2021 Scholarship Reception Booklet

Annual and Endowed Scholarships

Resilience Scholarship Kim Polzin, a 1978 UW-Stout graduate, established this scholarship with her husband, Jeffrey Benny, to support students with significant financial need due to unexpected circumstances such as the loss of or significantly reduced family income, so that the student may begin or continue his/her studies. When Kim’s father died unexpectedly during her sophomore year at UW-Stout, he left a young family with children in elementary, junior high, and high school as well as Kim in college. Financial aid and scholarships helped Kim to continue at UW-Stout, becoming the first in her family to earn a college degree. This scholarship is one way Kim can pay it forward, so another student can find resilience in times of adversity. This scholarship is awarded to a full-time student who is studying in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Management, or the College of Education, Hospitality, Health and Human Sciences. The annual award is $1,500. Richard Fonk Roger Reuther Memorial Scholarship Roger Reuther passed away in June 2006 after a courageous five-year battle with multiple myeloma. Roger graduated from Stout State College in 1961 receiving a B.S. in industrial education and also a M.S. in industrial education in 1965. He was employed by the School District of West Allis-West Milwaukee for 34 years, first as an industrial arts teacher and ending his career as a supervisor of vocational education programs. Roger was dedicated to his career in education, encouraging students to further develop their tech ed skills as well as employing UW-Stout graduates as technology education teachers. This scholarship is given in Roger’s memory by his wife, Anne, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1984, and son, Chris, M.S. 1997. The scholarship is awarded annually to a future technology education teacher. The annual award is $1,500. Richard Fonk Lucille W. Reynolds Scholarship Lucille Reynolds was a 1909 graduate of UW-Stout. Through her will she provided a scholarship fund for students enrolled in hotel, restaurant, and tourism management, dietetics, food science and technology, human development and family studies, vocational rehabilitation, early childhood, and family and consumer sciences education majors. The annual award is $100. Elizabeth Basten

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