Jan 29, 2021
MARION, OH – A scholarship fund created as a Christmas gift is one of ten new funds which will support Marion area students this spring. The Elgin High School Wider Horizons Scholarship was created by family members of an appreciative Elgin alumna who wants to use this unique Christmas gift to support and encourage the educational pursuits of students with “a natural curiosity about all facets of the world and who desire to educate themselves broadly.”
The Elgin Wider Horizons Scholarship acknowledges the quality education available at Elgin High School and, especially, teachers Eunice Waber, Max Griffith, and Carroll Neidhardt. These faculty members, according to the fund creator who wishes to remain anonymous, taught by example that “education is not only important in preparing and qualifying students to perform interesting work that contributes to our communities, but that an unceasing desire to pursue and integrate knowledge also expands and shades one’s