Doyon Foundation will host our 2017 Scholarship Award Ceremony on Friday, September 8 at 2 p.m. The event, which celebrates our 302 fall scholarship recipients, will take place in the Doyon Facilities classroom, located at 701 Bidwell Ave. in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The scholarship award ceremony will feature our always popular photo booth!
This fall, the Foundation will award a total of $395,300 in scholarships. The fall 2017 awards include 37 competitive scholarships, 73 basic part-time scholarships, and 192 basic full-time scholarships. Congratulations to all of this fall’s recipients!
In addition to presenting the scholarship recipients, the ceremony will also feature an opening prayer by Allan Hayton, our language revitalization program director; a welcome from Doris Miller, our executive director; and words from our alumni speaker and student speaker! The event will culminate with light refreshments and our always-popular photo booth.
We are excited to announce this year’s alumni speaker is Tanya Kaquatosh of Hughes, Alaska. Tanya is the daughter of Barbara Beatus and the late Norman Beatus of Hughes. Her maternal grandparents are Johnson Moses and the late Bertha Moses of Allakaket and her paternal grandparents are Henry and Sophie Beatus of Hughes. Tanya holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford and a MBA from Arizona State University. She has also completed the Doyon Leadership Training in 2014. Tanya has worked as the director of regulatory affairs at Doyon Utilities since 2015; previous to that she was a financial specialist in the finance department for 3 years. Tanya was also the executive assistant to the president/CEO of Doyon, Limited for over 4 years. Tanya resides in Fairbanks with her husband, Steve, and their daughters, Skye and Kaytona.
Joining Tanya is our student speaker, Julian Thibedeau. Julian is a freshman at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he is in the Rural Human Services Program.
Students, family, friends, teachers, donors and other supporters are invited and encouraged to attend. We hope to see you there!
To all donors for these scholarships, Thank you. With your support, our son will be able to continue his education. We sincerely appreciate this assistance, however we will not be there for this ceremony. Watching our son going to school at all the schools–elementary, junior & high school, community college, and now at Portland State University–has been a joy for me to watch. I barely finished high school, but to say that “our son is majoring in Mathematics at PSU” is a prideful thing to tell people. This could not be possible without your generous gifts. So again, Thank you. Sign, A Grateful Parent
Thank you so much for these words of gratitude! We are honored to assist our shareholders to reach their academic dreams. We will forward this message to our board of directors and donors.
-Doyon Foundation