Thanks to the generous support of Whitman alumni and friends, the college awards more than $40 million annually in scholarship assistance to its students. Scholarship funds are provided from both named endowments and annual contributions. Scholarship awards are based on financial need and/or merit. In the fall of each academic year, students are notified of the specific funds from which their scholarships are drawn. Named scholarship funds are listed below:
10th Reunion
25th Reunion
40th Reunion
50th Reunion
Terry Abeyta – Hispanic
Thomas R. Adkison
E. Alden
Judge David H. Allard
Mildred Ebrel Allison
Alumni Fund
Ames Family, Professor Todd and Professor Walters
William C. and Jessie Robbins Ammon
Alexander Jay Anderson
Charles E. and Margery B. Anderson
Gordon Shaw Anderson
Louisa Phelps Anderson
William and Jeanie Anderson
John Stirlen Applegate – Teaching
Sarah J. and Paul R. Auvill III
Frances Jane Ford Baggs – Montana
Peggy Glase Bagnall
William H. Bailey – Music
Baird Family
Baker Boyer Bank
Dorsey S. Baker
Frances Paine Ball – Art
George Hudson Ball
Nancy Cronon Ball
Robert S. Ball
Robert S. and Julia Sims Ball Family
Bassett-Traveling Fellowship
Dorothy Fiala Beaupré – Drama
David Beegle – Environmental Studies
Peter G. Behr
Lilith J. Bell and Nancy Bell Evans – Music
Henry Bendix – Music
Donald L. and Anne A. Bentley – Math
Sheila Berger-3/2 Engineering
Erma Jo and Wade Bergevin
Erik E. and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation
William E. Berney – Drama
Beta Phi
Augusta W. Betz
Jacob Betz
Jacob Betz, Jr.
Agnes M. Bigelow
Russell A. Bigelow
Blackburn Sisters
Jay W. and Gladys Blair
Grant S. and Etta S. Bond
E. Herbert Botsford
Boyce Family – Premedical
Arthur Boyer
Stephen J. Boyles
Emma Jane Kirsch Brattain – Music
Robert Bratton – Olympia High School
Robert H. and Mary Reed Brome – Senior Women
Lorraine G. Bronson
Broughton
James A. and Mary Ellen Gowing Broughton – Music
Brown and Coleman Family
John S. Browning, Sr.
Broze
Robert and Lynn Brunton Family
Andrew Mykle Budenz
Emory Bundy
Adam M. Burgener
Burgess Family – Minority Students
Robert B. Burgess
Thomas Burke
Burlington Northern
Paul D. and Nancy McKay Burton
Byerley International Students
J. Antonio “Tony” Cabasco
Barbara Hanley Campbell–Roosevelt High School
Richard L. and Alan K. Campbell
Dr. Thomas M. Campbell
Hugh S. Cannon Foundation
Cecil V. and Helen R. Carpenter
Bob Carson
Forrest C. and Willena Long Cation
Iva I. Cauvel – Women
Loretta M. Caven
Wayne Chastain
Cheuk-Alfieri Family
Joseph Chulick Jr. – Music
F. Lawrence Clare
Susan E. Clark
William S. and Ella S. Clark
Class of 1926
Class of 1930
Class of 1935
Class of 1945 War Years
Class of 1949
Class of 1951
Class of 1953 – Middle Income
Class of 1955
Class of 1958
Class of 1959 Centennial
Class of 1961
Class of 1962
Class of 1964 – Middle Income
Class of 1968
Class of 1969
Class of 1970 – Junior/Senior
Class of 1981
Class of 1983 – Study Abroad
Class of 1984 Memorial
Class of 1988 – Senior
Class of 1996
Richard H. Clem
Richard H. Clem and Arthur Metastasio
Clarence and Lois C. Cleman
Maurine Clow – Montana
John P. Clulow
Helen M. Cole and Marie DuBois
J.M. Coleman
John Cyril and Mary Alexander Coleman
Wayne A. and Eileen Cummins Collier
Comstock Scholars
Connell Family
