Valedictorian, salutatorian Port Aransas High School valedictorian Rodrigo Camarena, left, and salutatorian Sybil Gilmore hold the dozens of scholarship checks they received during the annual PAHS Scholarship Ceremony at the Jim and Judy Cole Performing Arts Center on Thursday, May 14. Staff photo by Jimmy Willden
Brody Bibler Del Mar College Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Bob Clark Memorial Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship.
Dylan Chastain SAT Award Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Vittoria Florillo Bob Clark Memorial Scholarship, Friends of the Library Kathy Caldwell Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship.
Kingston Marques-Keaton John Scott Memorial Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Presley Marques-Keaton John Scott Memorial Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Spencer Mahlmann Bob Clark Memorial Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship.
Shiloh Franz Bob Clark Memorial Scholarship, Friends of the Library Kathy Caldwell Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship.
Hazel Calmes Bob Clark Memorial Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship.
Skylar Leech Mayor Bujan Community Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Kynzi Jackson Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Roy and Penny Pillack Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
McDonald Award recipients Port Aransas High School graduates Brooke Jones, left, and Daniel Ruiz celebrate receiving the Jerry McDonald Award good citizen award during the Port Aransas High School Scholarship Ceremony at the Cole Center on Thursday, May 14. The award is named after McDonald, the only Port Aransas resident to be killed in action in Vietnam. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroism and a Purple Heart. Staff photo by Jimmy Willden
Keagan Sohl The Sherwood Family Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Port Aransas Scholarship Foundation in Memory of Mark Grosse and The Very Best Day Charitable Fund, Bruce Furlow Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Realty, Miss Penny Scholarship, Bryan Richter Farmers Insurance Scholarship, Grady Hickman & BeeGee McBride Memorial Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Jim Edmonson Memorial Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Johnny Martin Matthews Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Shannon Stovall Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Brooke Jones Brent Chesney County Commissioner Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Wayne Johnson Memorial Scholarship, Miss Penny Scholarship, Barbara Kay Goolsby Trust Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, PAISD Faculty Scholarship, Phyllis Layne Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen John Scott Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Roy and Penny Pillack Scholarship, Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Day School Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Basketball Scholarship.
Sybil Gilmore Wayne Johnson Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Scholarship Foundation in Memory of Mark Grosse and The Very Best Day Charitable Fund, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Moore McDonald VFW Post 8967 and Auxiliary Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Basketball Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Bill Horn Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Junior Boatmen Justin Fisher Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship, Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Day School Scholarship.
Caitlyn Boyer First Title Company Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Wayne Johnson Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Scholarship Foundation in Memory of Mark Grosse and The Very Best Day Charitable Fund, Bryan Richter Farmers Insurance Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Emergency Services Toy Roundup Scholarship, Jim Edmonson Memorial Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, PAISD Faculty Scholarship, Phyllis Layne Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Basketball Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Carlos Moore Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Junior Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Billfish Pachanga Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Police Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Cyndi Christenson Award Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Lucy Pendleton Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Phyllis Layne Memorial Scholarship, PAYC Youth Basketball Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship.
Nicholas Long Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Texas National Title Scholarship, Bob Clark Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas Scholarship Foundation in Memory of Mark Grosse and The Very Best Day Charitable Fund.
James Neagle SAT Award Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Tyler Hofhiens Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Emma Crawford First Title Company Scholarship, Jim Edmonson Memorial Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Phyllis Layne Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, PAYC Youth Basketball Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Madison Peterek Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, PA 4-H Club Scholarship, PAISD Faculty Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Little League Scholarship, Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Roy and Penny Pillack Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Cohen Guevara Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Sophia Buncie Bruce Grider Memorial Scholarship, Bryan Richter Farmers Insurance Scholarship, Animal Friends of Port Aransas Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Gavin Colglazier Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Trinity-by-the- Sea Episcopal Day School Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship.
Eva Baker Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Friends of the Library Kathy Caldwell Memorial Scholarship, PAYC Youth Basketball Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Totsy Belcher Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation President’s Award Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Lexington Doty SAT Award Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Little League Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Keeley Deane Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Moore McDonald VFW Post 8967 and Auxiliary Scholarship, Nursing Rocks! Memorial Scholarship Honoring Liz Moore RN, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship.
Kaise Burrill Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Basketball Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Easton Garrett Brent Chesney County Commissioner Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, JoLeta Gavit Memorial Scholarship, Ladies Powder Puff Fishing Tournament Scholarship, PAISD Faculty Scholarship, Phyllis Layne Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Thom Driver Memorial Scholarship, Wayne Johnson Memorial Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Hope Devlin Scholarship.
Noah Simpson H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Deep Sea Headquarters Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Community Theatre Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Little League Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship.
Erick Cabrera Wayne Johnson Memorial Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Mayor Bujan Community Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Day School Scholarship, Bryan Richter Farmers Insurance Scholarship.
Rodrigo Camarena SAT Award Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Roy and Penny Pillack Scholarship, Friends of the Library Kathy Caldwell Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Xavier Hisaw Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Port Aransas Scholarship Foundation in Memory of Mark Grosse and The Very Best Day Charitable Fund, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Moore McDonald VFW Post 8967 and Auxiliary Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Greg Cartwright Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Junior Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Boston Wagner Bill Hildebrand & Sam Williams Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen ML Walker Memorial Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship.
Bryce Preston SAT Award Scholarship, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Moore McDonald VFW Post 8967 and Auxiliary Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Texas National Title Scholarship.
Graidy Ruiz Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Wayne Johnson Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Scholarship Foundation in Memory of Mark Grosse and The Very Best Day Charitable Fund, Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Phyllis Layne Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Cinnamon Shore Umbrella of Opportunity Scholarship, H. G. Olsen Elementary PTO Scholarship.
Colton Taylor SAT Award Scholarship, Port Aransas Art Center Scholarship, Emergency Services Toy Roundup Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Caden Meyer Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, John Scott Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Marlin Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship.
Sadie Cibulka Port Aransas Art Center Scholarship, Miss Penny Scholarship, Bryan Richter Farmers Insurance Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Whitten Real Estate In Memory of Nora Shanklin Scholarship, SAT Award Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Jack Nicholas Memorial Scholarship.
Ace McKinney Miss Penny Scholarship, Moore McDonald VFW Post 8967 and Auxiliary Scholarship, Nursing Rocks! Memorial Scholarship Honoring Liz Moore RN, PAISD Faculty Scholarship, John Scott Memorial Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Shirley Nixon Memorial Scholarship, Texas National Title Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Dexter Snyder SAT Award Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Billfish Pachanga Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Little League Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship Coyote Dodgers Running Group Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Daniel Ruiz Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Del Mar College Foundation Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, UIL Academics Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship.
Della Griffin Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Ladies Powder Puff Fishing Tournament Scholarship, Miss Helen Excellence Education Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas Rotary Club Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.
Jack Tunnell Bryan Richter Farmers Insurance Scholarship, Bruce Furlow Memorial Scholarship Port Aransas Realty, Carolyn & John Hooten Foundation Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Roy and Penny Pillack Scholarship, Victoria Solarek Memorial Scholarship.
Roland Dayon Moore McDonald VFW Post 8967 and Auxiliary Scholarship, Port Aransas Boatmen Scholarship, Port Aransas Garden Club Scholarship, Marlins Athletic Booster Club Scholarship, Port Aransas Youth Development Foundation Scholarship, Jay & Jason Segrest Memorial Scholarship, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Scholarship, Port Aransas, The Island Life Scholarship, Mark Grosse Real Estate Scholarship, Texas SandFest Scholarship.