The Community Foundation of Randolph County is pleased to announce its first awarding of a new scholarship: The Diana Fahl Sciences Scholarship.
The purpose of this scholarship is to provide financial assistance to a Randolph County resident who is a graduate of a Randolph County school planning to attend Indiana University East in Richmond, IN. The scholarship also requires the student to be pursuing a degree in the Sciences, not including nursing. Congratulations to the 2024 recipient of the Diana Fahl Sciences Scholarship: Ian Vance. Ian graduated from Randolph Southern High School in Spring 2024 and is eager to begin his college career at Indiana University East this coming Fall.
In the early 1990’s when Diana Fahl began working at Indiana University East, she saw there was a financial need for single mothers. Diana came up with the idea to create a fundraiser cookbook with faculty, staff and students submitting recipes. Diana served as the editor, and it was a big hit; they reached the level for two endowed scholarships. Ten years later Diana saw that the student body had changed to a more traditional student body with a large percentage of freshman students not advancing to sophomore level. Diana proposed a new scholarship as a two-fold scholarship, the high school graduate would receive the first component of the scholarship their freshman year of college, then, as the student proceeds to their sophomore year they would get an increased additional payment from the scholarship. Diana served as editor of this cookbook and two more endowed scholarships were created.
Diana Fahl, resident of Lynn, IN, still works at I.U. East today. Her commitment to the university through 31+ years of dedication, as well as starting a scholarship fund to help students further their education there, shows her loyalty to I.U. East and her passion to help the next generation. She has spent decades working with the community and creating needed scholarships, and now she’s overwhelmed with pride to have a science scholarship in her name established at CFRC. Ian Vance is honored to be the first of many students that will receive this scholarship.
Community Foundation of Randolph County partners with donors to leverage their philanthropy in ways that transform lives. Since 1993, the Community Foundation has helped generous donors to meet community needs, provide scholarship opportunities to local students, and made grants to nonprofit organizations working to improve Randolph County. The Community Foundation strives to be a local entity known for inspiring good and impacting success by bringing people and resources together. To learn more, go to www.randolphcountyfoundation.org