Student Entering Colorado State University Selected For Monberg Achievement Scholarship Program
Friday, May 29, 1998
FORT COLLINS--Tara Lynn Schifferns of Arriba, Colo., has been chosen to
receive a
scholarship from the Luther and Helene Denzler Monberg Memorial Achievement
Scholarship
Program as an incoming freshman at Colorado State University.
Ms. Schifferns, daughter of Edward and Beverly Schifferns of Arriba,
Colo., graduated this
spring from Arriba-Flagler High School in Flagler, Colo. She plans to become
a medical technician or
physician's assistant, and will major in biology when she enters Colorado
State this fall. She was
awarded the Monberg Memorial Achievement Scholarship Program's certificate of
merit and $1,550
scholarship based on her academic, extracurricular and volunteer service
achievements.
The Luther and Helene Denzler Monberg Memorial Achievement Scholarship
Program was
founded in 1994 by Helene C. Monberg, a retired newswoman. A native of
Leadville, Colo., Ms.
Monberg resides in Washington, D.C. She established the scholarship program
in honor and in
memory of her parents, who were longtime Leadville residents, active citizens
and lifelong education
advocates. Ms. Schifferns graduated first in her high school class with a
4.0 grade-point average,
and has been active in school, sports, church and community activities. She
served as class president
for three years, Future Business Leaders of America president for two years
and student council
treasurer for a year. Other achievements include teaching Sunday school for
four years and organizing
a local food drive for two years.
This year the basic $1,000 scholarship, contributed by Ms. Monberg, was
supplemented by
$200 provided by Mrs. Ann Downing Schmidt of Denver and Washington, D.C.; $50
provided by Ms.
Monberg's sister, Mrs. Rae M. Dabbert of Missoula, Mont.; and $300 provided
by Ms. Monberg in
memory of two friends and her aunt, Ann M. Heath of Colorado Springs, who
died during the past
year. Her friends were Kenneth G. Holum Sr. of Annapolis, Md., and Michael B.
Lopez of Littleton,
both education advocates.
Previous scholarship recipients have been Christopher A. Christiansen,
senior at the University
of Southern Colorado in Pueblo; Gregory S. Benn, junior at the University of
Colorado at Boulder;
Stephanie E. Long, sophomore at Colorado State University; and Rebecca A.
Penrod, freshman at the
University of Southern Colorado.
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