Vern Conrad – Music
Cordes Family – Music
Jean Cordiner
Carland and Emma May Corkrum
Elmer G. and Ethel H. Cornwell
Pauline Corthell
Cottle Family
Steve S. Cover
Frederick R. Cowley
Susan Dee Cox
Peggy and Scotty Cummins
G. Dudley and Lois Dambacher
Damon Family – English/History
J. Leland Daniel
Janet Stratford and Elisabeth Davis
John M. Davis – Pre-Engineering
Christina M. and Peter A. Dawson Family
Ann Longton Day
David M. Deal
Susan Cook Delzell
Bill Deshler
Deshler Family
Kenneth A. and Elizabeth Dick Award – Idaho
Ethel Means Dickson
Daniel J. and Elizabeth Story Donno
Arthur F. Douglas
William O. Douglas – Valedictorian
Dow-Bainbridge
Buddy Dublin
Frederick Dudgeon
Harold E. Dupar, Jr. – Foreign Students
Kim Dupuis
Earl Dusenbery
Jeanne Eagleson and John V. Gray
Edward Eben
Richard S.F. Eells
Thomas H. Elliott
Gary R. Esarey
Fairbank-Harding
Myrtle E. Falk
Edward L. Farnsworth – Wilbur, Washington Area
Barbara Sommer Feigin
Milton W. and Lucile E. Field – Teaching
John Freeman Fike – Bellevue High School
First Opportunity
John J. Fisher
Joshua Fishman
Floyd W. Fitzpatrick – Walla Walla Area
Fitzpatrick Family
Ben Flathers
Harold and Annaliese Fleharty
Forbes-Jacobs – History
Nancy Morrison Frasco
David W. Gaiser – Premedical
Thomas Val Gaisford, Jr. – Asian Studies
Newton and Kathryn Galley
Robert E. Gardner
Fay and Mary Garner
Kenneth E. and Vivian C. Garner
Paul Garrett
William H. Gates, Sr.
General Scholarship
Donna Gerstenberger
Ralph Gibbons
Gary and Cheryl Gibson
Michael and Susan Gillespie – Science/Premed
Lionel C. and Dorothy H. Gilmour
Alta I. Glenny
Gordon E. Glover
Dr. Harry B. and Gertrude Goodspeed
Roy Goodwin
Elmina E. Graham
Robert W. Graham
Robert W. and Margaret J. Graham
John Gravenslund
George H. Grebe – Portland
Paul R. Green
Dr. Albert Wright Greenwell – Premedical
William E. and Harriet A. Grimshaw – Medicine/Law
Leland B. Groezinger, Jr. – Economics
Mixail Petrovich Gromov – Foreign Language Students
John J. and Stella A. Gurian
LaVerne Mansfield Hagan, Paul Hagan and Dennis Mansfield Hagan
Edwin T. Hanford
Hansen Family
Julia Crawford Harris – Music
Haruda Science Scholars
Hasbrouck Family
Jeannette Hayner – First-year Female
Winston A. and Virginia M. Heacock
Hearst Foundation
Carroll and June Heath
Irma Grace Kester Henderson and Chester G. Henderson
Dale and Frances Henniger
Margaretta Herbert
Mary Olive Evans Higley
Mary Olive Evans Higley – Music
Ida Belle Martin Hoegh
Harold F. and Olga Johnson Holcombe
Thomas Howells
James Fee Huey
Richard and Dorothy Hundley – Music
Harrison Harden Hungate
Bradley J. Hunt – Merit
Hunt Peterson Family
Hunter International
Vie Illona Hopkins Husted – Music
Bonnie Jean Hyre – Music
Imani – Akili Dada/ Kenya
Harold and Gertrude Jackson – Study Abroad
Matthew James
Robert W. Jamison – Premedical
Richard and Alvia S. Jansen
Arthur Payne Jaycox
Sarah Delaney Jenkins
Barbara Sterne Jensen
Rhoda Daly Jensen
Deborah I. Johnson
Jeffrey L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson and Linda D. Klein
Stuart and Joyce Johnston-Computer Science
Jean Jaycox Jones
Melinda S. Jones
Nettie Langdon Jones
Keane Family
Isabelle Welty Keith
Carleton H. and Carolyn M. Kelley
Beverly J. Kellogg
John G. Kelly
John G. and Martha M. Kelly
David D. and Maureen E. Kennedy
