The selection committee is proud to announce our 2016 Beta Iota scholarship winners. The last few years have seen a spike in excellent applicants and this year was no exception. Please join me in congratulating these exceptional students:
Our 2016 winners (with school attending and Father):
Scholarship:
Margaret Houck (Virginia, Robert Houck '86)
Rachael Klein (Virginia, Gary Klein '88)
Adam Kline (Georgetown, Bill Kline '83)
Hannah Lu (U of Chicago, Curtis Lu '86)
Katherine Mahoney (Williams, Andrew Mahoney '89)
Aislinn McMillan (Northwestern, James McMillan '81)
Peter O'Donnell (Dickinson, Patrick O'Donnell '85)
Madeleine Shelley (U of Pittsburgh, Blackwell Shelley '83)
Grace Towery (U of North Carolina, Tim Towery '82)
Virginia Wise (U of Wisconsin, Charles Wise Jr '87)
Grant:
George Jacob Rhoad (U of Indiana, Robert Rhoad '88)
For those that we were not able to award this year I encourage you to take a look at our grant opportunity as well as the college scholarship when deciding whether to apply again next year. I am happy to answer questions about either one.
Need Based scholarship:
This year the Foundation allocated for the first time a small portion of our scholarship payout towards need based students who are first generation college applicants. We partnered with a Foundation out of Chicago called Pass With Flying Colors who runs an exceptional 8 year college access and persistence program designed to help under served high school students get to and succeed in college. I am proud to say that the scholarships we are giving to 2 excellent students literally may be the difference in getting both on campus this fall. The two need based winners are:
Isabel Gonzalez (North Park University)
Willy Duarte (Kennedy-King College)
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