SPS Announces 2009 Army Scholarship Winner to SPS

The St. Albans School of Public Service is pleased to announce that William (Billy) Gallagher, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 2009 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Scholarship to the School of Public Service.   The scholarship is available for a child of a current or former soldier in the U.S. Army, Army Reserve, or Army National Guard.

This year’s recipient of the AUSA Scholarship is William “Billy” Gallagher, from Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Billy’s father, Michael D. Gallagher (now deceased), served in the United States Army Reserve (he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1973 and left with the rank of Captain in the early 1980s). Billy’s grandfather, Frank Gallagher, was career Army. Billy is a top student at the Haverford School in Pennsylvania.  At school, he plays football and ice hockey and is an editor of the school newspaper. In his community, he is a volunteer fire fighter, a lector at Our Mother of Good Counsel Parish Church, and a volunteer at the Special Olympics.  (Below left: Billy at the SPS 2009 opening cookout.)

John Lakso, one of the inaugural 2009 AUSA scholarship winner, is headed to Duke University in the fall.  His SPS 2008 classmate and AUSA Scholarship co-recipient Ben Garlick is off to West Point this June as a member of the U.S. Military Academy's class of 2013.  

The School of Public Service thanks the Association of the United States Army and General Thomas G. Rhame, AUSA Vice President, for their continued support of the School of Public Service through this scholarship.