The winners of three adult or non-traditional student scholarships have been announced by the Coshocton Foundation.File
The winners of three adult or nontraditional student scholarships were announced by the Coshocton Foundation.
Elissa Larr was
named the winner of the $2,000 Jones Metal Products Adult Legacy Scholarship
for Coshocton County residents attending Central Ohio Technical College. She is attending COTC’s Coshocton campus, where she is majoring in nursing.
Beth Cramer was named winner of the Ruby S.
Hawthorne Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. She will attend Mount Vernon Nazarene University,
seeking her master’s degree in social work. The Hawthorne Scholarship was
established by Juliet Norris Lacy and Christyn Norris Kurtz in memory of their
grandmother Ruby Hawthorne. Lacy and Kurtz assist in the selection of a winner each year.
Rachel Duncan was
the winner of the Beulah Brownfield Memorial Adult Scholarship in the amount of
$1,000. She attends Zane State College,
where she will continue her classwork and clinical hours in the pursuit of
a career as a physical therapist assistant. This award was established through
the Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Brownfield, who died in 1977.
In addition to the annual adult scholarships, Kristi Luce
was recently presented with the Harry C. Wilt Memorial EMS Education Grant,
established by Wilt’s widow to honor his role in establishing the
EMS program in Coshocton County and his many years of dedicated community
service. Luce is attending the Mid-East Career and Technology Center’s
paramedic program.
In addition to these awards, the Coshocton Foundation is
partnering with Central Ohio Technical
College in the Coshocton Promise program, guaranteeing qualifying first-degree-seeking Coshocton County residents free tuition through the Clarence and Grace
Miller Scholarship Fund. On the high
school level, the Coshocton Foundation awards more than 100 scholarships
annually to graduating seniors of the area local high schools.
