Forty-one students won scholarships through Pella Rolscreen Foundation’s 2019 Sons and Daughters Scholarship Program. The recipients were graduating high school seniors of
Pella Corporation team members representing company sites located in Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, and Texas. The students and their parents were honored at a dinner held at company headquarters in Pella last week. This year’s scholarship recipients were chosen from a pool representing 47 high schools in 13 states. Four-year recipients received an $8,000 scholarship and two-year recipients received a $1,500 scholarship. The following are recipients from Pella Community and Pella Christian School families working at the Pella headquarters:

Gabrielle Criscuolo, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Ryan Gustafson, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Benjamin Hones, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Levi Jansen, Pella Christian High School (Pella, Iowa)
Makayla Kruse, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Nathan Leathers, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Olivia Millar, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Lydia Taylor, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Gavin Tierney, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Jaed Van Maanen, Pella Christian High School (Pella, Iowa)
Elizabeth Van Weelden, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Lauren Van Wyk, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)
Halie Veenstra, Pella Community High School (Pella, Iowa)

The official Sons and Daughters Scholarship Program as it is structured today began in 1979, and to date, 636 scholarships totaling over three million dollars have been given through the program.