Area College Students/Adults Receive Scholarships!
The Noble County Community Foundation Board of Directors recently awarded scholarships to area college students including Jill
Taylor, (pictured) who received the Noble County Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a Noble County resident of at least one year who is not currently enrolled in high school and will be enrolling in college for the first time or a resident who has been out of college for three or more years. Taylor also received the Max and Elizabeth Roesler Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to a Noble County resident who has not been enrolled in high
school for at least one year and is pursuing a degree on a part-time basis. Taylor is studying Special Education at IPFW.
Eli Parks of Kendallville received the Oliver and Eleanor Ellenbecker previous Award Winner scholarship. This scholarship is awarded
to a student pursuing a degree full time who previously won a scholarship administered by the community foundation. Parks is double majoring in Accounting and Finance at Ball State University.
Kelly Hosford of Albion received the Oliver and Eleanor Ellenbecker Previous Award Winner scholarship. Hosford is currently studying Accounting and Finance at Taylor University.
Kathryn Merkling of Avilla also received the Oliver and Eleanor Ellenbecker Pervious Award Winner scholarship. Merkling is currently studying teaching at Valparaiso University.
Ashlee Ritchie of Ligonier was the winner of the Nathan Shumaker Memorial Scholarship which is for a student from Noble County in the second or subsequent year of post-high-school education who received some or all of K-12 schooling through home school or a Christian school. Ritchie is currently studying Social Work and Spanish at Anderson University. She was also the recipient of the Noble County Retired Teachers’ Association Scholarship in Memory of Deceased Teachers. This scholarship is awarded to a student studying at an Indiana post-high-school-program.
Shumaker of Kendallville was just 16 years old when he w
as killed in an automobile crash in 2005. He was a sophomore at East Noble High school at the time of his death and was involved in the East Noble Car Team.
Scholarships offered through the Noble County Community Foundation will be available at the community foundation’s website www.noblecountycf.org in mid-November 2014.