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Drue Smith Scholarship winners
1990-present
The Middle Tennessee Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has given more than $30,000 since 1990 to aspiring journalists seeking to complete their college educations. Here's a list of winners since then.
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Sherri Adcock
- Austin Peay State University
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Brandon White
- University of Tennessee
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Shannon Scharber
- University of Missouri/Belmont College
- Michael McCloud
- University of Tennessee
- Timothy Curry
- University of Tennessee
- Allison Piepmeier
- Tennessee Tech
- Joseph Srouji
- University of Dayton
- Elizabeth Overholser
- University of Missouri
- Amy Sutton
- Motlow State Community College
- Vianca Brown
- Austin Peay State University
- Gethan Ward
- Jennifer Gill
- Vanderbilt University
- Terra Angelina Grant
- Middle Tennessee State University
- 2004 winner: Tamara Tatar
- Belmont University
- 2005 winner: Bradi Fleck
- MTSU
- 2005 winner: Chasity Gunn
- Belmont University
Scholarship winners prior to 1990
Incomplete list
The Middle Tennessee Pro Chapter's scholarship fund was previously called the Barney Ballard Memorial Scholarship,
named for Fred R. "Barney" Ballard, an Associated Press reporter in Nashville who was one of the early members of the chapter. Ballard died in 1964.
- 1964: Larry Edward Eldridge of Livingston, who was attending UT.
- 1965: Tommy Gillem, a senior at Maplewood High School in Nashville
- 1966: John Jiran, a senior at Maplewood High
- 1967: Rebecca Ann Hickerman of Overton High School in Nashville. Second place winner, Jean Katheryn Byrd of St. Bernard Academy. Third place winner: Lynda Farley of Lewisburg.
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