Seven KCSD Seniors receive Ford Family Foundation scholarships
Lost River Junior-Senior High School seniors Makenzie Girtman, Luz Hernandez, Irene Aguirre and Yajaira Cobian all won Ford Family Foundation Scholarships, which will pay for 90 percent of their unmet college costs for four years.
UPDATED/CORRECTED: to include a seventh Ford Foundation Scholarship Award winner, Ashia Wilson of Chiloquin High School.
Seven Klamath County School District seniors – including four from Lost River Junior-Senior High School – have been selected for four-year Ford Family Foundation Scholarships that will pay for 90 percent of their college costs.
Recipients are Lost River seniors Makenzie Girtman, Yajaira Cobian, Irene Aguirre and Luz Hernandez; Henley High School senior Jessica Northcutt; Chiloquin High School senior Ashia Wilson and Gilchrist Junior-Senior High School senior Madison Mefford.
Of 6,000 applicants, 200 are selected for interviews. Of those, the Ford Family Foundation selects up to 125 students from Oregon and 14 students from Siskiyou County, Calif., who demonstrate exceptional academic and personal potential. The Ford Scholars scholarship covers 90 percent of unmet college costs and is calculated on the college’s cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room and board, personal costs, etc.), minus other grants and scholarships.