Milton Graduate Awarded Georgia-Pacific Scholarship

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Katie O’Shaughnessy, a recent graduate of Milton High School, has been named a recipient of a Georgia-Pacific Foundation Employees’ Children Scholarship.

She is the daughter of Lawrence and Gayle O’Shaughnessy, who works in marketing for Georgia-Pacific. Each year, the company awards 50 scholarships to children of employees across the country.

“We’re very proud to support our employees’ children through this program,” said Curley M. Dossman, Jr., president of the Georgia-Pacific Foundation. “Investing in education has always been an important focus for us, but this program is especially meaningful because our employees are directly impacted. We look forward to helping these students on their path to academic success.”

Katie is a GMEA All-State Harpist and has played for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Atlanta Youth Wind Ensemble. Last spring she performed at both the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Hall in New York.

In the fall, Katie will attend the University of Georgia, and plans to study music as well as business administration.

The Georgia-Pacific Foundation Scholarship Program for Employees’ Children awards $2,000 per year for up to four years of full-time college undergraduate study or until baccalaureate degree requirements are completed, whichever occurs first, for a total maximum award of $8,000.

Since the scholarship program began in 1988, Georgia-Pacific has awarded 1,400 scholarships totaling $11.4 million. The program is administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and is open to children of all active, full-time employees of Georgia-Pacific in the United States.

Across the country, Georgia-Pacific supports a wide array of community-based educational programs that help transition students from school to the workforce with scholarships, job readiness training, and technical programs. Georgia-Pacific believes in helping people with the skills needed to succeed and move forward in today’s workplace.

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Photo: Milton High School graduate Katie O’Shaughnessy receives college scholarship award from Georgia-Pacific CEO and President Jim Hannan. Credit: Georgia-Pacific