The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Alumni Association awarded nine scholarships last night at its annual meeting in the University Club located in the Morris University Center.
Matthew Horton, of Moro, and Mariah Huelsmann, of Alton, each received full Legacy Scholarships. Horton enters his sophomore year at SIUE this fall and is studying industrial engineering. Huelsmann is an incoming freshman and will major in history and anthropology with the goal of becoming a museum curator.
The Legacy Scholarship is a program for children, grandchildren, siblings and spouses of SIUE alumni. The Association’s Board of Directors annually awards two full scholarships, one to a current undergraduate student and one to an incoming SIUE freshman. In addition, five $500 scholarships are distributed. The full scholarship covers tuition and fees.
Emily Fabry, of Granite City, received both a Stahlschmidt Family Scholarship and a Board of Directors Scholarship worth a total value of $2,500. Fabry plans to study pharmacy. Alyse Duncan, of Highland, also received a Stahlschmidt Family Scholarship worth $1,500. She will study marketing with the hope of managing her own marketing firm.
In honor of their parents Dorothy and Raymond, the Stahlschmidt children established the scholarship in fall 2009, which awards two scholarships per year to incoming SIUE students.
The Board of Directors Scholarship, funded by the members of the SIUE Alumni Association board of directors, awards a $1,000 scholarship to one incoming freshman, current undergraduate student, college transfer or non-traditional SIUE student each year. The candidate must demonstrate exemplary leadership skills, and campus and community involvement.
Elijah Counts, of Highland and Madison Frank, of Alhambra each received $500 Legacy Scholarships. Counts will major in music theory and composition and hopes to become a composer for films. Frank’s major is undeclared.
Unable to accept their $500 Legacy award in person were Elsa Wible, of Alton; Caroline Sepe, of Villa Ridge; and Kristina Copeland of Wood River. Wible enters her junior year this fall and is pursuing a double major in speech language pathology and psychology. Her goal is to work with speech-impaired children.
Copeland is a senior this fall and is finishing a degree in genetics/chemistry before pursuing pharmacy or graduate school. Sepe plans to major in nursing with a goal to become a nurse anesthetist.