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TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA - Katreena Foreman, Sequoyah High School senior, recently received notification that she had been selected to receive the Gates Millennium Scholarship.

"Katreena is a great all-around person", said Tony Pivec, SHS superintendent. "All of us at SHS were pulling for her to be selected for the scholarship."

Foreman is the daughter of Durward Foreman of Locust Grove. She plans to attend Northeastern State University for her undergraduate work and eventually Oklahoma University for her graduate studies, where she plans on majoring in medicine.

"I want to be a doctor of anesthesiology", Foreman said. "I’ve always wanted to work in medicine. I’ve never even considered anything else."

The Gates Millennium Scholarship is awarded every year to 1000 college freshman around the country. It is paid from a grant form the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This scholarship fund was established in 1999 to provide an education for outstanding African American, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, Pacific Islander, or Hispanic American students.

Foreman is the second SHS graduate to receive the Gates Millennium Scholarship since its inception in 1999.

Sequoyah High School "Home of the Indians!" Sequoyah High School is an Indian boarding school which originated in 1871 when the Cherokee National Council passed an act setting up an orphan asylum to take care of the many orphans that came out of the Civil War. Sequoyah High School's approximate 300 enrollment represents 42 tribes and 14 different states. Students are eligible to attend if they are members of federally recognized Indian tribes or one-fourth blood descendants of such members.