KEWANEE WEATHER

Black Hawk East Campus students honored for academic excellence


By The Kewanee Voice    May 12, 2023

GALVA – Black Hawk College recently honored 15 East Campus students for their academic excellence with the 39th Annual Founders’ Scholars Awards.

The award is named after the East Campus founders – Dr. Glenn Case, James Golby, Gust “Brick” Lundberg, Theodore “Ted” Vlahos and Robert White – and presented by the East Campus faculty.

The award criteria are:


Achieved a minimum 3.80 cumulative GPA at the end of the fall semester.
Completed 30 credit hours at Black Hawk College, of which 12 credit hours are taken at the East Campus.
Completed an associate in arts or associate in science (transfer) degree as the declared program per the grad app.
Applied for graduation by March 17, 2023.

The 2023 Founders’ Scholars by hometown are:


Bradford – Carli Wright
Brownsburg, IN – Haley Beaman
Freedom, WI – Grace Angotti
Galva – Laura Endress
Glencoe, KY – Chevy-Lynn Vaske
Kewanee – Adriana Contreras, Maya Davis, Bryanna Delgado, Yuki Li, Te’a Olmsted and Lauren Sheets
Laura – Chase Howell
Maple Park – Samantha Lind
Maquon – Ethan Emken
Washington – Haley Bucher