Salem Hospital Foundation Awards 89 Scholarships

Awardees are from the following locations: Aumsville, Dallas, Detroit, Hillsboro, Independence, Keizer, McMinnville, Monmouth, Newberg, Salem, Silverton, Stayton, Sublimity, Woodburn, and Yamhill.

Salem-news.com

(SALEM) - The Salem Hospital Foundation announced that 89 students in medical or medically related fields will be receiving scholarships for the 2006-2007 school year.

A total of $111,000 in scholarships was awarded to students pursuing degrees in nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and a variety of other medically related programs.

The Foundation's scholarship program began in 1968.

The first grant was $500 awarded to a Salem Hospital employee enrolled in the Associate Degree of Nursing Program at Salem Vocational Tech., now known as Chemeketa Community College.

Since that time the Foundation has awarded more than $1 million in tuition assistance.

Several special scholarships were awarded in memory of various community members including the John Alsever, M.D., physician scholarship; the Cass Bailey, M.D., physician scholarship; the Nita Jo Carter nursing scholarship; the Kathy deMarrais nursing scholarship; the Carl and Olive Emmons nursing scholarship; the Rollin Haag nursing scholarship; the Harold and Elmera Richardson nursing scholarship; and the Haap Jackson imaging scholarship.

The Salem Hospital Foundation is a charitable organization that supports medical and medically related projects.

The foundation's 15 volunteer directors help raise funds and manage the resources of the foundation.

Foundation Board members serving on the scholarship committee this year were Tim Abrahamson, Jennifer Neahring, M.D., and Kelly Yunker.

Awardees for the 2006-2007 school year are:

Aumsville: Aaron Miller, Matthew Mongenel, Julie Naatz.

Dallas: Jamie Broussard, Brittney Fresh, James Hoffman, Chelsey Pauls, Theresa Will.

Detroit: Jocelyn Hurley.

Hillsboro: Katherine Reese.

Independence: Kara Bean, David Delgado.

Keizer: Katie Coburn, Sarah Coburn, Shirley Eggen, Josiah Faville, Cammy Holbrook, Lindsi Hoy, Korey King, Elizabeth Melendy, Ruth Stewart, Kerri Trapp, Kari Wattenbarger.

McMinnville: Jessica Garr, Ruth Pinney.

Monmouth: Tia Aho, Dan Androes, Jessica Bahari-Kashan, Katina Grugett, Makayla Reed.

Newberg: Jacqueline Cederberg.

Salem: Krista Allison, Richard Bland, Cindy Branch, Debbie Buchwach, Tracy Carr, Kristianna Daniels, Angela Davis, Kristin Faber, Jia-Jan Fu, Bethany George, Tyler Gilmore, Susan Griffin, Kathryn Grim, Wayne Halle, Shannon Hogan, Jocelyn James, Nicole Kelchner, Pennie Lutz, Robert Martin, Heather McMillen, Anne Meek, Nancy Mercer, Lisa Miller, Christopher Olson, Athena Pannas, Lisa Rishel, Doreen Rodecap, Shannon Simmons, Stephanie Stupfel, Sarah Terpin, Eric Timmons, Rachel Tjaarda, Kathy Tran, Zachary Vande Griend, Ross Wagner, Amy Ward, Sara Wargnier, Sharon Weber, Wilma Weber, Heather Wiebe, Mark Wilhite, Lorene Ziak.

Silverton: Gabriela Cortes, Cora Dahl, Kirsten Funrue, Stephanie Kaufman, Katie Lierman, Linda McLagan, Amber Stutzman.

Stayton: William Beck, Katie Peterman, Christine Steiner.

Sublimity: Lisa Riesterer, Susan Rodda, Jessica Schumacher.

Woodburn: Jason Phillips.

Yamhill: Emily Hertel. Noelle Weidner.