RCEA Scholarship 2020 Winners

In the previous post, I mentioned that the RCEA Officers were able to use saved money to give out RCEA Scholarships to three high school students who had applied. The three recipients are:

Caden Hogen (TAHS) who is looking to become a music educator. He has been accepted to several different colleges, but has not made a decision on where he would like to attend.

Ashley Schoenhardt (SHS) who is looking to become an elementary teacher (preferably First or Second Grade). She will be attending Eastern Mennonite University in the fall.

Gregory Weeks (ERHS) who is looking to become a social sciences teacher at the high school level. He will be attending JMU in the fall. 

Congratulations to all the winners and best of luck to them as they look to begin their college careers!👏

RCEA Information Update

Hello RCEA members!👋 It has been a while since I posted an update to the blog! I do apologize for not keeping this up to date; but, I hope you have read all the e-mails I have sent out! 😊
With the closing of schools due to the coronavirus, we have all had some big changes to go through. I thank all of you for everything you are doing for your students! Due to the virus, the VEA Convention, which delegates you had voted on were going to in March, was cancelled. With that, the RCEA Officers met via an e-mail and phone conference and decided to also cancel our annual Retirement Banquet. It was a decision we found hard to make as this is when we recognize ALL the retirees from Rockingham County and our RCEA Scholarship winners. But, we knew this was what we needed to do.
However, since we had already sent out applications for our scholarship, the officers met and decided to use some saved money to be able to give to those high school students who applied. We heard back from three high schools; and, were able to give out three scholarships! Each recipient will receive $500.00 to help them as they continue their education. The RCEA Officers are looking at different ways to raise money in the coming year for the RCEA Scholarship. We thank you for the donations you have given in the past; and, hopefully we can do this next year!

BE SAFE!