Scholarships awarded as CCHS seniors attend recognition night

By James Grob, jgrob@charlescitypress.com

The Charles City High School senior class held its Senior Recognition night on Wednesday, and it was certainly worth the trip over to the North Grand Auditorium for Gillian King.

King received the UNI ROTC Scholarship, worth an estimated $145,000, to cover four years of tuition and fees at the University of Texas, room and board, a book stipend and living stipend for all four years.

Scholarships of more than $320,000 were awarded to more than 50 seniors at the event Wednesday, which was followed by Baccalaureate services.

At the end of the award presentations, CCHS Associate Principal Larry Wolfe bid a tearful farewell to the soon-to-be grads. He reflected on his own graduation, from Waukon, and mentioned four things that had been written by his grandparents in a graduation card he received then.

“Work hard, dream big, do good and make us proud,” he told the seniors.

Mackayla Nierling opened the award ceremony when she was granted the Christina Hixon Award, worth an estimated $18,000. Nierling would receive three more awards at the reception.

Senior Derek LaBarge was awarded the Freda Buchan scholarship, worth $20,000, as well as the American Legion Auxiliary award.

Ciana Sonberg and Mackenzie Wilson made several trips to they stage, as each received a $10,000 Valero scholarship — among five others for Sonberg and eight others for Wilson.

Charles City High School senior Anne Field received the Tye and Cathy Darland Scholarship, worth more than $30,000, which covers full tuition at the University of Iowa for up to four years. The scholarship is awarded to a student from Charles City who plans to attend the UI upon graduation. Tye and Cathy Darland were raised in Charles City, and are 1982 graduates of Charles City High School.

Scholarship winners were:

