the scholarship up to four years. The executive committee of the Berkeley Medical Center Auxiliary selects the recipients annually.