2021-2022 Birmingham Scholars
Twenty seniors have been named Birmingham Scholars for the 2021-2022 school year and were officially recognized at a banquet held in their honor on April 14, 2022. Culled from the top 10 percent of their classes, the students were selected based on their SAT and ACT scores, class ranking, and good moral character. The students also completed an autobiography and electronic personal interview with three judges representing superintendents from Dallas, Collin and Rockwall counties. Additionally, in order to qualify for the scholarship, students must have received all of their grades from a Wylie ISD high school.
The scholarship recipients from Wylie High School are:
Ridwan Amin
Devin Chaky
Samecha Gazi
Reiki Hingorani
Aswathi Manoj
Alina Nguyen
Victoria Omah
Sarah Roberge
Emily Tran
Wendy Wu
The Birmingham Scholars from Wylie East are:
Daniel Cline
Andrea Ensign
Angelina Gonzalez
Hanna Harmon
Naomi Jacob
Alexis Joseph
Tailene Morales
Namuuka Mweene
Kayla Nguyen
Dominic Sands
The Miss Pearl Birmingham Scholarship fund was established in 1947 by T.F. Birmingham to comply with a request by his sister, Pearl, who died in 1946. In her will, she left 1,000 shares of common stock in Standard Oil Company of Ohio to support an annual scholarship for an outstanding Wylie graduate. Today the fund supports twenty-one scholarships valued from $5,000 to $7,500.
Pictured is Back row (l to r): Aswathi Manoj, Wendy Wu, Alexis Joseph, Sarah Roberge, Dominic Sands, Ridwan Amin, Daniel Cline, Devin Chaky, Victoria Omah, Hanna Harmon. Front row (l to r): Kayla Nguyen, Angelina Gonzalez, Emily Tran, Samecha Gazi, Reiki Hingorani, Alina Nguyen, Tailene Morales, Naomi Jacob, Andrea Ensign, Namuuka Mweene.