Three awarded DAR scholarship
September 5, 2006 - Posted in Education News, ScholarshipThe Narcissa Whitman chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution has announced the winners of the William and Mary Hambelton Scholarship for 2006-2007.
Selected from a large pool of applicants were Jamin Ankney, Elizabeth Walsh and Lauryn Baranowski.
Ankney is a student at Yakima Valley Community College, where he has a 4.0 grade point average and is on the President’s List. His interests include chemistry, environmental science and engineering. Ankney is a volunteer with the Yakima County Search and Rescue. He is a member of the band Camaraderie, which performs a style of progressive bluegrass or new acoustic. He plans to continue his education at Washington State University.
Walsh, of Toppenish, is a student at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She is a writer who is interested in different cultures and lifestyles, and hopes — through her writing — to help people accept each other. Walsh was a member of the Yakima Herald-Republic’s Unleashed team for three years and served one year as the weekly section’s youth editor. Over the summer, she volunteered at La Casa Hogar, a part of the Yakima Interfaith Coalition.
Baranowski, of Selah, studies engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., and hopes to eventually work as a bioengineer, developing products to be used in the health industry. The winner of many educational awards and a former Rotary International Youth Ambassador who lived in Denmark, she is considered one of the strongest academic students in her college class.
The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution offers more than $150,000 in scholarships each year. Numerous scholarships are also given by the Washington State Society. The William and Mary Hambelton Scholarship is made available through the generosity of William Hambelton, whose late wife was a member of the Narcissa Whitman chapter in Yakima.
— Yakima Herald-Republic