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
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
Sarah J. and Paul R. Auvill III
Frances Jane Ford Baggs
Peggy Glase Bagnall
William H. Bailey
Baird Family
Baker Boyer Bank
Dorsey S. Baker
Frances Paine Ball
George Hudson Ball
Nancy Cronon Ball
Robert S. Ball
Robert S. and Julia Sims Ball Family
Bassett-Traveling Fellowship
Dorothy Fiala Beaupré
David Beegle
Peter G. Behr
Lilith J. Bell and Nancy Bell Evans
Henry Bendix
Donald L. and Anne A. Bentley
Sheila Berger-3/2 Engineering
Erma Jo and Wade Bergevin
Erik E. and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation
William E. Berney
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
Arthur Boyer
Stephen J. Boyles
Emma Jane Kirsch Brattain
Robert Bratton
Robert H. and Mary Reed Brome
Lorraine G. Bronson
Broughton
James A. and Mary Ellen Gowing Broughton
Brown and Coleman Family
John S. Browning, Sr.
Broze
Robert and Lynn Brunton Family
Andrew Mykle Budenz
Emory Bundy
Adam M. Burgener
Burgess Family
Robert B. Burgess
Thomas Burke
Burlington Northern
Paul D. and Nancy McKay Burton
Byerley International Students
J. Antonio “Tony” Cabasco
Barbara Hanley Campbell
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
Loretta M. Caven
Wayne Chastain
Cheuk-Alfieri Family
Joseph Chulick Jr.
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
Class of 1955
Class of 1958
Class of 1959 Centennial
Class of 1961
Class of 1962
Class of 1964
Class of 1968
Class of 1969
Class of 1970
Class of 1981
Class of 1983
Class of 1984 Memorial
Class of 1988
Class of 1996
Richard H. Clem
Richard H. Clem and Arthur Metastasio
Clarence and Lois C. Cleman
Maurine Clow
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
Cordes Family
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
J. Leland Daniel
Janet Stratford and Elisabeth Davis
John M. Davis
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
Ethel Means Dickson
Daniel J. and Elizabeth Story Donno
Arthur F. Douglas
William O. Douglas
Dow-Bainbridge
Buddy Dublin
Frederick Dudgeon
Harold E. Dupar, Jr.
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
Barbara Sommer Feigin
Milton W. and Lucile E. Field
John Freeman Fike
First Opportunity
John J. Fisher
Joshua Fishman
Floyd W. Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick Family
Ben Flathers
Harold and Annaliese Fleharty
Forbes-Jacobs
Nancy Morrison Frasco
David W. Gaiser
Thomas Val Gaisford, Jr.
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
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
Paul R. Green
Dr. Albert Wright Greenwell
William E. and Harriet A. Grimshaw
Leland B. Groezinger, Jr.
Mixail Petrovich Gromov
John J. and Stella A. Gurian
LaVerne Mansfield Hagan, Paul Hagan and Dennis Mansfield Hagan
Edwin T. Hanford
Hansen Family
Julia Crawford Harris
Haruda Science Scholars
Hasbrouck Family
Jeannette Hayner
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
Ida Belle Martin Hoegh
Harold F. and Olga Johnson Holcombe
Thomas Howells
James Fee Huey
Richard and Dorothy Hundley
Harrison Harden Hungate
Bradley J. Hunt
Hunt Peterson Family
Hunter International
Vie Illona Hopkins Husted
Bonnie Jean Hyre
Imani
Harold and Gertrude Jackson
Matthew James
Robert W. Jamison
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
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
Judd D. Kimball
Snyder and Ingrid King
Margaret Gentry Kirk
Mary Jane Kirk
Margaret Bradford Kittel
Rodney Phelps Kittel
Marion Klobucher
Norman Klockman
Virginia Lee Knight
Ralph and Vivian Knudsen
Laura Rodgers Hook Kurtz
Amy Jane Reichert Ladley
Gerald DeRoss Ladley
James Lamar
Lange Community College Spark
Henry G. Laun
Grace Lazerson
Cynthia Ann Lechner
Brandon Bruce Lee
Marion LeFevre
Mary Emily Winters Legge
Memorial Scholarship
Miriam Edwards LeRoux
Naila and Peter Lewis Family
Ferdinand Libenow
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
Lynn B. Lunden
Tristram S. Lundquist
Anna Okada Burgess Maberry
Lenore and George MacClain
Bertha C. MacDougall
Loyd Mahan
Virginia Mahan
James and Frances Mahoney
Angeline M. Malloy
William Mantz
H. Archie and Christina Marshall
Ann Inman Martin
C.W. “Bill” Martin, Sr.
Suzanne L. Martin
Kyle Martz
Stephen H. Mathews
Nancy Ellis Mathiasen
Chester C. Maxey
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
Edna McEachern
McFadden Family
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
Roland E. Miller
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
Carla and Dean Nichols
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
Odegard Family
Paul O’Reilly
Harold Ottesen
Frances Penrose Owen
Michael Stuart Owen
Edward A. Paddock
Roy Ross Painter
Paul Panagakis
Parents Fund
Ida S. Parkinson
Elizabeth Jones Parry
B.F. Parsons
Mildred H. Patterson
Robert Patterson
Sara Lloyd Pekarsky and Abraham L. Pekarsky
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
Grace Farnsworth Phillips
Phillips, Wade, and Cronin
Harold Allen Piper
Jack Coleman Pitts and Dorothy De Simone Pitts
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
Emelia and Freeman Ramsey
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
Stephen L. Riddell
Mary Ann Moren Ringgold
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
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
L. Shaw
Donald Sheehan
Harold L. and Helen M. Shepherd
Cameron and Marion Sherwood
Claire Sherwood
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
Scott Bradford Smith
Ralph Waldo and Aimee Snyder
Marilyn Sparks
Eliza Hart Spaulding
Spokane Area Ashlock Scholarship
Jane C. Staats
Charles F. and Elizabeth Greenwell Stafford
Marjorie Haddon Stansfield
Evelyn Ayres Starr
Agnes C. Steere and David C. Campbell
Barbara Holmes Stevens
David Stevens
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
Sumio and Mii Tai
Mary Eby Tate
Brooke Taylor
Edmund Taylor
Lucille M. Thomas
Frank and Lillian Thompson
Robert S. Thorne Jr.
3-2 Engineering
Agnes Stephanson Tibbits
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
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
Whittaker Family
Eunice V. Wiemer
Jean D. Wilkinson
J. Joy Williams
June Wilson Williams
Robert Jack Williams
A.D. Wilson
Witman/Kenworthy
Ron Witten
Edna Mae and Clare Woodward
Brian Weston and Susan Reynolds Workman
George Woodward
Dexter K. Yamada
Richard C. and Mary Anne Shaffer Yancey
Robert and Jacqueline Young
Augusta Wilsen Betz and Katharina Betz Zimmerman
Carroll L. Zimmerman
Bertha H. Zoellner