Roadway Express Awards Scholarships to Outstanding High School Students.Business Editors AKRON, Ohio--(AutomotiveWire)--June 8, 2000 Roadway Express Roadway is an operating company within YRC National Transportation, a division of YRC Worldwide which is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The company services all (50) states as Roadway, services Canada with its subsidiary, Reimer Express. , Inc. (Nasdaq:ROAD) announces five high school recipients of the Company's sponsored scholarships, and five GAR gar, member of the family Lepisosteidae, freshwater fishes found in the warmer rivers and lakes of the S United States, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies. Gars are highly predacious and destroy many useful fish. scholarship winners, all of which are available to children of the motor carrier's employees. The National Merit Scholarship Corp., an independent, non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. , administers the annual scholarships. Winners are chosen on the basis of test scores, academic record, leadership and extracurricular accomplishments. The scholarships have a value of $5000 per year for up to four years. The GAR Foundation was first established by the Galen Roush family in 1967 as the Roush Foundation, changing to the GAR Foundation in 1981. Galen Roush and his brother Carroll founded Roadway Express in 1930. The GAR's charitable priorities are education, the arts and community well-being. "The management and employees of Roadway Express are very proud to be able to present scholarships to these students who have shown exceptional academic and leadership qualities," stated Bob Chess, director of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. for Roadway. "It is very rewarding for us to be involved with such talented young men and women. We wish each of them much success in their college careers and beyond."
Roadway Express, Inc. Merit Scholarship
-- Daniel J. Stujenske, Floral Park, N.Y., Floral Park Memorial
High School
Galen J. Roush Memorial Merit Scholarship
-- Gina T. Waight, Berwyn, Ill., JS Morton High School West
J. Thomas Topping Memorial Merit Scholarship
-- Trista L. Menzer, Sherrard, Ill., Sherrard High School
GAR Foundation Scholarships
-- Nicole S. Anderson, Little Rock, Ark., Hall High School
-- Cara B. Baker, Bolingbrook, Ill., Benet Academy
-- Van H. DeSa, Stroudsburg, Pa., Stroudsburg High School
-- Michael R. Devol, Akron, Ohio, Manchester High School
-- Christie S. Yohn, Greencastle, Pa., Greencastle-Antrim High
School
Roadway Express, Inc. Scholarships
-- Marisa E. Macias, Pinole, Calif., Pinole Valley High School
-- Amy N. Sharpe, Powell, Ohio, Worthington Kilbourne High
School
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