Foundation awards Art and Alice Keeney Scholarship to Jessica Mooney

Jessica Mooney

Jessica Mooney was chosen by the Beaufort County Community College Foundation to receive the Art and Alice Keeney Scholarship to attend BCCC.

Mooney, 32, of Fairfield, is a student in BCCC’s Practical Nursing Program. A graduate of D.H. Conley High School, she is certified as an Emergency Medical Technician I. The daughter of David and Annette Whitley of Winterville and Danny and Penny Taylor of Aurora, Mooney is employed as a Nurse Aide I at Coastal Homecare. She and her husband, Lindsey, have five children. After graduating from BCCC, Mooney plans to continue her nursing studies with the goal of becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner.

Alice and Art Keeney

“I am very excited and appreciative to have been selected as the recipient of this scholarship,” she said. “Thanks to this generous contribution, I am one step closer to achieving my life-time goals.”

The scholarship is awarded each fall from an endowment established in honor of Art Keeney, former president and chief executive officer of East Carolina Bank, now VantageSouth, and his wife, Alice. The Keeneys have been active in civic affairs in Hyde County and eastern North Carolina since moving to the area from Baltimore, Md. Among many civic activities, Art Keeney is a member of the BCCC Foundation Board of Directors.