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 Kentucky County/City Scholarships
Alphabetical by Donor’s Last Name or Organization’s First Name
Rogers Badgett, Sr. Foundation Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Madisonville, Kentucky.
Charles D. & Jeanette R. Bennett Scholarship Fund
Criteria: For students from Breckenridge and Grayson Counties in Kentucky.
Margarine Bivins Clark Scholarship Endowment Fund
Criteria: For students preparing for careers as teachers from either Daviess County, Kentucky or Spencer County, Indiana.
Frank & Lucille Cox Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Webster and Hopkins counties in Kentucky.
Irvine D. Daniels Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Owensboro/Daviess County, Kentucky. Students must be in good academic standing.
E.L. (Buddy) & Martha Gordon Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For KWC students from the Owensboro-Daviess County area with demonstrated financial need.
Gough-Martin Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students who reside in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, or Christian County, Kentucky. Students must be in good academic standing.
Sloan Griffin Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students from the City of Owensboro or Daviess County, Kentucky.
Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Jefferson County, Kentucky, with a second preference for students enrolling from the Commonwealth of Kentucky in general.
Marie Grobmyer Hartford & James F. Hartford Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing from Carrollton, Kentucky who have shown potential to become leaders in order to make our country a better place for future generations. Preference for those with demonstrated financial need.
Bob & Erlene Himes Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Ohio or Taylor counties in Kentucky. The second preference is for students with demonstrated financial need.
Michael E. Horn Family Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Owensboro-Daviess County, demonstrated financial need, and in good academic standing.
MacHir & Grace Hutton Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Mercer County, Kentucky with a preference for students preparing for full-time Christian service.
Marcia Smith Lawrence Appalachian Scholarship
Criteria: For students with a minimum GPA 3.0 cumulative GPA at KWC with demonstrated financial need, and originally from the following counties in Kentucky: Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Owsley, Perry, Pike, or Wolf.
Lairy Nofsinger Memorial Scholarship
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Awarded to a student(s) from the Commonwealth of Kentucky who is in good academic standing.
Roy V. Pickerill Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For a student in good academic standing, first generation to go to college, and from a high school in Grayson County, Kentucky (second preference is Trigg County).
Raymond B. Preston Family Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Henderson County, Kentucky.
Harrold N. Taylor Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Daviess County High School or from Daviess County in good academic standing with at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA.
James & Shirley Thurmond Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students who are residents of Kentucky with demonstrated financial need.
Charles Venable Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Clark County, Kentucky. The second preference is students with demonstrated financial need and in good academic standing.
Jack T. Wells Endowment Scholarship
Criteria: For students who are graduates of Owensboro High School, enrolled full-time at KWC, have at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA, and have demonstrated financial need.