LARSEN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP Recipient: Taylor Porter Majors: Elementary Education, Special Education Minor: Specific Learning Disabilities
Dr. John Larsen served in the UWSP Office of Admissions starting in 1964 and retired as Director of Admissions in 1996. His wife Ann Janda Larsen received her master’s degree in nutrition and food science from UWSP. Thirteen additional family members have earned bachelor’s and or master’s degrees at UWSP. Their Pointer bloodline runs deep. Following Dr. Larsen’s death in 2018, the family was moved to establish a scholarship to honor their parents’ lifetime decisions, and to acknowledge the impact of education in their own lives. They believe that a teacher makes a difference in the life of a student, and in the life of a community. NANCY CARROLL COOK MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Recipient: Amanda Buechel Major: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education Nancy Carroll Cook graduated from New London High School and earned a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She began her teaching career in Waukesha, and retired after 14 years as a kindergarten teacher at Rose Glen Elementary, where she helped design the classrooms. She also taught at McDill in Stevens Point, White Rock, Meadowbrook and Torhorst Schools in Waukesha. Nancy truly enjoyed being a teacher, a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother. Words that come to mind to those who loved her are kind, patient, loyal, generous and sweet.
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