The Greene County High School Awards Night for the graduating class of 2024 was held May 14 in the high school auditorium. Students were awarded a combined total of more than $211,000 in local scholarships. Additionally, every graduate was awarded a $500 grant from the Greene County Community Schools Foundation.
The grants are funded by an endowment from the late Floyd Dunlop. Dunlop farmed northwest of Farlin. He and his wife Maxine had no children, but when he died in March 2017 at the age of 96, he left the large majority of his estate to the Greene County Schools to provide scholarships.
Awards and scholarships were presented as follows:
Greene County Pork Producers scholarship – Jack Hansen, Cody Allen, Shailynne Woodley, Layne Carstens and Cody Stephenson
Greene County 4-H Foundation scholarship – Grace Hardaway, Shailynn Woodley, Cody Allen and Cody Stephenson
Chase Flack Memorial Scholarship – Eli Moh
Future Cyclone scholarship – Skylar Warnke and Eli Mohr
Greene County Farm Bureau scholarship – Trey Schilling
Kathy Lynch Memorial Scholarship – Graci Cooklin
Greene County Cattlemen’s Association scholarship – Trey Schilling, Jack Hansen, Cody Stephenson, Cody Allen, Brice Ball, Jackson Turner, Kaylee Stalder, Gavin Vander Linden and Eli Mohr
Greene County Soil and Water Conservation District and Greene County Conservation Club scholarships – Trey Schilling
Morning Star Masonic Lodge scholarships – Sadie Voss, Carson Cerveny and Shailynne Woodley
Bill Kibby Memorial Scholarship – Cody Allen
Heartland Bank scholarship – Zeke Binkley and Kaylee Stalder
Greene County Activity Boosters Club scholarship – Jack Hansen and Cody Allen
Kevin Wills Memorial Scholarship – Hallie Monthei
Rotary Club of Jefferson scholarship – Nathan Behne, Georgia Osterson, Cody Stephenson and Gavin Vander Linden
Ernest Prehm Scholarship – Cody Allen, Austyn Funcke, Alannah Menz and Hallie Monthei
Earl Wilson Trust Scholarship – Graci Cooklin, Carter Fecher, Grace Hardaway, Eli Mohr, Daniel Strawn and Gavin Vander Linden
Frank Linduska Scholarship – Cassie Knight
BPO Does Drove 196 scholarship – Cody Stephenson and Adison Gallagher
Ben Carman Memorial Scholarship – Eli Mohr
St Anthony Hospital Foundation scholarship – Esther Van Horn
Greene County Republicans scholarship – Zeke Binkley
Home State Bank Rising Leader scholarship – Cody Allen, Jack Hansen, Grace Hardaway, Hallie Monthei, Cody Stephenson and Gavin Vander Linden
Fred Blackmer Scholarship – Trey Schilling
Beta Tua Delta scholarship – Graci Cooklin, Joel McAndrews and Eli Mohr
Pat Fields Memorial Scholarship – Austyn Funcke, Cody Allen, Cody Stephenson, Eli Mohr, Esther Van Horn, Georgia Osterson, Graci Cooklin and Trey Schilling
Student Council scholarship – Georgia Osterson and Gavin Vander Linden
Katie Van Horn Memorial Scholarship – Gavin Vander Linden, Grace Hardaway and Eli Mohr
Greene County Corn Growers scholarship – Trey Schilling
Roger Nailor Memorial Scholarship – Olivia Hoyt
Floyd W. Brown American Legion Post #11 scholarship – Esther Van Horn
Greene County Medical Center Auxiliary scholarship – Kaylee Stalder and Alannah Menz
Greene County Medical Center Foundation scholarship – Kaylee Stalder and Alannah Menz
Lenita Jordan Carstens Scholarship – Madeline McCarthy
Henkel Construction scholarship – Colten Finley, Carter Fecher, Layne Carstens and Alannah Menz
Greene County School District Foundation scholarship – Skylar Warnke, Joel McAndrews, Georgia Osterson, Hallie Monthei, Zeke Binkley, Gavin Vander Linden, Payton Grow, Kaylee Stalder, Adison Gallagher, Nathan Ausberger, Noah Cornell and Austyn Funcke
Landon Martin Scholarship – Cody Allen
Iowa Bar Association Citizenship Award- Cody Allen and Gavin Vander Linden
Peoples Bank scholarship – Kolby Angell, Olivia Hoyt and Shailynne Woodley
Franklin Township Consolidated School (Cooper) scholarship – Brice Ball, Cody Allen, Hallie Monthei, Meadow Losee and Grace Hardaway
Karen Younie Scholarship – Hallie Monthei, Austyn Funcke and Skylar Warnke
Greene County Education Association scholarship – Nathan Ausberger, Hallie Monthei and Austyn Funcke
Hazel Brown Zachar PEO scholarship – Ellie Knippers, Olivia Hoyt and Georgia Osterson
Viola Vorhies Nia Scholarship – Ellie Knippers
Logan Scheuermann Memorial Scholarship – Noah Cornell
Warren Raney Memorial Scholarship – Hallie Monthei
Betty Jo Callaway Scholarship – Georgia Osterson, Graci Cooklin, Colten Finley, Joel McAndrews, Cody Stephenson, Madeline McCarthy, Nathan Behne, Cody Allen, Noah Cornell and Kolby Angell
Kiwanis Club of Jefferson scholarship – Kolby Angell, Colten Finley, Joel McAndrews and Hallie Monthei
Fine Arts scholarship – Olivia Hoyt
Fern Olive Scholarship – Olivia Hoyt, Noah Cornell and Cody Stephenson
Lloyd & Shriley Richards Agriculture Scholarship – Cody Allen
Future Business Leaders of America – Cody Stephenson
Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation health careers scholarship – Grace Hardaway
Hixson Opportunity Award – Eli Mohr
Volunteerism award – Gavin Vander Linden and Olivia Hoyt
4-H Senior Young Leader award – Cody Stephenson, Trey Schilling, Grace Hardaway and Shailynne Woodley
National Honor Society – Kolby Angell, Nathan Ausberger, Nathan Behne, Ezekiel Binkley, Gracy Cooklin, Noah Cornell, Adison Gallagher, Payton Grow, Jack Hansen, Grace Hardaway, Olivia Hoyt, Eli Mohr, Hallie Monthei, Georgia Osterson, Trey Schilling, Kaylee Stalder, Esther Van Horn and Gavin Vander Linden
Iowa Blood Donor award – Savanna Shell, Gavin Vander Linden, Payton Grow, Graci Cooklin and Maddie McCarthy
Athletic awards were presented as well. Nathan Behne received the Bernie Saggau Award. Kaylee Stalder and Jack Hansen were named Rams of the Year.
Receiving Heart of Iowa Activities Conference recognition were Cody Allen, Nathan Behne, Jack Hansen, Grace Hardaway, Ali Lawson, Hallie Monthei, Georgia Osterson and Kaylee Stalder.
