Saturday, Nancy Ormond will be performing for those who make her education possible.

The junior dance major is on scholarship at East Carolina University, and she credits donors like the ones who attend the annual theater and dance fundraising event “Encore! The night of rising stars” with giving her a hand up toward a brighter future.

“If I wouldn’t have gotten that scholarship, it might have made me not be able to attend school and being able to get my dance degree means a lot to me for my future,” she said

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