In 2001,
Ken and Linda Wrigley donated a nice gelding to be raffled off
at the National Show to start the Scholarship fund. Six
thousand dollars was raised which the Board of Directors of
the PPHRNA (NAPHA's predecessor) thought was enough to
start. Terry Jarchow did the research into setting up the
fund. She contacted several individuals and companies that
gave scholarships to high school seniors and they all told
her that they did it through the Santa Barbara Scholarship
Foundation. The SBSF gives about $3 million in scholarship
monies every year so she decided they knew what they were
about so she went to Santa Barbara and asked them lots of
questions. They couldn't have been nicer and were very
encouraging so she was able to design our forms with some
help from them. Terry headed the committee the first year.
Larry and Joy Redman and Dita Wolanow were our first
committee members.
Various contributions have been made
to the fund since its inception, but the major funder of
Scholarships has been the All-Gaited Junior Benefit Horse
Show, staged each year by Nola Giddings and our first
scholarship recipient Kimberly Hall. Below is a brief
history of our winners and their accomplishments.
OUR RECIPIENTS
Kimberly Hall
was the
first winner in 2002. She graduated from Cal Poly University
in San Luis Obispo, CA. Her major was Kinesiology and she is
going to continue in nursing. Kimberly now serves on
the Junior Scholarship Committee.
Andrea del Solar
was the second winner in 2003. She graduated from Mt. St.
Mary's College in Los Angeles majoring in Biology with the
intention of becoming a vet. She is now studying
pre-veterinary medicine in New Zealand and is loving it. She
will start vet school the summer of 2009.
2004 - No applicants
Tessa Brown
was the 2005 recipient. Tessa will graduate from Santa Clara
University in June, 2009 with a major in Mathematics and a
minor in Religious Studies. She has been inducted into Pi Mu
Epsilon the National Honorary Mathematics Society and Alpha
Sigma Nu the National Jesuit Honor Society. She will
graduate Magna Cum Laude and it is her intention to apply to
Medical School for 2010. She wants to take a break from
school and will teach math for a year before entering
Medical School.
2006 No applicants
Tiffany Evans
was the 2007 recipient. She is attending Eastern
Kentucky University, where she is majoring in business and
communications.
Marissa Ditunno
was the 2008 recipient. She is attending Central
Oregon Community College
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