Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State banking and finance major Hunter S. Futch is receiving the highest student honor given by the Mississippi Young Bankers organization.
The Meridian junior is MYB's 2009 Orrin Swayze Scholar. He recently accepted the $2,500 award at the organization's annual convention.
Futch, the son of Gary and Sharon Futch and a Meridian High School graduate, also recently assumed duties as treasurer of the MSU Student Association. He was among top student officers selected in campus-wide spring elections.
He was among five Swayze Scholar finalists interviewed at the convention. The four others each received $1,000 awards.
A section of the Jackson-based Mississippi Bankers Association, MYB annually presents the Swayze awards to five banking and finance majors attending public universities in the Magnolia State. In addition to recognizing outstanding students, the program seeks to encourage them to pursue in-state banking careers after graduation.
For many years until his retirement in 1967, the award's namesake was a senior officer at what now is Trustmark Bank. Over some two decades, Swayze also was director of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.