Scholarship fund will honor Hay Springs students' good deed
When a group of high school students decided to donate their prom funds to earthquake relief efforts of Haiti earlier this year, they did not expect to get anything in return. That, however, is the intention of a new scholarship fund at Chadron State College.
The Chadron State Foundation is establishing a fund to help provide future scholarship assistance to students of Hay Springs High School who donated the $5,400 from their prom account to assist the ravaged Caribbean country. The 13 students of the junior class, who raised the money for the earthquake relief, will be eligible for the CSC scholarship upon graduating in 2011.
The scholarship is the idea of Ross Rash of Winfield, Kan., who is donating $5,000 to match other contributors.
Rash, who raised money for part of his own college expenses at Chadron by painting barns the summer of 1948, said he was impressed by the students’ initiative and wanted to do something to recognize their efforts. Rash's wife, Glendoris, is a native of Dunlap and Chadron who graduated in 1950 from the Nebraska State Teachers College at Chadron, the former name of Chadron State College. Ross completed a two-year pre-engineering course at NSTC in 1949 and graduated as an electrical engineer from the University of Nebraska in 1952. After graduation he went into the new field of digital computers, a career that spanned 40 years.
People may contribute to the fund by contacting the Chadron State Foundation at 308-432-6361 or by visiting the “Make a Gift” link at www.csc.edu/foundation.
The fund for the Hay Springs students is not the first scholarship established by the Rashes. They also established a scholarship to honor Glendoris’ aunt, Minnie Lichte, who taught chemistry at the institution.
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