The Share America Foundation, Inc. announced its second 2011 scholarship winner recently at its Sacred Sounds Fridays concert featuring Testimony Quartet at the Ringgold Depot in Ringgold, Ga.
The events help fund the organization's Pearl and Floyd Franks Scholarship. Pearl and Floyd Franks are the late parents and former entertainment managers of actor/entertainer Randall Franks, "Officer Randy Goode" from TV's "In the Heat of the Night." The scholarships honor students excelling in the Appalachian musical arts.
Mike Holloway, of Signal Mountain, Tenn. graduated from Signal Mountain High School and now attends University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
He began playing bass with fellow students learning to become part of a new band - the Mountain Cove Bluegrass Band.
Mike plans to use the $1,000 scholarship towards his educational needs to get a degree aerospace engineering.
He plays bass with the Mountain Cove Bluegrass Band. For more information, visit www.mountaincovebluegrass.com.
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