The Ohio Nurses Association (ONA), local Ohio State University Nurses Organization (OSUNO) Undergraduate Nursing Scholarship was established by the Mid-Ohio District Nurses Association, to honor leadership in mentoring, education, volunteerism and advocacy on public health issues that drive commitment to the nursing profession. As the successor organization, OSUNO carries this commitment forward.

The scholarship was founded to support students from Muskingum County, Ohio who plan to pursue an education in engineering, pre-medicine, agriculture, or veterinary science.

The scholarship will be awarded to a West High School student athlete in memory of Darrell McDade, a former student athlete and 1986 graduate of West High School. Darrell was a teacher, coach, and mentor to many City League students. He worked in Columbus City Schools elementary and high school special needs classrooms, and coached football, baseball, and girls’ basketball at West. Coach McDade supported his student athletes both on and off the field, and this scholarship is a way to continue that support in his memory.

The Carol Strip Whitney Scholarship represents a life of passion, as she has taught gifted children for 45 years. Dr. Carol believes in the abilities of gifted children to make this world a better place. These children will be our leaders, our researchers, our inventors. It is her belief that an investment in their futures can only serve to awaken the important aspects of learning for the world of tomorrow. She had many incredible experiences with gifted children and their families throughout many years in the public schools, and after years in the classroom, she retired from public schools to start her own practice in serving the needs of the gifted child and their families. Dr. Carol operates Gifted Services of Ohio, which serves gifted children, grades K-12. She has also written three books on the subject of gifted education and received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in curriculum of the gifted adolescent. Her books include, Helping Gifted Children Soar, 2000 with a revision in 2012; A Love for Learning: Motivation and the Gifted Child, 2010, and she is writing Turning Stress into Success: A Handbook for the Gifted. It is Dr. Carol’s belief that too often the gifted child is not understood and that parenting a gifted child is like riding the world’s highest, longest, and most complicated roller coaster ever built. It takes support and understanding to help these children develop to their highest potentials. Applicants to the scholarship intend to be among the leaders of the next generation.

The scholarship honors the memory of the Dartau Family. Roland Dartau was born in 1931 in Riga, Latvia. He was the son of Olga Mikhailovna Nikolaeva Dartau and Guido Georg Dartau. Roland lived in Latvia, Germany, Oregon, and Columbus, Ohio. Roland was a member of the Columbus Latvian Evangelical Church and American Mensa. Roland received a master’s degree in inorganic chemistry from Oregon State University and was employed at Chemical Abstracts, The Ohio State University, and Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus.

The scholarship was created with a gift under the estate plan of Harry Howarth, Ph.D., known as "Cork." Cork obtained a Ph.D. in psychology from The Ohio State University and taught psychology at Ohio State for many years. He enjoyed traveling and took many trips to France. He also had a passion for opera and classical music and played the cello. Cork passed away in 2017.

Marilyn Good Holdren was born in 1938 in Chillicothe, OH. She received her formal education at Huntington High School and Franklin School of Science and Arts. She served as a medical transcriptionist at Chillicothe Hospital for eight years, and spent the remainder of her life dedicated wo her work and friends at Battelle Memorial Institute. In 1963, she me the love of her life, Donald Franklin Holdren, and in 1975, they were married.

Together. For Others.

Formerly the Come to the Water Music Award, the Larry Griffin Choral Awards are presented each year to students who have demonstrated dedication to the Worthington Kilbourne High School Choir program.

Stephen H. Barmakian was born in Cambridge, MA on July 5, 1926, a son of the late Haroutune Kevork and Armenoohi Barmakian. He grew up with his brother Haig in a tight-knit and loving family, and the two brothers, although four years apart, were as close as twins. Stephen was a standout athlete and talented enough on the baseball field to have been signed to a major league contract by the Boston Red Sox. His plans to work the diamond were interrupted by World War II and a few months after graduating from Watertown High in 1944, he joined the U.S. Army. Stephen’s older brother and best friend, who he affectionately called ‘Haigy,’ had been fighting with General George S. Patton’s Third Army since the liberation of Europe had begun earlier that year. On the first of February, 1945, Haigy was killed in action fighting with his unit in Germany and the world changed forever for Stephen and his family. It took weeks for the news to come home to Watertown, and even longer to reach Stephen. Following his discharge from the Army at the war’s end, Stephen enrolled at Northeastern University and later transferred to Boston University, all while resurrecting his baseball career. He played for a time with the Saint Louis Browns organization. Until his retirement, Stephen worked for the federal government as a public relations specialist. He was a member of Pequossette Lodge A.F. & A.M., and had been a life member of The Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts. He remained active and independent all his life and was known to walk for miles well into his eighties. He is remembered by many dear friends, including Joseph Balian and Madeline Ives.