Jun 15, 2014 Nine students from eight high schools have received Heyl Scholarships for fall 2014. 9 Kalamazoo County students win Heyl. The Heyl program was. This scholarship is known as the Heyl. Loy Norrix Students Receive the Scholarship of a. Have the program all set up for me to be in the nursing program.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Nine students from eight high schools have received for fall 2014. This year's recipients and their high schools are Fiona Beaton and Jacob Naranjo, Portage Central; Rachel Chang of Gull Lake; Emily Fletcher, Galesburg-Augusta; Amber Salome, Comstock; Peter Rossi, Loy Norrix, Jager Hartman, Parchment; Abhay Goel, Portage Northern, and Alexandria Oswalt, Vicksburg. All but Rossi attend the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center. Heyl Scholarship Fund awards full-tuition scholarships to graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools or KAMSC for the study of nursing at Western Michigan University or science and math at Kalamazoo College. Benefits also include room and a book allowance and the scholarship is renewable for up to four years.

Since 1972, the Heyl Scholarship Fund has awarded over 400 scholarships worth close to $30 million. Beaton is going into the WMU nursing program and the other eight will attend Kalamazoo College. The Heyl program was originally established for KPS graduates and RELATED STORY: G.

HEYL SCHOLARSHIP What: Scholarship for graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools who major in math or science at Kalamazoo College. The scholarship covers tuition, room and books, and is currently worth about $150,000 over four years. The Heyl also offers similar scholarships for Western Michigan University's School of Nursing and provides funding for graduate work in chemistry at Yale University.

What's new: All graduates of the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics & Science Center, a countywide magnet school, are now eligible for the Heyl Scholarship. Why the change: The Heyl board wants to increase the number of scholarship applicants. Why KAMSC: The will of Frederick Heyl, which established the scholarship fund, specifies the fund is for Kalamazoo Public Schools graduates. A judge agreed that KAMSC could be included because the magnet school is administered by KPS.

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That opens the scholarship to students throughout the Kalamazoo region, providing a needed increase in applicants now that KPS graduates also have The Kalamazoo Promise scholarship, Heyl officials said. 'Our problem was that we had scholarship money that we couldn't give away,' said Diane Kiino, director of health sciences for Kalamazoo College and executive director of the F.W.

Heyl and Elsie L. Heyl Scholarship Fund. 'Last year, we had seven scholarships that went unclaimed.' The change was approved March 30 by Kalamazoo County Probate Judge Donald Halstead, at the request of the nine-member Heyl board. Halstead's approval was necessary because the scholarship fund was established in the will of late Frederick W.

Heyl, a former Upjohn Co. Research director who died in 1968.

C# Save Excel Worksheet As Pdf. Heyl's will created a fund for graduates of KPS who major in math or science at K-College. The scholarship covers tuition and room and books, and is currently worth about $150,000 over four years. With a tuition of $32,643 for 2009-10, K-College is the most expensive college in Michigan. The Heyl also offers similar scholarships for Western Michigan University's School of Nursing and provides funding for graduate work in chemistry at Yale University. For years, the scholarship drew about 30 applicants a year, with up to 16 scholarships awarded annually.