open our 2011 Annual Report - Porter County Community Foundation

1997
Lilly Scholarship Program begins
They have the grades and the test scores, but
scholarships have helped make college possible for
more than 200 local students since 1997. The Lilly
Endowment Community Scholarship Program initiated
the Foundation’s scholarship efforts by providing full
four-year scholarships to attend any college or
university in the state of Indiana. Since that inaugural
year, many scholarship recipients have gone on to
graduate from college and become doctors, lawyers,
experts in their fields, and successful citizens.
The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program provides full
tuition and fees to any college or university in the State of Indiana in
addition to providing $800/year for books. The 2011 recipients
were: Adam Alamillo (Valparaiso High School), Mayra Martinez
(Portage High School) and Ian Ansburg (Boone Grove High School).
The Launch Your Career Scholarship is
available to students attending the Porter
County Career and Technical Education
Center. Recipients were: Rebeka Dres
(Valparaiso High School), Krystle Koedyker
(Valparaiso High School), Carissa
Martinez (Chesterton High School), Megan
Price (Portage High School), and Kayla
Turner (Portage High School).
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1997
NIPSCO provided funding for $1000
scholarships to: Rebecca Shutske (Kouts
High School), Rachel Lundstrom (Valparaiso
High School), Samantha Loza (Portage High
School), Laura MacNeill (Hebron High
School), Cassandra Gibson (Washington
Township High School), Robert Conrick
(Chesterton High School) and Jana
Prochaska (Morgan Township High School).
“The scholarship made my
degree possible,” said Nicole Wilcox
who graduated from Purdue University with a
degree in aerospace engineering in 2008.
“Without it, I would have had to settle
for staying at home and studying at
the extension where they don’t even
offer aerospace engineering. I feel
lucky to have been given this
wonderful opportunity.”
Shawn Moyer was a 1999 Endowment Community
Scholar who passed away during his sophomore year
at Taylor University. Lilly Endowment and the
Foundation endowed the remaining balance of
Shawn’s scholarship to create this award for
graduates of Kouts High School. The 2011 recipients
were: Keren Kandel and David Hershberger.
The Porter County Community
Foundation provided $4000
scholarships to: Sarah Sanchez
(Andrean High School), Nicole
Green (Chesterton High School)
and Caitlyn Ludington (Wheeler
High School).