Bio: Wendt, Carol (Clark County Homemaker Scholarship – 1958)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 
Surnames: Wendt, DeHart, Rohde, Thiesen

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 01 May 1958

Miss Carol Wendt, who will graduate from the Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.) High School this month, was awarded the 1958 Clark County Homemakers Scholarship. This was announced at the Clark County Homemakers Spring Council meeting, which was held at Abbotsford. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wendt of Owen.

The winner will graduate from the Greenwood High School on May 26th, and is planning to study Home Economics in college. She has been a 4-H member for the past seven years and a FHA member for the past 4 years. In 1956, Carol, along with her sister, Geraldine, were selected as the outstanding 4-H team demonstration in the state.

This past year, she was selected as the outstanding FHA demonstrator in the area, and was recipient of the "Betty Crocker" award. Mrs. Lawrence DeHart, Neillsville; Mrs. Gilbert Rohde, Greenwood and Mrs. Wm. Thiesen Jr., Loyal, were Homemaker's Scholarship Committee, who made the selection.