Scholarships

Starke County Community Foundation Announces Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Recipients

Amie Betz

Sarah Konkey

Two Starke County students have been named recipients of full, four-year scholarships as the Starke County Community Foundation 2008 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars.

Amie Betz and Sarah Konkey will receive full tuition to the Indiana College of their choice and an $800 yearly stipend for required books and equipment.

Amie is the daughter of Anthony and Estelle Betz and a senior at Knox Community High School. Amie plans to study chemistry and become a chemical engineer. She is involved in student government were she has served as Vice President and is current President of the student body. As a member of the National Honor Society Amie is the current secretary and volunteers for the organization on a number of community events. Amie's goal is to receive her degree and prove that a young woman from a small town can achieve great things.

Sarah is the daughter of Scott Konkey and Sheryl Trusty. She attends Oregon-Davis High School and plans to pursue a degree in physical therapy. Her career choice is driven by her participation in sports. She is a four year participant in basketball, track and field and cross country. Student government is also a part of her high school life as she has served as Secretary and now Vice President. Sarah has a passion to help people and by being a physical therapist she hopes to assist people to physically do things that they couldn't do before.   

The two recipients were selected for the prestigious Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship from a field of eighteen applications by the Starke County Community Foundation Scholarship Committee.

For the selection process, the applications are scored on academic performance, volunteer and paid work, school activities and honors as well as a series of essays. Of the eighteen applications, ten finalists were selected for a final interview. These finalists are asked to write an impromptu essay and have a personally interview with the committee. The committee narrowed the field to two nominees and one alternate. These names were submitted to Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc. (ICI) for the selection of the recipients.

ICI is a nonprofit corporation that represents thirty-one regionally accredited degree granting, nonprofit, private colleges and universities in the state.

The scholarships are the result of a statewide Lilly Endowment initiative to help Hoosier students reach higher levels of education. Indiana ranks among the lowest states in the percentage of residents over the age of 25 with a bachelor's degree. There were 216 scholarships awarded statewide.

Starke County Community Foundation Scholarship Application
The deadline for the application is past please check back in the fall of 2008!

• Brooklyn A. Boo Scholarship
• LaVergne M. Brown and Lois L. Spenner Educational Scholarship
• The Cunningham Family Scholarship
• Helen and Ware Edgar Scholarship
• Richard H. Gumz Agricultural Scholarship
• Ed Hasnerl/WKVI Scholarship
• Dorothy Johnson Shei Scholarship
• Nella Kersting Memorial Scholarship
• Clarence Lawrence Memorial Scholarship
• Ken Lucas Memorial Scholarship
• Megan Elytha Jean Sahlhoff Music Scholarship
• Winifred J. Simpkins/Spirit of Nursing Scholarship
• Starke Memorial Hospital and Medical Staff Health Occupation/Medical Education Scholarship
• Starke/Pulaski Board of Realtors Scholarship
• Christine and David VanVactor Scholarship
• 1897 Charley Vorm Memorial Scholarship
• Robert O. and Doris E. Winters Scholarship

If you have any questions, please contact Corinne Becknell Lucas, Scholarship Coordinator with the Northern Indiana Community Foundation at 877.432.6423.