Scholarships for Military Children announce local winners

  • Published
GREAT FALLS, Mont. --  Drum roll please . . . "and the winners of a $1,500 scholarship each are Jordan Frotz from Great Falls, Katherine Leonard from Great Falls, Thomas Johnston from Butte, and Tayler Halko from Sand Coulee," announced John Nelson, Malmstrom Commissary store director.

The scholarships are part of the Scholarships for Military Children Program, funded by manufacturers and suppliers that provide products and services for commissaries around the globe.

"We're excited to report that the scholarship program continues to be a success in helping military families defray the cost of education," said Joseph H. Jeu, Defense Commissary Agency director and chief executive officer. "We're proud to be associated with a program that has awarded 6,069 scholarships totaling more than $9.3 million since its inception in 2001."

Scholarship Managers, a professional scholarship firm, selects the winners based on academic merit, participation in extracurricular and volunteer activities, and the quality of their essays. Recipients are notified by letter.

Nearly every one of the Defense Commissary Agency's stores will announce a local winner; many commissaries will announce multiple winners.

The Scholarships for Military Children program is administered by Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit organization responsible for building comfort homes near military medical centers. The foundation bears all costs of the program so that every dollar donated goes for scholarships. The general public has the opportunity to donate to the program or view all scholarship recipients and sponsoring business partners on the military scholar website at http://www.militaryscholar.org.


Editor's Note: Recipients announced at http://www.militaryscholar.org are preliminary and are contingent upon determination of military dependency status by the scholarship evaluation firm. Students to whom this may apply have already been contacted. If it is determined that a student is ineligible to receive a scholarship, or there is a change in a recipient's educational status (for example: the student decides not to attend college), a new recipient will be named.