The Marshall University Foundation Inc. has established a scholarship to honor Ruth Flowers Thornton, a two-time Marshall graduate and former high school and junior high school teacher in Cabell and Wayne counties whose teaching career spanned 33 years.
The Ruth Flowers Thornton Scholarship will be awarded each year to a West Virginia resident who is a full-time Marshall student with a major in either English or Classics in the College of Liberal Arts (COLA).
On Thursday, June 7, 2007, Jonna Hughes with the Herschel C. Price Educational Foundation presented the Marshall Foundation with a check for $15,000 to endow the scholarship. It is the fourth scholarship established by the Price Foundation at Marshall.
“I was completely overwhelmed, deeply honored,” Thornton said of the new scholarship. “I’m still walking around on cloud nine.”
Other scholarships established at Marshall by the Price Foundation are the Herschel C. Price Scholarship in 2000, the E. Joann Price Memorial Scholarship in 2001 and the Theodore “Ted” Hundley III Scholarship in 2005.
Thornton received both her B.A. degree in 1943 and her master’s degree in 1951 from Marshall. She taught Latin and/or English at Huntington High, Huntington East, Milton and Vinson high schools, and Cammack and West junior high schools. She also taught evening courses in English at Marshall University for eight years. In addition, Thornton taught in Baghdad, Iraq from 1955 through 1956 while her husband was in the military.
“The Price Foundation likes to honor someone who is very deserving and Ruth is very, very deserving,” Hughes said. “We are very happy to honor Ruth.”Labels: academy awards, career training, education online, free college, free education, high school, scholarship, student loans, study abroad |
