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Area Students Receive $10,000 in Scholarships at Ninth Annual Awards Luncheon - April 30, 2008
(April 30, 2008) Wamego, KS — Today, 20 area high school students, two USD 320 Teachers of the Year, and one Volunteer of the Year were honored at the ninth annual Wamego Community Foundation scholarship awards luncheon at the Columbian Theatre.
More than 130 individuals, including the scholarship recipients, their families, and scholarship benefactors, attended the luncheon, and more than $10,000 in scholarship monies were granted to the following students:
Wamego High School
Levi Larkins, Carl Ray Fulmer Memorial Scholarship
Jake Kugler, Class of 2005 Scholarship
Amanda Huse, Gaylord Belton Memorial Scholarship
Katelin Morton, Gus Hildebrand Memorial Scholarship
Brittany Riffey, Helm Sisters Memorial Scholarship
Will Clark, Hilliard Family Memorial Scholarship
Austin Atwood, Jeff Birney (Fox) Memorial Scholarship
Mark TenEyck, John Lawless Memorial Scholarship
Chelsea Rose, Kevin Dekat Memorial Jazz Scholarship
Annie Goodson, Rebecca Sester Memorial Scholarship
Julie Scherer, Sue Eichman Education Scholarship
Lisa Friedrich, Teresa Ann Siebert Memorial Scholarship
Allison Jones, Wamego City Hospital Scholarship
Beth Neilsen, Wamego City Hospital Scholarship
Patrick Mattia, Wamego Telephone Company Scholarship
Rock Creek High School
Mindy Hodges, Manhattan, Gus Hildebrand Memorial Scholarship
Regan Baker, St. George, Wamego Telephone Company Scholarship
Wabaunsee High School
Lindy Lister, Topeka, Wamego Telephone Company Scholarship
St. Marys High School
Ashley Morris, Paxico, Wamego Telephone Company Scholarship
St. Marys Academy
Stephen Goldade, St. Marys, Wamego Telephone Company Scholarship
At the event, Dr. Bill Ditto gave the invocation, the Wamego High School a cappella choir provided the music and the WHS Culinary Arts students served refreshments and dessert. The buffet-style luncheon was catered by Rambler’s Steakhouse, and the flowers in the table centerpieces were supplied by Flowers By Jan.
Lisa Diederich, WCF board member, was honored as the Wamego Community Foundation Volunteer of the Year. Diederich, one of the original founding members of the WCF, has served on the Board as treasurer for eight of the 10 years the Foundation has been in existence.
“Lisa is the true definition of a Wamego Community Foundation Board member,” said Doug Springer, WCF president, “with that definition being ‘to give of yourself for the betterment of the community.’”
During the awards ceremony, Monica Kabriel was recognized as the USD 320 K-5 Teacher of the Year, and Jennifer Topliff was recognized as the USD 320 6-12 Teacher of the Year.
Springer also noted that since its inception in 1998, the Foundation has received approximately $1.2 million in gifts and donations and has distributed back more than $500,000 to the community, including toward scholarships, the Wam-Sag-Man recreation trail, and the Friends of the Park, just to name a few.
About the Wamego Community Foundation
The formation of the Wamego Community Foundation in 1998 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation created an efficient mechanism through which individuals, families, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and private foundations have been able to create funds and make gifts to benefit their community.
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For more information, please contact:
René Eichem, executive director
Wamego Community Foundation
529 Lincoln Ave. | P.O. Box 25
Wamego, KS 66547
P: 785-456-8444 | F: 785-456-8443
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