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Hohner Scholarship Committee awards $59,200 to 38 students for 2026-2027 school year · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Honor Scholarship Committee awards fifty nine thousand, two hundred dollars
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  to thirty eight students for twenty twenty six to twenty
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  twenty seven school year. Written by Shaw Local News Network,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. The Doctor Joseph J. Honer Scholarship
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  Committee has awarded fifty nine thousand, two hundred dollars in
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  scholarships to thirty eight students for the twenty twenty six
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  to twenty twenty seven school year, with individual awards ranging
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  from six hundred dollars to five thousand dollars. The scholarship
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  supports students attending sixteen colleges and universities across Illinois, Iowa,
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  and Indiana, including Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Iowa
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  State University, and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The Honor
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  Trust was established in nineteen seventy six within an gift
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  of five hundred thousand dollars from the late doctor Joseph Honer.
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  Scholarship awards are distributed twice yearly in September and January,
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  with the January award contingent on completion of first semester coursework.
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  The committee includes representatives from Ottawa High School, Marquette Academy,
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  First National Bank, Shaw Media, and the Ottawa Masonic Lodge organization,
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  and is chaired by christ Devarak, Superintendent of the Lasal
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  Marshall Putnam Regional Office of Education. Applications for the twenty
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  twenty seven to twenty twenty eight school year will be
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  available mid January on the Regional Office of Education website
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  at ROW three five dot org. Past scholarship recipients interested
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  in contributing to the TRUSTA can contact the office at
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