ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The Great Allentown Fair Foundation is pleased to announce its scholarship awards to students for their 2026-2027 academic year. The Foundation will distribute $8,000 in total to applicants based upon their indication to pursue agricultural education at a collegiate level:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Leon Peters Memorial Scholarship ($2,500) was awarded to Phoebe Stutzman, a graduate of Kutztown Area High School (Lehigh County) who will attend Lake Land College in\u00a0 Mattoon, Illinois.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Greenawald Memorial Scholarship ($2,000) was awarded to Karina Davidheiser, a graduate of Daniel Boone High School in Birdsboro (Berks County), who will attend Rowan\u00a0 University in Glassboro, New Jersey.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Great Allentown Fair Foundation Scholarship ($1,500) has been awarded to Zari\u00a0 Whyld-Thomas, a graduate of Moravian Academy (Northampton County) who will attend\u00a0 McGill University in Quebec, Canada.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Great Allentown Fair Foundation Scholarship ($1,000 each) has been awarded to Levi\u00a0 Benjamin Lazarus, a graduate of Lehigh Christian Academy in Allentown (Lehigh County),\u00a0 who will attend Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania; and\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kennason Taylor Ware, a graduate of Octorara Area High School in Atglen (Chester County)\u00a0 who will attend Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are so proud to be supporting these five bright and talented young students in their academic pursuits in the field of agriculture,\u201d says Ibolya Balog, The Great Allentown<\/a> Fair Foundation\u00a0 Scholarship Committee Chair. \u201cInvestments in students like these pay dividends to our region \u2013 and to our world,\u201d she continues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Great Allentown Fair Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization chartered to provide philanthropic opportunities through grants and charitable donations to preserve, enrich, and advance agriculture.\u00a0 Through scholarships, educational programs, incentives and events, the Foundation supports the\u00a0 Great Allentown Fair and programs of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society. For additional\u00a0 information about the Great Allentown Fair Foundation, Inc., please visit:\u00a0 AllentownFairFoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Great Allentown Fair Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The Great Allentown Fair Foundation is pleased to announce its scholarship awards to students for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,227],"class_list":["post-283964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}