The Sampson High School Alumni Association has awarded more than $350,000 in college scholarship funding to students graduating high school since 1973. Our organization’s membership is sheepishly proud of the fact that we have helped over two hundred (200) students realize their dreams of a college education.
Our organization purchased the school’s campus from the City of Clinton in 1979. In 1993, we achieved a major component of our civic mission by transforming eight (8) of the school’s original classrooms into a low-income housing complex for senior citizens consisting of apartments with a complete living room, one bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. In addition, our school has been designated a historic site by the North Carolina Historic Preservation Commission.
Alumni of Sampson High School have achieved at the highest levels of success in practically every aspect of life. Our alumni include highly accomplished educators, lawyers, doctors, medical professionals, business executives, politicians, radio and television personalities; and good everyday citizens who are pillars in the communities they live in all over the world!
Creating the Sampson High School Alumni Association Scholarship Endowment will be the bridge that allows our civic mission as a college education scholarship resource to exist in perpetuity. Our goal is to establish a $1 million endowment that will generate scholarship funding for current and most importantly, future generations to come.
Please help us to ensure that SHSAA’s legacy is eternal; and that deserving students can emerge equipped with the education they need to change the world. With your help, we will not only reach, but exceed this goal. Some bright, young minds are depending on us to do so!
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SHSAA Scholarship Endowment
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SHSAA Scholarship Endowment Fund
P.O. Box 2089
Clinton, NC 28329
Sampson High School’s “LIFE IMPRESSIONS”
Wilbert Raynor Chairman/CEO Raynor Realty, Inc. Miami, FL
“The quality education I received from the Committed teachers at Sampson High School prepared me well to succeed against some seemingly impossible odds commonly found within the real estate and residential management
professions.”
The Honorable Gwen Faison Former Mayor City of Camden, NJ
“Education equals opportunity as well as advantage. I was very fortunate to gain both at Sampson High School and then use them in my life to open closed doors and shatter glass ceilings.”
Iris M. Green, Esq. Past President Washington, DC Bar Association
“Apart from the love of my parents, the backbone of my success is definitely the caring and nurturing educational environment that I experienced while matriculating through Sampson High School”
Sampson High School’s “FUTURE SUCCESSORS”
Amber Lowery SHS Scholar 2014 Brown University
“Meeting the demands of an Ivy League curriculum can be overwhelming at times. I thank the Sampson High School Alumni for seeing my potential, then supporting me with their scholarship. I was able to earn a 4.0 GPA last year.”
Josephine Butler SHS Scholar – 2005 Univ. North Carolina At Chapel Hill
“I am incredibly grateful for the wonderful people of the Sampson High School Alumni. Your scholarship was critical for me to feel financially secure enough to move away from home and pursue my dreams in the bio-technical life sciences industry.”
Julian Gilyard SHS Scholar – 2012 Wake Forest University
“As a result of the Sampson High School Alumni Scholarship I have been able to graduate cum laude with double majors in computer science and mathematical economics. I now work as a Cross Assets Trader for the UBS Investment Bank.”