The bi-annual Tony McGrane Scholarship dinner has guaranteed scholarships to assist Charles Sturt University Students in the future.
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The dinner marked the 14th anniversary of Tony McGrane’s death and celebrated the work the committee do in ensuring scholarships are awarded in his name each and every year.
Fletcher International Exports managing director Roger Fletcher was the key note speaker at the event, speaking about the changes across the region via agriculture and the changing markets before opening the conversation up to a question and answer session with the audience.
Mr McGrane’s sister Maureen was also present at the event, and congratulated the committee on their works.
“One of the main things, is that he really did want to get into public life to help people and the fact that this scholarship continues on, his work is continuing on through that,” she said.
2017 Scholarship recipient Rachael Krause-Poyser and 2018 recipient Tenielle Adams also spoke of their appreciation for the funding the scholarship had provided them.
“When I started at uni and I remember Cathy Maginnis saying ‘there are scholarships available and funds available and you need to apply for them’ so there were two that I looked at that stood out to me. One was the Tony McGrane scholarship,” Ms Krause-Poyser said.
Ms Krause-Poyser said she applied for the scholarship because, at the same time as she was applying for university the government changed the funding for the disabled, which affected her brother. She said it was a hard time for her parents who were trying to help her through university while also assisting her brother who was in and out of hospital and dealing with many medications.
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2018 recipient Tennille Adams is the first from the Narromine Shire to receive the scholarship.
“I left school at 18, and was from a family who didn’t really stick around at school, they left when they could, so there was a question from them as to how they were going to cover the costs,” Ms Adams said.
She completed 10 months of study at Armidale university, but missing her family returned home where she had a baby with her partner of three years.
“I then decided I wanted to do something that made me feel good, so as hard as it was dropping my 10 month old off at childcare, I started at CSU to become a registered nurse and I am so glad that I did,” Ms Adams said.