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Westray Hicks, an eighth-grader at Edwards Middle School, has been awarded the Ann MacPherson Weaver Memorial Scholarship to Rocky Mount Academy.

This scholarship is a full tuition scholarship to RMA, the area's largest independent school.

Hicks competed against four other local students who made it to the finalist level to win the school's only full-ride merit scholarship, valued at $40,800, over the next four years.

The Ann MacPherson Weaver Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a rising ninth-, 10th- or 11th-grader who best represents the scholarship criteria of forceful and unselfish character, intellectual and personal vigor, academic achievement, leadership in both school and community activities and the potential to positively enrich the environment at Rocky Mount Academy.

Also, the applicant must never have attended RMA in the past in any grade.

Hicks is the son of Barbara and Al Hicks.

He maintains an A average in school and was the captain of the Edwards boys soccer team this year.

He is a member of Boy Scout Troop 40 and has attained the rank of Life Scout.

Hicks volunteers for many local charities through his church youth group.

The Weaver Scholarship was established in 1986 in memory of a 1984 RMA graduate who had succumbed to cancer earlier in 1986.

Ann was the daughter of Dewey and Ann Weaver, formerly of Rocky Mount.

Rocky Mount Academy is a prekindergarten through 12th grade independent school that was founded in 1968.

RMA provides a nurturing community where an emphasis on academics and character prepares students for the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that they will encounter in life and college.

It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.