307 Health Nursing/Allied Health Scholarship
This annual scholarship was established in 2020 for students pursuing a career in Nursing or Allied Health. The staff at 307 Health is committed to providing educational opportunities to meet our community’s health care needs. They are proud to offer scholarship...
Advantage Rehab Athletic Scholarship Endowment
Advantage Rehab owners Dave and Lynda Brown are as passionate about helping student athletes as they are about physical therapy and care of their clients. The Advantage Rehab team is engaged with their patients and are focused on improving their lives, which is one...
Agnes L. Aagard Art Scholarship Endowment
An artist her entire life, Agnes L. Aagard loved painting. This passion began in her earliest years, painting with watercolors. Her love of art stayed with her through her final days when she left several acrylic paintings unfinished. Agnes’ willingness to help...
Alcyone Chapter # 27 Eastern Star Scholarship Endowment
Absorkee Lodge # 30 A.F & A.M. of Powell received a letter from Cedar Chapter # 14, Order of Eastern Star of Cody regarding forming an Eastern Star Chapter in Powell and offered their assistance. First Meeting of Alcyone Ch. # 27 was held on November 11, 1911, those...
Amy R. Jacob Communication Scholarship
Amy R. Jacob spent her teaching career passionate about teaching students how to communicate to broader audiences about news in their community and beyond. For nearly 20 years, Jacob taught high school students journalism and yearbook in the communities surrounding...
Amy R. Jacob (UMC) Music Scholarship
After Amy R. Jacob’s husband, an agriculturalist with Great Western Sugar Company, passed away, she set up a scholarship to honor his memory and provide an education in agriculture to students who might not otherwise have access. Then she decided she would like to do...
Amy Wroe Bechtel Scholarship Endowment
Community—a word that is defined by the people and culture in Powell and at Northwest College. This was true for JoAnne Wroe, Amy Wroe Bechtel’s mother in the days and years after her daughter’s mysterious disappearance. The community came together and supported the...
Andrew R. Vergara Memorial Scholarship
Bob and Barb Vergara and family have had a partnership with Powell since moving to the community in 1973. The ties with community and the educational system are strong. All three of the Vergara children — Mike, Lori and Andy —are graduates of Powell High School, and...
Andy and Brenda Nelson Athletic Scholarship Endowment
R.A. Nelson, the grandfather of Andy, provided the catalyst to establish the NWC Foundation with a gift of Polaroid stock. Brenda and Andy wanted to continue with this family tradition of giving in support of NWC students with a scholarship of their own. Both Andy...
Ann D. Stoddard Scholarship Endowment
The Ann Deitrich Stoddard Scholarship was funded in 2004 by her children (two of whom live in Park County) to honor Ann’s love of children, her generosity, and her understanding of the value of education. Ann was born in Lansing Michigan, the only child of Dorothea...
Art and Leota Glasgow Memorial Music Scholarship
Art Glasgow came to Powell in 1908 as part of an early homestead family. Leota came to teach in the public school system in 1946, the same year Northwest College offered its first classes (back then it was called the University of Wyoming Northwest Center). After Art...
Baker Van den Berg Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Dr. William “Bill” H. Baker was a graduate of The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. He practiced veterinary medicine for many years in northern Virginia before trading his stethoscope and surgical instruments for a sailing license. A renaissance...
Berry Bryant Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Berry Bryant’s life, and her promising future, were cut short on Oct. 5, 1996, when as an 18-year-old freshman at Northwest College, she was raped and murdered north of Powell by another NWC student. As the 25th anniversary of Berry’s death approached, Northwest...
Betty Rockhold Memorial/American Legion Auxiliary
As a native to Powell, Wyoming, Betty Rockhold had an immense amount of love for the town of Powell and the students at Northwest College. Betty was born and raised in the Powell, a VERY active community member, was a life long member of the American Legion...
Big Horn Federal Scholarship
A proud supporter of the Big Horn Basin and the communities it serves, Big Horn Federal has been a part of Powell since 1976, when it opened branch operations from its headquarters in Greybull, Wyoming. Serving the markets of Greybull, Powell, Thermopolis, Cody,...
