Three students received $1,000 scholarships from Desert Women for Equality’s Jean O’Leary Scholarship Committee.
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Angelica Arellano is seeking a licensed vocational nursing degree and an associate’s degree. Anna Baca-Reed wants to complete her associate’s degree in business and accounting and obtain a bachelor’s degree. Cindy L. Gomez is working toward a degree in kinesiology to become [...]

More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]

When local legend Anna Sloggett turns 100 this month, 400 friends from around the world and throughout her life will be there, including students from her third-grade classroom at Kapa‘a Elementary School. Friends from Canada, New Jersey and Florida are also expected, she said.
Sloggett, whose father, William Hyde Rice, was the last governor of Kaua‘i [...]

The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith has released the names of almost 300 new scholarship recipients at UA Fort Smith for fall 2006.
The students, by town of residence, include:
Ada, Okla.:
Tisha L. Campbell of Ada, Okla., has received an Ed Ballman Foundation Scholarship at UA Fort Smith. She is the daughter of Clayton and Dahlra [...]

The Point Foundation announced today that it has granted scholarships to 30 outstanding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students. The Point Foundation provides financial support, mentoring and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
“Our newest Point Scholars represent the best and brightest in our community, coming [...]

The Point Foundation announced May 24 that it has granted scholarships to 30 outstanding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students. The Point Foundation provides financial support, mentoring and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. “Our newest Point Scholars represent the best and brightest in our [...]

The late Anna Botsford Comstock was the founder and first head of the Department of Nature Study at Cornell University and the first woman to be appointed to the Cornell faculty. Written originally for elementary school teachers, this book is as valid and helpful today as it was [...]

Over 175 scholarships were awarded at the Battle Creek Community Foundation’s Annual Scholarship Reception, which took place on May 24, 2007, at Kellogg Arena. These scholarships, including annual renewals on those awarded previously, total over $600,000! Scholarship selection criteria vary, depending on the donor’s interest; however, academic performance, financial need, and school/community/church involvement are the [...]

Jennifer Alcantar: California State Grant, Cinco De Mayo Committee Scholarship, Napa Valley College Foundation Scholarship — Lola M. Thorburn Scholarship, Betty Wood Memorial Scholarship.
Sam Anthony: Wood Family Scholarship.
Ana Archundia: St. Helena Junior Women’s Scholarship, Betty Wood Memorial Scholarship.
Wilson Barr: Golden State Seal Merit Diploma, Wood Family Scholarship.
Kris Bartolucci: St. Helena Native Sons Scholarship.
Jake Beltrami: Rusty [...]

New Plymouth – For many in this small Payette County town, Chet Counsil and the city’s Kiwanis Club were synonymous.
Now, the club that Counsil gave so much to for so long is set to offer a memorial scholarship in his honor.
“I think there are a lot of people in our community who knew Chet and [...]