Two Seniors Receive Local Scholarships
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Two Kosciusko County high school seniors learned Wednesday that they will receive "full-ride" scholarships starting next year to the colleges of their choice.
Stephanie Campbell, a senior at Warsaw Community High School; and Michelle Lamb, a senior at Wawasee High School, are this year's recipients of Lilly Endowment Community Scholarships, awarded through the Kosciusko County Foundation.
The scholarships pay full tuition and required fees, plus an allocation for books and required equipment - for four years - to any Indiana public or private university, said Suzanne Light, director of the foundation.
Light notified the students and their families Wednesday evening by personally delivering bouquets of balloons, mock checks and congratulatory letters to their houses.
Campbell and Lamb were selected by a committee comprising people from the community and foundation board members, Light said. The application process, which included 70 applicants from all school systems in Kosciusko County, was blind, and the committee members knew only the Social Security numbers of the applicants. Names were blocked out, Light said.
The awards were based on criteria that included academics, financial need and confidential appraisals by outside sources. A priority was given to students' volunteer services in the community.
Also, each student had to write an essay answering the question: "If you were to design a Mount Rushmore representing the 20th century, whose faces would you select and why?"
Campbell said she plans to attend Purdue University and major in physics. She wants to be a research physicist and possibly go into astro-physics.
The daughter of Steve and Linda Campbell, Warsaw, Campbell volunteers in local thrift shops, at preschool gym at the YMCA, with her church youth group, as a tutor and library monitor, and was captain of WCHS's interdisciplinary superbowl team.
Her Mt. Rushmore faces would be Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein and Franklin Roosevelt.
Lamb also plans to attend Purdue University and major in athletic training, with the goal of becoming a high school or college athletic trainer.
The daughter of Bruce and Beth Lamb, Milford, she has been a student council representative, was a principal's leadership award nominee, a DAR good citizen, is a nine-year 4-H member and a 4-H junior leader, is a member of Wawasee Community Bible Church and the Junior Angus Association, is on the 4-H board of directors and has been involved in the Rubber Ducky Race for Riley Children's Hospital.
Lamb's four Mt. Rushmore faces would be Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ronald Reagan.
The foundation awarded one scholarship last year to Matt Kloser, Light said. This year the Lilly Foundation, which provides the scholarship funds, "saw the value in the program and expanded it - they doubled it in all communities," she said.
The scholarships are awarded in every county in Indiana through each county's community foundation. [[In-content Ad]]
Two Kosciusko County high school seniors learned Wednesday that they will receive "full-ride" scholarships starting next year to the colleges of their choice.
Stephanie Campbell, a senior at Warsaw Community High School; and Michelle Lamb, a senior at Wawasee High School, are this year's recipients of Lilly Endowment Community Scholarships, awarded through the Kosciusko County Foundation.
The scholarships pay full tuition and required fees, plus an allocation for books and required equipment - for four years - to any Indiana public or private university, said Suzanne Light, director of the foundation.
Light notified the students and their families Wednesday evening by personally delivering bouquets of balloons, mock checks and congratulatory letters to their houses.
Campbell and Lamb were selected by a committee comprising people from the community and foundation board members, Light said. The application process, which included 70 applicants from all school systems in Kosciusko County, was blind, and the committee members knew only the Social Security numbers of the applicants. Names were blocked out, Light said.
The awards were based on criteria that included academics, financial need and confidential appraisals by outside sources. A priority was given to students' volunteer services in the community.
Also, each student had to write an essay answering the question: "If you were to design a Mount Rushmore representing the 20th century, whose faces would you select and why?"
Campbell said she plans to attend Purdue University and major in physics. She wants to be a research physicist and possibly go into astro-physics.
The daughter of Steve and Linda Campbell, Warsaw, Campbell volunteers in local thrift shops, at preschool gym at the YMCA, with her church youth group, as a tutor and library monitor, and was captain of WCHS's interdisciplinary superbowl team.
Her Mt. Rushmore faces would be Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein and Franklin Roosevelt.
Lamb also plans to attend Purdue University and major in athletic training, with the goal of becoming a high school or college athletic trainer.
The daughter of Bruce and Beth Lamb, Milford, she has been a student council representative, was a principal's leadership award nominee, a DAR good citizen, is a nine-year 4-H member and a 4-H junior leader, is a member of Wawasee Community Bible Church and the Junior Angus Association, is on the 4-H board of directors and has been involved in the Rubber Ducky Race for Riley Children's Hospital.
Lamb's four Mt. Rushmore faces would be Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ronald Reagan.
The foundation awarded one scholarship last year to Matt Kloser, Light said. This year the Lilly Foundation, which provides the scholarship funds, "saw the value in the program and expanded it - they doubled it in all communities," she said.
The scholarships are awarded in every county in Indiana through each county's community foundation. [[In-content Ad]]