The Ada Kiwanis Club awarded five scholarships to the following Ada High School seniors at the Senior Awards Dinner held May 13 at the Ada High School.
Recipients were: Alexis Amburgey, Tessa Coulson, Cort Everhart, Quinn High and Gabrielle Roll.
An additional scholarship will be presented Hope Hazelton at a later date. John Berg, president of the club, presented the awards.
He noted that the main thrust of Kiwanis International is to help the children of the world and seems fitting that the Ada Kiwanis Club would choose to make the annual presentations.
William W. “Bill” Scott, Jr., 65, died on Friday, May 15, 2015, at 3:05 p.m. at his son’s residence in Tiffin, Ohio.
He was born on Sept. 26, 1949 in Lima, Ohio to William W. and Mary C. (Orders) Scott, Sr. and they preceded him in death. He was previously married to Ella Faye (Mullins) Loubert, and she survives in Tiffin, Ohio.
He was a lifelong farmer. He retired from the maintenance department of the Waffle House Restaurants after 22 years. He was a 1969 graduate of Upper Scioto High School.
The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy will host the third annual Ohio Pharmacy Residency Conference (OPRC) on Friday, May 15.
The conference provides an opportunity for residents to present their projects to peers, preceptors and other colleagues. In addition to the educational opportunities, this conference provides a chance for members to network with residents and preceptors from a variety of programs within Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
Ohio Northern University presented Dankook Awards to Nathan Rosenbaum, a senior mechanical engineering major from Orville, Ohio, and Molly Wascher, a sixth-year pharmacy major from West Bloomfield, Mich., at ONU’s Honors Day on April 5.
Presented since 1974, the Dankook Award is an annual reciprocal award exchanged between Dankook University in South Korea and Ohio Northern University. The award recognizes students with outstanding records in academics, student leadership, co-curricular activities and service.
Ohio Northern University student Shawn Stevens, a junior music education major from Lima, Ohio, has been named a 2015 Presser Scholar Award recipient. As a Presser Scholar, Stevens will receive a $4,200 grant.
The award is given to students who show excellence in academics and a passion for music. In order to present the scholarship each year, the University must have at least 40 undergraduate music majors enrolled in the program. The recipient must have at least one-third of their credit hours in an area other than music.