Mohammed Nasir Khan – International
Judd D. Kimball
Snyder and Ingrid King
Margaret Gentry Kirk
Mary Jane Kirk
Margaret Bradford Kittel – Art/History
Rodney Phelps Kittel – Music/Physics
Marion Klobucher – Teaching
Norman Klockman
Virginia Lee Knight
Ralph and Vivian Knudsen
Laura Rodgers Hook Kurtz
Amy Jane Reichert Ladley – Kappa Kappa Gamma
Gerald DeRoss Ladley – Sophomore
James Lamar
Lange Community College Spark
Henry G. Laun
Grace Lazerson
Cynthia Ann Lechner
Brandon Bruce Lee
Marion LeFevre – Foreign Language
Mary Emily Winters Legge
Memorial Scholarship
Miriam Edwards LeRoux – Music
Naila and Peter Lewis Family
Ferdinand Libenow – American Indian
Robert C. Lile
Iris Myers Little and Agnes Little
George Solomon and Thomas Livengood
Helen McAuslan Logan-Schneider
Fred P. and Miriam Lincoln Loomis
Lucero-Malzewski
Harry C. Luft – Colville, Washington
Lynn B. Lunden
Tristram S. Lundquist
Anna Okada Burgess Maberry
Lenore and George MacClain
Bertha C. MacDougall – Voice
Loyd Mahan
Virginia Mahan
James and Frances Mahoney
Angeline M. Malloy – Music
William Mantz
H. Archie and Christina Marshall
Ann Inman Martin – Idaho
C.W. “Bill” Martin, Sr.
Suzanne L. Martin
Kyle Martz
Stephen H. Mathews
Nancy Ellis Mathiasen – Women
Chester C. Maxey – Beta Theta Pi
Gertrude Maxwell
Mary Elizabeth Cottrell May and Michael May
Ruth C. McBirney
F. James and Jayne S. McCarthy
Helen Lanier McCown and William Lanier McCown – Prelaw
Edna McEachern – Music
McFadden Family – Science/Math
McKay Clise Family
McMillan Family
McMurchie Family
Russell F. and Margaret Gibbs McNeill
McNellis Family
William and Loran Meidinger
Memorial Scholarship
Annie Carter and Albert Metcalf
NaShuntae Pleasant-Miles – Special Needs
Roland E. Miller – Music
Russell T. Miller
Sandra Miner, M.D.
W.L. and Dorothy Minnick
Frank G. and Sally Taylor Mitchell
Laura M. and Orla L. Moody
Robert L. and Elsie P. Moore
Deborah Grubb Moskovitz
Mother Earth
Joseph O. Mount
Moyer and Stockard Families
Kit Sheehan Muller
Mu Phi Epsilon
Kathleen M. Murray
L.T. Murray Foundation
Narnia
Rick and Evelyn Neely
Charles and Patricia Nelson/Great-West Life – Colorado/Washington/Oregon
Carla and Dean Nichols – First Generation
Patricia and David Nierenberg
Nontraditional Student
Dr. Eugene and Barbara Nordstrom
Northrup Family
Edward R. and Dorothy J. O’Brien
William L. and Kathryn Williams O’Brien – Science and Economics
Odegard Family
Paul O’Reilly
Harold Ottesen
Frances Penrose Owen
Michael Stuart Owen
Edward A. Paddock
Roy Ross Painter
Paul Panagakis
Parents Fund
Parents Fund – Diversity
Ida S. Parkinson
Elizabeth Jones Parry – Music
B.F. Parsons
Mildred H. Patterson – Utah
Robert Patterson – Sociology
Sara Lloyd Pekarsky and Abraham L. Pekarsky
Sara Lloyd Pekarsky and Abraham L. Pekarsky – Jewish Students
Mary S. Penrose
J. Logan and Ivy Wadsworth Peringer
Joseph Hartshorn Perry
Howard S. Pfirman
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Delta Theta – honoring Fred Wilson
Grace F. and Andrew J. Phillips – Olympia High School
Grace Farnsworth Phillips
Phillips, Wade, and Cronin
Harold Allen Piper
Jack Coleman Pitts and Dorothy De Simone Pitts – study abroad
Sarah Jane Polk
Wallace M. Pollard
Arthur G. Ponti
Estelle Powell
Helen Tower and Helen Torrey Pratt
Burrill L. Preston, Jr.
