Sioux Center, Iowa — A Sioux County institution of higher learning says three of their students have received substantial scholarships recently.
Dordt University officials tell us they have just announced the recipients of the Lambertus Verberg Prize for Excellence in Kuyperian Scholarship, one of the largest scholarships made available to Dordt students.
Eoghan Holdahl, a junior from Watertown, South Dakota who is studying agriculture: missions and community development, will receive a one-year $15,000 scholarship.
And, for the first time in the history of the Verberg Prize, two students were selected as runners-up and will each receive a one-year $10,000 scholarship, thanks to the generosity of the Barnabas Foundation and the estate gift of Rimmer and Ruth de Vries. The two runners-up are Audra Kooi, a sophomore from Bellflower, California who is studying psychology and health and human performance, and Jaelyn Dragt, a junior social work and community development major from Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Dordt officials tell us the Lambertus Verberg Prize for Excellence in Kuyperian Scholarship is funded by an estate gift from Rimmer and Ruth de Vries, in memory of Rimmer’s great-grandfather, who settled in Sioux Center in the 1890s.
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