Chickasaw man spending summer with NASCAR
Friday, June 20, 2008
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Sports
Merle Pearce, a 21-year-old member of the
Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, is spending the summer with his
NASCAR idols.
Pearce is part of the
NASCAR Diversity Internship Program. He is being employed by
Hendrick Motorsports for the second summer in a row and gets to work on cars driven by Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and other stars.
"I've done so many cool things since I've been here,” Pearce told The Oklahoman. "This is just as good as it gets.”
Pearce lives in Durant, Oklahoma.
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