Amy Jarman Named First Recipient of Hardy Scholarship

WINTERVILLE—The Pitt Community College Foundation announced this week that Amy Jarman has been named the very first recipient of the Hardy’s Appliance and Furniture Endowed Scholarship.

Jarman, a 2009 graduate of Greene Central High School, plans to study Medical Sonography at PCC. She will receive $1,000 from the Hardy Scholarship to offset the cost of her college tuition and/or educational expenses.

A Snow Hill native, the 18-year-old Jarman is the daughter of Snow Hill’s Beth Hardy and Kinston’s Lester Jarman.

The Hardy Scholarship was created in 2006 by Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Hardy and Carl Hardy, owners and operators of Hardy’s Appliance and Furniture in Snow Hill and LaGrange.

Susan Nobles, executive director of the PCC Foundation, said the Snow Hill store was a corporate sponsor of the college’s annual holiday show fundraiser for four years. The Hardy family, she said, established an endowed scholarship to help the PCC Foundation continue to support Pitt students.

According to Nobles, the Hardy Scholarship will provide funding each year for tuition and/or educational expenses of recent Greene Central High School graduates who enroll at PCC. She said GCHS seniors could apply for the scholarship in their school’s counseling office.

Nobles said the PCC Foundation would select a Hardy Scholarship recipient each year and announce the winner during Greene Central’s annual awards ceremony.

07/08/2009