NEWS RELEASE:
For the 2018-19 academic year, the Bucyrus Community Hospital Auxiliary announces one new undergraduate, one graduating undergraduate, two continuing undergraduates and one continuing graduate scholarship recipients.
This year’s $1,000 undergraduate scholarship, potentially renewable for a four-year undergraduate program, was awarded to Cole Heinlen, son of Ted and Beth Heinlen of Bucyrus and a graduate of Wynford High School.
Cole served as 4-H president and treasurer, and during his senior year, he enjoyed mentoring two first grade boys twice a week for forty-minute sessions. During his junior year, he took advanced chemistry as a College Credit Plus course, earning him four college credits, and his senior year, he took several Marion Technical College courses for college credit. He played three high school sports, football, basketball and track, and he was a captain in football and basketball. While playing football, he suffered an injury which inspired him to pursue his physical therapy degree. He has actively participated in Young Life and Campaigners (Bible Study), and this summer, he will lead a cabin of high school boys at a Young Life camp in New York as their camp counselor.
This fall, Cole will enter the accelerated physical therapy program of three years undergraduate and three years graduate study at Walsh University, where he has also committed to play football.
Continuing Scholarship recipients include:
Dustin Swartz, a 2015 Buckeye Central High School graduate, received an associate degree in nursing from North Central State College and he plans to pursue his bachelor’s degree in nursing while continuing to work at Ohio Health Mansfield Hospital.
Emma Studer, a 2017 Buckeye Central High School graduate, a continuing scholarship recipient, completed her freshman year at University of Findlay, majoring in psychology before pursuing her doctoral degree in occupational therapy. Actively involved outside the classroom, she has participated in Newman Club, Psy-Key, Student Occupational Therapy Association, Oilers Serving Abroad, and has served as a research assistant in the developmental psychology research lab. On campus, working as a chronic care navigator, orientation leader, and admissions office ambassador, she keeps herself busy. Traveling with Oilers Serving Abroad, she enjoyed a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, which inspired her to help those without the means to receive treatment. Emma says she wants “to be the difference between a person surviving or thriving in their environment, one individual at a time.”
Alexis Waterer, a 2015 Colonel Crawford High School graduate, a continuing scholarship recipient, completed her junior year at Kent State University, where she is taking a combined Baccalaureate-Master’s degree program in Speech Language Pathology. Her advanced program has allowed her to take graduate level courses during her final undergraduate semesters, and this year, she graduated summa cum laude in May and is now pursuing her graduate level program. She serves on the executive board for Operation Smile, an organization which raises funds for cleft lip and palate removal surgeries for children in third world countries. She is also a member of the National Student Speech-Language Hearing Association and is a research assistant in the
Speech Physiology Lab at Kent State University Speech and Hearing Clinic. Alexis plans to graduate with her master’s degree in Speech Pathology in Dec. 2019.
Kristie Snouffer, a 2011 Bucyrus High School graduate and 2015 Bowling Green State University graduate, a continuing graduate school scholarship recipient, completed her second year of her doctoral program in audiology at The Ohio State University. She began her residency at University Hospitals in Cleveland in June where she is working with all ages, including infants, for hearing aid fittings, cochlear implant assessments and fittings, surgical monitoring, and newborn hearing screenings. Kristie anticipates graduating in May 2019.
The scholarship is open to all Buckeye Central, Bucyrus, Colonel Crawford, and Wynford high school seniors interested in pursuing allied medical, medical, allied dental, or dental careers, Bucyrus Community Hospital Auxiliary one $1,000 scholarships are potentially renewable for four college years and require submitting an application obtained through the high school guidance counselor and interviewing with the Bucyrus Community Hospital Auxiliary’s Scholarship Committee. Although all applicants are encouraged, this scholarship includes financial need as a significant criterion. Please direct all questions to Patty Hope, Bucyrus Community Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship Chair, (419)562-7431.