Dusty B. Smith of Moyers was the 2024 recipient of the Jefferson Read Byers Memorial Scholarship. He is the son of Marvin and Tammy Smith.
As a student at Pendleton County High School, Smith graduated fourth in his class with a 4.09 GPA. He was a member of the National Honor Society and Pep Club. He was also involved in football and basketball for four years and baseball for one year. He was selected as co-athlete of the year along with his twin brother, Dillon Smith.
He is a member of Totten Chapel Church.
Awarded each year to a graduating senior at PCHS, this scholarship was established in memory of Jefferson Read Byers who was a student at Franklin High School and was tragically killed in an automobile accident on Feb. 9, 1973, when returning from a Franklin High School basketball game in Wardensville at which time he was a team manager.
The scholarship is awarded each year to a student, who, upon recommendation by school faculty, has demonstrated Christian character, ideals and values, and has shown concern for others, enthusiasm and love of life, interest, steadfastness, fairness and a determination to do what is best in whatever is attempted.
Smith is attending Fairmont State University and plans to obtain a bachelor’s degree in exercise science eventually becoming a physical therapist.
