What's New With Dollars for Scholars?
Our chapter is always working on behalf of local students. Check out this page for an ongoing look at student, chapter and community news -- plus events and other ways you can get involved!
EXCITING NEWS!!!!
Scholarship America and Fastweb have teamed up to offer a great new service to students -- now, registered student users of ChapterNet can opt in to match to Fastweb's 1.5-million-scholarship database with just a couple of clicks! This new partnership is great news for both organizations -- and offers your students a major new reason to sign up and keep visiting your chapter website. To see what students from your chapter are doing, see the report called Fastweb results.
Students who log into their "My Scholarships" page will see a new section, "Scholarship America Partner Scholarships." They'll be able to click a "Fastweb Scholarships" button and opt in; once they do, they'll see a listing of current scholarships in the Fastweb database that they can apply for right away! The more they complete their profile and check back on the site, the more scholarships they'll see.
IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE!!
Senior applications as well as continuing ed applications are due on line no later than April 1, each year. College transcripts are due no later than April 1, each year..
MEET SOME ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT HIGH SCHOOL GRADS!
My name is David Corder and I graduated from SJE in 2000. Through the support of the Foundation and influential teachers who encouraged my interest in computers, I attended Eastern Washington University for both my undergraduate and Masters degrees in Computer Science. While at Eastern I worked at the college bookstore before obtaining a graduate assistantship in the computer science department where I spent countless hours. Following graduation, I moved to Seattle to work for Amazon for ten plus years, first as a support engineer and then quickly transitioning into a database administrator role. That job allowed opportunities to travel to India to collaborate with my counterparts there. Amazon led to a job with BECU where I am now a senior database engineer. My wife Kelsey, a University of Washington graduate, and I have two young daughters. Emma, six, loves t-ball and anything artsy, while Kaylee, four, emulates her sister and makes up stories about her family. The kids and I like to "build" things together and we have lots of plans for princess bunkbeds, complicated play structures, and elaborate lighting displays. We like to bake, travel to parks and zoos, and go to the Orange Store (Home Depot) as well as the Cake-pop Store (Starbucks). Being the vice-president of our neighborhood HOA adds to our busy life. My advice to the graduates is to never forget the small towns and their people that supported your education and all your high school activities.
Zachary Behrens graduated from St. John-Endicott High School in 2002. After that, he spent time at WSU and Walla Walla Community College in Clarkston before graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 2009. He began his career at Grand Coulee Dam, where he was able to work on some of the largest hydroelectric units in the world. He was also lucky enough to meet mhis future wife there. In 2014, they moved to Bellevue, WA to work for a consulting firm for whom he performed design work for dams all over the world and enjoyed two trips to Pakistan to work on their dams. In 2016, he joined Chelan County PUD in Wenatchee, WA where he currently lives with his wife and 3-year-old daughter. He works as the Senior Plant Electrical Engineer for Rocky Reach Dam.
Gretchen Van Lith, 2013 SJE graduate, recently completed a summer internship with Schweitzer Engineering Labs in Pullman, WA. She is a senior this 2016-2017 year at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. Gretchen was the recepient of our Light the Fire scholarship so we have been able to help her all four years of her college. We are proud of you, Gretchen.
Hello, my name is Erin Schuster and I am a 2011 graduate of SJE. I currently attend Washington State University and am pursuing a degree in Interior Design and Construction Management. I hope to someday be able to use these degrees to design and build homes and repurpose old and abandoned buildings. While in high school I was very active in extra circular activities and sports and I have been lucky enough in college to be able to continue to participate in athletics. I am currently a member of WSU Women's Varsity Rowing team. I am honored to have received several scholarships from the St. John-Endicott Schools' Foundation, which have been extremely beneficial in allowing me to continue my education here at WSU. I am so grateful to the donors and friends of the foundation who provide me with their continuing support. It means a lot to know that I have a community who cares about my success and my dreams.
