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Southwest Washington Medical Center Foundation Presents $100.000 In Scholarships
07/13/2006
Annual awards recognize students planning health care careers
The Southwest Washington Medical Center Foundation awarded 67 students from the Southwest Washington region a total of $100,000 in scholarships to help some of the regions best and brightest realize their dreams to work in the medical field and help their communities. Twenty Southwest employees are also among the list of scholarship recipients.
The individual awards range from $1,000 to $3,500. Recipients include high school seniors, health care workers studying to advance their careers, Medical Center volunteers, and college students enrolled in a health care program of study, including nursing, pharmacy and medical students.
The annual scholarship awards are offered as a community benefit each year. Profits from sales at the two Medical Center Campus gift shops support the scholarship program annually.
Southwest employees honored included Aubrey Biggs, Susie Burmeister, Emily Coombs, Amber Davis, Amy Davis, Bettina Fitzgerald, Shelby Gialich, Sandra Hadenfeld, Heidi Hess, Chacie Johnson, Rachel Justus, Brittany Koistinen, Jennifer Laeger, Matthew Payne, Martha Rodriguez, Mary Jane Schreiner, Beth Smith, Ashley Steckley, Tanell Test, and Dianne Washburn.
Special honors went to the following individuals:
Sarina Slaid Scholarship — Ting Chieh Lin, a Junior at Fort Vancouver High School, was awarded $3,000. He will be a pre-med student at Johns Hopkins University.
Margaret Heins Scholarship— Emily Coombs, the 2006 recipient of this $3,500 award, is a nurse in the Family Birth Center at Southwest who is pursuing her Neonatal Nurse Practitioners Masters through the University of Washington.
Junior Volunteer Scholarship—Jagdeep Kaur, awarded $3,000, is a senior at Fort Vancouver High School who will be attending Concordia University to become a Registered Nurse.
The following is a complete list of scholarship recipients:
Sandra Hadenfeld, 3,500, Washington State University
Dekey Lhewa, 3,000, University of Washington
Tsering Lhewa, 3,000, University of Washington
Matthew Payne, 3,000, Eastern Washington University
Susie Burmeister, 2,500, Clark College
Chacie Johnson, 2,500, Washington State University
Mary Jane Schreiner, 2,500, Clark College
Rachel Justus, 2,000, Eastern Washington University
Brittany Koistinen, 2,000, Washington State University
Victoria Moroz, 2,000, Prairie High School
Beth Smith , 2,000, University of Phoenix
Tannell Test, 2,000, Washington State University
Dianne Washburn, 2,000, Clark College
KaraLee Bickford, 1,500, Skyview High School
Jennifer Brown, 1,500, Battle Ground High School
Amber Davis, 1,500, Lower Columbia College
Amy Davis, 1,500, Weber State University
Bettina Fitzgerald, 1,500, Clark College
Shelby Gialich, 1,500, Clark College
Kayla Heidegger, 1,500, Clark College
Heidi Hess, 1,500, Arizona School of Health Sciences
Ashlie Hicks, 1,500, Washington State University
Andrew Jensen, 1,500, Oregon Health Sciences University
Senia Jutila, 1,500, Mountain View High School
Jennifer Laeger, 1,500, Clark College
Yuliya Nyukeyeva, 1,500, Evergreen High School
Joseph Park, 1,500, Columbia River High School
Linh Phan, 1,500, Washington State University
Ariel Riley, 1,500, Clark College
Megan Riley, 1,500, Columbia River High School
Lindsey Stecker, 1,500, Mountain View High School
Ashley Steckley, 1,500, Lower Columbia College
Jill Yuzuriha, 1,500, Mountain View High School
Carla Zoretti, 1,500, Clark College
Alexa Allen, 1,000, Prairie High School
Aubrey Biggs, 1,000, Clark College
Melissa Ek, 1,000, Prairie High School
Angela Gaul, 1.000, Hudsons Bay High School
Steven Gresswell, 1,000, Washington State University
Alex Hansen, 1,000, University of Washington
Lindsay Hoffman, 1,000, Portland State University
Rebecca James, 1,000, Northwest Nazarene College
Kelsey Johnson, 1,000, Camas High School
Nathan Kenney, 1,000, Prairie High School
Elizabeth Kenck, 1,000, Pacific Lutheran University
Ryan Linton, 1,000, Hockinson High School
Mei Liu, 1,000, University of Washington
Thomas Maehara, 1,000, Battle Ground High School
Laura Maxwell, 1,000, Washington State University
Deborah McGrath, 1,000, Clark College
Daniel Mershon, 1,000, Stevenson High School
Ciara O’Neill, 1,000, Washington State University
Cassandra Perry, 1,000, Brigham Young University
Hannah Pershall, 1,000, LaCenter High School
Heather Preston, 1,000, Woodland High School
Ashrielle Pugh, 1,000, Vancouver Christian High School
Trisha Rice , 1,000, Clark College
Martha Rodriguez, 1,000, Clark College
Brittany Rule, 1,000, Vancouver Christian High School
James Sarfo, 1,000, Clark College
Mark Scurrah, 1,000, Camas High School
Kyla Sorensen, 1,000, Woodland High School
Christine Stalie, 1,000, Mountain View High School
James Szerwo, 1,000, Clark College
Ken Cole/360-514-3066/Pager: 360-806-4719, Sr. Public Affairs Coordinator,
kcole@swmedicalcenter.com
Steve Kuyatt/360-514-3519, Public Affairs Coordinator, skuyatt@swmedicalcenter.com
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