Bio: Elmhorst, Barbara (Scholarship - 1974)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Elmhorst, Haferbecker, Hay

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/07/1974

Elmhorst, Barbara (Scholarship - 1974)

Barbara Elmhorst, a junior biology major at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has been named as the first recipient of a Gordon Haferbecker Scholarship of $100.

Barbara, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Elmhorst, Rt. 1 Granton, was the valedictorian of her 1972 Granton High School class.

Barbara has, as a collegian, been a research assistant to Dr. Don A. Hay in a research project supported by the Wisconsin Heart Association. She also has spent more than a year as a technician on the electron microscope, one of the finest pieces of research equipment in biology departments at an upstate university.

The Haferbecker scholarship fund was created earlier this year in the name of the retired vice chancellor of academic affairs by his friends and co-workers as a permanent way of acknowledging his contributions to the university. Dr. Haferbecker now teaches in the economics department at UW-SP.

A committee of emeriti faculty will select the annual scholarship which students from throughout the university will be eligible to receive.

A second scholarship, also for $100, will be given annually to an outstanding senior majoring in economics or business. It is expected this will become the most prestigious award given by the UW-SP department of economics and business. Representatives of that department currently are establishing a procedure for selecting the annual recipient, the first of whom will be named next spring.