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The Dalles High School community awards more than $350,000 in scholarships to graduating seniors
Summary
At a scholarship ceremony at The Dalles High School, Principal Kurt Evans said community donors will award more than $350,000 to graduating seniors; individual endowments and donors ranged from $500 awards to three $10,000 PUD scholarships and a $14,000 award.
Kurt Evans, principal of The Dalles High School, opened the annual scholarship ceremony by telling the audience that “before the start of the next school year, over $350,000 will be awarded to graduates here at Nadelles High School.” He said most donations are local and that the North Wasco County School District Scholarship Foundation administers about 60 of the awards.
The ceremony — largely presentations by donors, family members and foundation board members — featured dozens of named awards ranging from $500 scholarships to larger endowments. Evans also said the scholarship foundation’s total endowment is “about 2 and a half million dollars,” and he thanked the volunteers who staff the foundation and the district’s scholarship coordinator, Andrea Gander.
The largest single awards announced included a $14,000 scholarship to Rowena Benjamin and three $10,000 scholarships from the North Wasco County PUD for Benjamin Dahl,…
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