December 2, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: DEBORAH ROBERTS PUGH

(662) 377-3712

TUPELO, Miss.-Dean Hancock (right), president of the Health Care Foundation of North Mississippi, and Judy Harrison (left), administrative director of North Mississippi Medical Center’s Pathology Department, present Tameka Gasaway Evans of Tupelo and Peggy Crawford of Ripley with $500 scholarships in memory of Paul Hamblin, who served as director of the NMMC Pathology Department from 1961-1970. Evans, who is a senior medical technology student at Mississippi State University, and Crawford, who is a senior medical technology student at the University of Mississippi, are completing a year of internship at NMMC. Working closely with the students is Lee Montgomery (back), director of NMMC's Medical Technology Program. Harrison was the first recipient of the Paul Hamblin Memorial Scholarship in 1972. For more information on the NMMC Medical Technology Program, contact Montgomery at (662) 377-3082, 1-800-THE DESK (1-800-843-3375) or www.nmhs.net/medtech.

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