At a recent meeting of the Dallas-Wilcox Bama Club a record number of participants and scholarship winners joined the group to hear former University of Alabama quarterback Tyler Watts and Miss Alabama Valerie Stewart speak.

Club member Ronnie Leet said he was very pleased with the crowd, which also raised money for tornado victims.

“We had a wonderful event with a record crowd of 120 plus attendees, our largest ever,” he said. “We had a silent auction of several items where the proceeds from that auction will be donated to a tornado relief fund in Tuscaloosa.”

Stewart, a 2008 Bama Club scholarship recipient, spoke to the scholarship students about her current experience at the University and sang a few songs for the attendees.

Stewart is headed to Birmingham in June for the Miss Alabama pageant.

Watts gave accounts of his playing days at Alabama as well as an inside look to his post game radio show after Alabama football games.

Overall, 13 students were given $1,000 scholarships for their freshman year at Alabama.

Sam Earle Hobbs Endowed Scholarship winners were Jody Glover of Morgan Academy, Michael Hamner of Morgan Academy and Jeremy Blake of Selma High School.

Sterling Price Rainer Memorial Endowed Scholarship winners were Justin Moore of Dallas County High School, Robert Olinger of Morgan Academy and Mayan Patel of Morgan Academy.

Black Belt Endowed Scholarship winners were Summer Pugh of Morgan Academy, Casey Trawick of Morgan Academy, Victoria Lawson of Wilcox Central High School and Kathryn Cook of Wilcox Academy.

The Betty Jean Perkins McKelvey Memorial Endowed Scholarship was awarded to Emily Cothran of Morgan Academy and Katlyn Bain of Dallas County High School.

The Doris and Henry Plant Memorial Endowed Scholarship was awarded to Paul Jones of Morgan Academy.