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KEITH LOGAN
Graduate, Danville Community College
For most of his life, Keith Logan felt the need to hide the fact he was a good student. “I had to overcome the peer pressure,” he says. “People at school would talk because I wasn’t doing the things they did.” His peers frequently labeled him “Teacher’s pet.” That, and financial pressure, prevented him from pursuing the opportunities that were opened by graduating from Chatham High School as the 2005 valedictorian.
Instead, he spent the summer working the third shift at a paper company – hard labor that intensified his dream to pursue a college education, but also took a toll. “I would come home with a sore back because I had to lift and stack boxes. I also missed being with my family during the day, because I had to sleep.”
With the dual enrollment credits he earned in high school, Logan was able to graduate from Danville Community College after only one year of full-time study. He also fulfilled his dream of attending college at no expense to his parents by earning the DCC Board Academic Excellence Scholarship and the Kenneth L. Neathery Memorial Endowment Scholarship awards.
His success continues after transferring to Virginia Tech, where he is a senior in the Pamplin College of Business. There, he earned the Lifeline Scholarship, awarded on academic merit and given to VCCS graduates with the highest grade point average.
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Keith Logan, Graduate,
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