Keori Guinn, 20, of Hot Springs, is among 20 pediatric cancer survivors selected this year to receive Dennis Jungmeyer Scholarships valued at $2,500 each and awarded by the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute Foundation in Little Rock.
Presented annually to current or former CARTI pediatric cancer patients, the scholarships are named in honor of Dennis Jungmeyer, of North Little Rock. Jungmeyer is a CARTI Foundation Board Member and prostate cancer survivor.
Diagnosed with a Wilm's Tumor at the age of three, Guinn is currently enrolled at the University of Central Arkansas where she is majoring in athletic training. She is the daughter of Michelle Guinn of Hot Springs.
Recipients of the 17th annual CARTI Kids Dennis Jungmeyer Scholarship Awards were honored at a special presentation ceremony this summer at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in Little Rock. First Lady Ginger Beebe assisted Jungmeyer in presenting scholars with their awards.
Beebe serves as a Director Emeritus of the CARTI Foundation Board of Directors. The First Lady was named recipient of the 2014 Z. Lynn Zeno Award for outstanding philanthropic leadership and volunteerism on behalf of the CARTI Kids program.
Two graduating Jungmeyer Scholars, including Tyler Robbins of Malvern, were honored during the ceremony. Their names will be engraved on a bronze leaf to be added to the CARTI Tree of Life wall sculpture housed at CARTI administrative offices in Little Rock.
Robbins, 22, received both Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melborne, Fla.
School on 08/17/2014