Marsha's Angels Scholarship

Eligibility

Marsha's Angels Scholarship, with an application deadline in June, offers numerous awards of $2000 each.

Description

Marsha's Angels is a scholarship fund honoring the memory of Marsha Yarnell and her more than 30 years of nursing. For her last 22 years, Marsha was a labor and delivery nurse in Wichita, Kansas. She was an inspiration to family, friends and co-workers. Successful scholarship applicants will demonstrate the desire to share Marsha's love for helping others and for quality patient care. Qualified students will have completed all prerequisites and be ready to enter the first year of an accredited two-year nursing program (RN). Students in a four-year BSN program will have completed the first two years of general studies and pre-requisites and be ready for the final two years of nurse's training (RN). A student who will be taking part in a qualified program in the fall of 2025 may submit an application as soon as acceptance to that program has been established. Applicants eligible for the 2025 scholarship will be graduating in the spring of 2027. Applicants living in Sedgwick County, Kansas or one of the surrounding counties may use the scholarship to attend an accredited nursing program anywhere in the United States. Those living elsewhere in the United States may use the scholarship to attend an accredited nursing program in Sedgwick County, Kansas or one of the surrounding counties or St. Luke's College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Missouri, Marsha's alma mater. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact the Scholarship Fund for more information.