News Release
Wally A. Seiler has announced the recent awarding of grants and scholarships totaling $8,900 by the Darold A. Newblom Foundation to three organizations and six individuals. Seiler serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Foundation which was created under the terms of the Last Will and Testament of the late Mr. Newblom.
Those organizations receiving grants are Post Playhouse, Inc., Crawford, Nebraska ($3,150 to fund internships for students in stage management/technology); White River Wacipi, Crawford, Nebraska ($750 to aid with the cost of speakers and presenters); and Crawford Public Schools, Crawford, Nebraska ($2,000 to help implement the 8 to Great curriculum).
Individuals receiving scholarships, each in the amount of $500, are Alliance residents Chloe Blumanthal and Nicholas Waldron; Chadron resident Maralee Rischling; Crawford resident Ty Brady; and Hemingford residents Rylie Wright and Taren Hunter.
This marks the thirty-third year that grants and scholarships have been given by the Newblom Foundation which was established to support activities for the moral, mental, intellectual and physical development of young men and women in Box Butte and Dawes Counties, Nebraska; to provide scholarships for assisting students in obtaining an education; and to assist in the founding, equipping and maintaining of associations or institutions engaged in the advancement of learning. During the past thirty-three years, the Newblom Foundation has provided funding of $408,651.19 in support of its goals.
Grants and scholarships from the Newblom Foundation are awarded once a year. Applications for the 2024 grants and scholarships will be available from Seiler after January 1, 2024, at his home at 1208 Laramie Avenue, Alliance, Nebraska 69301.