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Article: Deming: El Dorado promise paying off.(EDUCATION)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 4, 2007
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Claiborne Deming, president and CEO of Murphy Oil Corp., said the company's scholarship program for El Dorado high school students is already paying off.
In January, the El Dorado publicly traded oil company announced it would give $50 million to cover the cost for tuition and fees for all
El Dorado High School students to attend any college they wanted to attend.
Out of 260 graduates of the El Dorado High class of 2007, 210 students have been accepted to college. Last year, only 60 percent of the students went to college, said Deming, who spoke at the Rotary Club of Little Rock after receiving the Rotary's 2007 Business & Professional of the ...