Ace, Henkel announce $2,000 college scholarship winners

Posted May 23, 2008

"Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ace Hardware Foundation and Henkel Corporation have once again partnered to provide a scholarship program for Ace employees and Ace customers. Congratulations go to all the deserving winners who were selected for the fall 2008 award. A total of 20 students were selected – five consumers, three from corporate and 12 at the retail store level.

Consumer Level

• Sneha Shah, Naperville, Ill.
• Zina Ward, Essex, Vt.
• Stephen Hanson, Moorhead, Minn.
• Hugh Miller, Wauwatosa, Wisc.
• Benjamin Engle, Rye Brook, N.Y.

Corporate Level (includes dependants of Oak Brook, Field and RSC team members)

• Irene Swanenberg, Evanston, Ill.
• Andrew Gascon, San Jose, Calif.
• Katherine Kamykowski, Naperville, Ill.

Retail Level

• Ashley Foster, Foster Ace Hardware, Arlington, Texas
• Andrew Bristow, Hawthorne Ace Hardware, Hawthorne, Fla.
• Mark Correa, Harry’s Ace Hardware, Metairie, La.
• Martha Fountain, Fountain Ace Hardware, Forest, Miss.
• William Tahler, Ace Hardware of East Ridge, East Ridge, Tenn.
• Kehaunani Gunderson, Highlands Ranch Ace Hardware, Highlands Ranch, Colo.
• Michael Ordman, Elliot Ace Hardware, West Allis, Wisc.
• Ethan Parker, Parker’s Hardware Inc., Sault Ste, Marie, Mich.
• Abby Kincanon, Grand Island Ace Hardware, Grand Island, Neb.
• Margaret Burrows, Barnes Ace Hardware, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Evan Waksler, Morton’s Ace Hardware, Port Charlotte, Fla.
• Elise Bailey, Rodz Ace of Ocala, Ocala, Fla.

The scholarships were awarded to students attending a four-year university in the fall of 2008. Scholarship Program Administrators (SPA) received more than 245 completed applications. The third-party company took an unbiased approach to qualifying and judging each submission. The selection of the winners was based on a combination of the following.

• Standardized Test Scores
• Curriculum
• Essay
• High School or College Class Rank
• Extracurricular Activities

“This year, with so many highly qualified applicants, we had a tough time narrowing it down to our final selections,” said SPA spokesperson, J.R. Simon.

For questions regarding the scholarship program, contact Scholarship Program Administrators, Inc. at 615-320-3149.

Submitted by Joanne Mueller, Ace Hardware Foundation