SoutheastHEALTH Foundation awards 25 scholarships

SoutheastHEALTH Foundation recently awarded health care scholarships valued at $30,000 to 25 students pursing careers in the health care field.

"Because of the generosity of donors, our scholarship recipients are working to enter a field dedicated to helping others, which is more important now than ever before," said foundation executive director Darah Jirkovsky.

The 2021 scholarship recipients, their scholarships and the schools they are attending:

Cape College Center

• Alexys Littlepage, Polly Duvall Kinder Scholarship

Central Methodist University

• Brittany VanGennip, Huston Family Scholarship

Cox College

• Malary Burger, Ilena Aslin Scholarship

Maryville University

• Cassidi Tomsu, William and Martina Scott Scholarship

Saint Louis University

• Debra Compton, Elda Haertling Scholarship

Southeast Missouri State University

• Jaden Barnes, Margaret Foster Roberts Scholarship
• Brittany Byrd, Charlotte Black Sargent Scholarship
• Kelsie Jansen, Nancy Ann Bray Scholarship

SoutheastHEALTH College of Nursing and Health Sciences

• Lauren Alexander, Jean Chapman, M.D., Scholarship
• Jada Ayers, Tom Welch Radiography Scholarship
• Kelly Felts, Hazel Harrison Strickler Scholarship
• Violet Fields, L.P. Maxwell, M.D., Scholarship
• Hope Hartman, Sheila R. Caskey, Ph.D., Scholarship
• Sarah Hickman, Hazel Harrison Strickler Scholarship
• Kelsie Pingel, Margaret Foster Roberts Scholarship
• Katara Pruett, Ilena Aslin Scholarship
• Layne Robinson, James W. Wente Scholarship
• Madalyn Tilley, Balsamo Family Scholarship
• Jewel Unterreiner, Ronald James Schwent Nursing Scholarship
• Brittany Zimmerman, Karen Crites Hendrickson, EDD, R.N., NEA-BC Scholarship

Southwest Baptist University

• Logan Welker, O.D. Niswonger Scholarship

Also receiving grants through the U.S. Bank Foundation Giving Program were Kasie Jones-Holder, Stephanie McAlister, Anthony Pulliam and Macy Smith.

SoutheastHEALTH Foundation has awarded more than $1.1 million since 1962, supporting the education of more than 1,260 current and future health care workers.

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