2021 Scholarship Reception Booklet

Hong Xiang Rost International Scholarship Francis (Rusty) Rost, friends, family, and colleagues established this fund in loving memory of Hong Rost. Hong came to Wisconsin in 1991 and graduated with her master’s degree from UW-La Crosse in 1994. She then worked at UW-La Crosse as assistant director of international education from 1995 to 2010. In 2010 she joined the UW-Stout community as director of international education. In big and small ways, she helped every international student during that entire time frame achieve their educational objectives. The social media and on-line comments of people from around the world on news of her death show how much they as individuals were impacted by Hong’s life. Hong touched many lives because she was a people person and wonderfully giving and loving. The annual award is $1,200. David Tesar ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) Scholarship Army ROTC produces over 70% of the officers entering the Army each year and is available through nearly 1,000 college campuses nationwide. It is not only the nation’s largest source of Army officers, it is also the most flexible. ROTC commissions lieutenants for the Active Army, the Army National Guard, and the Army Reserve. It provides adaptive, agile, and innovative leaders of character and competency for America’s Army. The Army ROTC program provides merit- based college scholarship benefits to about 13,000 students each year. Selected students receive 100% coverage of tuition and fees and approximately $4,000 a semester in stipends. RTP Company Plastics Engineering Scholarship RTP Company supports the plastics engineering program in many ways and aims to grow the program by supporting incoming first-year students enrolled in plastics engineering. Graduates from the plastics engineering program are highly desirable and important for the economic development in this region, as well as the future of the industry. The annual award is $1,500. Andrew Novy

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