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Felicia Thornton I *
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Thornton Awarded
Byrd Scholarship
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-Felicia Lee Cary Thornton, a 4 $95 graduate of Arendell Parrott Academy in Kinston, N.C. has tdcdved a Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 geryear for four years of undergraduate-study.
» IShe is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Lee Thornton and will attend .Washington and Lee University on an JSonors scholarship. She was her class Jal^dictorian. * 'She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Francs Thornton of Sperryville.
Selection was based on class rank, performance on the SAT, recommendations and a written essay.
Byrd was born in North Wilkesboro and left a virtual orphan by the influenza epidemic that struck millions of Americans during World Warl.
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