A&F Newsletter
Summer 2010
Keeler awarded Estelle Hamilton Gottlob Endowed Scholarship
Having graduated from Arkansas City High School in 2008 and gone
on to be a stellar student at Cowley College, Christopher Keeler
was recently awarded the Estelle Hamilton Gottlob Endowed Scholarship
to help him as he prepares to transfer to Wichita State University.
Keeler, who graduated from Cowley College in May, was a pre-engineering major
at Cowley and plans to major in aerospace engineering at Wichita State.
At Cowley, he was involved in the Math and Science Club and Phi Theta Kappa.
Away from school, he is employed at Union State Bank in Arkansas City.
“This scholarship will help a lot,” Keeler said. “This will
allow me to focus more on school and not have to worry about how I am going to
pay for it. I am very thankful.”
Estelle Hamilton graduated salutatorian from Arkansas City High School. Her first
teaching position was in a one-room country schoolhouse in Tannehill, Kansas.
She would spend the next 30 years teaching English in Winfield, Eureka and Arkansas
City, during which she would marry Clyde Gottlob, become the mother of seven
and complete her post-graduate work at Wichita State University.
Devoted to her students, she would arrive two hours before and stay two hours
after class. “A teacher for all students…” she taught honors
students as well as those who struggled. After retiring, she substitute
taught and tutored Vietnamese students.
In 2002, Mrs. Gottlob was memorialized by her husband and children with the Estelle
Hamilton Gottlob Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is for those graduates
of Arkansas City High School and is a continuing legacy of a “most patient
and understanding teacher.”
Applicants for the Estelle Hamilton Gottlob Endowed Scholarship should be Cowley
College students that graduated from Arkansas City High School and plan to transfer
to Wichita State University. Recipients must have at least a 2.75 grade point
average and is renewable automatically if maintained. Awards will be made with
regard to financial need. Applicants must complete an essay as part of the application
process. The topic is Describe a significant challenge, opportunity, or setback
in your life and the impact it has had on you. What contribution do you hope
to make as a student at Wichita State? (Your response should reflect your leadership
abilities outside the classroom.)
Please visit with Lisa Grose in the scholarship office to receive a cover sheet
for your essay.