NAPHA SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

A BRIEF HISTORY

In 2001, Ken and Linda Wrigley donated a nice gelding to be raffled off at the National Show to start the Scholarship fund. Six thousand dollars was raised which the Board of Directors of the PPHRNA (NAPHA's predecessor) thought was enough to start. Terry Jarchow did the research into setting up the fund. She contacted several individuals and companies that gave scholarships to high school seniors and they all told her that they did it through the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation. The SBSF gives about $3 million in scholarship monies every year so she decided they knew what they were about so she went to Santa Barbara and asked them lots of questions. They couldn't have been nicer and were very encouraging so she was able to design our forms with some help from them. Terry headed the committee the first year. Larry and Joy Redman and Dita Wolanow were our first committee members.

Various contributions have been made to the fund since its inception, but the major funder of Scholarships has been the All-Gaited Junior Benefit Horse Show, staged each year by Nola Giddings and our first scholarship recipient Kimberly Hall.  Below is a brief history of our winners and their accomplishments.

OUR RECIPIENTS

Kimberly Hall was the first winner in 2002. She graduated from Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, CA. Her major was Kinesiology and she is going to continue in nursing.  Kimberly now serves on the Junior Scholarship Committee. Andrea delSolar was the second winner in 2003. She graduated from Mt. St. Mary's College in Los Angeles majoring in Biology with the intention of becoming a vet. She is now studying pre-veterinary medicine in New Zealand and is loving it. She will start vet school the summer of 2009.

2004 - No applicants

Tessa Brown was the 2005 recipient. Tessa will graduate from Santa Clara University in June, 2009 with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Religious Studies. She has been inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon the National Honorary Mathematics Society and Alpha Sigma Nu the National Jesuit Honor Society. She will graduate Magna Cum Laude and it is her intention to apply to Medical School for 2010. She wants to take a break from school and will teach math for a year before entering Medical School.

2006 No applicants

Tiffany Evans was the 2007 recipient. She is attending Eastern Kentucky University, where she is majoring in business and communications.

Marissa Ditunno was the 2008 recipient. She is attending Central Oregon Community College