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The Omro Area Scholarship and Education Foundation has awarded a total of $47,820 in scholarships to 29 Omro High School graduates. A community based volunteer committee chose the following recipients based on outstanding work in the classroom, extra-curricular activities and community involvement.

Samantha Anderson: $1,000 – Gene Giddings Scholarship
Rachel Beck: $1,000 – Don & Shirley Dailey Scholarship, $500 – Maddex Eckstein Kind Heart Scholarship
Vannesa Carta: $1,000 – Gene Giddings Scholarship
Lauren Case: $500 – Edward R. and Kathryn M. Goss Memorial Scholarship, $2,000 – Judge & Mrs. Wilbur Hurlbut Scholarship
Eden Chapin: $1,000 – Reitz-Wegner Scholarship
Gavin Dintelman: $1,000 – Omro Area Scholarship & Education Foundation Scholarship
Amelia Eichmann: $500 – Maddex Eckstein Kind Heart Scholarship, $3,000 – Marie Bullis Barnard Memorial Scholarship
Reece Gehrke: $1,000 – Coops Wrestling Scholarship. $200 – Stanley A. Butkiewicz Memorial Scholarship
Joseph Harkner: $500 – Royal & Della Tice Scholarship
Gracie Hayes: $300 – Lewis Drobnick Scholarship, $500 – Maddex Eckstein Kind Heart Scholarship
Evelyn Heidel: $500 – Lillie Family Scholarship
Samuel Joachim: $1,000 – Bruce Fowler Memorial Scholarship
Lauryn Juedes: $3,000 – Charles P. and Margaret S. King Scholarship
Rachel Kilgas: $1,000 – Omro Area Scholarship & Education Foundation Scholarship
Jacob Knigge: $3,000 – Charles P. & Margaret S. King Scholarship, $1,000 – Omro Area Scholarship & Education Foundation Scholarship
Olivia Knurowski: $560 – Maurice Schoenbechler Scholarship, $500 – Virginia Formiller Family Scholarship, $500 – Maddex Eckstein Kind Heart Scholarship
Lauren Koonce: $400 – Ferne Davis Scholarship, $3,000 – Marie Bullis Barnard Memorial Scholarship
Jaxon Koyen: $1,000 – Mildred E. Turner Scholarship
Benjamin Lehman: $1,000 – Omro Area Scholarship & Education Foundation Scholarship
Ashley Nowak; $2,500 – Lawrence Thull Memorial Scholarship
Katie Peters: $2,000 – Judge and Mrs. Wilbur Hurlbut Scholarship, $1,000 – Omro Area Scholarship & Education Foundation Scholarship, $1,000 – Rosie & Don Hildebrand Scholarship
Payton Rahn: $1,000 – Strehlow Family Scholarship
Carley Reinke: $500 – Bernie Egan Memorial Scholarship, $500 – Warner and Laura Bohn Memorial Scholarship, $500 – Wayne Remer Memorial Scholarship
Hannah Thomer: $500 – Annette Beem Memorial Scholarship, $1,000 – Omro Area Scholarship & Education Foundation Scholarship
Emma Vangorder: $1,000 – Mildred E. Turner Scholarship
Benjamin Wellhoefer: $560 – Maurice Schoenbechler Scholarship
Bethany Werth: $1,000 – Gene Giddings Scholarship
Sawyer Wheeler: $300 – Les Kallas Memorial Scholarship
Ian Yost: $500 – Bernie Egan Memorial Scholarship, $3,000 – Charles P. & Margaret S. King Scholarship, $500 – Warner and Laura Bohn Memorial Scholarship

The Omro Area Scholarship and Education Foundation includes 26 scholarship funds, which are administered by the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation. You can support these funds with gifts online at OshkoshAreaCF.org/fund/ or to the Foundation at 230 Ohio St. Suite 100, Oshkosh, WI 54902. For more information about scholarships, go to FoxRiverScholarshipCenter.org.

The Oshkosh Area Community Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization created by and for the people of Winnebago County, Waushara County, Green Lake County and Ripon. Through charitable giving, the Foundation strives to make our communities thrive. For more information, please call 920.426.3993.