Wrestling has always been a big part of the Metzler family. Wes Metzler, and all his boys competed in wrestling at various levels and points in their lives. It was a family passion. It was also important according to Coleen Metzler to promote Trapper wrestling to...

Robyn Fleenor and Troy Hissam met for the first time at Northwest College in 1986. Robyn was a member of the Trapper volleyball team and Troy worked as a line judge at games. They were introduced at a party two weeks before classes started their freshman year and...

With a big, welcoming smile and engaging personality, Professor Emeritus Mike Masterson was a faculty fixture at Northwest College from 1977 to 2010. He served in a variety of positions at NWC over his 33-year career, including low brass instructor, director of vocal...

Mildred Robertson Parr was an educated, buckskin-wearing, shotgun-toting woman who played the piano and violin “like an angel.” A member of one of Cody’s founding families in the early 1900s, Mildred was known in her teen years as an accomplished riflewoman and...

Until she was 13, Minnie Wasden Blood attended a three-room rural school in Penrose, WY, and then her parents built a two-room home in Cowley so she and her brothers and sisters could attend the only school available in that part of the Big Horn Basin. Though...

Jessica’s commitment to education and community empowerment is at the heart of the Morales Veronica Nursing Scholarship. Born to parents who immigrated from Mexico in the 1980s, Jessica understands firsthand the challenges that come with being a first-generation...

This scholarship award is given to honor the memory and legacy of Nellemay Gillett Blevins. She arrived with her parents and brothers and lived her entire life in the Big Horn Basin. She raised her family with Wyoming values, treating others with a graceful blend...

Nicholas Waln Morris Sr. was an avid pilot and a sought after flight instructor. Despite his personal regret for having dropped out of high school to pursue a career in aviation during the post-World War I era, he was a lifelong promoter of education. Nick was...

Dr. Nick Morris and his wife Madelyn, a registered nurse, dedicated their lives to the medical profession. With strong ties to the local community, its people, and its hospitals, they were committed to the sustainability of the medical workforce in the Big Horn...

Megan Woods, studied English at NWC, graduating in 1984. Megan transferred to the University of Wyoming and completed her bachelor’s degree in English. While pursuing a master’s degree in American Studies, she was working as a graduate teaching assistant when a young...

Nicole Rodriguez-Brown has proven to be truly invested in the Big Horn Basin, coming from a long-time Heart Mountain agriculture family who knows the value of hard work. She graduated from Powell High School in 2002 and attended the University of Montana, graduating...

Underpinning the Alumni Association Scholarship Endowment is the Board of Directors’ appreciation for the value of scholarships and how they help recruit and retain NWC students. The alumni directors’ individual commitment to scholarships is probably more deeply held...

After a few years in rainy Seattle, the Dawsons came to Cody in 1966 when a CPA business came up for sale. Oliver ran his tax and accounting business, and Goldy went to work as a 7th grade reading teacher. They never left. Both of the Dawsons are college...

Opal Jones and her husband, Earl, farmed in the Powell area at the inception of their marriage in 1940. After her children were nearly raised, she began employment with Dr. Lyle Haberland and enjoyed emplyment with him for nearly 30 years until her retirement. As a...

Peg Frisby was born and raised in Cody by pioneering parents who had arrived in Cody before it was officially a town. She attended Cody High School and the University of Wyoming. She loved music and was a natural pianist who created a unique ragtime sound from even...

P.E.O. Sisterhood Chapters exist primarily to help provide a quality, affordable education for female students. The idea for establishing this scholarship was presented to our chapter by one of our sisters, Carrie Gasch. At that time Carrie was employed at the...

Pinnacle Bank’s long-standing partnership with Northwest College began when the bank first established roots in Park County in 1982. We believe education is vital for individual, business and community growth and share NWC’s vision of equipping students to make a...

Pinnacle Bank’s long-standing partnership with Northwest College began when the bank first established roots in Park County in 1982. We believe education is vital for individual, business and community growth and share NWC’s vision of equipping students to make a...

Volunteer work for Powell Valley Healthcare began in 1957, when a group of women trained by the Red Cross and known as the “Gray Ladies” began reading aloud to patients, visiting with them, and writing letters for them. Since those early years, Powell Valley...

The namesake of the Nelson Performing Arts Center, R.A. Nelson is known for many things at Northwest College. He was the founder and first president of the Northwest College Foundation. His unsolicited gift of stock started the endowment program that has supported...

Maggie Newell was born and raised on a ranch in Wyola, MT. She attended college at Eastern Montana College in Billings where she met and married Ralph Newell. They were married before she could finish her degree, and so it wasn’t until their 3 children were in...

A traveling Presbyterian minister, Ray Nott took his ministry from the tent churches he set up across the Big Horn Basin to as far away as Bangkok, Thailand. Music was a big part of the message he and Nancianna shared around the world. When they decided to settle in...

The Reece Schleich Wrestling Fund was started in 2002 by Reece’s parents Larry and TK Schleich after he lost his life in a dirt bike accident. NWC’s wrestling coach Jim Zeigler was a mentor and a good friend to Reece and Reece loved wrestling. He was the 2001 USA...

Robert James Barthell was a member of the Northwest College faculty in the 1970s and early 1980s, teaching literature, composition, and popular culture. He enjoyed people and embraced the intellectual and human diversity of the NWC campus. Some of the happiest and...

As part of America’s “Greatest Generation,” Bob Frisby was dedicated to his community, his state, and his nation. He served with distinction in World War II and was the first reservist called up from Park County when the Korean War broke out. Following his...

This annually funded scholarship was established to help provide quality, affordable education to students pursuing a degree at Northwest College with preference to students studying Engineering. The foundation is one of the nation’s largest utility-endowed...

Roger and Carolyn Kearns grew up in Ohio, and though they didn’t know each other well in high school Roger remembers being in a chemistry class with Carolyn. She was a lab assistant to whom he often recited lab experiments, and Carolyn impressed him with her...

In honor of her late husband, Amy R. Jacob decided to start a scholarship to help Ag students who may not have been able to attend college without financial help. Her husband, “Jake”, put himself through college to complete his animal husbandry degree. The college...

Mignon (Minnie) Murphy moved to the Powell area in 1916 where her family homesteaded on the Shoshone Irrigation Project. Roland Earhart’s family arrived in 1929 and homesteaded on the Willwood Division. He was able to file on a relinquished Willwood homestead of his...

Nursing care made a lasting impression on a Powell family and led to the creation of a scholarship program at Northwest College. Rose Cannon died of cancer in 2007. In the last weeks of her life, she was attended at home by nurses in hospice care. “She just loved...