PRINCE FREDERICK, MD - This years Maryland Chiefs of Police Scholarship and Sheriffs Salute award went to Miss Megan Woodward, a graduate of Calvert High School. The award ceremony was held on Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Sheriff Mike Evans personally awarded Miss Woodard, the award plaque along with a check for $750.00 acknowledging her as a recipient of this honorable award. Both Sheriff Evans and Lt. Colonel Thomas Hejl wished Megan the best of luck in her continued education.
Megan will be attending Hiram University in Ohio this fall majoring in Criminal Justice. She was awarded a $27,000 per year academic scholarship from Hiram University.
Megan was selected for the Maryland Chiefs of Police Scholarship based on her continuing education in the law enforcement field, her high grade point average and her involvement in her community and in school activities. She is among a handful of recipients who received this scholarship.
One of Megan’s many accomplishments include serving as a student ambassador in the People to People Club at Calvert High School, which traveled to Australia, Fiji and New Zealand as good will student ambassadors representing the United States.
Megan was also on the honor roll while at Calvert High and a member of the National Honor Society. She lettered in each sport of softball, volleyball and the swim team, and also served as Team Captain of the Varsity Volleyball team. She achieved 16th in States on the breast stroke and her swim team ranked 8th in Maryland as a whole.
In attendance at the presentation was her father, Mike Tomlinson, who is currently a Deputy Sheriff with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, her mother, Christine Tomlinson and her grandmother, Jackie Weston.
The Calvert Independent
