RSRF Awards $53K in Scholarships

(Rising Sun, IN) – The Rising Sun Regional Foundation awarded $53,000 in scholarships to this year’s graduating high school seniors who live in Ohio and Ripley counties and the cities of Aurora and Batesville, which is the Foundation’s Southeastern Indiana grantmaking region.

Graduating seniors who maintained a six-semester grade point average of 2.75 or higher and plan to attend a post-secondary educational institution were eligible to apply for these scholarship awards.

Recipients were drawn at random from the pool of eligible applicants were submitted to the Rising Sun Regional Foundation along with official transcripts.

The late Carson Hughes from Jac-Cen-Del High School was a recipient, so $1,000 will be donated to the Carson Hughes Foundation in his memory.

2024 scholarship recipients are:

Batesville High School

  • Daniela Blanco
  • Kennedy Cozart
  • Mason Doll
  • Natasha Fowler
  • Jack Grunkemeyer
  • John Housemyer
  • Ashlynne Hulette
  • Gracie Meyer
  • Josie Meyer
  • Rhea Miller
  • Claire Saner
  • Jackson Schmaltz
  • Sydney Slaven
  • Madison Wanstrath
  • Isabelle Wonnell
  • Abigail Wuestefeld

East Central High School

  • Katheryn Dudley
  • Chad Gress

Homeschool

  • Lilly Deaton
  • Luke Renfro

Jac-Cen-Del High School

  • Christopher Davis
  • Carson Hughes*
  • Estela Lopez
  • Julia Meyer
  • Maria Meyer
  • Emma Wagner

Milan High School

  • Kyleigh Bledsoe
  • Kaitlyn Carpenter
  • Magdalene Hudepohl
  • Chloe Hunter
  • Ben Riehle
  • Kayla Walke

Oldenburg Academy

  • Chloe Bohman
  • Kate Weber

Rising Sun High School 

  • Lillian Akin
  • Cloe Ballard
  • Nate Elliott
  • Megan Hayes
  • Abigail Kremer
  • Breanna Reed
  • Rachel Schwing
  • Alyssa Simpson
  • Connor Southard

South Dearborn High School

  • Kennedy Emmert
  • Remi Hensley
  • Brodie Teke

South Ripley High School

  • Hailee Burns
  • Lydia Cornett
  • Evan Eaglin
  • Lila Franklin
  • Shawnee Goddard
  • Suzanna Gunter
  • Reese Obendorf