Eleven scholarships worth $2,500 each will be awarded, in addition to a $3,500 James H. Loper Jr. Memorial Scholarship to one outstanding recipient. NDB funds, in part, Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which manages the national dairy checkoff program.

Two $2,000 scholarships will be awarded to current students pursuing a degree in a four- or two-year program. Three $2,000 scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors.

The National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDB), through Dairy Management Inc., which manages the national dairy checkoff, annually awards $2,500 scholarships to 11 students.

This year’s recipients include high school seniors Bethany Magdanz, Brooke Witcpalek and Macy Verhasselt and current college students Brooke Meinholz and Megan Salentine. 

Two scholarships will be awarded to students currently enrolled in college or university or a two-year technical, junior or community college. Three scholarships will be awarded to graduating high school seniors.

Each of the three students will be presented with a $2,000 scholarship at the ADPI/ABI Annual Conference on April 30.

Sargento Foods Inc. promoted Phil Delpierre to Vice President of Research and Development and added Dave Fuhrmann to its Board of Directors