Current Scholarship Information

Our scholarships have been awarded! In 2023 we awarded over $131,000 in scholarships to local students continuing their education.

2023 Scholarship Awards

The Huron County Community Foundation is pleased to announce that this year over $131,000 in scholarship awards were granted to local students furthering their education after high school graduation. In alignment with the Foundation’s mission of investing resources in the growth and prosperity of our county, helping Huron County youth receive training after high school provides them with the resources needed to make a difference in the future. The generosity of scholarship donors shows their commitment to the young people of our county. We appreciate the trust and confidence placed in the Foundation to manage these assets to benefit those wishing to continue their educational pursuits.

The Jason Kiehl Memorial Scholarship for Huron Area Technical Center students was granted in the amount of $1,330 each to four graduates from Bad Axe Schools: Keaton Braun, Emma Kociba; Harbor Beach Schools: Morgan Zurek and Ubly Schools: Anthony McCarty.

Hayden Miles and Destiny Ranquist of Bad Axe Schools each received an award of $560 from the Maurer/Yageman Bowling Scholarship Fund.

Morgan Zurek from Harbor Beach Schools received the Michael B. & Regina V. Lasceski Scholarship for $500.

Keaton Braun and Brittany Scoviac and from Bad Axe Schools each received an award of $1,250 each from the Clarence and Loraine Braun Scholarship.

Morgan Zurek from Harbor Beach Schools and Jeanna Bischer from Ubly Schools each received $2,500 from the Gib Rooney Family Scholarship.

The Roman and Theresa Booms Family Scholarship was awarded to Evan Schenk from Bad Axe Schools for $500. 

The Keith and Bertha McTaggart Scholarship gave awards of $1,500 each to Alice Grady and Hanna Rapson from Bad Axe Schools, Aubrey Geiger and Logan Kanaski from Harbor Beach Schools and Anthony McCarty from Ubly Schools.

Emma Case from North Huron Schools was awarded the Huron Area Tech Center Staff Scholarship for $500.

Receiving the Thumb Chapter MPMCA this year was Mark Heilig from Ubly Schools for $320.

Other scholarship recipients by school district are:

BAD AXE:  Alexis King, the Bad Axe Norah Dowde Rotary Scholarship for $2,280; Griffin Meinhold and Hayden Miles, the Claude Marsh Scholarship for $2,500 each; Alexis King, Collon/Todd Scholarship for $1,290; Katelyn Meinhold the Douglas Pankrantz Scholarship for $400; Clare Batzer and Katherine Himmel the Dr. Edward Steinhardt Family Science Scholarship for $11,790 eacj; Jack Hollingsworth, the Ervin Ignash Scholarship for $580; Emma Kociba the George E. Green Scholarship for $4,390; Joslyn Hessling, the Jean A. Kasserman Memorial Scholarship for $2,000; Evan Schenks, the Jimmy Morell Scholarship for $500; Clare Batzer, the Judge Neil R. MacCallum Memorial Scholarship for $2,080; Clare Batzer and Alexis King, the Linda Rowland Drama Scholarship for $2,500 each; Alice Grady, the Susan Herringshaw Memorial Scholarship for $1,000; and Callie Engler, the Thelma A. Allen Scholarship for $210.

CASEVILLE: Kenzie Maust, received the Caseville Scholarship for $600; Rylee Martin, the Judy K. & Stephen Zagorski Memorial Scholarship for $500; and Makenna Learman, the Mary K. and Robert Quinn Memorial Scholarship for $1,300.

HARBOR BEACH: Noelle Rick, recieved the Annabelle Jenks Scholarship for $430; Morgan Zurek, received the Charlotte Talaski Scholarship for $500, and the Deer Acres Scholarship for $2,235; Levi Klaski received the Harbor Beach Woman’s Club Academic Scholarship for $400; Samuel Roggenbuck, the HB FFA Alumni Booster Club Mary Holdwick Memorial Scholarship for $500; Steven Scholtz, the Kenneth W. Laughlin Scholarship for $2,900; Grace Boynton the Sgt. Aaron C. Elandt Memorial Scholarship for $1,250; and Karlee Guza, the Warren S. Eilber Family Scholarship for $440 and the William R. Eick School Family Scholarship for $1,770.

LAKERS: Alexis Smithers, the Dr. Donald W. & Sally A. Rogers Family Scholarship for $1,000; Mason Shaw, recieved the ETL Agricultural Legacy Scholarship $2,150 and the Tom Gettel Memorial Scholarship for $1,400 and the Virgil & Verneta Bouck Family Scholarship for $500.

NORTH HURON: Grace Knoblock received the Marla Muter Scholarship for $3,700; Carlee Scoviac, received the Robert & Verneta Thuemmel Memorial Scholarship for $2,500; Maggie Koroleski, the Warren S. Eilber Family Scholarship for $440.

OWEN-GAGE:  Emily Schultz, was awarded the Cooley Family Scholarship in the amount of $3,240.

UBLY: Jeanna Bischer and Jalyn Kolar, the Betty Zulauf Academic Scholarship for $1,000 each; Jeanna Bischer and Samantha Warczinsky, the Francis and Opal Hund Scholarship for $1,500 each; and Maze Gusa received the Madeline M. Bauer Scholarship for $6,100.

POST GRADS:  Alyssa Guza, the Beth Kubik Manteuffel Memorial Scholarship for $1,200; Caitlin Brown, Kirah Osentoski and Julian Tenerife received the CA Scheurer & BG Kamlapurker Scholarship for $1,000 each; Rachel Cook, Jenna Holdwick, Makayla Roberts and Julian Tenerife, the Harbor Beach Community Hospital and Harbor Beach Hospital Foundation Medical Practitioner Scholarship for $1,000 each; Kenneth Pawlowski, the Kenneth W. Laughlin Scholarship for $2,900; and Makayla Roberts received the Sara Elizabeth Wood Scholarship for $4,200.