Christensen, Scott, Caughell-Isaac, Bauer and Bisgard Scholars Announced!

The Shelby County Community Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009 Christensen, Scott, Bauer, Caughell-Isaac, and Bisgard scholars.   The Roy and Lillian Christensen scholar will receive a scholarship award of $745 for tuition during the student’s first year of undergraduate study at a school and field of the student’s choice.  This year Chelsea Cave from Harlan High School is the Christensen scholar. 

The Paul F. and June D. Scott Endowed Scholarship scholars will receive a scholarship award of $1,000 for high school seniors from Harlan Community High School and must be accepted as a student by the institution of higher education.  This year there are four scholars; Abby Svendsen, Renae Arkfield, Jana Wolken, and William Baughman.

The Maude Bauer and Keith Bauer Endowed Scholarship is made available to Harlan High School graduating seniors. The Harlan high school seniors must be accepted as a student by the institution of higher education and be pursuing a four year degree.  One scholarship is for a student pursuing a vocal and/or instrumental degrees and one scholarship is for a student with an undesignated degree.  Maude Bauer spent her adult life working with youth.  First as the superintendent of a small high school in Nebraska. Maude was a teacher in Exira, Iowa.  After marriage in 1931, Maude worked as a substitute teacher in the Harlan School system and taught Sunday school to teens.  Maude’s greatest influence with youth was as an employer of high school youth in the shoe store that the family owns.  From 1931 through 2007 Maude offered guidance, counseling, and encouragement to over 70 young employees, one at a time to help them mature and transition into adulthood.  This year the Bauer scholars will receive a scholarship award of $4,000 for tuition at the school of their choice and pursuing a four year degree; one is for a student pursuing a vocal and/or instrumental degrees and one scholarship is for a student with an undesignated degree.  This year the two scholars are Nathan Johnson and Taysha Murtaugh from Harlan Community High School.

The Connie Lamar Bisgard Endowed Scholarship will award one scholarship annually for a Harlan Community School graduate pursuing a four-year degree in any of the following fields of study:  Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Agronomy at Iowa State University.  This year the Bisgard scholar will receive a scholarship award of $2,400; the scholar is Megan Fahn.

The Community Foundations of Southwest Iowa is pleased to announce the Caughell-Isaac scholars will receive a scholarship award of $1,000 for high school seniors from A-H-S-T and Riverside Schools must be accepted as a student by the institution of higher education.  This year there are six scholars; from Riverside High School—Kelsey Hackett, Jamie Kalb, and Sydney Turner; from A-H-S-T High School—Cory Maassen, Reed Pattee, and Daniel Schroder.

Board members of the Shelby County Community Foundation are Chair, Frank Powers of Defiance; Vice Chair, Robert Burton of Irwin; Secretary/Treasurer, Gene McCool of Shelby; Tom Cannon of Elk Horn; Robert W. Hall, Esq. of Harlan; and Lonnie G. Muxfeldt, CPA of Harlan.



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Scott Scholarship Application and Fact Sheet
A college education scholarship is available for tuition at a school of the student's choice.  The high school senior from Harlan High School must be accepted as a student by the institution of higher education.


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Bauer Scholarship Application and Fact Sheet
A college education scholarship is available for tuition at a school of the student's choice.  The Harlan High School senior must be accepted as a student by the institution of higher education and pursuing a four-year degree.  One scholarship is for a student pursuing a vocal and/or instrumental music degree and one is for a student pursuing an undesignated degree.

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Caughell-Isaac Scholarship Application and Fact Sheet
High school seniors from A-H-S-T, Riverside, and Walnut schools must be accepted as a student by the institution of higher education.  Students applying for this scholarship who have been awarded a Rock or Daisy Peterson Scholarship are not eligible to receive the Caughell-Isaac Scholarship award.


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Bisgard Scholarship Application and Fact Sheet
One scholarship to the Iowa State University, for a Harlan Community School District graduate in their junior or senior year of college,  pursuing an engineering degree in chemical, mechanical, civil, electrical, or agronomy, who can demonstrate in writing the reason for applying for the Bisgard Endowed Scholarship and how it will help them achieve their goals.  The criteria for Bisgard Scholar require successful academic careers.
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Harlan Community High School seniors who are in the upper 25% of their graduating class may apply.  Students must be seeking a post-high school higher education and are in need of financial assistance.