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Fifteen PCC students earn Ford Family Foundation scholarships
Photos and story by James Hill
A total of 15 Portland Community College students have been awarded Ford Family Foundation scholarships to help them gain a solid financial foothold on their next stage of college – a four-year university.
This year's Ford Scholars include (front row, left to right), Jeffrey Gardner, Rebecca Preciado, Lan Marberry and Emily White. Back row, Deltta Anderson, Megan Michie, Nazgul Kutmanalieva, Paula Riviera and Christopher Fast. Not Pictured: Jessica Stirling, Amy Ashcroft, Stephanie Camp, Wendi Ihrig and Anna Vetter.
The scholarships, awarded through the Ford Family Foundation Scholarship Program, are given to worthy students in three categories – Ford Scholars (includes high school seniors and community college students transferring to a four-year school), Ford Opportunity (single parents) and ReStart (25 and older with minimal college experience).
This year’s Ford Scholars were chosen from 5,770 applicants. These renewable scholarships cover up to 90 percent ($1,000 minimum/$25,000 maximum) of each student’s unmet financial need for college per academic year.
Restart Scholarship
- Christopher M. Fast (Southwest Portland)
- Yanping Gao (Southeast Portland)
- Nazgul Kutmanalieva (Tigard)
- Megan E. Michie (Lake Oswego)
- Jessica D. Stirling (Southwest Portland)
- Lan Marberry (Lake Oswego)
Scholars Scholarship
- Emily White (Southeast Portland)
Opportunity Scholarship
- Deltta Anderson (West Linn)
- Amy Ashcroft (Newberg)
- Stephanie Camp (Beaverton)
- Jeffrey Gardner (Southeast Portland)
- Wendi Ihrig (Philomath)
- Rebecca Preciado (Southeast Portland)
- Paula Rivera (Beaverton)
- Anna Vetter (Southeast Portland)
Yanping Gao.
The Ford Family Foundation is a private, non-profit foundation located in Roseburg
in southern Oregon. Started in 1957, the Foundation now manages large, internal initiatives and makes grants to public charities predominantly benefiting communities in rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. Kenneth W. Ford, founder of Roseburg Forest Products Co., established the scholarship program to help students who would find it difficult to obtain college degrees without financial assistance.
For more information, visit the Ford Family Foundation Scholarship Program Web site: www.tfff.org.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »