Feb. 13, 2014

Phi Kappa Phi announces scholarship winners

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The NDSU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi has announced the recipients of the Carolyn Nelson Scholarships, John Callenbach Scholarships and Matilda B. Thompson Scholarships.

Logan Tretter, a junior majoring in civil engineering from Fargo, and Kirstin Gramith, a senior majoring in pharmacy from Big Lake, Minn., will receive the Carolyn Nelson Scholarship for 2014.

Nelson was a three-term president of the chapter. She retired from NDSU as senior lecturer emeritus in 2002. Currently a state senator from District 21 in Fargo, Nelson is active in a wide range of issues related to education.

Six students were named winners of the John Callenbach Memorial Scholarships. They include Courage Mudzongo, a graduate student in developmental science from Harare, Zimbabwe; Jack Burns, a senior in construction management from Wabasha, Minn.; Anne Debner, a senior in management communication from Winsted, Minn.; Victoria Thelen, a senior in management communication and international studies from Fargo; Chontay Mastel, a junior in accounting from Bismarck, N.D.; and Janet Juleson, a senior in exercise science from Wahpeton, N.D.

The Callenbach scholarships were endowed in 1993 by John and Lillian Callenbach in recognition of the contributions of their daughter, Carolyn Nelson, to the NDSU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and her community. John Callenbach, a 60-year Phi Kappa Phi member and NDSU emeritus professor, died in 1999.

Mudzongo and Debner also received the Matilda B. Thompson Scholarships.

Thompson earned a degree in teaching from Valley City Teachers College in 1915 and a bachelor's degree in chemistry and natural sciences from North Dakota Agricultural College, now NDSU, in 1921. After earning a master's degree from Columbia University, she joined the NDAC faculty in 1923. Thompson was dean of women from 1957-63. She retired in 1965.

Phi Kappa Phi has more than 300 chapters throughout the United States, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. The NDSU chapter was established in 1913. The only chapter in North Dakota, it is the 10th oldest chapter in the nation.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.

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