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Memorial scholarship for Brooke Wilberger
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EUGENE (AP) - Friends and family are setting up a scholarship in the name of the Brigham Young University student who disappeared from a Corvallis parking lot in May 2004 and has never been found.
The grants will go to an Oregon high school student who shares Brooke Wilberger's ideals and community service spirit, friends and family said.
“It's to honor Brooke,” said Meg Gray, a junior at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, one of Wilberger's best friends while growing up in Veneta, who has been helping set up the scholarship fund. “She contributed so much to our community during high school.”
The Brooke Wilberger Scholarship Fund idea came from Jessica Marks, one of Wilberger's friends who attended Elmira High School with her and who is a junior at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.
It will be administered by the Oregon Community Foundation. If the fund reaches $50,000, the minimum for a permanently endowed fund, it would then generate $2,250 annually to begin sending a student to college, the OCF's Sara Brandt said.
Wilberger's mother, Cammy Wilberger, said the scholarship fund idea is “wonderful.”
The grants will go to an Oregon high school student who shares Brooke Wilberger's ideals and community service spirit, friends and family said.
“It's to honor Brooke,” said Meg Gray, a junior at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, one of Wilberger's best friends while growing up in Veneta, who has been helping set up the scholarship fund. “She contributed so much to our community during high school.”
The Brooke Wilberger Scholarship Fund idea came from Jessica Marks, one of Wilberger's friends who attended Elmira High School with her and who is a junior at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.
It will be administered by the Oregon Community Foundation. If the fund reaches $50,000, the minimum for a permanently endowed fund, it would then generate $2,250 annually to begin sending a student to college, the OCF's Sara Brandt said.
Wilberger's mother, Cammy Wilberger, said the scholarship fund idea is “wonderful.”
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