News: Clark Co. - County Extension 4-H Scholarships (1977)

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

Surnames: Opelt, Naedler, Crothers, Pescinski, Ellenbecker

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/28/1977

County Extension-4-H (Scholarships - 1977)

Each year two $150 scholarships are awarded by the Clark County Extension Homemakers and the 4-H Leaders Foundation. Mrs. Marcia Crothers, Granton, chairwoman of the scholarship committee, announced this past week that recipients for 1977 are Jody Opelt, Greenwood, and Sandra Naedler, Granton.

Twenty-one of Clark County’s young men and women applied for the scholarships. The extension Homemakers scholarship was given to Jody Opelt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Opelt, Rt. 1 Greenwood. Jody is a senior student in nursing at UW-Milwaukee.

Sandra Naedler, recipient of the 4-H and Extension Homemakers scholarship is the daugher of Pat and William Naedler, Jr., Granton. She is a junior studying special education at UW-Eau Claire.

Alternates for the two scholarships are David Pescinski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pescinski, Rt. 2 Spencer, and Carmel Ellenbecker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ellenbrecker3, Rt. 1 Unity.