First-generation incoming FAMU student awarded Virginia Morey Rell Scholarship

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc.  Big things are coming for Desmond Whitfield, a Florida A&M University (FAMU) bound Jefferson County student. Recently, he learned he was chosen as a recipient of the 2025-26 Virginia Morey Rell Scholarship from the Children's Home Society of Florida, also known as the Community Partnership Scholarship Award. As a community partnership school, students from Jefferson County K-12 (JCS) like Whitfield are eligible to receive $2,500 per year for each