Hello - my name is Kim Kile Jorgensen and I graduated from St. John-Endicott High School in 1995. From there I went on to study nursing at Washington State University. I was accepted in the Washington State University, Intercollegiate School of Nursing in 1997. In May of 1999, I graduated with my Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. I started working at Deaconess Medical Center in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as a registered nurse. I married Shane Jorgensen in March of 2003 and we had our first child Brooke in November of 2004. I continued to work in the NICU until 2007 when I started working for Providence Sacred Heart in the Pediatric Surgery Center. I provided pre and post op care to children ages 0 to 17. In October 2007 we welcomed our second daughter Addison into the world. In the summer of 2008, I accepted an Assistant Nurse Manager position on the Birth Place at Providence Sacred Heart. While in this position I was able to use not only my nursing skills, but my leadership skills as well. I thoroughly enjoyed being in management and in 2010 was able to return to my true love in nursing, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as an Assistant Nurse Manager. I currently hold this position at Providence Sacred Heart and truly love it. I get to provide nursing care to the tiniest of patients and help to lead and grow our NICU. Nursing has been a wonderful career and I have had many opportunities for growth over the last 14 years. I am very happy with my achievements thus far and hope to have many more wonderful years in nursing.
Hello - my name is Blaze Burnham. I grew up in St. John and lived two miles south of Pine City with my father, Mike, mother, Dixie, and sister, Kasey. From this I gained the much-needed perspective of living in a farming community. I graduated from St. John High School in 1988. Basketball and the inherent nuances of leadership in environments of intensity, rising from the basketball experience, became a significant life passion. I played college basketball in Walla Walla Community College. I then attained a BS in Nursing at the Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education through Eastern Washington University, and later earned a MS in Nursing from Gonzaga University. I worked at Whitman Medical Group in Colfax, Washington as a Nurse Practitioner for twelve years until my passion led me to the Athletic Director position at the Liberty School District. I will continue to work as a NP in the Spokane Valley one day a week. I am also pursuing my PhD in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. I attribute my love for people, landscape and the divine possibilty of the human heart to my wife and children, Cheri, Match, Chase and Maisie. My wife Cheri is a bright shining star in the sky of loving and purposeful wives. My children are gifts from God, and with their joy they heal the world. The St. John-Endicott Schools' Foundation Dollars for Scholars is a fantastic and much needed resource for the graduates of the wonderful St. John-Endicott high school and I am personally grateful for all that they have done for me.
Hello - my name is Kelly Van Lith. I graduated from St. John-Endicott High School in 2010, and headed to Gonzaga University in Spokane. I was undecided about what to study; however, after a few months in my first sociology class, I fell I love with studying, reading and writing about things like gender, race and inequality. I declared sociology as my major. In my senior year at GU, I spent a large chunk of my time working on an independent research project about college men, masculinity and emotional vulnerability. I had opportunities to present my findings at conferences. These opportunities taught me what it means to plan, organize and execute an independent project. It taught me the importance of perseverance and the requirement of effort when it comes to carrying out a project I personally believe in. I am very grateful that I have been able to attend college, to develope my skills and interests, and to participate in some great activities along the way. I know this would not have been possible without the support I have received from my family and friends, as well as the support I have received in the form of scholarship dollars from the St. John-Endicott Schools' Foundation. I am very thankful for the way the foundation supports not only individual students, but for how it recognizes and reinforces the value of education in our community.
Karl Scheuerman graduated from St. John-Endicott High School in 2000. He attended college at the Air Force Academy, and after receiving his commission he served the Air Force as an intelligence officer where his assignments took him to Maryland, Texas, Turkey, Afghanistan and Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, WA. He now works as a civilian at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA and continues to serve in the Washington Air Nation Guard. He is married to Sara and they are the proud parents of two children.
Jazmyn Ray, class of 2016 is currently majoring in Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho. She is a junior and is a member of the club entitled Society of Women Engineers. Recently (2018) Jazmyn was selected, along with 7 other women from the club, to travel to Minneapolis to attend the world's largest career fair for women in engineering. This is a 3-day convention and is all expenses paid, courtesy of Idaho Space Grant Consortium. While at the convention, she hopes to make several career connections as well as possibly internship connections. Jazmyn is grateful to the Foundation for her scholarships that are helping her to make her dreams become a reality.
