“It was an exceptional year for applicants”, said Craig Hess of Speco, Inc., chairman of the MISA Foundation. “We decided to award four scholarships of $5,000 instead of the traditional three scholarships that are awarded annually.
“How do you turn down an applicant with a perfect record?” he added.
A fifth scholarship of $10,000 is jointly sponsored by MISA and Siemens, Inc.
Rebecca Acheson, a Ph.D. candidate at Colorado State Univ. received the $10,000 MISA/Siemens scholarship. Acheson earned her M.S. at Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, Texas and her B.S. from Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, Kan. She has been an active member of 4-H and the Future Farmers of America organizations. Her goal is to become a registered dietician working in a meat company to promote meat products in a healthful diet.
The winners of the $5,000 MISA scholarship are:
• Harrison Bartlett, a junior at Georgia Tech, Atlanta in biomedical engineering;
• Ethan Blom, a senior studying animal science at South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD;
• Simon Kern, a candidate for the M.S. degree in animal science at South Dakota State; and
• Daniel Neely, a junior seeking a degree in animal science at Kansas State Univ. in Manhattan, Kan.
Four of the five recipients had a grade point average of 4.0 and the fifth weighed in with a 3.9, according to the foundation.
