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Scholarship money comes from interest income, fundraisers and donations.
Application for the scholarships is open to graduating Lake County high school students who will be enrolling in a college or vocational school.
The student must carry at least 12 units and have a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA.
Academic and extracurricular activities are taken into consideration, however the scholarship is primarily based on the quality of a 250 to 750-word essay based on an aspect of Lake County history.
Exceptional essay submissions may be published in “The Pomo Bulletin” for our members to read.
This year the scholarship selection committee received 11 applications, of which two were from Clear Lake High School, five were from Kelseyville High School, three were from Lower Lake High School and one was from Middletown High School.
Katherine Murphy from Kelseyville and Andrea White from Lower Lake were each awarded a $500 scholarship for submitting remarkable essays, as well as their impressive achievements in and out of school.
Murphy has a cumulative grade point average of 4.15. Her extracurricular activities were in athletics, music and outside activities.
Her winning essay is titled “The History of Tourism in Beautiful Lake County.” She plans to major in medicine at the University of California, Davis, and thereafter attend medical school.
Andrea White has a total grade point average of 4.11, placing her at the top of her graduating class.
Her extracurricular activities included varsity sports, community work and student activities. Her award-winning essay is titled “Lake County, A Commemoration of 2 Million Years of Bountiful History.”
White will attend the University of Puget Sound and plans to become an oral/maxillary surgeon.
Many thanks go to the scholarship selection committee and to the scholarship applicants for their essay submissions.
