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GTCC’s Sandra Luvender Among 25 winners of Lanza Scholarship

(Released 3/23/11)

JAMESTOWN - Sandra Luvender, a second-year nursing student at Guilford Technical Community College, is among 25 national selections to receive a Frank Lanza Memorial Scholarship.

The scholarships are for $1,000 each and are awarded to facilitate completion of associate degrees in nursing, respiratory care or emergency medical services. Luvender, who lives in McLeansville, wants to work in a hospital trauma department after she earns a four-year degree in nursing.

The scholarships are named in honor of the founder of L-3 Communications, a global defense company that produces $15 billion in annual revenues and employs about 66,000 people worldwide. Lanza died suddenly at age 74 on June 7, 2006, while recovering from surgery.

The scholarships will be presented at a Phi Theta Kappa convention April 9 in Seattle. Luvender, a native of Bosnia who moved to the United States in 2005, is the only student in North Carolina to receive a Lanza grant.

She is expected to graduate from GTCC on May 12, and then make plans for seeking a four-year degree.

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