Bill and Karen Hayes Allied Health Scholarship
Karen Hayes attended community college in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her dad encouraged her to get a healthcare degree so she would always have a skill and be able to get a job. Wanting to support other students similarly, Bill and Karen provided healthcare scholarships...
Blair's Market Athletic Scholarship Endowment
For generations, the Foulger family have been longtime supporters of our local community and Northwest College supporting various scholarships as well as the Trapper Booster Club and the Student Center. In early 2020, Blair’s Market created their own Athletic...
Bloedorn Lumber Drafting Technology Scholarship Endowment
In 2024, Bloedorn Lumber in Powell created a scholarship for drafting technology students at Northwest College. The Drafting Technology Program at NWC provides students with a comprehensive education that focuses on the correct use of state-of-the-art Computer Aided...
Bob and Evelyn Croft Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Bob and Evelyn grew up during hard times, and neither of them could afford to attend college. They farmed and raised their five children (two boys and three girls) on the Croft homestead three miles east of campus. They always wanted college for their children and...
Bob and Rena Croft LDS Scholarship Endowment
Both Bob and Rena Croft graduated from NWC—Bob attended right out of high school, and Rena enrolled after the couple married and returned to Powell. Bob developed the Northwest Analytical Lab in partnership with NWC to test water and soil in support of the area...
Brad Hinze Athletic Scholarship Endowment
In May of 2024, our community lost a friend and longtime member as Brad Hinze passed away unexpectedly in Idaho due to a multi-vehicle accident. A few months later, Celebrities for a Cause teamed up with Brad’s wife Juli to create The Brad Hinze Memorial Athletic...
Bruce and Darla Murray String Music Scholarship
When Bruce and Darla Murray homesteaded on the Willwood in the 1920s, opportunities to hear live orchestral music in Powell were few and far between. After the Northwest College music program was established, the Murrays’ unflagging support for the Northwest Civic...
Bruce Murray Women’s Athletic Scholarship
Many people said that Bruce Murray was born to farm. He grew up on his parents’ farm near Powell and homesteaded on the East Willwood as a young man. He was voted outstanding athlete of his graduating class in 1931 and passionate about athletics. Throughout his...
Bryson W. Herdt Memorial Scholarship
Bryson W. Herdt was a caring young man who liked to help others. Barry and Tawnya Herdt, Bryson’s parents, wanted something good to come out of losing their beloved son at the age of 25. A scholarship to an NWC student seemed a fitting tribute as Bryson was a...
Bud and Mary Linton Athletic Scholarship
For many years, Bud Linton and former NWC men’s basketball coach and athletic director, Ken Rochlitz, joined in an early morning walk while most of Powell was still sleeping. When they weren’t walking together, they often were playing golf together. A constant in...
Bud and Mary Linton Nursing Scholarship
Nursing is a caring profession. Bud and Mary Linton know and appreciate the value of dedicated nursing care. “Over the years, Mary has spent some time in hospitals, having joint replacement surgeries,” Bud said. “Nurses are so important to the patient’s recovery in...
Bud and Mary Linton Rodeo Scholarship
When you grow up in the heart of ranching country in Meeteetse, Wyo., as Bud Linton did, you know rodeo as a way of life. And when you build your business in Park County, serving the farming and ranching community, you feel the pulse of the rodeo capital of northern...
Bud and Mary Linton Soccer Scholarship
Bud and Mary Linton have been to their share of soccer games through the years to watch their grandson, Tyler, play. He grew up with the game of soccer and participated in youth leagues. As a high school student in Billings, Mont., Tyler played four years of...
Burrus/Two Dot Ranch Scholarship Fund
Originally a stagecoach stop, today the Two Dot Ranch operates as a large Angus cattle ranch along the scenic Chief Joseph Highway east of Cody. The ranch was owned by Yves Burrus, an international banker from Geneva, Switzerland in the late 1900s. After a...
Buzzsaw Scholarship
This annual scholarship was created in 2023 by Waylon Alsbury for full-time non-Wyoming degree seeking students who are current members of the NWC wrestling team with preference given to Montana students. Alsbury, a native of Scottsdale Arizona, is an NWC Alum and...