2022-2023 Birmingham Scholars
Twenty seniors have been named Birmingham Scholars for the 2022-2023 school year and were officially recognized at a banquet held in their honor on April 13, 2023. These students were selected based on their SAT and ACT scores, class ranking, and good moral character in addition to being in the top ten percent of their class. 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:
Toluwani Baoku
Sereen Elkhalid
Anudeep Gollapudi
Kylie Kaneshige
Sofia Kirk
Lauren Lee
Manas Patel
Wyatt Skov
Ronald Smitheart
Christine Zhai
The Birmingham Scholars from Wylie East are:
Anthony Chu
Isabella Cloud
Hannah Hansen
Aqil Ishaq
Jeremy Kvale
Connor Nance
Luke Orr
Robert Price
Jackson Schwarte
Troy Teggatz
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 are, Back row (l to r): Robert Price, Connor Nance, Jeremy Kvale, Troy Teggatz, Isabella Cloud, Manas Patel, Toluwani Baoku, Luke Orr, Jackson Schwarte, Ronald Smitheart. Front row (l to r): Aqil Ishaq, Anthony Chu, Hannah Hansen, Kylie Kaneshige, Wyatt Skov, Sofia Kirk, Anudeep Gollapudi, Lauren Lee, Sereen Elkhalid, Christine Zhai.