Scholarships

The Blowing Rock Community Foundation has awarded scholarships to qualified students for over 30 years.  Each scholarship has been for four years and/or 12 semesters of higher education. To date, 133 scholarships have been awarded with 95% of these recipients completing their degrees.  Scholarships to date have totaled over 1.5 million dollars.

For 2023, the Foundation is proud to present the following:

  • Stevens Scholarship ($10,000) – Emmit Coffey
  • Linnville Scholarship ($7,500) – Levi Temple
  • Jean and Walter Wilkinson Scholarship ($5,000) – Kai Suyao
  • Triplett Scholarship ($5,000) –   Allison Brown
  • Stevens Scholarship ($2,500) – Laurel Kiker 
  • Stevens Scholarship ($2,500) – Caroline Beach-Verhey
  • Blowing Rock Community Foundation Scholarship ($2000)  – Rilea Wike
  • Blowing Rock Community Foundation Scholarship ($2000)  – Mekena Cook

 

With the addition of these seven students, the Foundation will fund, during the 2022-2023 academic year, scholarships for 19 students.

At Spring Commencement programs in May the following scholarship students received their diplomas:  Wesley Harwood and Kate Kearse – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Breanna Meadows – University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Mary Alexis Lippard – Appalachian State University, and Megan Searcy – Gardner Webb University.  Jasmine Van Dyke graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in December, 2021. The Foundation is proud of these students and is assured of their success in the future.


Click here to view the SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION.

Click here to view a list of all scholarship RECIPIENTS TO DATE.