Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 26, 2022 -- SEVEN
Good News Only
By Doris Brosnan
Reporting another
wonderful act of kindness
is a great way to begin this
column. An unidentified
woman who expected noth-
ing in return recently gave a
warm hat to someone often
seen in the cold weather
without a head covering.
Nancy Gochnauer
plans to move to Missouri
in a few months, returning
to her roots, where a broth-
er and some other family
members still live. Yester-
day, an open house at the St.
Pat’s Senior Center honored
Nancy, who has served as
manager for several years.
Anyone who didn’t get
to the gathering can still
brighten Nancy’s days with
best wishes until she leaves
in the spring.
Kudos to Charlie Nel-
son, who has drawn atten-
tion to the large problem of
debris along Willow Creek
by the bridge that goes
to the grade school. This
same concern was recently
voiced by someone else to
a person who might have
some influence on clean-
up efforts. The good news
is that we all can help with
community clean up, sim-
ply by picking up “stuff”
and putting it in receptacles,
and almost two months
should be ample time for
sprucing up before compa-
ny comes for our Wee Bit
O’ Ireland celebration in
March.
Congratulations to
Morgan Correa. Morgan
has graduated from EOU
with a bachelor’s degree
and has been accepted
into the master’s-of-sci-
ence-in-accountancy pro-
gram at Boise State Univer-
sity. Morgan, the daughter
of Mike and Christy Correa
and granddaughter of Don
and Jan Stroeber, will head
for Boise next fall.
A report from last Tues-
day’s BB games: Absolute-
ly great sounds from the pep
band filled the HHS gymna-
sium at just the right times.
The trombones, clarinets,
trumpet, piccolo (flute?)
and drums blended with
just the right variety at just
the right times to pump up
the spectators and players.
These performers know
their stuff. Impressive.
Remember my No-
vember report on a Salem
visit that included seeing a
granddaughter in her first
participation in a stage
production at West Sa-
lem High School, where
she is a sophomore? (I
know, silly question. Of
course, you do.) Well, I
predicted that she would
be on stage again. Amy just
called to report that she has
the part of Balthazar for
the spring production of
Shakespeare’s “Comedy of
Errors”.
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and California, Washington
and Idaho. Feels good to
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hoping that some good
news comes to everyone
reading this.
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Eastern Oregon University
Foundation offers wide range
of scholarships
The Eastern Oregon
University Foundation has
supported EOU students
and programs since 1964,
and its scholarship offer-
ings for 2022-23 are open
through Feb. 1.
Students may submit a
single online application to
be considered for over 110
scholarships, including 11
new funds for the current
academic year. The EOU
Foundation awarded more
than $780,000 in schol-
arships, benefitting 325
students last year.
Some highlighted list-
ings include the Frank and
Chloe Pearson Scholarship,
the Gerald Young Memorial
Scholarship, Kathleen Gal-
loway Scholarship, and the
Lund Last Lap Scholarship.
The Frank and Chloe
Pearson Scholarship offers
$5,000 to a full-time un-
dergraduate student attend-
ing the La Grande campus
in-person or to a Master
of Business Administra-
tion student with at least
45 credit hours and 3.0
GPA. The scholarship was
first established in 2016 by
Frank and Chloe Pearson
with the goal of assisting
business undergraduates.
The Gerald Young Me-
morial Scholarship aims to
assist full-time, on-campus
or onsite students from
Union or Wallowa counties
who are studying math or
science. The renewable
endowment was established
in 2009 by the family of late
long-time faculty member,
Gerald E. Young with the
goal of impacting the lives
of EOU students.
The Kathleen Gallo-
way Memorial Scholarship
presents $1,400 to sopho-
more or junior art majors
selected by the Nightingale
Gallery spring art show
judges. The scholarship was
established in 2009 in hon-
or of the late professor of
printmaking and drawing,
Kathleen Galloway.
The Lund Last Lap
Scholarship offers a renew-
able $1,500 yearly award
to online undergraduate
students living in eastern
Oregon, who have applied
for graduation. The schol-
arship was first endowed
in December 2020 by the
Lund Family.
The online application
is open now at eou.edu/
foundation/application and
closes at 11:59 p.m. on Feb.
1. Contact the EOU Foun-
dation at foundation@eou.
edu with any questions.
Currin named to
honor roll at MSU
Jacee Currin, Heppner,
was named to the 2021
fall semester honor roll at
Montana State University,
Bozeman, MT.
A total of 5,263 un-
dergraduates have been
named to the university’s
two honor rolls for the 2021
fall semester. Students must
complete a minimum of 12
credit hours to be on either
the President’s List (4.0
GPA) or Dean’s List (3.5
GPA or higher).
There were 1,542 stu-
dents with a perfect 4.0
grade point average and
3,721 students earning
grade point averages of 3.5
or above for the semester.