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Poppy Hinson, 2024 recipient of the Alice Watkins Scholarship, shares a passion for literature and learning with Alice Watkins Senter, the mother and pastor’s wife for whom the scholarship was named.
This interest inspired Hinson to want to serve her community by becoming an elementary school teacher. The scholarship will help her earn a degree in early childhood education from Clemson University, where she will attend this Fall as a South Carolina Teaching Fellow.
Alice Watkins Senter was gifted in poetry and music, but her life was shortened by a tragic illness. To celebrate her most productive and happy times, her family established a scholarship in her name through the Community Foundation of Greenville. The scholarship provides $10,000 for a Wade Hampton High School student with a love of English, literature, and poetry to pursue a degree in higher education.
“As I read about the life of Alice Watkins Senter, I couldn’t help but think about my own father and how much he also loved language, poetry, and literature,” Hinson said in her application for the scholarship. “He too passed away at much too young an age from a rare and incurable illness. Despite our short time together, he instilled in me a deep love for literature and language.”
“I am grateful to come from a family that loves to read and write, and honored to receive a scholarship given by the family of someone who had similar passions and values,” she said.
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