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First-Ever McDougall Memorial Scholarship Recipients Honored
Pictured above (L-R): HKHS recipients Josh Frith, Ashley Kelly, Emma Giaccone and Emma Kowalski.
KAA Names Annual Scholarship after McDougall
(Pictured above: Don McDougall, center, surrounded by KAA board members at his 2023 retirement) The KiIlingworth Ambulance Association’s board of directors this week voted to name its annual scholarship after former board member and EMT Don McDougall, who passed away May 22 at the age of 92. McDougall not only was a KAA board member for 47 years and an EMT until he was 80; he headed the scholarship committee that each year awards money to graduating high-school seniors from
Remembering Don McDougall: ‘A Prince of a Man’
When the Killingworth Ambulance Association celebrated its 50th anniversary in October, 2021, it also celebrated one of its founders, Don McDougall. A volunteer who in 1971 helped form an ambulance association that transported patients in a used ’64 Cadillac, McDougall was a guest of honor that evening — treated to a standing ovation, state citation and a two-tiered cake. But that wasn’t why he was lauded. Then 87, McDougall was still an active member of the KAA, sitting on its