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Wellsville student juggles scholarship and beauty school
By Jeremy Wilkins
February 1, 2005 | WELLSVILLE -- Corrie
Blackham, 18, was chosen as Mountain Crest High School's
Sterling Scholar for the Family and Consumer Science
category in mid-December of last year.
Blackham is one of 12 students from Mountain Crest
nominated to represent their school for the region and
state competitions which will take place in February
and March, to decide who will be the one given the Sterling
Scholar award for the state in their category.
"Corrie's been a good student ever since she started
school and she's been self-motivated after school to
start her homework," said Pam Loosle, Blackham's mother.
"She's one of the kids that if it's due Friday she starts
it many days in advance, she doesn't start it Thursday
night."
Tuition waivers and many scholarships are available
to nominees chosen by their school and if they win region
and state competitions the amount of tuition waivers
and scholarships increase, Blackham said.
Created by the Deseret Morning News and KSL
Television, the Sterling Scholar award is given to focus
attention on exceptional high school seniors to encourage
the pursuit of excellence and to recognize them publicly
as well as award cash scholarships and tuition waivers
from participating institutions, states the 2005 Handbook
for Sterling Scholar Awards.
"There's a lot of peer pressure and a lot of other
things you want to do because you're not going to be
young forever," Blackham said. "You have to grow up,
but you want to do other things at the same time."
Aside from perfect attendance and good grades at Mountain
Crest, Blackham is also attending New Horizons Beauty
College in Logan in hopes to put herself through college
as a beautician. Her graduation at the beauty college
is currently scheduled for Aug. 5, just months after
her graduation from high school.
Blackham attributes her inspiration to Alana Lange,
one of her teachers at Mountain Crest. "I like the way
she teaches," Blackham said, "I like the way students
look up to her."
Last year when deciding what she should do after high
school, Blackham said she spoke with Lange and asked
her how she got started. Lange told her of how she had
attended a beauty school, gone to college and then became
a teacher. Blackham said that she thought about what
Lange told her for three days and then went and applied
at New Horizons Beauty College, was accepted and started
June 15 of last year. She said she plans to follow in
Lange's footsteps and become a teacher also.
"I plan to be a family and consumer science teacher
at a high school, maybe be the next Martha Stewart,"
Blackham said, "but not go to jail."
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