$2,500 scholarship

Tom Shoemaker, right, Executive Vice President of Cambridge Telephone Company awards Cambridge High School 2016 graduate Joe Taylor a $2,500 Central Region Foundation for Rural Service (FRS) Scholarship. FRS offers an annual college scholarship program to help further higher education among rural youth. FRS awards a one-time $2,500 scholarship to students from rural America for their first year of college, university or vocational-technical school. Each student is sponsored by an NTCA member company. FRS funds $2,000 of each scholarship and the sponsoring company awards the remaining $500. The FRS College Scholarship Program seeks to encourage students to return to their rural communities upon completing their education.

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