• Valerie Allison — Dr. Calvin H. Warne Memorial Scholarship, $600; Helen Koebrick Nursing, $2,000; NIACC Link Scholarship, $1,125; NIACC President’s Scholarship, $5,000; Tice Scholarship, $600.
• Theo Arndt — Barry Basuk Memorial, $200; Margaret Wolf Scholarship, $3,850.
• Hanna Baljeu — Floyd County Farm Bureau Ag Scholarship, $600.
• Madisen Becker — Mary Dodge Educational Fund, $500.
• Cole Betsinger — Industrial Technology, $500.
• Dominque Bill — Industrial Technology, $500; NIACC LINK Scholarship, $1,125; Robert Kittleson, $200.
• La’Quita Blackman — Boeding and Speltz Family Dentistry, $250.
• Bailee Bortz — AgVantage FS Scholarship, $1,000; National FFA-America’s Farmers Grow Ag Leaders-Monsanto Fund, $1,500.
• Gavin Connell — First Security Bank & Trust Scholarship, $250; Rollo C. Keithahn Memorial Scholarship, $2,000.
• Marissa Deeter — Charles City Women’s Club, $300.
• Caleb Deetz — Industrial Technology, $500.
• Luke Delap — First Security Bank & Trust Scholarship, $250; Kate McLeod, $1,500.
• Anne Field — Lyle Sprout Memorial Scholarship, $500; Tye and Cathy Darland, $31,080.
• Breanna Flood — American Red Cross Scholarship, $250.
• Baili Girkin — Charles City USBCYA Scholarship, $250; Iowa Bowling Council Scholarship, $400; Mark Hruska Memorial Bowling Scholarship, $250.
• Jacob Hallett — C US Bank, $500.
• Josh Halligan — Bruce Crooks Memorial Scholarship, $500.
• Lee Hoeft — Floyd County Historical Society, $500; Herbert Muhlenbruch Farm Worker Scholarship, $500.
• Marshall Holzer — Charles City Community Education Association, $500.
• Madisen Huffman — Elaine Lane Memorial Scholarship, $500.
• Peyton Johnston — Truman Manship Scholarship, $250.
• Kelby Katcher — Floyd County Cattlemen Scholarship, $500; Gold-Eagle Coop Agricultural Scholarship, $1,000; NIACC Link Scholarship, $1,500; Philip Vail Carroll and Margaret L. Carroll, $1,100.
• Gillian King — UNI ROTC Scholarship, $145,000.
• Falyn Knecht — Charles City USBCYA Scholarship, $250; Iowa Bowling Council Scholarship, $400; Leonard Gobeli Memorial Scholarship, $1,000; Mark Hruska Memorial Bowling Scholarship, $250.
• Justin Knudson — Lyle Sprout Memorial Scholarship, $500.
• Hana Koenigsfeld — Brenton Scholarship, $500.
• Derek LaBarge — American Legion Auxiliary, $750; Freda Buchan, $20,000.
• Sydney Loeckle — Friends of the Library, $250.
• Niccole Loftus — Dorothy Davis, $535;
• Nolan Loftus — NIACC Foundation Area 2 High School Scholarship, $500; William Georgou Memorial Scholarship, $1,000.
• Cameron McKenna — Debes, $325.
• Branycia Mitchell — Charles City Noon Kiwanis Club, $500; Elaine Lane Memorial Scholarship, $500; Robert & Maxine Eggert, $2,000.
• Mackayla Nierling — Christina Hixon Award, $18,000; National FFA-Theisen’s Home-Farm-Auto, $1,000; American Citizenship Award, $300; Class of 1974 Scholarship, $500.
• Sam Niichel — Floyd County Cattlemen Scholarship, $500.
• Silina O’Neil Vaughn — Cora Krueger Scholarship, $1,400.
• Jenna Page — American Legion Auxiliary, $750.
• Dylan Parsons — American Legion Auxiliary, $750; Helen Koebrick Nursing, $2,000.
• Payton Reams — Alpha Delta Kappa, $500; NIACC Athletic Scholarship, $1,000; NIACC Foundation Scholarship, $1,000.
• Macy Ross — Charles City USBCYA Scholarship, $250; First Security Bank & Trust Employee Scholarship; Iowa Bowling Council Scholarship, $400.
• Sadie Ruzicka — DeKalb Agricultural Accomplishment Award; National FFA- Chevy Trucks/Mike Molstead Motors, $1,000.
• Dylan Salinas — The Comet Jerry Scholarship, $1,000.
• Noah Schlader — First Security Bank & Trust Employee Scholarship; Michael Backer Memorial Scholarship, $1,000; Terri and Eric Santee, $110.
• Tayler Schmidt — Helen Perkins Thompson Scholarship, $1,000; NIACC Athletic Scholarship, $2,500; NIACC Link Scholarship, $1,500; Stitchman Education Scholarship, $1,250.
• Ciana Sonberg — Arthur Koenigsfeld, $2,500; Floyd County Farm Bureau Ag Scholarship, $600; NIACC Athletic Scholarship, $3,000; NIACC Link Scholarship, $1,125; Rotary Outstanding Senior Student, $1,000; Valero Scholarship, $10,000.
• Carter West — First Security Bank & Trust Scholarship, $500; Industrial Technology, $500; Minnie Jane Sylvester, $1,000.
• Elizabeth White — Helen Koebrick Nursing, $2,000.
• Emma Williams — Friends of the Library, $250; McDonald’s Student of the Year, $500; PEO Sisterhood, $1,000.
• Mackenzie Wilson — Bill Burge, $500; Friends of the Library, $500; John and Donna Hitzhusen Scholarship, $2,500; NIACC Foundation Area 2 High School Scholarship, $500; NIACC Link Scholarship, $1,125; NIACC President’s Scholarship, $500; Rotary Outstanding Senior Student, $1,000; The Comet Jerry Scholarship, $1,000; Valero Scholarship, $10,000.
• Ryan Wolfe — First Security Bank & Trust Employee Scholarship; Gene Worrall Memorial Scholarship, $500; NBJ Corporation, $500.
• Wyatt Wolford — Industrial Technology, $500; Wayne Swant and Mayme Swant, $2,000.
• Tylor Zuspan — Al Hastings Award, $1,500.