MICHAEL A. PIPPIN

Michael A. Pippin, 23, Ottawa, has been selected to join the U.S. Border Patrol as an agent in Texas.  

He also is a U.S. Army Reservist.

He was a phleobotomist at Ransom Memorial Hospital and a member of the Lincoln-Ottawa-Harrison Township Fire Department.

 He is married to Melissa Pippin.

His family will join him after he completes the Border Patrol Academy at Arestia, N.M.