With over 400 applications, it took our scholarship committee an extra long time to decide upon the winners for our 2008 Ottilie Markholt Memorial Scholarship Contest. There were some tremendous essays and applications and we wish we had a few thousand more dollars to award more. We decided to award one $1,000 winner and eight $250 scholarships to eight runner-ups in the essay category. In our service category, there were two winners of our $500 scholarship that clearly stood out among the applications We will soon be posting the winning essays and information about the winners, but here they are:
$1,000 Grand Prize Winner
Lauren San Juan, Valley Springs, CA
$250 Scholarship
Catherine M. Judge, Elmhurst, NY
Jalisa Whitley, Geneva, NY
Matthew McGorrin, Littleton, CO
Chelsea Granger, Simpsonville, SC
Sivan Ben-David, Sunnyvale, CA
Louise Foisy, Rego Park, NY
$500 Service Scholarship
Kaity Miller, Portland, OR
Joaquin Recinos, Los Angeles, CA