John P. Privat
Dr. William E. and Lorraine Purnell
Arthur L. Raaberg
Rachel Kester Rall – Female/Arts or Humanities
Emelia and Freeman Ramsey – Music
John T. Ramstedt
Yvonne Ravasse
Florence A. Rawson
Reader’s Digest Foundation
Homer Reed
Dana M. Reid
Jamie Soukup Reid and William Reid
Pete and Hedda Reid
Esther Bienfang Richardson and Rosella Woodward Richardson – Piano
Stephen L. Riddell
Mary Ann Moren Ringgold – Music
Victor and Nora Robart
Charles W. Rosenberry II and Lanora Welker Rosenberry
Rotary Club of Walla Walla
Edward E. Rubey
S.K. Running
Orrin Sage
Catherine, Matilda, and Elizabeth Sager
Bessie Sandon
Fredric F. Santler
Josephine and Arthur Sargent
Kenneth and Martha Philips Schilling – Vocal Music
Marie Schmidt
Carl J. and Sonia A. Schmitt
David and Alma Schoessler
Gordon and Virginia Scribner
Sigmund and Rose Schwabacher
John M. Scott
Gordon and Virginia Scribner
Security Pacific Bank
Senior Fund
Esther and Delbert Shannon – Yakima/Prosser
L. Shaw
Donald Sheehan
Harold L. and Helen M. Shepherd
Cameron and Marion Sherwood – Politics
Claire Sherwood – Women
Donald and Virginia K. Sherwood
Gene Kelly Sherwood
Anna Ennis and Walter Guest Shuham
Robert and Nadine Skotheim
Emma A. Smith
J. Malcolm “Mac” Smith – Political Science
Scott Bradford Smith – Study Abroad
Ralph Waldo and Aimee Snyder – Business
Marilyn Sparks – Theater
Eliza Hart Spaulding
Spokane Area Ashlock Scholarship
Jane C. Staats
Charles F. and Elizabeth Greenwell Stafford – Prelaw
Marjorie Haddon Stansfield
Evelyn Ayres Starr
Agnes C. Steere and David C. Campbell – Music
Barbara Holmes Stevens
David Stevens – Economics
Mary J. Stewart
Samuel and Althea Stroum
George II and Myrtle Bond Struthers
Elbridge and Mary Stuart
Richard K. Stuart
Joseph L. Stubblefield Trust
W. Price and Ruth S. Sullivan
Norm and Lynn Swick – Special Needs
Sumio and Mii Tai
Mary Eby Tate
Brooke Taylor
Edmund Taylor
Lucille M. Thomas
Frank and Lillian Thompson – Teaching
Robert S. Thorne Jr.
3-2 Engineering
Agnes Stephanson Tibbits – Women
Winton A. Ticknor
Timothy Tosswill
Ed and Rosa Viola Tucker
Sherrel Tucker
Dr. Robert C. Tugman
Robert C. Tugman
Guy M. Underwood
Nathaniel W. and Bessie O. Usher
Dean and Esther Vail
Catherine van Veen
Victor Family
William E. Wadsworth
Wallace Family
Marjorie E. Ward
James Prentice Warner and John Leigh
J. Walter and Katherine H. Weingart
J. Walter and Katherine H. Weingart Opportunity
Maurice and Gale Weir – Mathematics
Drs. Robert F. and Elizabeth M. Welty
Dr. Robert Welty and Eva Roberson
Mary F. and Sarah Wheeler
Velma Harris Whitlock
Whitman Alumni Association
Whitman Bridges
Whitman Opportunity
Robert L. Whitner – History
Whittaker Family
Eunice V. Wiemer
Jean D. Wilkinson – Minority Students
J. Joy Williams
June Wilson Williams
Robert Jack Williams – Music
A.D. Wilson
Witman/Kenworthy
Ron Witten
Edna Mae and Clare Woodward
Brian Weston and Susan Reynolds Workman
George Woodward – Mathematics
Dexter K. Yamada – Chemistry
Richard C. and Mary Anne Shaffer Yancey
Robert and Jacqueline Young
Augusta Wilsen Betz and Katharina Betz Zimmerman
Carroll L. Zimmerman – Science
Bertha H. Zoellner