University of St. Thomas ’21, Business Administration and Real Estate Studies
Ciresi Walburn Foundation for Children Scholarship
“Student-faculty relationships are so much more emphasized at St. Thomas,” Aleksuk says, “which allows me to connect with the material, ask questions of the professor, and engage with my peers.”
“I have four siblings and I’m the first person in my family to attend college,” Ponce says. “My parents are helping me pay for school, but having this scholarship has relieved a lot of our stress in figuring out how to cover the expenses.”
Nguyen will long remember an interim class he took in music and social justice, which taught him, he says, an important lesson: “That music can be a means for social change.”
Concordia College, Moorhead ’20, Business with German minor
Phillips Scholars Program
Krattley wants donors to know that “their willingness to give is so appreciated by students like me. And someday, when I am in a position to do so, I will pay it forward because of people like them.”
University of St. Thomas ’18, Mechanical Engineering
Graco Foundation Scholarship
“As a lawyer in this field, you need to know how the product was designed and how it works at its deepest level, and then turn that into words — to write about it and protect it from other companies stealing it.”
