Rosemary Nickles Aviation Scholarship
During the early days of British Petroleum’s exploration and pipeline construction in Alaska, Steve Nickles’s mother, Rosemary Nickles, helped build a Boeing 727 shuttle service for workers to and from Prudhoe Bay. For 35 years, she worked alongside those she...
Sandra Kay Rauch Memorial Scholarship Endowment
After Sandy Rauch passed away, her husband Claude wanted a way for his wife’s legacy to live on. It just so happened that his granddaughter Sierra was planning on attending NWC to play volleyball. Sandy and Claude had always enjoyed following their children and...
Seth Dotson Memorial Art Scholarship Endowment
Seth Dotson grew up in Powell, WY, and graduated from Powell High School. His father, Claude Dotson, taught Business at Northwest College. Seth attended Northwest College and received an Associate of Arts Degree in May 2000. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine...
Sherman Family Scholarship
Originally from Montana, ‘Bud’ Sherman stopped in Worland on his way home from leaving the Navy when he saw an advisement for a job. Worland is where he met his future wife and where the Sherman Family story began. Bud and Sharon made a wonderful life for their...
St. Barbara's Catholic Church
In the mid 1990’s, Wes Metzler’s older sister moved back to Wyoming from California. She was a faithful and devout Catholic who was fighting cancer which eventually took her life. Wes and his wife Coleen had the idea to contribute the bulk of her inheritance to...
Tami Fischer Brech Memorial Scholarship Endowment
When Alan and Linda Fischer lost their daughter to Ovarian Cancer, in 2004, her friends suggested that they start a scholarship fund in her memory. Tami had majored in Elementary education and graduated from the University of Arizona with a 4.0 while going through...
The Intrepid Trapper Scholarship Endowment
The Intrepid Trapper Scholarship Endowment rewards students’ determination to explore ideas, grow academically and overcome obstacles on their passage to earning degrees and being successful in their careers. With skills of analytic reasoning, creativity, problem...
Trapper Dave Athletic Scholarship
For decades, Dave Fink was a staple on the campus of Northwest College spending countless nights and weekends at Cabre gymnasium in support of the Trapper athletic teams. The scholarship is awarded annually to one male and one female athlete who have completed their...
Vredenburg/Graham Scholarship Endowment
The Vredenburg/Graham Scholarship honors the memory of Herfie Stuart Graham (1886-1968), a Powell homesteader who led by example to enhance educational opportunities and community development in Powell and the Big Horn Basin. That was a big job when you consider...
Wilkie Family Scholarship Endowment
Education was a love and a cause for Noel D. Wilkie. He was committed to promoting higher education. Born and raised in Powell, he was the son of civic-minded parents, John D. and Gail L. Wilkie. After graduating from Powell High School, he spent one year at...
Wyoming National Guard Fund
The military services places a great degree of emphasis on the value of military and civilian education. Education and training build leaders, not only in our military organizations, but in our communities and our state. The Wyoming National Guard is a community...