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EPHRAIM, Utah—April 23, 2004—Snow College and the Richfield Rotary Club today announced a $2,000 annual gift from Mary Headlee in honor of her father Howard B. Mendenhall. The Richfield Rotary Club will award four $500 scholarships to the Snow College Richfield campus every spring for an unspecified number of years. Howard B. Mendenhall was the mayor of Richfield when he was killed in a tragic accident in 1947.
The scholarships are available to high school graduates from Sevier, Wayne and Piute counties. Recipients must intend to take all or some of their higher education classes at the Snow College Richfield campus. For more information and to apply for the scholarships please contact Janie Jacobson at (435) 892-2259. Snow College Richfield will recommend applicants to the Richfield Rotary Club who will make final selections. The scholarship recipients will be honored at a Rotary Club luncheon.
Snow College
Snow College, founded in
1888, serves approximately 2,800 students at its Ephraim campus, and
approximately 600 students at its Richfield campus. The college provides general education and applied technology
programs leading to Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of
Applied Science and Associate of Pre-Engineering degrees, and certificates of
completion in a number of occupational areas.
Once owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Snow
College became a state college in 1932.
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