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Allied Wire & Cable Announces Recipient of New Scholarship by Tim Flynn
Allied Wire & Cable awards new $10,000 company-sponsored scholarship. Matthew Rayner, a freshman at Penn State Abington and son of Allied employee, Ron Rayner, is the first scholarship recipient.
Allied Wire & Cable is proud to announce Matthew Rayner as the first beneficiary of its new company-run scholarship program. Matthew is the son of Ron Rayner, a Warehouse Associate at Allied’s Headquarters in Collegeville, PA since 2008.
The scholarship program, which will run annually, is open to children of full-time AWC employees with at least three years on the job. Students are eligible to apply for the $10,000 scholarship during their senior year of high school. They must be college or university-bound and have a minimum GPA of 3.0. Scholarships are awarded based on both merit and financial need, and are payable over the course of the student’s college career.
Matthew Rayner, Allied’s first scholarship winner, is a freshman at Penn State Abington this year. To help cover the cost of tuition, he will be awarded a check for $2,500. As long as Rayner maintains a 3.0 GPA or higher, he will receive one check each year during his four-year college program, for a scholarship totaling $10,000.
Rayner says, “Receiving the Allied Wire Scholarship is a great accomplishment in my academic career. I appreciate Allied Wire giving me opportunity (to be) the first ever recipient of this award, and it is something that I will always appreciate.”
As a student at Roxborough High School, Rayner received honors all four years, and was a member of the school’s wrestling, cross-country, and Soccer teams. He plans to study education at Penn State Abington, pursuing his dream of becoming a teacher.
His father and Allied employee, Ron Rayner says, “I would like to thank Allied Wire and Cable for making my son Matthew their first $10,000 scholarship winner. If you work hard enough in life, anything is possible. I saw that the eight times Matt went up on stage at graduation and I see that every single day. He works very hard at everything he doesâ