2020 Scholarship Reception Booklet

Annual and Endowed Scholarships

Dennis and Marilyn Koepp “Striver” Endowed Scholarship Dennis Koepp envisioned a scholarship with several features, considerations, and goals that tend to stray from the traditional objectives of currently established scholarships. In essence, it seeks out and rewards individuals with backgrounds and circumstances mirroring the personal experiences and challenges that he experienced while attending Stout. It seeks to provide financial opportunity and assistance to a tenacious and highly motivated individual who falls short in academic excellence but excels in determination, dedication, hard work and is extremely focused on academic and career goals. It is an underlying premise that a strong candidate for this scholarship will perform better under heavy academic and social loads than someone carrying lighter loads with the theory of devoting more time to their studies. Therefore, a recipient of this scholarship must emulate and share these characteristics and attributes. The annual award is $1,000. Jacob Bowe Karl A. Kolb and Ernie Weller “Fathership is Heroism” Scholarship Karl Kolb, Ph.D., a retired U.S. Army colonel, established this scholarship as a Christmas gift for his parents. The unrestricted scholarship honors Karl’s father and grandfather so that their ideals can live on indefinitely through a perpetual gift to a deserving student.

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