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.

Ian was the first ever high school student to work on the line at a Cameron Mitchell Restaurant – Martini’s. This work experience, together with the encouragement given to Ian to pursue his culinary dream, had a profound positive influence on Ian. This scholarship is awarded each year by Ian’s parents (a.) to show their appreciation for the opportunity and support given to their son by Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, and (b.) to recognize the contributions of Cameron Mitchell to the Columbus community in general, and to the restaurant industry in particular.

This scholarship was established to provide financial support to graduating seniors of Green High School in Franklin Furnace, Ohio; Piketon High School in Piketon, Ohio; Waverly High School in Waverly, Ohio; or Southeastern High School in Chillicothe, Ohio.

The fund was established in memory of Dumont M. Jones’ father, mother, and brother, respectively. Dumont L. Jones, a WWII veteran, was chief engineer and co-owner of Fiberesin Inc. in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin and died in 2005 at 82; Julia B. Jones was a school nurse and GED course instructor in Oconomowoc for many years prior to her death in 2010 at 80; and Philip V. Deines-Jones was an astrophysicist at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland before he passed away in 2010 at 48. The fund provides scholarships for students majoring in engineering or computer science at Columbus State Community College. Dumont M. Jones, a software engineer, and his wife, Joan T. Muellerleile, a polymer scientist, live in Bexley, OH.