TEBI Annual Scholarship
The Elmore Bolling Initiative’s Annual Scholarship acknowledges Elmore Bolling’s emphases—entrepreneurship, education and citizenship—by providing a scholarship to a high achieving senior at Calhoun High School or Central High School.
Since 2014, TEBI has provided over $12,000 in scholarships to graduates of Lowndes County Public Schools. Scholarship winners may attend either two-year or four-year colleges. Previous scholarship recipients have attended Alabama State University, Auburn University-Montgomery, Bishop State Community College, Trenholm State Community College, Tuskegee University, and University of West Alabama.
Apply for the 2024 scholarship here.
2022 Recipient
Jocelyn McCall was the 2022 recipient of the TEBI scholarship. “The rich history of Lowndes County encourages me to be great. I want to be able to say yes, I am from Lowndes County, the birthplace of many greats, and yes, I am destined for greatness,” says Jocelyn. She attends Trenholm State Community College.
(Jocelyn is no relation to TEBI president Josephine Bolling McCall.)
2021 Recipients
The Elmore Bolling Initiative awarded the 2021 to Rheonna Rudolph, a graduate of Central High School. Rheonna attends Tuskegee University. She is the daughter of Rodney and Shelia Rudolph of Tyler.
The scholarship committee also recognized two honorable mentions, both graduates of Calhoun High School: Dacious Davison who attends Troy University and Chasity Talley who attends Tuskegee University.
2020 Recipients
TEBI awarded $1000 to Central HS Valedictorian Cordasia Harris, daughter of Felecia Hall and Cory Harris. Cordasia graduated with a 4.0 GPA to crown a stellar athletic career as a two-time All-Metro basketball athlete. She seeks to become an animator, model and start her own clothing and make-up line. She plans to major in graphic design and cosmetology.
TEBI also recognized the Boys Basketball team of Calhoun and star athlete, J.D. Davison. Davison was named Alabama’s Mr. Basketball, honored as top player in Class 2A for the season and was named to the Max Preps third team Junior All American Team. TEBI proudly awarded $500 toward the purchase of championship rings for the young men.
Previous Scholarship Recipients (2014-2018)
Demarcus Jackson
Shelisa D. Seawright
Chelsea K. Glover
Arianna Armstrong