The following list of endowed scholarships is automatically awarded to students based on a software database matching process between the scholarship criteria and the student’s profile information. Therefore, students should not contact Financial Aid and attempt to apply for a scholarship because there is no application process. Some of the endowed scholarships are awarded by faculty during the annual Honors Convocation and those are clearly identified in the list below.
If a student is awarded one of the listed scholarships, the awarded money will replace any KWC institutional need-based aid the student may be receiving. Some of these scholarships may, in fact, be added on top of other scholarships a student is already receiving from KWC, but the total amount of scholarship/award dollars a student receives cannot exceed the total of direct costs (tuition, fees, room, and board) at Kentucky Wesleyan College.
List of General Scholarships
Alphabetical by Donor’s Last Name or Organization’s First Name
Payton Adams Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing with demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to minority students.
Rev. Payton Adams II Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing with demonstrated financial need.
Alden Endowment Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Nathan B. Allison Scholarship
Criteria: For students in their junior year, maintaining a B average, and demonstrating financial need. Preference to a student in mathematics, with a second preference to physics, and a third preference to biology.
Dr. Clyde Bethel and Faye Babb Memorial Religion Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Carrie A. Woodall Baldree Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Herman Batt Scholarship
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: For students studying for religious or missionary work.
Boardwalk Pipeline Corporate Scholarship
Criteria: For students residing in the service area of Texas Gas Transmission Corporation or Williams Gas (now Boardwalk Pipeline). Students with demonstrated need and in good academic and student conduct standing.
James & Marilouise Chamberlin Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Vicki Lyle Combs Memorial for Distinguished Writing Scholarship Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Awarded to a junior or senior student(s) who has produced excellent writing in two or more creative genres.
Virginia Harris Combs Scholarship
Criteria: For students who have displayed the academic ability to succeed at KWC and have demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to females.
Lee Cralle Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Ted & Deborah Dearing Global Outlook Scholarship
Criteria: For students full-time and in good standing at KWC and with demonstrated financial need, participating in the study abroad program, who commit to participate in at least one activity involving sharing their study abroad experiences.
Kathryn Spencer Demaree & Denzil Claxton Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Marguerite Haile Dravo Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance. Preference for male students.
Nancy Bruce Whaley Early Memorial
Criteria: For students in good academic standing at KWC with an interest in providing service to the community and Church.
T.D. & Rowena Everett Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in strong academic standing who demonstrate financial need.
Tom Ewell Drama Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in theatre and/or actively involved in theatre at KWC.
Dan C. & Elsie Ewing Scholarship
Criteria: For deserving students who need financial assistance to meet the cost of tuition and fees at KWC.
Jane Forgy Speech/Drama Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Awarded to a student majoring in speech and/or drama with at least a 2.8 GPA. Second preference for a student minoring in speech and/or drama.
Jane F. Hartsough Scholarship
Criteria: For undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need and are in good academic standing. Preference is given to female students.
Mark C. Hedges Scholarship
Criteria: For a first-generation KWC student in good academic standing and with demonstrated financial need. Seniors are ineligible.
Mazzler Heuser Student Travel Grant
Criteria: For students studying abroad. Awarded by the Study Abroad office.
Tommie J. Hillmon Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing and demonstrated financial need.
Margaret McClanahan Hocker Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance. Preference is given to a female student.
Richard & Julialee Hudson Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Henry M. Johnson Educational Scholarship
Criteria: For students exhibiting qualities of leadership in student life, religious affairs, or in service to others. Students must have at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA with demonstrated financial need.
Carmel Vincent & Sarah Rogers Ketron Scholarship
Criteria: For deserving students in good academic and student conduct standing.
Hilton Lee Kincaid Jr Memorial Scholarship
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: For a non-traditional student (age between 23 – 50) in good standing at KWC, with at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA, studying at the Owensboro campus, and involved in some aspect of campus life.
Dan M. King Library Service Scholarship Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Awarded to a returning student(s), currently employed by the KWC Library, in recognition of job excellence and contribution to the functioning of the library.
Major Family Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students enrolled full-time and in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Dr. Thomas and Rhonda Mitzel Scholarship
Criteria: For full-time students accepted into enrollment or already enrolled that are in good academic standing with KWC with a GPA of 3.0 or higher and have financial need.
Victor H. Mohr Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing and demonstrate financial need.
Truman A. & Gertrude E. Morris Scholarship Fund
Criteria: For students in good academic standing and demonstrate financial need.
Lucy Lauenstein Moss Scholarship Trust
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need and in good academic standing.
Elizabeth Munday Scholarship Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Awarded to a student(s) in good academic standing with a GPA of 2.5 or higher, and who is planning to enter a helping profession and is involved in campus and/or community volunteer organizations. Seniors are not eligible.
Theophia Joan Oexman Fine Arts Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Program endowment used for the Arts Program as overseen by the art department.
Elizabeth Paris Music Scholarship
Criteria: For students pursuing a career in music or related field with a 2.5 GPA and demonstrated unmet financial need.
Elizabeth Ray and Claude Caldwell Purdom Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Ellen Sommer Purdom Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Lucille Savage Rogers & Frank Hubbard Rogers Scholarship
Criteria: For undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need and are in good academic standing.
David C. Scott Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Hope B. Scott Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Rev. Harold Sharber Scholarship
Criteria: For students who are active in KWC Campus Ministries or seeking to pursue a ministerial life. Students must be enrolled full-time and have a 2.0 or higher cumulative GPA with demonstrated financial need.
Rose Bailey Slack Endowment Fund
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Osso Stanley Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Charles Stauffer Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need and in good academic standing.
Pearl L. Stiles Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Sudduth Family Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
John W. Swann Jr. Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Woodford B. Troutman, MD Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who would benefit from additional financial assistance.
Rev. Erskine L. Wade Sr. Memorial Scholarship Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: For students in good standing at KWC, with at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA (including from a prior institution if transferring in). Preference will be given to an African American student including those in membership with the Black Student Union including participation in social and community activities at KWC.
Fanny Edith Winn Scholarship
Criteria: For students from the state of Louisiana.