Handful of Hornets receive “full ride”

Several Emporia State students received full-ride scholarships for the 2008-2009 school year.

The Virginia Endly Memorial Scholarship was founded in honor of the sister of H. Merle Endly. Endly was a student of the Kansas Teacher’s College, now ESU, where he earned a master’s degree in business in 1943. Endly’s sister, Virginia, earned a degree at the College of Emporia and later became a professor at South Dakota University.

She later moved to the Tennessee Technical College where she served as an associate professor. The scholarship covers the cost of in-state tuition, student housing, a full meal plan and textbooks.

On August 22, 2008 ESU released the names of the recipients of the Memorial Scholarship. Six winners were announced: Jennifer Groves, graduate student in library sciences, Courtney Knaup, senior physics major, Emily Moore, freshman elementary education major, Ryan Norton, senior business education major, Kevin Schoon, junior biology major and Justin Wieser, junior management major.

The Elberta Harris scholarship is available to students majoring in education that have graduated from a Johnson County area high school. The award was named after Elberta Harris, an alumna of ESU who began teaching in the 1920s in the Johnson County area. The award is for substantial amount and is renewable through four undergraduate years.

For the 2008-2009 school year, 12 students were awarded the Elberta Harris scholarship: Anna Altwies, senior English education major, Sarah Anderson, freshman elementary education major, Lauren Brown, freshman elementary education major, Bryce Cooke, freshman social sciences major, Morgan Croisant, sophomore business education major, Timothy Erickson, senior speech and theatre education major, Elyse Espinoza, sophomore physical education major, Caroline Ewing, freshman elementary education major, Samantha Gieringer, freshman elementary education major, Alli Jordan, sophomore English education major, Allision Keefe, sophomore English education major, Shelley Marsh, senior English education major, Brenton McCoy, freshman mathematics education major, Mackenzie Milner, freshman elementary education major, Emily Moore, freshman elementary education major, Lindsay Murphy, senior elementary education major, Amy Schneider, senior elementary education major, Natalie Skaggs, junior elementary education major, Aniesa Slack, senior biology major, Lisa Yoakum, freshman elementary education major, and Tracy Vacinek, junior English education major.