Smith School Awards Fellowships to Honor 9-11 Victims

Two incoming Smith School MBA students have received book fellowships through the memorial fund created to honor two Smith MBA students killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. The students receiving the fellowship money are Timothy Soltren, a first-year, part-time MBA student at the Shady Grove campus, and Michelle Gray, a first-year, part-time MBA student in Washington, DC.

Soltren and Gray were selected as this years Michael Scott Lamana & Eric Cranford Memorial MBA Fellowship Fund recipients, in part, because of similarities with the two 9-11 victims. Like Soltren, Michael Scott Lamana was a part-time student at Shady Grove. And like Gray, Eric Cranford worked for the U.S. Navy.

Lamana and Cranford, who were both enrolled in the Smith Schools part-time program, were killed while working at the Pentagon when it was struck by a jetliner in the September 11th attack. The Smith School awarded posthumous MBA degrees to the victims families last December, and established the fellowship fund in their honor. The fund will provide fellowship awards to two Smith MBA students each year.