JAMESTOWN, N.D. (Dollars for Scholars) – Forty-six scholarships totaling $45,600 were awarded by Jamestown Dollars for Scholars (JDFS), a program of Scholarship America at the Jamestown High School Awards Ceremony on May 3rd. The Class of 1967 initiated fundraising efforts at class reunions over the years and directed their JDFS’s Giving Hearts Day donations to their JDFS class endowment to successfully endow a scholarship to honor and remember their class into perpetuity. JDFS was pleased to award the very first Class of 1967 Scholarship at this year’s program.
The scholarship recipients were selected on the basis of academic achievement and community involvement, including volunteer activity.
Scholarships and recipients are as follows: Aaron Nordstrom Memorial Scholarship: Bernadette Belzer; Alberta Martin-Swartz Scholarship: Dominque Scobee; Collins Aerospace Scholarship: Kylee Burnham and Kyra Hoffer; Chesterman Communications Scholarship: Annabelle Cramer; Class of 1967: Kellen Lange; Dan Poland Machine: Carson Dewald; Darin Erstad Scholarship: Breanna Oettle and Payton Hochhalter; Noel Howell FFA Scholarship: Tamika Holte; Leonard Haitsch Scholarship: Colton Mewes; Olive B. Haitsch Scholarships: Pete Rasmussen and Will Nelson; Harold Newman Scholarship: Samuel Schlepuetz; Heil Scholarship: Chea Baugh, Alison Jacob, Katelyn Falk, Cadence Stockert and Theodore Solensky; Sidney and Alberta Holaday Scholarship for Academic Excellence: Zayne Muhs-Oretta; Jamestown Educational Association Teacher Education/JDFS Scholarship: Preston Gall; Jamestown Dollars for Scholars Service Scholarship: Jera Truax; Jamestown Dollars for Scholars 1st Generation Scholarship: Jesus Briones; JDFS Vocational Scholarship: Tayla Mack and Jada Walter; Jamestown Dollars for Scholars Achievement Scholarships: Brenna Hatch, Jordan Dooley, Landyn Kutz, Janae Brenneise, Gracie Krueger, Steven Schmitz, Jackson Walters and Abigail Heinle James Vondergeest Memorial Scholarship: Bernadette Newman; Jerry Meyer Scholarship: Caydann Cox; Knights of Columbus Scholarship: Zachary Holben; Robert and Myrna Sarbaum Scholarship: Emma Hillerud and Emily Hagan; Smile Studio Scholarship: Ross Motter; U.S. Army Specialist Paul A. Beyer Memorial Scholarship: Jordan
Johnson and Robert Walton; Wicklund/Schurr/JDFS Scholarship: Tyler Piehl; Wildcat Way Scholarships: Sydney Fisher and Brooks Roaldson; Yatskis/Rockwell Collins Scholarship for Math and Science: McKenna Barnick and Ethan Igl. Jamestown Dollars for Scholars chapter was formerly known as the Jamestown Public School Foundation which was organized in 1981 as a 501(c)(3.)
