Eight current and incoming University of South Alabama students have been awarded USA Children of Employees Scholarships for the 2001-02 academic year. “The Children of Employees Scholarships are USA’s most popular designation for employee gifts,” Ginny Turner, associate director of development, said. “It’s growing by leaps and bounds.”

The eight USA Children of Employees Scholarship recipients will receive $1,000 to be applied toward tuition and fees for the 2001-02 academic year.

The 2001 USA Children of Employees Scholarship winners are: Steven Samuel Barnes Jr., 19, from Semmes, majoring in marketing/transportation; Aubrey Patrick Dungan, 19, from Mobile, majoring in secondary education-social studies; Timothy Michael Gibson, 17, from Mobile, an incoming freshman; Bonnie Elizabeth Hare, 18, from Mobile, majoring in biomedical sciences; John Carey Havard, 19, from Semmes, majoring in English; Angela Renée Lyda, 19, from Mobile, majoring in accounting; Sarah Catherine Martin, 19, from Mobile, majoring in biomedical sciences; and Patrick Sean O’Keefe, 19, from Mobile, an incoming freshman.