{"id":328953,"date":"2026-05-23T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:10:11","slug":"taft-college-awards-208000-in-scholarships-honors-first-vic-killingsworth-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328953\/","title":{"rendered":"Taft College awards $208,000 in scholarships, honors first Vic Killingsworth recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Taft College handed out more than $208,000 in scholarships to 141 students during its annual Scholarship and Awards Luncheon, highlighting academic achievement and support for students pursuing their education.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recipients was student-veteran Daniel Hacker, who will become the first student to receive the new Vic Killingsworth Memorial Scholarship. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fc23b631-6e4e-4985-be1a-83de254bd06b-Sequence_MILLS_TAFTCOLLEGESCHOLARSHIPS_0001_frame_7600.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e819a4f4-9769-40d0-a52a-60a5cdb01f86-Sequence_MILLS_TAFTCOLLEGESCHOLARSHIPS_0001_frame_4725.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship honors local World War II Navy veteran Vic Killingsworth, who died last year at the age of 104.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Taft College handed out more than $208,000 in scholarships to 141 students during its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-328953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}