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Scholarships
Scholarships established with gift from
estate of Craig Newman
When Craig Newman planned his estate, he provided for young people who would
someday provide leadership to their families, careers and the Arkansas City community.
Craig D. Newman, 54, died on Aug. 10, 2000. He was born and reared in Arkansas
City and was the son of Earl G. and Jean D. Newman. Craig graduated from Arkansas
City High School and Cowley County Community College. He lived and worked for
a time in Colorado, including working as a vice president in a bank in Grand
Junction. He returned to Arkansas City in 1993. Craig’s interests included
reading and collecting books, history, environmental preservation, science and
botany, among other things.
Cowley recently received a sizable gift from the estate of Craig Newman to be
used exclusively for scholarships for Cowley students. These scholarships will
help literally hundreds of students over the years to attain their educational
and career goals. Initial scholarships will be awarded in the fall of 2004. In
recent years, Craig established and/or donated to several scholarships in honor
or memory of family members, including the Earl Newman Memorial Golf Scholarship
and the Jean Newman Scholarship. Craig’s kind and generous spirit will
be with us always.
Richard Colquhoun Scholarship
The Richard J. Colquhoun and the William R. and Kelly Olson families have established
the Richard Colquhoun Scholarship, to be awarded to an Arkansas City High School
student on the Cowley golf team. It is a one-time $500 scholarship.
Special scholarships offered in memory of Eunice Thompson Palmer Schnitzer
A. Margaret Palmer, daughter of the late Eunice Thompson Palmer Schnitzer, has
established a scholarship fund, which will be distributed to five students who
graduate from Arkansas City High School. The scholarships will be in the amount
of $1,500 each and will be renewable for a second year. Eunice Thompson was born
Sept. 30, 1912, in rural Cowley County.
She graduated from ACHS in 1930 and Arkansas City Junior College two years later,
the same year she began her teaching career in local one- and two-room schoolhouses.
She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wichita State University,
and received post-graduate credits from Colorado State University and the University
of Minnesota. After teaching in Arkansas City and Wichita schools, she retired
in 1978. Palmer said her mother, who died on Jan. 20, 1988, in Arkansas City,
was a strict disciplinarian who loved to teach. Details of the Eunice Thompson
Palmer Schnitzer scholarships are available in the Endowment Association office
at (620) 441-5237.
