News: Clark Co. - CVTC Scholarships (2020)

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

Surnames: Bartsch, Fox, Susa, Schultz, Ackerman, Anderson, Copus, Tyznik, LaCanne, Kott, Baehr, Gunderman

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/01/2020

CVTC Students of 5 Clark County Communities (Scholarships – 2020))

Twelve Clark County residents have received scholarships at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC).

Rick Bartsch, Granton, received the 3M Map New Student Scholarship.

Two students from Greenwood received scholarships. Tyler Fox received the Gerald Hawkenson Memorial Scholarship. Casey Susa received the Lyman Lumber of Wisconsin Endowment Scholarship.

Sidney Schultz of Loyal received the L.E. Phillips Memorial Endowment and Maybelle Brechlin Price Memorial Endowment Scholarships.

Marcus Ackerman, Owen, received the Don and Mary Samuelson Endowment Scholarship. Also, from Owen, Joanna Fox received the Pamela Hanson Memorial Endowment Scholarship.

Six students from Thorp received scholarships, Diana Copus received the Francis C. Sorrentino Memorial Scholarship. Michael Anderson received the IT Software Developer Program Enrollment Scholarship. Alexander Tyznik received the Lavern G. Soper Memorial Scholarship. McKenna LaCanne received Prevea Health New Student Scholarship. Rebekka Kott received the R.E. Carter Memorial Endowment Scholarship. BoJaymes Baehr received the Xcel Energy Electrical Power Distribution Scholarship.

CVTC students received 351 scholarships totaling $336,889 during the 2019-2020 academic year.

“Often donors create scholarship funds to memorialize a loved one or to support a cause, but it all comes down to making differences in live of recipients,” CVTC Mark Gunderman wrote in a press release.

Recipients and donors are annually recognized at a scholarship reception each spring. However, this year’s reception was cancelled because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.