$6,000 GRANT AWARDED SCHULTZ WINS SCHOLARSHIP.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Tehachapi High School graduate Kerisha Schultz was awarded a $6,000 scholarship by NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. employees. Schultz, the daughter of Craig and Dawn Schultz of California City, is a freshman at Point Loma Point Loma is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, the east by the San Diego Bay and Old Town and the north by the San Diego River. Nazarene University in San Diego, majoring in liberal studies. She hopes to become an elementary school teacher. She was presented the Joseph A. Walker Memorial Scholarship by Dryden's Employee Exchange Council. The scholarship, the 20th to be awarded by the council, is named for a former Dryden chief test pilot killed in a 1966 midair collision. The scholarship is offered annually to high school seniors who are children of current or former government or contract employees at Dryden. The scholarship will be paid over four years of college if a 3.0 grade- point average is maintained. Schultz's father is a computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive draftsman employed by Lockheed Martin at Dryden. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Kerisha Schultz receives the Joseph A. Walker Memorial Scholarship from NASA Dryden Research Center director Kevin Peterson, left. At right is her father, Craig Schultz. NASA |
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