{"id":61107,"date":"2021-09-24T13:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61107"},"modified":"2021-09-24T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:52:45","slug":"fhsu-students-express-gratitude-for-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61107","title":{"rendered":"FHSU students express gratitude for donors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 275 current Fort Hays State University students stopped by the Robbins Center, home of the FHSU Foundation, to enjoy a free lunch along with the opportunity to win scholarships on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives\nfrom Astra Bank, the scholarship sponsor, drew names for some of the lucky\nscholarship winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays\nState\u2019s Awareness Day was created to educate current Tigers about the\nimportance of private support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFort Hays State has some truly\namazing donors,\u201d said Ricardo Zamora, director of annual giving for the FHSU\nFoundation, the fundraising arm of the university. \u201cI cannot stress how\nimportant it is for our students to learn who those donors are and that there\nare generous, caring people behind each scholarship, the equipment they utilize\nin class, and the campus buildings they study in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEnsuring that students know how\nFHSU is funded is an important lesson,\u201d &nbsp;Zamora added. \u201cFort Hays State\nUniversity offers the lowest in-state tuition of regent universities. The low\ntuition is only possible due to the number of generous alumni and friends who\nunderstand how important it is to give the gift of education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many student Awareness Day attendees left\nbehind thank-you notes for FHSU donors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cYou are making an\n     impact in so many lives, impacts that will last a lifetime.\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cEverything that I\n     am working toward is because of you.\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cYour donation has\n     opened the door to many opportunities at FHSU, and I am forever grateful!\u201d<\/li><li>\u201c\u201cPeople like you\n     are true heroes. I hope to follow your lead someday by giving back to this\n     amazing university that I call home.\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cWithout your\n     contribution, my schooling would not be possible.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStudents who attended Awareness Day will soon\nbecome alumni, and when they do, I hope they will\nunderstand the significance of supporting future Tigers and paying it forward\nlike those who came before them,\u201d Zamora said. \u201cTheir future generosity will be\nvital to the success of our students to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlso, a big thank you to Astra\nBank for its continued support by providing $2,000 in scholarships for us to\ngive away throughout Awareness Day,\u201d he added. \u201cAstra Bank has been providing\nscholarships for this event since 2014, and we cannot thank them enough for\ntheir partnership and generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you\nso much to Astra Bank for donating. This will help me toward my dream of\nbecoming a nurse,\u201d said Brianna Jones-Rupp, who won a $100 scholarship.\n\u201cContinue being an amazing support for FHSU students,\u201d said Jones-Rupp, who is\na sophomore majoring in nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our 2021\nAwareness Day scholarship winners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$1,000&nbsp;Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nElyzabeth Winter, biology\/pre-vet, Sutton, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$500 Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nAndrew Neuman, mathematics, Liberal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$100 Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nBrianna Jones-Rupp, nursing, Hays<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$100 Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nPaeton Buchanan, speech-language pathology, Simla, Colo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$100 Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nSavannah Yost, nursing, Hays<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$100 Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nPayton Hake, radiology, Cawker City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$100 Scholarship<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nKade Melvin, economics, finance and accounting, Norton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn how you can support students\nat Fort Hays State by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flink.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com%2fls%2fclick%3fupn%3d-2BFJoAhsjp8losQfY8t-2BZtDSAKvxVcchtfV1543l0Kpl6aRGqIctSqa6Magmpvb7gMbPR_IbVvtzD2BnopUtSewq5g4rnpt6SzaHfk8R-2BeRtmVi8ros-2Bhw3KaKDOYD71rS-2BWWx-2B-2BUZcibDA3u3BXJ7Xw-2FqzxNpFhdlUyV4CDvdzrS3fYPeKtBPETyR47Z7pK58uDzz-2FZBE-2BtGiHc5Q1QK8sDVaeSEx5hfYBJuf88v4bGLTZE9HLoyQbBPzTJX8xH-2FVttuWghVXZSXhmBYv33kcUOt3CLEwaFdLAiv7TtuEqhIlzD8CQwnEXu4W8z3ZGMliSW3elz65RhbNJ7avCux9Nkk-2FGzAlTg5p1IBanwNqPGxzWTphrsYP57HPogN6ZMBUlzde6W87XyFjT8piiW45uIMWwwVhqqKlPyg3ee9o3-2FQwY-2BIRVQjsc-2BQ1CJwzEeb7BKU-2F&amp;c=E,1,JHyVRbyiulHDpFsCaxhIRyfGskX1lRt_ZJFqumqqtn0cKHD039BL4WfMvci48wn1Y6S1Q1gOl6ySn4Zg_ZBT9xo2Y2ZuuJ42JUs8eHA4&amp;typo=1\">https:\/\/foundation.fhsu.edu<\/a> or by\ncontacting the FHSU Foundation at 785-628-5620 or <a href=\"mailto:foundation@fhsu.edu\">foundation@fhsu.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS More than 275 current Fort Hays State University students stopped by the Robbins Center, home of the FHSU Foundation, to enjoy a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61108,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61107\/revisions\/61108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}