Davenport, Iowa -- The Davenport Schools Foundation will offer five new scholarships this spring, as it launches its latest scholarship program. There are 24 endowed scholarships providing more than $60,000 for students graduating from Davenport Schools. Awards range from $300 to $12,000 and will be given to 40-plus winners from four Davenport high schools.
At Central High School, the Hall of Honor scholarship program has two new awards, meaning a total of eight $1,500 scholarships will be handed out in the spring. The late Orson Bauder, who taught for many years at CHS, is being honored with a one-time legacy gift from his family and friends. Stanley "Lee" Kneipp and his wife, Dianne, of Houston, have joined with his sister, Sharyn Kneipp of St. Louis to create the Kneipp Family Scholarship, which will be presented annually to a student seeking a career in nursing and whose extracurriculars include service to his/her church.
Three new music scholarships include the Jack King Music Scholarship, created by Dr. Susan Perry and her husband, Stan Goodyear, of Davenport. Their son was a music student of Mr. King and they wanted to show their appreciation by helping future students. To apply, a DCSD senior must have participated in band all four years. The North High Music Scholarship and West High Music Scholarship were started with a gift from John Wiese of Davenport. He challenged the music boosters at both schools to double the award money, so this spring there will be $1,000 scholarships for a boy and a girl from both schools. Mr. Wiese also funds the Hanae Fujiwara Wiese Scholarship at Central High, in honor of his late wife who taught music in Davenport Schools.
The "Eight-in-0ne" Scholarship application for students consolidates the application process for eight different awards into one application for awards ranging from $500 to $5,000, and covering interests from consumer science and journalism, to education and technical education, and, of course, general academics.
The Katherine Bell Tate Scholarship is designated the for district seniors who are the children of full-time DCSD employees. The $12,000 scholarship is distributed over four years of college. The Davenport Schools Foundation Scholarship has this year been designated for minority students, in order to promote college attendance among under-represented groups?African-American, Asian/Pacific Island, Hispanic or Native
American.
This is the final year that the Johnson School Scholarship will be presented because the senior students this year were in kindergarten just before that school was closed. There will be three $600 scholarships presented.
Detailed information and applications for these scholarships are available through high school guidance counselors, at the DSF office at 1606 Brady Street, and online at www.davenportschools.org/foundation. You may also call Norm Bower at 563-336-5004.
According to DSF Scholarship Committee co-chairs Manny Fritz and Sherry Freese, the winners will be announced in the spring at high school awards programs and via letters from the committee. Winners will be presented to the Davenport Board of Education on Monday, May 27, at a 7 p.m. meeting in the ASC offices, 1606 Brady Street, Davenport.
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The Davenport Schools Foundation was founded in 1987 in order "to provide resources to enhance the educational opportunities and experiences available to students in the Davenport Community Schools." Each year DSF awards around $60,000 in scholarships to graduating seniors and provides $40,000 toward the Great Minds program that underwrites classroom projects and field trips to area educational and cultural institutions. DSF has a volunteer board of 15 people and operates with two part-time employees.
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